Jaded already
April 28, 2012We got an early start this morning. That was dumb.
None of the museums open until 10am so we rode the Metro, walked around the mall, saw the Washington Monument, visited the south lawn of the White House, and got very cold, all before hitting the Natural History Museum (dinosaurs!!).
As we were walking along the famous ellipse (well, I’d never heard of it but the hotel said it was famous, I don’t know why a flag football field is famous), on the map we saw another monument marked. I pointed over the trees to a shiny gold something on a pillar. That must be it and I didn’t need to walk to it.
C accused me of being jaded already. (It was about thirty minutes before the museums opened.) It was a little early still.
But he’s kind of right. I think maybe I got a little jaded in Virginia where the trees go from interesting to ubiquitous. The trees lost the awesome specialness when they became freeway-side weeds.
DC is so packed with (big red arrow pointing to amazing stuff!) activities that it is difficult not to feel jaded. Without uniqueness, the forest of museums is hard to appreciate. Even when in a museum, there is the chance that we could be at another museum seeing something more interesting.
It is a sort of opportunity cost with the risk being time and limited next or steps we can take before our feet give way. The rewards are things to learn and see, pictures to take, and new points to talk about.
I’m on vacation. I don’t want to worry about opportunity cost.
The Library of Congress was my favorite part of the city. We liked the Jefferson Memorial, but if we were to do it again, we’d ride the rental bikes down there. It was a long walk.