Happy 4th of July!
It has been a month since I moved to my new place in Virginia, and I am still working on unpacking. I am hoping that I will be completely unpacked by the end of July. The transition has been going rather slowly. I still don't have real Internet service (thank goodness for wireless hotspots), nor do I have a real phone line yet. However, Verizon is supposed to be out here tomorrow to work on the problem, so maybe I'll have phone service by tomorrow night.
I live less than a mile away from the Potomac, so I decided to ride my bike down to the river to watch the DC fireworks tonight. The situation in Rosslyn was interesting. Cars were double and triple-parked on the streets, and traffic wasn't moving at all. Every square inch of the grass alongside the GW Parkway was filled with parked cars. I watched the fireworks from near Theodore Roosevelt Island, and the show was pretty good.
Two-hundred and thirty years ago, a group of men signed the Declaration of Independence. After the war with England, many of the same men showed extraordinary leadership in the founding of the United States. As a result of the democracy they so carefully designed, we enjoy remarkable freedom here. Sadly, more recent leaders have not been nearly as remarkable. Let us hope that current and future generations of government leaders don't destroy what the Founding Fathers created.
I live less than a mile away from the Potomac, so I decided to ride my bike down to the river to watch the DC fireworks tonight. The situation in Rosslyn was interesting. Cars were double and triple-parked on the streets, and traffic wasn't moving at all. Every square inch of the grass alongside the GW Parkway was filled with parked cars. I watched the fireworks from near Theodore Roosevelt Island, and the show was pretty good.
Two-hundred and thirty years ago, a group of men signed the Declaration of Independence. After the war with England, many of the same men showed extraordinary leadership in the founding of the United States. As a result of the democracy they so carefully designed, we enjoy remarkable freedom here. Sadly, more recent leaders have not been nearly as remarkable. Let us hope that current and future generations of government leaders don't destroy what the Founding Fathers created.
posted by David at 7/04/2006 10:30:00 PM
1 Comments:
Cool picture! Good to see you are finally getting some service over there for your phone. Reminds me of Honduras, when we only had electricity an hour or so a day up in the mountains. I get regular updates from someone I know who is on a mission trip in Africa. Hard to believe you are in D.C. and have less internet access, haha!
All kidding aside, I hope you are well and good luck with the unpacking.
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