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[personal profile] sorcyress
So, some amount of time ago, Jesse lets me know via the internets that he's going to be in DC, which is not in the slightest bit my city, but is a city, and relatively close by. We consistently fail to make any sort of plan, beyond "yeah, we should hang out!"

Today at about ten thirty, he calls being all "so, 'sup?" The end result is that, after I actually wake up properly, fail at gas, get lost, park at Greenbelt Station, walk allll the way across, take a train, have a "so, where are YOU" conversation, Jesse and I met up, and spent the day wandering around DC! (Well, DC and Georgetown)

We had a just lovely time, largely because neither of us was really intending to go do any intensely touristy things. We visited the national arbourium, which was pretty, and wandered around the capitol trying very very hard not to discuss serial killers or assassins in anything but the vaguest of terms. Hunger led us to Georgetown, where we got pizza slices larger than our faces, and argued about zombie fighting and how impolite it would be to play The Floor is Lava in the restaurant. We ate baklava on a wide stone wall, overlooking a bridge and a river.

It was all lovely, but there was one moment that was just *fantastic*. As we were walking back to the trains, both to go our separate ways home, I paused by a line of trees. "Firebugs!1" I pointed out gleefully. We stared for a minute at the two or three fireflies glowing beterrn the trees, when he gasped. "Look to the right"

There had to be a hundred little lightning bugs, lighting up their butts and making it seem as though the Earth herself was glittering. It was just *breathtaking*.

I really love the world sometimes.

How was your day?

~Sor
MOOP!

1: I call lightning bugs/fireflies firebugs. No, I'm not sure why.

on 2009-06-16 04:33 am (UTC)
marcmagus: Me playing cribbage in regency attire (Default)
Posted by [personal profile] marcmagus
Because "lightningflies" would just be silly.

on 2009-06-16 05:30 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] sonsashi.livejournal.com
Haha, I've been in DC since Saturday evening.

on 2009-06-16 12:32 pm (UTC)
jazzfish: Jazz Fish: beret, sunglasses, saxophone (Default)
Posted by [personal profile] jazzfish
Gorgeous. Georgetown makes me acceptably happy.

Except for the hour or so where I was getting lectured again by my baby sister about how I'm a horrible selfish person for not wanting to spend time around family (read "her"), and the couple hours it took coming down from that, it was decent. There was sushi at the end of it.
Posted by [identity profile] dhs.livejournal.com
wandered around the capitol trying very very hard not to discuss serial killers or assassins in anything but the vaguest of terms

*burst out laughing -- loudly and uncontrollably*

on 2009-06-16 03:49 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] harena.livejournal.com
The boys went out to catch fireflies in the yard the other evening 'cause we have 'em out the wazoo here! It is rather like the Earth is glittering when they get into full flash mode & i've always loved watching them ^_^

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