The DC expirience!

So I am going to visit Matt in DC. I am sure at this point he is like, Brian is coming to visit? Seriously? And he was pry a little weary as we hadn’t really hung out much. Luckily Adam Brown was in town with his mom visiting his brother. He did a lot of out planning and took us to a few of his brothers favorite places(…bears). Lots of beers were drank, a few shots of jamo slammed and an oyster or two were eaten. It was a short trip and I crammed all the culture I could in. Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln monuments, Vietnam wall, FDR memorial, Smithsonian Aviation(I am Brian Wolken and I want to walk on the moon!), Capitol Hill, Supreme Court, Library of Congress, Georgetown, etc. I saw a lot of great sites. We hit a lot of great local drinking holes and eateries as well. One night in particular we consumed a large number of beverages and were headed towards the metro. This is when I decided to give Matt a little shove. He had just finished using the restroom and had no clue that I was playing middle linebacker down the street. After what I recall was a minor shove, Matt bit the curb, literally. Dazed and now bleeding it was lucky he didn’t break anything. It was a sobering moment and I now had to figure out how to get us home. We got to the closest metro stop and after some talking convinced the security guard that I wouldn’t let matt fall on to the tracks or get blood on anything. With the help of some friendly metro riders and kleenex we got the bleeding stopped from his scraped nose and upper lip. At this point matt’s favorite saying was “why would you do that to me?” Matt tried to get off at every stop, as he was a little po’d at me, but we finally made it out to Bethesda. While walking home Matt decided to take a scenic route by a nice water fountain. This route involved going up a bunch of stairs and attempting to go down more stairs to street level. I say attempting because he got to the bottom but it was face first. He didn’t walk down the steps, he dove down them. Now the damage I had done was minimal and he was bleeding again. We luckily made it back to the apartment without anything broken and without getting arrested! His roommates couldn’t believe the shape Matt was in and that I would do that to him. We put some frozen peas on his face and went to bed. I was awoken to a stunned Kyhnn, asking holy crap, what happened last night. We filled in the missing pieces and continued site seeing. I felt pretty bad, and Matt got over the whole situation amazingly quick. I did have to give him a one time free pass though and now at anytime, Matt can punch me, tackle me, hit me with a car, whatever, but he only gets one free pass so I think he’s holding on to it just until I forget about it. We went to a few more sites, and then both headed off to Thanksgiving with our families where Matt had a lot more explaining to do because of the ruffed up face. The trip was the beginning of a great friendship! I am not sure if this is because Matt really likes me, or if he is just afraid that I will beat the crap out of him if he’s not my friend. Either way it works out great for me.