It's a beautiful day here in MENC-land with blue skies! I hope it is just as beautiful there.
Did you know that advocacy is quite the adventure? Well, it is! This week's adventure took CW and I to Capitol Hill to talk to several offices about The National Anthem Project Curriculum Kit. As you likely already know from the MENC Legislative Memo (unabashed plug, sign up here!), we are hoping to create and disseminate a national anthem curriculum kit to send to every public school in the country, but need funding to do so.
Now, CW and I are very familiar with Capitol Hill after both having worked there for years. Yet we still stumbled across a secret place neither of us had seen before. Within about 50 yards of the Capitol is this beautiful little brick enclave. It was sunken down a bit and had a gurgling fountain in the middle and had stone seats all around. This is picture CW took with his cell phone. (Better quality to last week's advocacy day photos--maybe we should've used his phone instead of the cameras!) It was quite the welcome retreat from the bustling halls and sidewalks of Capitol Hill, so we sat there for a few minutes taking it all in. Unfortunately, a group of about 15 or so tourists also soon stumbled upon it and it became slightly less serene. ;)
From there we headed towards Union Station and were not allowed to cross the street by several imposing policemen and police vehicles. We knew something was coming, but we weren't sure what. It turned out to be the presidential motorcade. And considering the nine or so armored SUVs (not to mention all the police) and what I believe was a helicopter overhead, I'm guessing he was in the car. We tried to get a picture (again with the camera phone) but could only snap a few--this one you can see one of the police cars in front followed by two of the gazillion black SUVs. I think my favorite part of the motorcade is always the person whose job is to ride filming the motorcade while standing up through a hole in a van.Well those were our adventures in advocacy this week!! Tune in next week to see what exciting adventures we have!
Around the Water Cooler: There's a new lead in my NCAA pool! DP from the web team has taken a strong lead as we go into the Final Four games this Saturday and the final game Monday night. I still have a chance to win, though, so my hopes are pinned on Ohio State to win it all. In other news, I was only slightly surprised that Chris Sligh went home on American Idol and that Paulina went home on Dancing with the Stars. I love both shows and am rooting for Joey Fatone to win DWTS!! Maybe I should start a Dancing with the Stars pool, too... (free of course!) Until next time!
