The Trip, the best part is the trip….

Again Thank You Jim Morrison. And again this time the sentiment still sucks. Trips with the family are not fun. They are long and full of please be quit, get off my seat belt, what you have to go to the bathroom again? You get the picture.

Our adventure started early. The girls went to school and I went to work Teri took Nancy and Amanda to Nyack to do what they do and they were going to take care of the dogs. 

Outside the Consulate for another one of those pictures

   The Girls had lunch at noon and one pm. I figured I would pick them up about one or so and we would leave as soon as possible. I figured about two-thirty or so. I had to go to Chatham after going to Elmsford NY to do collections. I finished in New City about two after going to Wallington NJ to drop off the collections. I pick up the girls at around two and change and we get out of the house a little after three.

  Traffic was heavy and Teri drove. About an hour into the four hour trip Teri asks if anyone has to go and Elena like always needed to. We get off near Princeton and get stuck in traffic. Finally we get to a Walgreens and get to use the bathroom and get some shampoo.

We get back on the road, somewhere north of Baltimore we try to get some dinner.  We leave RT 95 and try to get food at a Cracker barrel. It was packed. We then try to go to Apple bees and Teri misses the turn off so we end up going back on RT 95 south. We get to Washington a little after eight and proceed to try and find the hotel. We drive around a three block area for twenty minutes before Teri says to call the hotel. We get the correct address and then proceed to drive past the hotel four times looking for parking. On the fifth time I get out and ask where parking is. I am told it is valet and only thirty-three dollars a night. It would be cheaper to bring the car into the room, but they caught us so we paid the parking. We then went up to the second floor to check in. That made me wonder what is on the first floor? We ate in the Hotel. Beer was ten dollars a bottle and it was pub food.  Everything in Washington  DC I guess is going to be like this. Everyone in Washington wants to separate you from your money. Elected official or business person. What the  F….

At the Russian Consulate

The second Boston Marathon bomber was caught last night while we were heading to Washington. I wonder in ten years when this is read will anyone remember the brothers who were born in Chechnya and at ten came over to America and at least one became a citizen of America. That is the thing that I will never understand. They were here for over ten years taking advantage of what America has to offer and then so quickly turning their backs on it all. So sad, one is dead and the other will most likely spend the rest of his life in jail if he does not get the death penalty.

Touring the Capital

   The girls and Teri are down at the pool. It is my turn soon to relieve her so she can get ready to do a little sight-seeing before the Russian Embassy.
 I never did talk about the reason for the trip and that was to show solidarity for the Russian orphans that will never be adopted after the Russian government stopped all Americans from future adoptions. It was a tit for tat thing. America commented on Russian human rights and Russia seizes on a nut case who manages to adopt a Russian child and the child dies. I am not taking it lightly, it's just what about all the good adoptions that have happened. Foreigners are the last in line to adopt these kids and a Russian family can step in at anytime to adopt one of these children and they don't. Only the children suffer. Well it's the Russian way. State first, individual last.

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