Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Cherry Hill Campground, College Park, Maryland

Today was kind of a down day for our activity. Lora and her family were to be arriving this afternoon, so since we didn’t want to do anything that we would be repeating with them, we stayed around the trailer till noon. Actually, I took the laundry up to the laundromat provided here at the park. We could have waited on that another several days, but I thought this might be the best opportunity I would have, so I went ahead and got it over with. Now we should be able to wait till we get home before we run out of clothes. While I was out with that, Larry vacuumed, so now we’re set with some of the housekeeping things for a while.

We left the campground around noon and went to Union Station to wait for Lora’s family.

Besides it being a working train station with Amtrak and the several Metro trains that meet there, there are also numerous restaurants located there (I think one driver said 40 restaurants) as well as several stores and boutiques. They had a display in the lobby called The Art of Can sponsored by Red Bull soda. Each entry had to feature the Red Bull logo. Most of them used the aluminum can, cut up or used in some way.

I think all but one used the aluminum can, as a sculpture, or collage or covering another object.

The only one not using a can was one that created the logo in a field by mowing or plowing areas till he had the replica of the can (like a crop circle) over several acres. This entry was in the form of a photo from the air.

Lora’s family arrived about 3:00. We had a good visit and a mid-afternoon meal together, then tried to find a bus to do some touring. After walking from one end of Union Station to the other and back again, we tried to get tickets for a tour. No luck, so we started walking – in the drizzling rain. We walked probably three or four blocks, the kids were getting tired and we couldn’t find the bus stop. We finally decided they could go to a nearby museum to get in out of the rain for a while and figure out where they needed to go, and we would head the other direction to the Metro station. We’ll meet up with them again tomorrow.