Our Nation's Capital

Well just returned from another wonderful business trip, this time to Washington DC. Raquel and I made it a road trip, heading out on Tuesday morning and getting back sometime around 8 last night. The show we worked was horrible, so we were very thankful for the fun vendors that were near us...all except Peter and Ellen. OH MY GOD, can you say torture? Peter and Ellen are a hokey married couple from Massachusetts who specialize in creating children's music. Think of Paula and Carol from the Magic Garden times 10! Well for four days Raquel and I had to listen to their music being blasted on 2 huge speakers. After the 10th time of hearing hits such as Pizza Pizzazz, Here we go Zudio All Night Long and Going to the Library we were ready to shoot ourselves. Oh did I mention that the 10 times we heard each song was only the first day? Oh yes that's right, it was the same songs over and over again. They even had little dances that went with each song and the teachers were all over it! Peter and Ellen had groupies! Although annoying it did get very entertaining at times. I even took a little video of it on my cell phone just for kicks. On the last day Raquel and I decided to take a tally of how many times we heard each song. Here's how it went, the Shalom Song came out ahead with being played 7 times, followed by what we like to refer to as the Sleepy Song with six times and tied for second was the Colors Song. Other hits included the Days of the Week Song and the Bumble Bee Song. Raquel and I being the comedians that we are, had fun with it dancing and singing along, but some of the guys we were hanging out with around us were getting really loud and obnoxious about it, which if I was Peter and Ellen I would have turned up the speakers just to piss them off more (I guess that would be the smart ass in me).
Besides working the show all week, we did have some time to see the sights. Since the show was dead for us Raquel and I split one day so I had the whole afternoon off. I walked around the whole city (and almost walked to Virginia- don't ask). I got to see the Capital, White House, WWII Memorial, Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument. I also walked in and out of a few of the Smithsonian Museums focusing on specific things I wanted to see like the Hope Diamond and Dorothy's Ruby Slippers. Both very cool and something I always wanted to do. So I guess the trip wasn't a total waste. I'm just happy that I'm off the hook traveling for work for a while.