Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween everyone!  My mom said that I didn't have to wear a costume this year, but then she made me wear this stupid collar anyways.

Photochallenge Day Twenty Five: Close Up

I didn't like it very much, so I moped around for a little bit.  But it was better than a costume, so after my walk, I felt much better and didn't mind wearing it around the apartment, even though it has jingle bells on it.  Mom says that it makes her happy and puts her in a Halloween mood, even though she can't go out and celebrate tonight because she's studying for the MPRE.  She's not even wearing her Twister costume tonight!

Mom's also happy because she got to go on a tour of the State Department building today.

In the Diplomatic Reception Rooms, they have one of the biggest collections of American furniture from the eighteenth century.  On the tour, she got to see the desk where the Treaty of Paris was signed.  That's the treaty that made the United States an independent country.

She also go to see a whole bunch of things that Thomas Jefferson owned, like this desk.

This official seal of the United States would have been attached to a treaty signed some time in the 1800s, but a traveler found it in a flea market in Argentina!  Now it lives in the Diplomatic Reception Rooms

In the rooms, there is a ton of porcelain from China. She thought it was funny that all the people on the plates look Asian.  Even though the Chinese porcelain makers were commissioned to make scenes from American history, they had never seen a European!  The plate on the right depicts the Battle of Saratoga.  Neither side looks white and neither side is wearing the correct uniform!