We have been held up in Annapolis due to poor weather conditions. It has been raining non-stop since Wednesday, our original date of departure. We expect to be leaving now on Sunday when the weather is expected to take a better turn. We'll have to put in a long first day of sailing and hope to get to Solomons Island, MD.
In the meantime we've taken a couple more trips to D.C. to get in more sightseeing. On Wednesday we contacted Adam, in Senator Amy Klobuchar's office at the Capitol. He arranged for us a nice tour of the Capitol with Diana, the Intern.
We walked the bowels of the building; saw some beautiful interiors and took the Capitol subway. We sat in on the Senate Chambers but missed some action packed sessions that day. We saw Trent Lott in the Chambers and just as I told Mattias I was hoping to see Nancy Pelosi or Hilary Clinton, there Nancy walked right by us on the way to her Speaker of the House chambers. She was followed by several body guards. After the Capitol, we went to the White House and snapped some photos of the grounds.
Both girls have acquired ear infections now and Liv's eardrum has perforated so we they are both on meds since going to Urgent Care clinics on two consecutive nights. I'm learning that the Blue Cross Blue Shield computers somehow/suspiciously, always go down when I ask pertinent questions about our new plan and going to doctors in another state than MN....
Today the girls and Magnus and I drove into D.C. again and went to the Museum of Natural History. We stayed some hours there and miraculously, made it back to Annapolis no problem with driving!
Still waiting for Mattias to assist me with loading pictures onto this blog. Thanks for your patience. He's on the phone now helping his new Yugoslav/Canadian friends with boat questions. They just purchased a boat and will be taking the same trip down the ICW as us.
Me, I will hit the hay early listening to the raindrops on the boat...
More later,
Carrie
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