Fairly blase day. Slept in late (went to bed very late - emotions were running HIGH yesterday), did a top-to-bottom cleaning job on the apartment, sorted bills/mail, did some reading. As it says in the blog title, it was simply Saturday.
Well, it was almost simply Saturday. Anthonette and I decided to go grocery shopping for tomorrow night's Fellows pot-luck; as I drove to pick her up, I couldn't figure out what the heck was going on on Independence Avenue (near the capitol along the National Mall). There were people everywhere on the sidewalk, and a much stronger police presence than usual (which is saying a LOT, since there are always a ton of police on the Mall at night) - not only were there cruisers on every corner, but there was an officer standing about every 25 feet along the sidewalk. It took me a minute to realize that today is the day that they were laying Ted Kennedy to rest at Arlington and he had been in repose at the Capitol earlier in the day - I was pretty much driving along the path that the motorcade was going to take to the cemetery. I finally got to Anthonette's, and we ended up having to drive a rather circuitous route to Safeway (since there were a number of streets we needed to take that were blocked by squad cars). It was a much simpler drive home, as the funeral was taking place as I was coming back to the apartment.
Ah, the things you will encounter in DC!
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