NASW Lobby Day

Wow! These past two days have been insane! I went to Lobby Day in Olympia with a group from school and it was both awesome and awful!!!! The bus ride there was horrible and had me wanting to strangle (figuratively of course, although I was super irritated with many people on the bus) about half of the people who were on the bus. There were the people who would just not shut up (and was completely drunk), the guy who was playing with his Care Bear the entire time, and the woman who just did not seem to understand that it's not polite to stick her butt in everyone's faces.


We got into Olympia Sunday night, checked into our hotel, and then went out to dinner at an awesome Indian restaurant. Then we wandered around, looking through the windows of all the shops downtown and went to a bar to hang out for a few hours. The next morning we got together at a church across from the Capitol and were prepped for the day. We were set loose. Chris, Sveta, Laura, and I went around to our legislators offices and dropped off notes we had written to them since they were all in session. We also dropped off notes for Governor Gregoire. It was a madhouse because there were so many people there lobbying for their causes but it was a lot of fun. We got lots of pictures around the area and of the buildings which are really beautiful.







After all the lobbying, we went out for Thai, and then wandered around a bit more until it was time to board the bus again. The trip back was pure torture (and I thought it was bad on the way up). I think we were all getting a little loopy. And Chris and Dan both looked like they were going to pass out any minute. As you can see from the pictures, we were getting a little frazzled and a lot annoyed....