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May. 26th, 2006 11:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pandonkeyPacking! Or so I should be, anyway; I'm waiting for some laundry to finish at the moment, so I have some free time to mess about on livejournal. We're driving up to D.C. with Haley and Scott tomorrow. I'm really looking forward to it -- I've never been there before, and that's precisely what my travel-lust has been noisily demanding. I'd like to see all the usual monuments, the Smithsonian, and possibly the National Zoo, but I'm not holding out high hopes for that one. Last time we were all together and discussing plans for the trip, I suggested going to see the pandas and was greeted with noncommittal muttering. How can anyone mutter at the prospect of pandas? A baby panda, even! Honestly.
Earlier tonight, we tried to see X-Men 3. I say "tried" because halfway through, all the lights in the theater went out. There was a supposedly city-wide power outage (it extended to several nearby streetlights, but not to the neighboring shopping center). We were told to wait in the theater; it took about 20 minutes before we were finally invited out into the lobby to get free passes for another showing. One interesting fact I learned from the experience: toilets with automatic flush don't work without power. There's no manual flush option at all.
Earlier tonight, we tried to see X-Men 3. I say "tried" because halfway through, all the lights in the theater went out. There was a supposedly city-wide power outage (it extended to several nearby streetlights, but not to the neighboring shopping center). We were told to wait in the theater; it took about 20 minutes before we were finally invited out into the lobby to get free passes for another showing. One interesting fact I learned from the experience: toilets with automatic flush don't work without power. There's no manual flush option at all.