Back from vacation!

Fa la la la la la, la la la!

Went to Washington D.C. for a short vacation. It was pretty awesome! I visited the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, which were the two things I really really wanted to see. Since I wasn't American, I'd have had to contact my embassy to arrange for a White House visit six months in advance for a tour. Six months ago I didn't even know I was going to be taking a vacation! So that didn't happen, which was OK since it actually wasn't on my top list of things to do or see. I did want to see the Capitol, which was unfortunately under construction because their iron dome is no longer rust proof and chunks has been falling off. So our tour was slightly abbreviated, and the majority of the dome was covered up by scaffolding. I did see a statue of Dr. Crawford Long from Georgia, who was explained to me as the father of anaesthesia. Preposterous! I thought. Everyone knows that Dr. Morton was the father of anaesthesia, and the first to use ether successfully in an operation. Alas, Wikipedia has proven me wrong! I also have learned that as with many discoveries in history, several people arrived at the same conclusions at similar times separately, and the use of ether as an anaesthetic has been done by not only Dr. Long, Dr. Morton, Dr. Clarke, but also Dr. Horace Wells. Cool beans!