BACKYARD DEER

Jerry got up first this morning, went down to start the coffee, and called upstairs for me to come down. He said "there are three deer in the backyard". So I came down (yes, I WAS awake, just being lazy in getting up!), and as I walked into the kitchen a third one was arriving. I grabbed the camera and by the time I got it ready, there were SEVEN deer nibbling the grass and running around in the yard. Sorry the picture is blurry - they wouldn't stand still long enough to get a really good picture.

We left about 10 am, rode the metro to downtown. At the exit from the Metro, the escalator was not working so we had to WALK up about 5 flights of steep stairs. We were almost crawling by the time we got to the top and had to stand against the wall at the top of the steps for about 15 minutes before we could continue. I'm not sure who was breathing harder!The weather was in the 50's - not bad for February in DC. We made a quick visit to the Capitol, then caught a cab to the historic Ford Theatre. It has been recently restored and has a very interesting Lincoln museum; and of course the restored theatre is beautiful. We were able to go to the balcony level and look through the door and see a replica of the rocking chair that Abe was sitting in and the actual chair that Mary was sitting in. Then we went across the street into the house where they took Pres. Lincoln and saw the bed he died in.

From there we walked all the way back to the Mall - were trying to make it to the Martin Luther King Memorial, but just got too tired. Remember - our legs were worked too hard earlier in the day! So we got on the nearest Metro and came "home".