Saturday I walked the perimeter of East Potomac park. This is a long, smelly, dirty walk. As the park is given to flooding, there was all kinds of nice flotsam along the way: dead fish, tree branches, snack food wrappers, and many empty bait containers. Dozens of people were spending the afternoon fishing the Anacostia and Potomac. I hope this was entirely for fun and that no one actually ate the living containers of pollution. For all of it’s lack of charm, there are a few worthwhile sights: the Awakening sculpture, the meeting of the Anacostia and Potomac, seeing the Wilson bridge and the masonic temple off in the distance, watching planes take off from National, Georgetown in silhouette against the rotunda of the Jefferson Memorial.
My original plan was to go geocaching in downtown DC. This is where you are given GPS coordinates and have to find something hidden there. But I don’t have a GPS unit and couldn’t lock on to a wireless AP from the Mall. Oh well. Anyway, any group that borrows terminology from Harry Potter (non-cachers are called ‘muggles’) is automatically lame.
Sunday was a trip to IKEA where I finally solved my bedding issues. There you buy a cover for a quilt and the stuffing separately, so you can get nearly any shade. Of course, it costs just as much as a normal comforter but they do have dark blue so who am I to complain. I did not eat the food.