Water-blogged Trip

Wow, a Saturday with so little to do that I resort to resurrecting my Blog. That's pretty pathetic.

I originally started this thing to track my trip to Italy last October. However, never got there, but we were so close it felt like catching a glimpse of the leaning tower of Pisa from a couple miles away.

It all started with my brother calling me on a Monday. He said, "Sam, let's go to Italy this weekend."
I thought about it for a second then told him, "Sure."

So we planned this great trip. We would leave early Friday morning and be back by Tuesday. We were flying standby, so it was a little risky, but my brother thinks he's invincible and I pretty much just do whatever he does. (I think it's a psychological carryover from childhood when he would just beat the crap out of me until I did what he wanted. I learned just to give in early. Wow, I should really see a shrink...) So, after talking our friend Brittany into coming with us (she gets hooked up with standby tickets too.) we set out for the airport.

Our flight to Philadelphia that morning didn't allow standby passengers on due to a weight restriction (have you ever even heard of a weight restriction?). So, pretty much, just as quickly as we decided to go, we were denied.


We ran to the departures screen to see if we could go anywhere else. Our buddy Dan was interning for IBM in Washington, D.C., and we figured as long as were on the East coast, we might be able to get a flight to Rome on Saturday from DC. So we hopped on a plane to DC.

In DC we met up with Dan and we cruised around in his little sedan. This is a picture of us driving around the city. From left to right is Paul, my brother, me, in the back with Brittany and then there's Dan, driving.

We happened to arrive in DC on of the rainiest weekends they've ever had. The streets were flooded, but we didn't come that far to stay inside all day, so we went to the capitol and saw the memorials. Here are a few pictures from our trip.





So, we never quite made it to Italy. My blogging skills are pretty weak, but I figured this could be practice.

We had an awesome time with Dan in DC. He is an amazing guy.