dudes.

imagine you walk into starbucks, followed by a rutty looking british gentlemen.  then you order and he says you must be as crazy as me with 2 dogs in the car. . .. he has a big hairy dog in the back of his mercedes suv.
we chat back and forth for a minute before he politely touches the arm of my jacket and says have a good day.
after a moment of looking he appears to be late 50s, ripped polo sweatshirt, northface-ish over coat and muddy (expensive) boots.  he says you should bring your dogs to my farm. . .
sounds ridiculous, but this kind of thing seems to happen here all the time.  what a weird age i am (32, by the way =)).  obviously not in college anymore, no wedding ring and dragging a couple of hounds with me everywhere.  I really dont know what the real trigger is, except that i am a girl of moderate fitness and no ring.  in georgetown that is pretty hard to come by.
you are either a 20 year old georgetown, au or gw college girl who hasn't been pinned yet by some pressed khaki wearing boy of a good blood line or already married with 1 and 1/2 kids, a rock and a rover.
there does however seem to be an inordinate amount of bachelors between the age of 38-60.  most of them seem actually pretty likeable.  surely divorced or just been married to their business for the last 20 years.  most of them moderately attend church and are actually ethnically much more diverse than the whole of georgetown.
most are medium height and of average looks, but above average achievements for sure.
i find it super fascinating.  they are equal parts proud, accomplished and fragile, but mostly sincere.  maybe its the age?  all i can say is if you are looking for an older, wealthy, okay looking husband, this is your spot.   bummer, i am not into the sugar daddy thing.  and no i am not going to his farm. =)

update on my solo mission in dc for the holiday.  i have made it to the whitehouse for the first time.  very cool.  fabulous choir was singing christmas carols and hymns.  and i did tour about 1/2 of the national gallery of art.  got to go back later this week. its huge!  some unexpectedly beautiful photographs and paintings by a couple of british artists.  love it.  can't believe they just let you walk in.  amazing.
tour of the east wing of the whitehouse all dressed up for christmas.

just beautiful.  swags and fresh greens everywhere.  

thank you to the nice indian lady that took this blurry pic of me.  atleast i have proof i was there.  this room was decorated in blue and silver.  the next room was all read velvet.  really quite cool.

me in front the whitehouse after the tour.  that is the front.  they let me in.  actually the last guard to check my id  had the last name of benitez.  awesome. we are everywhere! =)