here, there, everywhere

Whew. The past few days have been a whirlwind! I started work Monday, although it feels like it has been weeks since I have been here. The day consisted of learning the ropes of all things intern...answering phones, sorting mail... the usual. Tuesday was pretty great. I met Ken Starr (Sic 'em!) and watched Congressman Gohmert do a press conference. There is this one area outside by the Capital specifically used only for press conferences. It has a permanent podium fixed into the ground with outlets for reporters to plug in their equipment. We couldn't have asked for better weather during it! The day was topped off with a reception and free KFC :).

Now, I am sitting at Laura's kitchen table reminiscing about the day and wishing I had someone to massage my aching feet. I got to watch the House and the Senate while they were session today... chaotic but cool nonetheless. I did the typical intern stuff today, and got a mid-day pick me up with free Starbucks. At around 5:20 Courtney (another intern) and I rushed off to We the Pizza for a quick dinner before our tour of the Capital with Rep. Gohmert. Despite being in heels for this incredibly lengthy tour I had a great time. Congressman Gohmert knows so much history, and we got to hear so many stories that they don't teach you in school and that many people try to cover up. Stories about our founders' great Faith and of the Biblical principles our country was founded on. I pray that our leaders will learn to walk in wisdom and look to God as they did. Now it is off to bed!

love love love, aly

P.S. I still don't have a place to live yet, but big PRAISE to God that Aubrey (the daughter of the family I was supposed to live with) is doing much better and we will continue to find out if she has had in brain damage in the next fews days.

Washington DC

"Some lives are thus blessed: it is God's will: it is the attesting trace and lingering evidence of Eden. Other lives run from the first another course. Other travelers encounter weather fitful and gusty, wild and variable- breast adverse winds, are belated and overtaken by the early closing winter night. Neither can this happen without the sanction of God; and I know that, amidst His boundless works, is somewhere stored the secret of this last fate's justice: I know that His treasures contain the proof as the promise of its mercy."
- Charlotte Bronte Villete


I tried the blogging thing in Rome and that didn't work out let's see what happens here...