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We just got home. Braved the drive through the storm with our kids. The roads weren't too bad actually - wet and some slush here and there - but of course we stayed on the main highways.
It was alot harder for us to gauge the size of the crowd this time due to the configuration of the setup. In Jan., it was easy to see that the crowd extended far down the mall and to make a visual guess. This time, though, people were scattered.
Yesterday it was cold and windy with barely a breakthrough of the sun. I'm guessing that the storm probably kept away some people who were planning to come. When we checked into our hotel Fri. eve., we did not get the room we requested b/c they had shut down the airport and were completely booked.
There were definitely more freepers and freeper-types this time. Can't give an estimate of them, cause they were spread out in little groups all over the place. My husband was ready to mix it up with them, but with our girls, 9 & 10 y.o., we stayed away from potential confrontations. We had decided early on that we were going to use this experience as an opportunity to teach them about positive expression of their rights in our country, and to see the vast variety of people involved. We live in a very pro-shrub community, and my mother has tried to brain-wash them to hate politics just because she doesn't like to get involved.
I need a decontamination shower now - I went "there" to scope out what they are saying about the rally and they are claiming that they had 2x's as many counter-protesters as we had marchers! What a load of horse-shit!
At one point, we walked past some who were standing with their backs to us, and all I could think was thank god I can't see their ugly mugs. Every time we got close enough to some who actually yelled at us in particular, I laughed and threw them a peace sign. My girls got their pictures taken and videoed many times. When we were getting on the escalator to the metro in Arlington, someone was shouting about Al Gore and his global-warming fraud. He tried to shove a magazine in my face, but I laughed and said "In your dreams!".
The only problem I had with this march compared to the one in January (that was our first), besides the weather, which you can't control, was that by the time we finished the march, the lines to the johns were 50+ people deep, and in that cold weather, my teeth were turning yellow, if you know what I mean! Then it turned out that there were too many lines, and the potty we were waiting for actually had 2 lines for it, so we stood in line for over 30 min.
For us, the march was a success. This morning, my daughter asked if she should take the "Impeach Bush" sticker off the back of her coat before she goes to school tomorrow. I told her it was her choice. She said that the parents of her 2 best friends would have been some of the "parrots of the Bush administration across the street" if they had been there. She obviously heard and learned more than we may ever know, which is fine.:)
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