All we are saying is give peace a chance

I went to the peace rally/march/demonstration in downtown DC on Saturday. I've never been to anything like it before. There were thousands of people, costumes, signs...it was amazing. There were also chants, songs, speeches and a unicyclist. Unfortunately, I didn't get a picture of the unicyle man, but here are some others:


I liked this sign with the flower a lot. It said "war is not healthy for children and other living things." Haha. That's the back of the White House in the background. Apparently, this was one of the first marches in a while that was allowed to go down Pennsylvania Avenue.


That's the Capitol in the background. It was very dreary so it kind of fades into gray, but you get the idea.


If the guy in the middle of this picture hadn't gotten in the way, you could see my favorite group costume: Bush and Cheney on puppet strings attached to the devil.

I thought it was really cool that I witnessed "history in the making" as everyone so glamourously puts it. It didn't feel much different than every other day besides the fact that I was in a HUGE group of people all walking in the same direction chanting and screaming. Okay, so I guess it was a little different than most days.

But even though I would say that I am not a fan of the war and I dislike the idea of such violence, too, it was kind of weird to be there with all these people who are trying so passionately to make one statement for all the world to see. I don't know if I believe in anything enough right now to protest it...oh dear, I think that's the definition of apathy. I don't mean to be apathetic... Oh, well.