D.C

This was a weekend that I will remember for a long time. I have recently arrived home from Washington D.C. Yes that’s right people our nations capital. I went with my parents and my uncle by car to D.C. We saw Stephen Colbert and John Stewart’s rally to restore sanity and or fear. The rally was held at Washington mall. Over 200,000 people from around the country came to see this rally. It was amazing and there were many celebrity appearances. Some celebrities that were there was Cat Stevens, Ozzie Osborn, The Ojays, Kid Rock and more. Stephen Colbert and John Stewart were hilarious! There were points when I couldn’t stop laughing. The rally went on for three hours. It started at 12 in the afternoon and ended at 3. The only downside was that my back was killing me from standing so long (this is ironic because I just wrote a blog about standing up for long periods of time last week). Overall everybody in the crowd seemed to be having a great time. I certainly had a great time.

However, the trip on the way down was not too fun. I left school at 12:15, went home real quick, and then left for our trip. It started out great but when we got into New York it got rough. The traffic was horrible. It got even worse when we got into New York City. Literally the traffic was bumper to bumper. I probably could have walked faster then the pace of the traffic. Traffic was bad all the way until Pennsylvania. We stopped to eat dinner at the only restaurant we could find… UNO’s. We were about 10 minutes outside of Philadelphia. After dinner it was all a blur to me because I decided to be very anti-social and put on my over the ear head phones. I quickly fell asleep to Jack Johnson. I awoke just as we were passing Baltimore. It looked like quite the city but I was more excited about the fact that we were almost in D.C. Finally around 11:30pm we reached our destination and I quickly crawled into the nice hotel pull out couch and passed out.

The next morning we got up around 8 and ate breakfast. After that we went to Washington mall and got our spots for the rally. Like I said earlier the rally was awesome but afterwards we went and explored D.C by foot. Our first stop was the Washington monument. It was crazy tall! We stopped and like any tourist took a bunch of pictures then moved on. We then found ourselves in the WWII memorial. Powerful is the only word that comes to mind. Everything was very even and proportional. They had two small structures on the left and on the right. On the left it said PACIFIC and the right said ATLANTIC. Surrounding the whole memorial were columns that had each states name on it. The third stop was the reflecting pool. Amazing as it is it’s very dirty. The pool seemed to be on the low side and was just very grimy. But all was forgotten when we got to our final stop… the Lincoln Memorial. I felt the air leave my lungs when I saw him. He looked absolutely powerful sitting there on his everlasting throne. The whole experience was very emotional. It was as if he was sitting there looking over our Countries capital making sure everything is right. The trip was a great success and I’m happy to have gone. Our nations capital is beautiful.