Joni's doing great and appreciates all the emails and notes. We were able to have fun also though, while there. This is Lynn, Donna, Senga, Joni, Cindy at a Renaissance festival. The one below this is Joni with siblings, Cindy, Donna, John, and Ronnie. 
So we went to a Renaissance festival in Annapolis, MD. Which is something I would have never seen myself going to but I was actually really entertained and we had a great time together with Joni's sister's Donna and Cindy,
plus Lynn and I. Lots of people enjoy dressing up like Shakespearean people and the renaissance years, so I admit I'm not part of that crowd but it was fun to see. We found a group of Scottish folks all dressed up so we asked to take a picture of them.My old high school friend, Janet, who lives in Washington D.C.,
took us to the 9/11 memorial that just opened last month outside the Pentagon. There's a bench for every person who died that either was on the plane or in the Pentagon when the plane hit. She taught 
us that if the bench points inward, that person was on the plane and if the bench points out then they were inside the Pentagon when the plane hit. It's an amazing design starting with the youngest person who died and it goes outward to the very oldest person. Very sobering to see. Each bench has the person's name engraved on it and has water running underneath it and every night the workers gather up all the things that people left on the benches and they catalog and warehouse it. We went in the evening time and it was really reverent hearing all the water from underneath it. I suggest you all see it sometime.
This is my cousin Jacky with Glynis and Joni and I. I hadn't seen Jacky in probably 30 years. It was a great reunion and we enjoyed a great steak dinner at Smith & Wollensky's. Thanks for the visit Jacky and I look forward to many more times together with you.
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Hey! That's me in one of those pictures! Cool! I was having a better hair day than I thought! (And then I cut it all off the next day. Go figure.)
I'll be posting pictures of Hillwood Mansion on one or two of my blogs in the next day or two, so be sure to visit. Also, if you want pictures of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, there are pictures of that on my photo blog. Just go to the search box and type in "Immaculate Conception" and a few will show up.
It was so great seeing you and meeting Joni! I really hope we see the two of you up this way again. Seems like hardly any time has passed!
You're the best D.C. confidential. It did seem like time had hardly passed with you and I. Thanks for the pictures of "immaculate conception". It was/is a very beautiful place. Take care and let's skype tonight. I have a massage tonight until 6:30-6:45p.m. Talk to you then.
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