family Today

Posted May 6, 2006 • Comments Off on Today

Today we went to a really great house museum called Hillwood, way up in extreme northwest DC. Beautiful house, amazing collection of Russian imperial art (much of which properly belongs in Russia, if you ask me), gorgeous gardens. Excellent audio tour. Just a lovely, lovely place.

Then we went to Lake Fairfax park, where my parents are camping. Along the way in, we saw a sign saying “Cricket Fields,” and we figured those were sports fields named after some guy called Cricket. Or something. On the way out we went up, and lo and behold, dudes playing cricket. Mostly Indian or other South Asian. The three of us were the only observers who weren’t players (not counting what looked like a couple of wives and three or four young children). One very nice young man took the time to explain the rules of the game (score when we left: 200 to 47) and make small talk with my dad about the RV and satellite television.

Both those things were completely delightful and completely strange. Neither was what we expected. My understanding of cricket, which I had never seen played before, has at least quadrupled. I’m smarter than I was this morning.

Plus? I’m not as damned as I thought I was.



Your Deadly Sins
Envy: 60%
Sloth: 60%
Gluttony: 40%
Greed: 40%
Lust: 40%
Pride: 40%
Wrath: 40%
Chance You’ll Go to Hell: 46%
You will die at the hands of a jealous lover. How ironic.
How Sinful Are You?