Sunday: I didn’t make it to the continental breakfast… very disappointing. That’s what I get for blogging till 2am. So tonight, it’s only a little after 12am, so I’m a little ahead of the game, right? Anywho.. today was interesting and semi-life threatening to say the least.
The morning was slow, but I liked it. Just lounging around for a bit, chatting online, etc… I decided to run to the Whole Foods market and grab a couple things to have around here so every meal didn’t have to be a $10-15 expense. That all went as expected; just a quick walk to the store a few blocks away, loaded up the backpack, and walked back. I guess we stopped by the Apple store and Barnes & Noble for a bit — all pretty boring stuff.
We get this call from Adam, a fellow intern (but of the journalism kind), about going to the zoo. This sounded like a good idea. So we went.
It all started out well, just a quick metro ride up to the nearest station, then a 10 minute walk to the zoo. We saw some of your typical zoo animals: pandas, cheetas, bears, etc. I took some photos, but haven’t bothered uploading any of them because they weren’t that good. We walk around this thing for probably an hour or better, then the fun starts happening.
About two-thirds of the way through, we notice it getting a little windy and overcast. We figured that a little rain was moving in and we’d hustle through the rest of the park. Little did we know that a complete downpour was on its way. This hit very quickly and we found ourselves 100% soaked. We scrambled in a sad attempt to find out way out of this place through the crazy winding paths and bridges. We were of the park for a little bit, somewhere in the woods, then back in. We finally found a path that we recognized and kept to it. BOOM! A huge bolt of lightning hit a tree no more than 50-75 feet from us. We all covered and dropped down a little bit. We kind of decided that it was time to hustle a little more. We spent the next 20 minutes walking around paths and over bridges and finally make it to the front gate. Evidently everyone else was conveniently next to a map when the rain hit and easily found their way out. How nice it must have been.
The next 20 minutes was spent walking to the metro station and getting gawked at as we rode the escalator down a few stories. From here on out it was just a ride to the Courthouse station then a little walk to home to change into something a little drier. I called it a good day from there. The rest of the evening was spent sitting/laying on my bed, resting up for tomorrow’s full day of wandering around the city. Until then, I’m out.
Cheers!
Sean Stoops
May 28, 2007 at 10:57 am
Sounds like an eventful day!! Sure wish there were panda pics. Have fun today and tomorrow your feet can rest!!