Catching Up

Thursday, April 3, 2008

I had the opportunity to visit the Unites States Holocaust Memorial on Monday. It was a beautiful day in DC, chilly but nice. I left my camera at the apartment because I knew there was a good chance that photos would not be allowed and even if they were it just wouldn't be the right place to take pictures. When I got to the museum, there was a significant line. I had no idea how significant until I had walked through to the next street and then down the entire block to get to the end of it. But it moved pretty quickly so I should have figured out what was going on. The line was only to get a timed ticket when you got to the front of it. Let's see. It was half an hour on line so now it was 10:45A. I figured if I spent two hours in the museum I would still be back by 3:30 when we were going to drive to Annapolis. My ticket time was 3:15P. By then I figured out that this was Easter vacation week and I think every yellow bus in the United States was there. I was able to enter and visit "The Story of Danny" exhibit which was wonderful. It was a diary written by Danny whose family first moved to the ghetto and then the concentration camps. I guess I will have to go back when it is not Easter week.

It was emotional and disturbing but very very disturbing on another level. There was a class going through the same time I was and there were two young girls walking through talking on their phones, obviously to friends not on the trip but who were shopping instead. They were loud and seemed even louder because it was all so rude. What is going on any more? The teachers were more than aware of the phone conversations and didn't address it either. I don't get it at all.

It was disturbing also because I had a very strong sense that all of these kids piling through the museum really had no concept of what they were seeing. There certainly was little interest but I don't know, maybe it was the teacher's fault because they hadn't introduced the topic to the students.

The baby blanket is coming along. This is the boring part so I don't pick it up quite so quickly to work on it. Can't wait to get to the fun part.

Opening Day. The last Opening Day in the House That Ruth Built. We got there in plenty of time and Nick came from work. It was raining and cold so we moved to the top part of the stadium to keep dry. Afte an hour and a half, they postponed the game until Tuesday night. So all 56,000 of us left the stadium at the same time trying to pile into a couple trains. You can all imagine how well that worked. So we were back Tuesday night for a great night. Good picture but what's the deal with the face on that old lady in the middle?

Yeserday I went to The Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Gardens. I think I took close to 150 pictures. The orchids were exquisite and the displays were even more so.