Fourth of July in Washington

Well, of COURSE Fourth of July in Washington, D.C. was sweet.

On Saturday my roommates and I made a barbeque: ALL by ourselves :) plus a lot of help from some male neighbors to get the grill going.

On Monday we woke up early and made pancakes, painted our fingernails to coordinate, and went to a parade on Constitution Avenue. It was very, very hot.

Our hometeachers had invited us to come hang out with them at the Lincoln memorial that afternoon and wait for the fireworks to start. Which we did. There were a LOT of people everywhere (obviously) and a lot of singles who we could hang out with and eat their food.
I ended up having a very long, "deep" conversation with a comedian pot-smoker whose ex-girlfriend and mother of his son is certifiably crazy. We talked about smoking pot, the Plan of Salvation, using the "n" word in comedy (I was against, he was for :p), and the Bible.

At 9:00 we got to watch fireworks. Check them out in this video. I have seen a lot of fireworks in my day (including the ones at Walt Disney Land and the war zone that is any given city in Germany at New Year's but these...may have beat them all. They were HUGE! If you look in this video, you can see how HUGE they were in comparison to the Washington Monument and the Washington Monument is no small buddy. They had squiggly fireworks and sparkly fireworks and booming fireworks that shook the Lincoln Monument, and this video does not do it justice but maybe you can get a flavor of it.

(also: Kiera and I may or may not have heard Josh Groban singing at the Capitol Hill Fourth of July concert)

Afterwards, Kiera, Amanda, Eric and I walked home. Yeah, I can walk to my house from the Lincoln Memorial. NBD.