I Know Why He Did It

Chewie is so excited he wants to blast some­thing. His Red Sox Nation mem­ber­ship card came in the mail today. There is a small bumper sticker that goes along with it and he’s going to put it on the Mil­len­nium Fal­con when Han isn’t looking.

While in DC the other week, after we walked to a lot of the war memo­ri­als in West Potomac Park we headed over to the Tidal Basin to see if we could find any cherry trees that still had blos­soms on it. Unfor­tu­nately there were only a few. There are about three or four vari­eties of cherry trees planted around the basin so that some of them bloom at dif­fer­ent times, but dur­ing our walk we only came across about three trees that looked like they were at their peak. Because of the great dis­tances between bloomed trees, my dream of a sweep­ing panorama of bloom­ing trees with the Jef­fer­son Memo­r­ial in the back­ground (very postcard-like) was squashed. I did take a cou­ple of close ups of one bloom­ing tree. As we strolled along I was look­ing down review­ing my last pic­tures when — SMACK –my head hit a low hang­ing branch. I know now why George Wash­ing­ton chopped down that cherry tree. It wasn’t bad enough to make me see stars, but I did decide from then for­ward that I would wait until I was stopped to look down at the camera’s LCD.

Our free Char­grilled sand­wich from Chick-Fil-A cost us $8.09. We used the coupon from the Chick-Fil-A cal­en­dar, but to get the sand­wich you had to buy a small fruit cup and a medium soda. We some­times split a meal when we go out, but that amount wouldn’t be enought so we added a Chicken Strip Salad to the tray.

I’ve added a for­warded email joke to the Joke Page.

Also added 8 pho­tos from the Ster­ling, VA BMW Ulti­mate Drive. No cap­tions yet, prob­a­bly tomorrow.