4th of July Fireworks by DC Digital Photography
Why do I wear the same shirt during similar moments?
Looking back to last year’s 4th of July I see that I was wearing the same t-shirt I wore this past Saturday.
It must be the shirt I wear when I want to celebrate our Nation’s birthday the only way I know how.
The long weekend started the minute work got out on Thursday. I went out to Bar Louie for a happy hour with some DC Metblogs writers. I always enjoy meeting up with my authors and it gave me a chance to try out a new place. Bar Louie is really swanky and I really enjoyed the non-alcoholic cocktails, however the place is a bit on the pricey side at the end of the night. It may have been the premium drinks we ended up ordering- a return trip maybe necessary. I also decided to say hi to some wonderful people at Fuddruckers before calling it a night. The place got really full after I arrived, I didn’t know that it was a happening place at night.
I managed a productive Friday, I got a haircut, I went to the gym, and I shopped for everything I needed for my 4th of July BBQ. After all that productivity I was ready for some nonsense. That night I met up with Wendi to hang out with some of her friends at Eighteenth Street Lounge. I think it’s a great place and it is rather classy, but I’m not that big of a fan. I’m not into dress codes and cover charges, but it does have a cool deck that has a certain urban charm to it. It looks like I was there the same time that The Pumpernickel was but I was paying less attention to the people that were around me and more attention to various conversations I was jumping in and out of.
The night ended with a run-in with the Real World DC cast but that is a story you’ll have to hear later.
Saturday I woke up sometime after 11 AM wondering how I managed to stay out that late and how I was going to survive The 4th. It was the night I was going to go all out after all.
I cleaned up the house and The MoCo crew arrived for some burgers, beer, and fun. Adam walked over from his new place in Court House to help me grill and make burgers. Again I know nothing about cooking- why did I volunteer to have a BBQ then? Everything went great however and a good time was had. I even made Skippy and it wasn’t half bad. Doug and Katie even brought Moose and we all had fun feeding him hot dogs. For fireworks we all walked over to Adam’s new place at The Meridian and we managed to get a pretty good view of the DC Fireworks.
After the fireworks a bunch of us decided to go into Old Town Alexandria and I finally got a chance to go to a bar down in that neighborhood. Trying to get back to Arlington from Braddock Road however reminded me why I don’t go to Old Town that often.
Let’s see what my other bloggy friends were up to:
- LiLu also threw a BBQ that was so epic it caused her boy to shave his head in preparation. PQ managed to climb on a roof.
- Lemmonex had a woke up with, “Frangelico is seeping out of my pores.” Sound like me yesterday except you substitute Frangelico with Vodka.
- Disaffected Scanner Jockey flashed some kids while getting the paper.
- While The Pumpernickel was trying to do some un-tourist like things this weekend, Lusty Reader got caught in the perfect storm of holiday travelers.
All in all everybody had a smashing 4th of July. I’m ready to recover for Baltimore on Saturday. Oy.
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