The sun isn't shinning over the James today

Aright.

So im chilling in Richmond today arrived last night. I got here met up with Casey and Keith and Keith/Casey's girlfriend Barbara. The train from Washington took 3 hours or two episodes of the shield and some staring out of the window.

I will take you through what i got up to in Washington.

I slept in on the Sunday got my lazy arse out of bed about 10.30 am then headed to Chinatown as some guys told me its good for places to eat. Walked through a massive car park on the way where their was some kind of preaching rally going on so i just carried on walking. Got to Chinatown and there were like about 60 people all stood on this corner around this guy so i thought cool maybe he is famous. No they were just getting these pieces of paper looked like a treasure hunt or something. So after i made my way through the crowd i walked the streets looking for somewhere to eat. Nowhere was doing breakfast so i went to Potbelly's its a kinda Subway style place pretty cool.
After Brunch i went to the International Spy Museum which at $18 is pretty steep. It was pretty cool but busy so you couldn't get a look at some stuff. It was very anti commies and pro America but some interesting shit about the Manhattan Project.
Came out and it was raining pretty hard so i went for cover in a gift shop. I went to the National Mall which isn't full of shops Just memorial's for every war that the americans have been arsed to go to and museums. I went to the Air and space which is free so was rammed. Got a cool picture of the U2 spy plane and a bunch of other pic's. After this i walked to the Monument you know the big spear coming out of the ground what did amaze me was how low the planes coming into land get and how close to the city it was.
I went and got me a polish sausage hot dog and a mountain dew and walked towards the white house, There were plenty of people here and one lonely guy singing his heart out in protest of the Iraq war. Got a picture of him. It was getting on for 5 pm now so i headed back to the hostel and washed some clothes. By the time i'd finished it was like 7.30 pm so i headed out for food. I went back to Chinatown and went for chinese. I saw a cop arresting some guy and a van come to take the homeless dudes to a shelter for the night. Went to a restaurant called the china garden. I couldn't see a garden anywhere but hey ho. Got served by the rudest waiter ever so i didn't leave a good tip just a normal one 10%. Leaving satisfyingly full headed back to the hostel to be kept awake by these two Japanese guys talking way too loud.

So monday arrives and i make my way to Union Station to pick up my 30 day amtrak pass and get my train to Richmond. Of course their is a problem and they cant find my ticket so after waiting an hour finally gets sorted but its cool because I was really early for the train anyway. I sat next to my 1st Redneck today all he kept saying was Sir how much is a glass of milk. With his mouth full of burger. Nice! I eventually got on the train to Richmond which got stuck behind a freight train and ended up being 30 minutes late.

So last night we went for buffet at the Grand Coral? which is about 15 minutes outside Richmond. I had my first ever Meatloaf and Macaroni Cheese. Weird place full of Hic's and the working class. pretty funny cheap though at $12 all you can eat. Then we went to the Mall to try to get Keith a hat. Some of the dudes we were with were running around causing havok pretty funny. We went back to Keith's to watch the Basketball the hornets vs the spurs game 7 spurs won by 9 points. Casey was asleep all through the game so we headed back to his after....

TIll next time kids

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