Snow and a Drag Queen...

Soooo much has been going on in "real" life, that I've been skipping out on my online one lol. I will start this off by saying that it is a BEAUTIFUL morning here in DC! It is snowing, and being this high up in our building, I feel a bit as if I am in a snow globe. The boys and I actually went out onto the balcony to snap some pics of the Pentagon in the snow, and here is one that I took.

You can just barely see the snowflakes, which is too bad because it really was coming down! It's supposed to do this all day, so we plan on staying in and watching it from the warmth of the house.

I haven't had a chance to blog about the funny thing I saw on the metro Friday night. I have never seen a real, live, drag queen until Friday. I had not been paying attention when we sat down as to who was in the seat behind us. I'm getting good at looking around and seeing what I need to see without really looking too closely at the people. (People here do NOT like you looking at them, and apparently it is a big metro rule that you really just don't look at the people around you) So anyway, I heard a man's voice behind me...talking on a phone or something...no biggie...right?? So when the MAN stood up to get off at the L'Enfant Plaza stop and I happened to see the largest women's shoes EVER standing beside me, I started to get confused...man's voice...women's shoes...So I started scanning upward. Huge ankles...big legs...a hideous looking skirt (no big deal so far...I'm only mildly confused as people wear some weird stuff around here...plus people come in all shapes and sizes and...), but then I just saw all the rest at once and about sucked my gum into my lungs. The MAN was holding the most awful sequined black purse...it was HUGE. Size of Texas big. With a terrible wool coat, a face made up with tons of make-up, and perhaps the biggest tragedy of all... the HAIR. It obviously was a wig. It was a beehive style, and the oddest thing I've ever seen - it didn't even look like real hair. By that time I wasn't the only one staring. It seriously was the oddest man/thing/person I've ever seen. Luckily the boys were yapping and looking out the windows so I didn't have to explain what that was and be faced with the possibility of having to lie to them and tell them it was just a big odd looking lady. We've had lots of those "God makes everyone different, and everyone is special no matter what they look like" conversations. But I'm not sure I could bring myself to even launch into that discussion for fear that God would not be happy with that. haha. It takes all kinds I suppose...But goodness...

Saturday was *supposed* to be our paint back day, but since Eli was home with us we decided to make it a family day. Eli wanted to go to the Air and Space Museum (of course...it's his favorite), so we spent the afternoon there instead of painting. We actually found a special "How things fly" room that is designed to teach kids about gravity and flight and stuff that we had never seen, so that was neat. And we also ended the day by letting Eli pick out a Space Monkey that he named Neil Armstrong that he could take with him on our trip out to OK and TX. Here are few pics of our afternoon at the Smithsonian...

Okay, I need to wrap it up for now. I'll write another blog later today about our plans for the rest of the week and our flight/travel plans for the weekend. Enjoy your morning!