So it is a tradition every year that my dad's office gets together and participates in the Help the Homeless Walkathon in Washington DC. Usually Christian and I go too although there were a few years in college when I had to miss it. This year I happened to be in town the weekend before Thanksgiving and I decided to go with. Basically its a 3 mile walk around Washington DC starting at the National Mall and wandering through all the monuments that you pay to go on and thus they raise money for homeless people. (What made me raise my eyebrows though were the number of people proudly walking in their "Help the Homeless" T-shirts right past the homeless people begging for money).
Anyway having been born and raised right outside DC I never really appreciated it as a city. The monuments were always old news and I thought all of it was nothing special. I forget that people travel thousands of miles to see these sights. Being gone for 5 months and returning to wander in and around the best parts of the city with my camera allowed me to re-appreciate the beauty of the city that I had never noticed before. Also my high school band was there playing so that was cool.
Here are the pictures of the walkathon:
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