Shortcut To Europe

Most of our free time has been taken up lately by researching where we will live next as our lease comes up sometime in July. So we have been searching Craigslist and canvassing neighborhoods we like to find For Rent signs is promising locations. We took a break on Saturday to head to the European embassy open house tour throughout the city. We started at the EU embassy to get a map and figure out what it was all about. We did not really get any sense of it so we headed over to nearby Spain to start. The line wrapping around the cordner, eerily reminiscent of a certain destination in our last hometown of Orlando, scared us on though. We thought, maybe this one was an aberration, being so near what was probably a common starting point. So we walked up to the west end concentration of embassies just north west of Dupont Circle only to find that this was no aberation. The embassies visible from one corner on Mass and 20th, Luxembourg, Greece, and Bulgaria, all had lines with over 50 people in them, not exactly moving at a brisk pace. For whatever reason through, Estonia, also visible from this corner, was nearly empty, so we headed in to see what all the hubub was about. We gor to walk around a very nice townhome, well furnished, roomy, etc... but we did not get it. I mean, if this was all there was why was everyone waiting to get in. I felt distinctly like an outsider. I mean no insider would wait in line for this. So we ditched. The other embassies will have to remain shrouded in mystery. We'll always have Thailand...