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5月15日 Talking about 朱子家训
Quote 朱子家训 1月21日 Freezing Crazy Crowded Inauguration Day昨天心血来潮决定要去看看奥巴马,于是带着早上8点起床9点到National Mall,11点半参加他的swear-in ceremony,小小午休一下加入预计下午两点半开始的inauguration parade的美好愿望爬上床。结果今天早晨(中午?)一睁眼,捞过闹钟,很不情愿的发现已经11点半了 = = 眼睛一闭被子一裹,干脆睡到12点半直接起床看parade。 外面很冷,整天最高温也不过零下2度,全副武装出了门向着地铁站出发,然后咱很无奈的看到了以下一幕:
(地铁主入口交通管制==) 然后是地铁的另一个入口:
(队排了最起码有20米长) 于是果断的放弃地铁。还好家里离白宫不远,走过去半个小时绰绰有余,哈哈哈~ 逆着人流向Pencylvania Ave.进发(满大街都是看完了swear-in从Mall回程的人群= =),很不幸的在穿过了三个街区后再度被阻:
相信咱,这道人流的宽度大于十米,密度大于3人每平方米。拍照的时候没敢深入,人群里连胳膊都抬不起来
又两三个街区后,终于看到了第一个parade参观入口。近前仔细一看,竟然是持绿票观众指定入口,而咱是凑热闹的群众,啥票都么有= = 正在此时,身旁一群众提供了历史性的小道消息:这个入口正短时间容许非持票观众入内,哦HOHOHOHO,能够想象吗?这可是白宫背面奥巴马及其内阁成员即将观看parade的区域入口啊,哈哈哈哈哈~ (虽然咱那时候还不知道 然后,咱安稳滴登上看台,HOHO,看台就在路旁,警察哥哥姐姐们间隙大,视野一流!
可惜西北风嗖嗖滴刮,如果不是身边保暖的人肉够多,咱恐怕熬不到四点见奥巴马"一面" 一群人全副武装坐在凳子上干等,咱实在是无聊,于是就有了以下几张照片:
(Police officer,帽子真暖和~)
(艾森豪威尔时期的行政大楼,被装饰上了美国国旗)
(百无聊赖的我和Yvonne)
(parade临时观景楼,直通白宫后花园,Obama及Biden等人后来就是在这里观看inauguration parade)
猛然注意到有一小撮人不知道从哪里冒出来到处和警察哥哥姐姐们握手慰问:
p.s.中间这位姐姐是谁?后来还在小白观景楼里看到她站在奥巴马后面,实在是对她很有好感!! 旁边的人突然站起来,满眼期待的看着远方,似乎有什么要来了~
其实那时候什么也没有……汗 然后CNN的吊臂转播车来了,一堆警车来了,该来的也快来了吧?
嘿嘿嘿,确实是有人来了~
(拍得还可以吧 又等了N久,左边看台开始传来一阵一阵的尖叫和欢呼,周围的人纷纷扯下毛毯说是奥巴马要来了,于是继续架起相机摄像。跟在记者车后的第二辆凯迪拉克是奥巴马坐驾(这段视频很烂,咱光顾着用眼睛把奥巴马红果果的拎出来了,手上的活就没注意……不过从视频录音可以发现,咱到最后也没敢肯定我揪出来的那一个到底是不是奥巴马,车窗反光太强了……)
还是回来看电视录像的时候才知道没揪错人,放一张室友从那段视频里的截图,画面左上角的人影就是奥巴马:
紧接着是副总统一家,他们是走着通过我们面前的街道的,哈哈~
总统副总统及其家人从白宫另一侧进入白宫,骑警队悠闲的殿后:
现在时刻下午4点30分左右,太阳已经完全被周围的建筑物遮挡住,四周的战友们早已跟着奥巴马跑了,警察哥哥姐姐眼见着也要落跑,小风嗖嗖滴直吹在咱身上,肌肉控制不住滴颤抖,于是和咱室友对视一眼,为咱伟大滴战略撤退画下了蓝图……本来咱也是为了GWU滴parade float来得啊……一眼都没见着 ------------------------------------------------------- p.s.浑身僵硬滴回到家打开电视才认识到parade一直持续到晚上7点,老天保佑还好咱没留下来受冻。满足了,嗯~ 11月11日 Found something really interesting in the paper, haha~"In the limit, as Lamda(m) converges to 0, the upper cluster converges to [0,1]: All men are accepted by the highest-quality woman, and hence only women of quality y belonging to (b(1),1] get married in equilibrium."
