Or something.
The plan was to get up and go to the Metro station by 9 and head in for some brunch. But I woke up with The Nausea again, so my sister went first, then when I was standing again, Ben and I headed out. This was about 11:30. The line to buy a farecard was about 90 minutes long.
So we waited in line until about 1:15 and got into DC around 2. We walked from Gallery Place/Chinatown down 7th St, into a ginormous crowd of people. Eventually we made it down to the mall, where there was a HOMGINORMOUSWTF metric shitton of people. After we got as close as we could, we said fuckit and went back to Teaism.
The cell towers were overloaded, so I couldn't send text messages to anyone. The last I'd heard from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tsubaki_ny was "Teaism after 3," so we went there. The restaurant was packed, and around 3:20, they closed it for about half an hour. There were tables outside, but they were taken; otherwise we'd have waited out there for her to show up.
Anyway, food was had, it was cold in the shade, so we walked back down to the sunny area around the Navy Memorial, where I tried to send the text messages again. Ben managed to find![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
intrepidcat, then he got a text from his brother, who was going to Dupont Circle for dinner.
A plan! So we braved the Metro (holy shit, it was crowded, and some morons tried to get on to the packed train -- people standing at the door said, "No, this train is full, you're hurting people, go away") and made it to Dupont, at which point I got half a dozen text messages, and a voice mail from Tsubaki.
We finally got together (yay!), hung out a while, and found that the Brickskeller was overfull and not accepting new comers. I was getting tired (and still feeling a bit sick), so I voted to go back to my sister's.
I got some pictures of the crowd and of a cool group of signs, and some of the group of us that was hanging out.
We left my sister's at 10 this morning, hit 0 traffic, and made it home by 2:30. For some reason, the Wendy's in Henderson is the happening place to be Sunday afternoon. And they were all out of potatoes >:( so I had a cheeseburger minus the patty.
The plan was to get up and go to the Metro station by 9 and head in for some brunch. But I woke up with The Nausea again, so my sister went first, then when I was standing again, Ben and I headed out. This was about 11:30. The line to buy a farecard was about 90 minutes long.
So we waited in line until about 1:15 and got into DC around 2. We walked from Gallery Place/Chinatown down 7th St, into a ginormous crowd of people. Eventually we made it down to the mall, where there was a HOMGINORMOUSWTF metric shitton of people. After we got as close as we could, we said fuckit and went back to Teaism.
The cell towers were overloaded, so I couldn't send text messages to anyone. The last I'd heard from
tsubaki_ny was "Teaism after 3," so we went there. The restaurant was packed, and around 3:20, they closed it for about half an hour. There were tables outside, but they were taken; otherwise we'd have waited out there for her to show up.Anyway, food was had, it was cold in the shade, so we walked back down to the sunny area around the Navy Memorial, where I tried to send the text messages again. Ben managed to find
intrepidcat, then he got a text from his brother, who was going to Dupont Circle for dinner.A plan! So we braved the Metro (holy shit, it was crowded, and some morons tried to get on to the packed train -- people standing at the door said, "No, this train is full, you're hurting people, go away") and made it to Dupont, at which point I got half a dozen text messages, and a voice mail from Tsubaki.
We finally got together (yay!), hung out a while, and found that the Brickskeller was overfull and not accepting new comers. I was getting tired (and still feeling a bit sick), so I voted to go back to my sister's.
I got some pictures of the crowd and of a cool group of signs, and some of the group of us that was hanging out.
We left my sister's at 10 this morning, hit 0 traffic, and made it home by 2:30. For some reason, the Wendy's in Henderson is the happening place to be Sunday afternoon. And they were all out of potatoes >:( so I had a cheeseburger minus the patty.
