MLK:Washington DC Day 4

This morning, after reluctantly getting up from the floor of Richard's hotel room, Sophie, Christian and I made our way to the Marvin Gaye Park for an hour of community service in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.. Along with Brian, we raked up leaves and trash from the once nicknamed " Needle Park." Everyone was helping out and it was great. Obama had requested that people all around the nation give back to the community as an offering to the works of Martin Luther King Jr., as well as a kick off to his "let's get to work!" philosophy. The rest of the afternoon was spent resting, blogging, and hanging out with John Mellencamp's two sons, Speck and Hud. 

In the early evening, six of us made our way back to Falls Church Presbytarian to chill......and found out that we would be hosting some unexpected guests. A man was talking with Sue when I came in, explaining that the local boy scout troupe used the Falls Church Presbitarian as thier meeting space. Expecting a group of elementry kids in uniforms, we happily told the leader that we would love to speak to them about who we were and what we were doing in Washington DC. Waiting  around in our California way, wearing tank tops and sweats, we did some more work on our blogs. Then, two or three high school boys filed into the room only to disappear momentarily. We didn't know who they were so we carried on with our blogging. About five minutes later, they reappeared clad in green shirts covered in badges, scarfs tied around their necks, and army green pants that matched their shirts......not the boy scouts we were expecting. Within the next 15 minutes, about 8 other boys ranging from the age of 10 to 15 appeared in the room with their badges and belts. Lisa and Sue came over to where us girls were sitting, and asked us to please put on another layer, explaining that the boy scouts probably weren' t used to seeing a group of four girls  from Cali wearing spaghetti straps. We laughed and hurried of to get our long  sleeves. We stood with the scouts as they recited the Pledge of Alegiance and raised our arms to what was, unbenounced to us, the boy scout pledge. Lisa again came over to us laughing and told us that we didn't have to take the scout pledge. We talked to them about who we were and learned a lot about Eagle Scouts and rankings. It was an......interesting experience. After turning down their offer to go into space in their intergalactic space shuttle, we stripped back to our tank tops and went to bed. The day was a lot of fun and it was good to finally have a mellow day.  AND IT SNOWED!!!!!!