Saint Patricks Day!

Wow, its now the 1st of April and I was in D.C. several weeks ago.

D.C. was broken into a few themes. Saint Patricks Day, Gettysburg (I know that's in P.A. but its about an hour from where I stayed in Maryland), My own time on the mall.

So we will start with the 1st one. Saint Patricks Day;
Originally I was planning on spending this day in Boston with my one of my Army buddies however we discovered Boston was much further from D.C. then we thought and figured it wasn't worth our time nd money to travel there. So Instead I spent Saint Patricks Day in China Town in our Nations Capital. It really doesn't matter to much where you celebrate this Holiday if your just looking for the Green and the Drunken Irish times. All over New England is full of Irish Heritage and Tradition so D.C. ended up working well.

The pub we ended up spending most of our money at was set up similar to a pub that I spent some time in in Dublin. I thought that was kinda cool. They had just one dude on Guitar singing Irish Drinking songs and he was alright but it could of been better. I think that the best thing that came from that night was meeting a group of 5 people that were all so interesting and smart. I was waved over buy one of the guys to take a shot with him cause he said I looked like a chill guy. We had a shot....of beer...cheap I know...lol. But it was a greeat bonding moment that lasted the rest of the night! Lol.

His name was Boe. He thought I might of needed a friend so he called over some chick and tried to hook us up, that went well. I straight said no, I was like man I am just here to enjoy myself and meet people, not looking to hook up with any women. He was taken back but said man, I like your style, so we had another shot....of beer...

He introduced me to all the people he was with and throughout the rest of the night I talked with each of them feeling intrigued by all their professions.
One of the girls was a Nuclear Physicist, i can't even spell that right. She was only 21 and had completed college in a year. Yeah one of those people! She was really cool and pretty excepting of an uneducated chap like myself.

Another Girl was a Chemist. Enough said.

One of the Guys worked on space shuttles. He had a metal piece on his key chain and asked me if I wanted to touch something that had been in space? I said yeah so I got to rub this little piece of metal that he proudly carried and displayed on his key chain.

Boes girlfriend I didn't really get to talk to but judging from the crowd she was another brilliant soul. She was also kinda just a fun person, I could tell.

Now for Boe. Well he was a professional Hockey Player in Switzerland for about 8 years and he moved out to Baltimore where he now runs a Hockey Clinic.

They found out that my Buddy Wagner and I had just been discharged and we all had another beer shot to that one. The rest of the night was just fun and full of laughs and a cool old dude in a kelt with a bagpipe that I got to talk with for a bit. He said he was exhausted by the end of the night because he had been celebrating this one day all week!