super soaker

last summer, doobie came to visit me here in d.c. i was pretty new to the city still, and pretty nervous about being a knowledgeable and adequate hostess who knew about cool and unique things going on. and so, in my attempt to be awesome, i suggested that we should go with some new friends of mine to the free sunset serenade concert at the zoo. because concert at the zoo equals awesome. obviously.

and actually, i think it would have been pretty awesome except that about an hour before the concert was supposed to start a massive rain storm started instead and the concert was cancelled and we were literally soaked. so we ate some gyros in adams morgan and then went home and watched “battlestar galactica” instead. which, let’s face it, is not a bad way to spend an evening whether there is a massive rain storm or not.

this summer, doobie has been living in d.c. doing an internship. i am a little better with the city and he is something of a native now himself, so we have managed some pretty good adventures since he’s been here. the only thing left, really, was the sunset serenade, part two. and last night was the night. except that about an hour before the concert was supposed to start a massive rain storm started instead. the concert was cancelled so we ate sushi in adams morgan instead. it all seemed really familiar. doobie felt like this about it.






turns out, the storm was a pretty bad one. there were trees down and electricity out all over the place. some cars parked in the neighborhood where my office is even had their back windows blown out by the wind. yowsa. our house and neighborhood were, luckily, unscathed, though I cannot say the same thing for the sunset serenade at the zoo.

maybe next year.