How closed is it? Really? With family scheduled to come into town the following day, we decided to take a quick trip up to the National Mall today to see how closed it really was. We had seen photos on the news of barricades, police officers, even canine patrols designed to keep the general population…
[…] visited the National Mall earlier in the week to see how closed things really were (see that post here) and we figured my parents would be able to see something. Turns out we got more than we bargained […]
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