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Culture shock.  That’s all I have to say.  We went to the National Cherry Blossom Parade today which was as fun as a parade can be.  I’ve decided that parades should only be an hour, cause that’s about how much I can stand before I become bored, tired of standing, and grumpy.  After the parade we moved with the huge mass of people over to the Tidal Basin to look at the blossoms (this is an event I do not understand – cherry trees blossom all the same – once you’ve seen one you’ve seen them all).  Unfortunately, we quickly got fed up with all the people and jumped on the metro and went to H&M so that Kendra could shop.  Again, we struck out and didn’t find anything that either of us wanted to purchase.

Once we were fed up with shopping, we tried to get back on the metro to go home and ended up experiencing the nastiness of getting on the metro with a thousand other people.  Pushing, shoving, yelling, and a few choice words from people pretty much had Kendra and I disgusted with humanity and by the time we made it home we were quite tired.  Oh but wait, I forgot to talk about grocery shopping.  Prior to getting home we went to Harris Teeter (a Market of Choice like store).  What joy!  I never realized how incredibly fun packing your groceries 15 blocks can be.  I’ve been missing out all of these years while I used my car.  You ought to try it sometime, I highly recommend it.  By the time you get home you are so overjoyed to be there that you’ve completely forgotten about your disgust with humanity and your hope that you never have to ride the metro again.  Instead your right arm is about 4 inches longer than your left and your shoulders feel like a bum made a fire on them to keep warm.  Give it a try, I’m certain it will lighten your mood. 

All in all though, the day has been good.  Hopefully we’ll adjust quickly and more importantly our stuff will show up this week.  Otherwise I may be taking a couple of friends up on their offer to go strong arm the moving company.  We’ll see…