Parking Available - Only on Memorial Day

It is unheard of! Street parking available - today only. One of the things we miss about living in the Midwest is our two car garage, long driveway, and ample street parking. We no longer have those amenities living on Capitol Hill. It is a headache - especially during the week - to find parking. And we just had the pleasure of paying almost $200 to register the car - again - and get our resident parking sticker to put on the windshield. Something was very different about today when we went out for our morning walk. Ours was the only car parked in front of our building. And all around the neighborhood there were plenty of available spaces. It’s even less jammed than on a regular weekend. Most of the neighbors have left town for the long weekend. Since we have at least five Congress people living in our building, all those units are vacant and all the activity around them is gone. I have a feeling that the spaces will begin to fill in by the end of the day. So we will enjoy it for the moment because that’s about as long as it’s going to last.