Adventures of Nomadette24: Another day at the office .. or not?

There are days when I'm reminded that I don't work in just some 'ol city in the US but that I work in Washington, DC, where so many of our political leaders, for good or for bad, are based. My office recently moved to the National Press Building (NPB) which is just one block north of Pennsylvania Ave. The NPB is where, appropriately so, many news organizations are based. It's also where the National Press Club is located.

Today we had a number of big wigs attend an event in our building. The biggest wig was Vice President Cheney. He was the guest speaker and presenter at an awards ceremony.

We knew this was going on the building because there was a calendar of events up in the elevator and we could see the long line of black SUV's outside on the street!

Michelle and I were going to lunch and decided to take the elevator to 'see what we could see'. So, we went out to the lobby and hit the elevator button. A minute later the door opened and inside the elevator were three men and a dog. No, there's no joke coming ... the special security dog with his handler, and two additional special security guys were on their way down to the main lobby. The funny part was that when the doors opened, the dog handler asked "Still want to get on?" - it really was pretty funny.

Anyway, Michelle and I did get on the elevator and went to lunch. When we came back to the building we went through the lobby again and just as we were walking toward the elevator another famous name walked by ... Henry Kissinger. He was so close to me that I could have reached out and hugged him. But, while he looked like Kissinger (duh!) I wasn't sure it was him. And no, for the record, if I had been positive it was him, I still would not have hugged him. However, I would have reached out to shake his hand.

I found this picture, and no I didn't see Greta Van Susteren, but I have to admit that it was pretty cool to see Henry Kissinger in person!