Today was the Day Before. It was also Martin Luther King day. In the spirit of the day -- what Obama has been pitching as not a day off, but "a day on" for public service -- we signed up to try to volunteer at the We Feed Our People soup kitchen. I say try because, with all these folks in town the WFOP group had more volunteers than they could use. So our jobs were mainly to help direct people around; that's Nate and Autry hard at it, above. Volunteers on this day were from all around the country and farther; we talked to volunteers from Michigan, California, Illinois, even Malaysia. At top, Martin Luther King III, MLK's son, came by and gave a talk after the food was served. We probably served a couple hundred homeless people; people that have been sleeping in the cold, carrying garbage bags with their belongings, some real downtrodden and others pretty cheerful. All happy to have a plate of hot food.
Afterwards we did touristic things; visited a couple museums, cruised by the White House (the sidewalks were packed there with people bidding adieu to GW on his last day there), walked down to the Lincoln Memorial.
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