Feel this is a nice thing to document. Can't believe it was the one moment I neglected to take a photograph on this entire trip though!
Leaving the quiz at Murphy's Irish Pub in Alexandria, Virginia, heading up motorway towards Chevy Chase, a partially blacked out car pulls up beside us at traffic lights. Another, a landrover behind, with CIA officials. In front car sits Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, returning home from a joint fundraiser held with Barack Obama in downtown D.C.
Naturally we were waving, and as they were taking off I could see her waving back.
Not sure if I ought to publicly name the street, but we know for a fact they were turning into her home street.
I don't know if Bill was beside her (although my guess is he was at the event also, so probably was), but it's a nice thought to think the former leader of the free world, and the most realistic female candidate for President were in the car beside us. Still can't believe her nerve in citing her role in the NI peace process though! Still - not bad for a drive home...
Oh, and we won the quiz! My sincerest thanks go to the intelligence, perseverence and determination in the face of fierce competition to the following: (alphabetically, because everyone deserves equal credit...though some were more equal than others...)
Peter Mannion
Sarah McKegney
Kieran O'Connor
Joyce Schwartz
Gary Simpson
It was a tough battle, but the Nationals tickets for July 9th are ours...
Our team name - 'One Team In Ireland'.... as the saying goes... 'If Carlsberg did pub teams....!'
