Rally for Sanity!!

I know I should have blogged about my amazing weekend on Monday, but I was recovering!! Today, I have the energy to tell you all about my adventure to DC and making history...so here goes.....

Jesse (my partner in crime) was gracious enough to allow me to stay at his place the night before our journey since the bus left from a place not too far from him. At 6:15am on Oct. 30th, we left the apartment and walked to where the unmarked chinatown bus would whisk us away. The bus stop was PACKED, but we made it on the bus and at 6:50am we were off. The ride down was not too bad....lots of people sleeping...and talking. The only negative was the 2 idiots directly behind us who were yapping at the top of the lungs. The whole bus could here their moronic, immature talk. Eventually they fell asleep which meant peace for the next 2 hours :)

We arrived in DC at 11:30am and walked towards the National Mall. Not even a few blocks in and we already started seeing the signs.....some of them were hilarious, like "Down with zippers!". Some poked fun at the teaparty...some at Obama....some were serious signs about real world problems...but most were just clever, funny, and obviously thought up over some drug induced state the night before. Jesse and I tried to move through the masses on the Mall, trying desperately to make our way near a speaker or even the stage. No such luck. Too many people crammed into one spot and no one wanted to move. There were people there who obviously had been there for hours with there blankets and lawn chairs out and they locked arms and would not let anyone through the crowd. Eventually, Jesse and I became tired of this and decided to leave the giant ball of human flesh and head to the outskirts of the Mall. We walked for a ways, taking in all the signs, and costumes and then we came to the spot where history would be made in DC. The construction site!!! We decided to join about 30 others in trespassing onto this site, climbing a retaining wall....then a whole house, to sit on the roof and have the best seats in the house! That lasted about 30 minutes when A) More people than the roof could hold were up there and I became paranoid that I would end of in a newspaper article about a roof collapse and more importantly B) The police showed up....since we were all trespassing. So, we got chased out of the construction site. And instead of trying to rejoin the crazy crowd, we walked through the National Mall, seeing the sites....Washington Monument, White House, the new World War II Memorial, Lincoln Memorial. Then, Jesse and I walked to a corner bar and did the most American thing ever....had a beer, a burger, and watched the rally on TV!!!!

We then headed to our hotel and rested. An old friend stopped who now lives in DC, so I got to spend some time with her before she headed back out to the streets to protect the citizens of DC (she's a cop there). Then, Jesse and I headed out on the town to take in the Halloween craziness in DC. Lots of crazy costumes....and cheap drinks. And then, it was back to the hotel for bed. On Sunday, we walked through DC chinatown (much cleaner than NYC's), saw some of the 35,000 runners of the Marine Corps Marathon, and walked through the National Aerospace Museum. Then it was back on the bus (with sandwiches and beer in our bags) to head back to NYC.

Overall, it was an amazing weekend....I had an awesome time and I owe a big thank you to Jesse for going with me. I would post pictures but blogger is acting up, so I will try to add them next time.....

Everyone have a great night!!