TOP SECRET! by lmkluque
My fondest memory of Washington DC was getting lost in the Capitol Building and ending up in FIVE RESTRICTED AREAS! While taking a tour I realized that I didn't have a pass to enter the Senate Chambers and since on this day they were still trying to negotiate a budget, I wanted to sit in. (I had been watching the discussions on TV for several days.) Oh, it's a long story. The short version is, I left my tour group in search of a pass and when I returned from my Senator?s office, I couldn't remember the way back. I went down a flight of stairs and was stopped by an armed guard, I went into an elevator, once, the door opened to the floor of the Senate and they turned me back. The next time the elevator opened I faced another armed guard asking my business, then promptly sending me back. I got off the elevator--I didn't know where. I began walking, heard some noises that sounded like pots and pans clanging, (It was the kitchen, of course.) I kept walking then turned a corner to find my self in a storage closet! This picture was taken from that storage closet--I took it to prove that I actually had been there. So, there I was, in the bowels of the Capitol Building lost in a storage closet with no clue how to get back to my group! I found another elevator, got off at the correct floor just in time to hear the discussion on the budget. It was anticlimactic to say the least! I found out later that had I stayed with my group, I would have gotten into the Senate Chambers with out the pass I had spent so much time getting!
