Outside the Spacecraft Social

Today I traveled to Washington DC for tomorrows ‘Outside the Spacecraft Social’ social media event at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.

The flight was fine except Washington DC received a few (as in 1 – 3) inches of snow and the whole city freaked out. When we landed in DC the plane ended up being trapped on the taxiway for almost 2 hours due to what sounded like a comedy of errors and at one point was way to close to another plane. It was when the flight attendants started to handout water and power bars I knew we were in for trouble. Eventually we were freed from the airplane and I checked into my hotel and when went for a walk around the National Mall. The Capital was very lovely in the snow and it was amazing how few people were out and about in the snow and cold. I stopped at the National Gallery of Art and look at art works by El Greco, da Vinci, Rembrandt, the divine Raphael, Picasso, Pollock, Rothko, Degas, etc. I saw a woman try to touch the Pollock, only to have the security guard yell at her. I had been taking photos in a few gallerias and no guards had said anything, so when I tried to take a photo of the Pollock that same yelling security guard yelled at me too. Hehe. Hay, if your going to be yelled at by a security guard, the National Gallery of Art is the place to be. I then kept walking up the Mall and eventually made it to the Washington Monument, but could go no further due to the cold, setting sun, my lingering cold, and my back and foot pain, so I did not make it to the Lincoln Memorial, which was disappointing. So I flagged down a taxi in a no stopping zone and took it back to the hotel.