--Francis Bloch and Harl Ryder, in "Two-side search, Marriages, and Matchmakers" 10月19日 Oct. 18 Back from Wine Tasting Festival~We didn't do hiking as I expected, but, it was fun~
We arrive at Shenandoah Valley at around 12:30 in the afternoon.
I couldn't love the sky and cloud more~ It was clear blue and pure white. God must be in good mood when drawing them~
We began to eat right away. (That's all of us today, except for our photographer, "YO, YAO~~")
The crabcake sandwich and chips were wonderful. Thank you very much Wayland~!
Even though it was hard to tell from the last picture, but this was the place where we were sitting....
Wasn't that wonderful!
We tasted wine from different brands and were made from different kinds of grapes.
As well as wine (can I still call them wine?) made from other fruits like blueberry, blackberry, peach, plum and apple...
They were nice, but definitely not this one! Did you see the tags on our sleeves read "I kissed the DEVIL"? It was for my brave trial of the wine called "Devil(?)", which is made from 30 different kinds of pepper... You can imagine the taste = = Err.
This was the most creative banner I saw today. They make good wine too~
Look at them~ It's real romance^^
What more can you expect from a weekend? Oh, I was really enjoying this!
All right. It's balloon time now~
Don't be shy, Chen~ You are as cute as a mole~~
And this was our balloon, which failed to fly in the sky b/c of the wind T T
So, that was what we could do... Please imagine we were flying~~
Six o'clock in the afternoon. Sun set and the valley was no longer ours...
BUT~ The story never ends, you'll know why if you drop by~~
10月13日 Oct. 12下周六,Hot Air Balloon & Wine Tasting Festival游 决定!
十月正是华盛顿绿叶次第转红,一年中最色彩斑斓的时节。而今年自九月底已经持续两个星期天气晴好,整日被多情和煦的阳光笼罩着,再不郊游踏青实在是有负秋光~
十一月初摘苹果之旅也许要缺席,十月中去弗州国家公园及当地最大的葡萄酒庄园一游却也是大大的美事一庄。早上才和室友一起乐颠颠的报了名,现在就已经按捺不住雀跃的心情开始四处宣传炫耀了~ 其实彼此都对热气球没多大热情,对葡萄酒又没什么研究,但端端酒杯闻闻气味,小尝一口装装样子,抬起头附和着对腾空的气球小小赞叹一番这样的事,倒也不是头一次干。所谓醉翁之意不在酒,在乎山水之间也 ;P 10月12日 Oct. 11下午得到消息,Verizon Center有College Night--Special ticket offer to NBA games提供,价值48块的upper level票才卖10块!Ticket Available的第一场就是十月二十九号奇才对网队,小易会过来哦~ 虽然已经安排了11月21号伙同100多中国人企图把Verizon Center变成火箭和姚明的主场,但是10块钱看易建联比赛的诱惑还是让我流了一地口水。偏偏各个周末的行程基本都已经排定,犹豫踌躇挣扎了半天,终于下狠心决定把票买下来,结果却发现那场比赛是在星期三晚上7点…… 偏偏是星期三晚上7点…… 星期三晚上7点我有不能逃课不能早退的万恶的Macro课啊啊啊啊啊啊啊!郁闷死!! |
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