Nation's Capital

First off, sorry Stan for wasting your time lol. It took me a couple days to get back into the swing of things but I've adjusted back to the west coast (I make it seem like I was gone forever). Alright, heres a recap of DC:

As I get to Long Beach I have about 2 hours to kill. I ended up watching Role Models and playing Sudoku. I'm ranked "clinically insane" in that game which I'm quite proud of. I get on the plane and I sit next to a little girl and her mom. Throughout the whole ride she was watching whatever was on Nickelodeon and she was laughing super loud. I didn't really mind but a lot of the people around me seemed to get annoyed. I thought it was really nice too see her have all this joy and happiness that a lot of adults/teens seem to be lacking. I was watching for the love of ray-j and the mom looked at me like I was some bad kid for watching it or something lol. I ended up just reading my textbook. About halfway through the ride got pretty turbulent. I was thinking to myself "I hope its not another oceanic flight 815". After about 10 minutes of turbulence, it was smooth flying from there on. I meet up with Derek at the airport and we get to the hotel via bus and the metro station. The metro is their version of BART, but the the stations look way cooler. The architecture was pretty amazing.

The escalators seemed like they went for miles

So we get to the hotel and we see hella guys in skirts square dancing. It turns out there was a gay square dancing convention in town. What are the odds?! 

Some of the flowers outside the hotel:

Friday: If you google top things to do in DC, going to the Smithsonian museums is pretty much number 1 on every list - they were crap. I do not know why they're world famous. Derek and I went to visit the national air and space museum and 2 other ones? They were so bad, that I forgot. There was only one neat thing that I saw which was Dorothy's red slippers.

I actually can't remember the sequence of events from here on out so the rest of the blog may be all over the place. The best part of the trip was the wax museum. 

Barack

Me failing at doing the people's eyebrow

Gilbert Arenas aka "hibachi:

Sunday: It was Easter, so Derek went to the National Cathedral. I was under the impression that we got free wifi in our rooms but we actually had to pay for them. They charged 13 bucks for 24 hours. We paid, and it ended up not working which was hella wack. I ended up using the computers in the lobby area. As I was doing my homework, a girl sat next to me to do some work and she asks me if I knew of any good places to eat. I told her I'm not from around here - (which I thought was pretty obvious, seeing as I was in a hotel -but that there was a Mcdonalds across the street. She said thanks and walked away. After 5 seconds or so, she came back and asked me if I wanted to go eat with her. I ended up going with her and we chilled for about an hour. It was pretty random but it was a new expereince eating with a complete stranger. Her name is Ashley and she was from Utah. She was here for a wedding. I think I would 

have hung out with her more if she wasn't leaving that night but whatevs. 

probably the first person to do this  -__- 

Just like Mr. Wasser

Monday: To end the trip, we went to the national zoo. It was my first time ever at a zoo. However, I only saw like 8 different animals and most of them were birds -___- It was raining so I wasn't surprised. After the zoo we headed to the airport and hung out there for about 3 hours. I took a nap, watched Rocket Science(great movie), and read. While we were flying home, my t.v stopped working. One side of the plane got tv shows and one side got movies. I was on the movie side which would have been cool if I had more than 2 movies. I got Marley and me and Revolutionary Road. The guy who was sitting next to me was pretty cheesed off. We both ended up just watching Marley and me. Everytime a funny scene came up we looked at each other and just laughed or something. I gotta admit, that movie was pretty sad. The guy next to me was pretty close to crying. In a non gay way we shared a few moments 

lol. 

I'm getting super tired so I'm just gonna quickly map out the rest of the trip

• Spy museum: I was really looking forward to this but it was directed for little kids. Derek introduced himself to everyone as Chuck
• Holocaust museum: It was pretty intense. We would have stayed longer if...? I actually don't remember why
• I lost my credit card
• We unnecessarily walked hella much
• Vietnam war memorial
• Food locations were far and few between

Overall the trip was ok. I think everyone should at least go to DC once just to visit the monuments but I wouldn't recommend anyone going there unless you want to be bored! DC is pretty much a point and look place as Derek put it. You're like, "oh look, the white house". Thats about it. If anything, it was a good barometer to gauge how well Derek and I would fare when we move to Davis; it was a good opportunity for me and Derek to bro it up. Nonetheless, I'm glad to be back home. California weather shits on DC's.