Just another day in DC
One of the curses of living in the DC area is the dreaded motorcade. You never know when traffic is suddenly going to be stopped to allow some bigwig with a police escort to get across town unimpeded. The most dreaded motorcade of all is the presidential (and probably vice-presidential too) motorcade, which generally involves street closures well in advance of his passing through, large numbers of police in cars and motorcycles, big limos, multiple SUVs with heavily armed men hanging out the side and/or top, support vehicles, an ambulance (that's usually the giveaway that it's the president), etc. We actually got caught in one of those a couple of weeks ago when we were trying to get Mädchen to a doctor's appointment (the end result of which, by the way, was finding out tonight that her nut allergy is more serious than expected, so we're now going to be crazy allergy parents, but that's a story for another time) and the street in front of us was all of a sudden closed for almost 10 minutes.
So this afternoon I was looking out my window when I saw the Big Kahuna's motorcade go past for a meeting across the street. No big deal, happens all the time, right? Well, evidently now it IS a big deal, because later I looked out my window and there were at least 50 people hanging out on the adjacent street corners waiting to catch a glimpse of the motorcade. And by the time the motorcade actually emerged, there were probably 100-200 people hanging out and cheering. Needless to say, that is NOT typical DC behavior (most typical would be to ignore the whole thing because you're so jaded, or perhaps to grumble about the inconvenience). I'm sure the star power will fade at some point, but in the meantime it's definitely a new day in our nation's capital...
This is the quick shot I got with my cellphone camera, into the sun through a dusty window...the limo in front is most likely either the Kahuna or the Vice-Kahuna:
So this afternoon I was looking out my window when I saw the Big Kahuna's motorcade go past for a meeting across the street. No big deal, happens all the time, right? Well, evidently now it IS a big deal, because later I looked out my window and there were at least 50 people hanging out on the adjacent street corners waiting to catch a glimpse of the motorcade. And by the time the motorcade actually emerged, there were probably 100-200 people hanging out and cheering. Needless to say, that is NOT typical DC behavior (most typical would be to ignore the whole thing because you're so jaded, or perhaps to grumble about the inconvenience). I'm sure the star power will fade at some point, but in the meantime it's definitely a new day in our nation's capital...
This is the quick shot I got with my cellphone camera, into the sun through a dusty window...the limo in front is most likely either the Kahuna or the Vice-Kahuna:
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