Rock the Mall

Since I'm still not up to walking and standing for very long, Troy escorted Evelyn to Washington, D.C. today for the Girl Scouts Rock the Mall celebration.  (Look - my t-shirt even fit Troy!)

From what I understand, the gist of Rock the Mall is for Girl Scouts from all over the country (and the world) to get together and sing songs.  There were about 250,000 people at today's event.  Troy tried to capture the crowd with some pictures . . .

. . . but he said these shots don't do justice to how it looked in person.

Girl Scouts trade SWAPs (Something With A Pin) at events such as this, and here's the loot Evelyn brought home.  Each little token had the troop number and/or state that the Girl Scout was from.  Evelyn enjoyed seeing where other Girl Scouts were from:  several were (understandably) from Virginia, Pennsylvania and Maryland; her favorite (a teeny-tiny bottle filled with sand) was from Florida; others were from Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Alabama, North Carolina and even Colorado.