Pat, Pat's friend Pat, Alex, and I drove down to Mansfield, MA in the silver car loaded with Dr. Pepper, donuts, Devil Dogs, and roast beef sandwiches from Amato's on Tuesday afternoon. We met Nick, Emma, and some of their friends in a big parking lot outside the big Comcast Center where the concert was being held. We got seats on the lawn and chilled while the opening band opened (Photo 1). Radiohead played well. It was a privilege to see my favorite song of all-time played live (called Reckoner). They ended the show with it.
Emma drove Nick, Alex, and me back to our summer-rented apartment. Alex and I decided to just stay up all night because we had to get up at 5:30 to catch a 7:00 bus to Washington DC via New York City. We made the first bus in ample time. While trying to enter Manhattan, a big boat wanted to go up a river on the Bronx side, so the Madison Ave bridge was closed for 30 minutes. This almost ruined our day, because instead of arriving at 11:00 AM for our 12:00 PM bus to DC, we arrived at 12:13 PM. I say almost because we were the very last two folks to walk on the bus (Photo 2) So, after traveling for 10.5 hours, we arrived in DC and ate food around 4:45 at a nice Chicago pizza place. Alex was not impressed by the shortness of DC. I tried to explain that no building could be higher than the Washington monument (up for debate) but he simply did not like the mediocrity of shortness. After food, we walked to the Metro and took it out to FedEx field. Our cheap seats were not very good. So we snuck up and got an amazing view for the entire game (Photo 3). Security was not too heavy, thankfully. We had to leave around the 75th minute to catch our bus back. Unfortunately the game was over by then anyways, Brasil 3 USA 1 (They scored 1 more to make it 4). We got off the Metro around 10:30 PM and ran just over a mile to catch our 10:45 PM bus. We made it. The bus was overbooked, we got the last seats, barely. So then we got to New York around 4:45 AM and proceeded to be exhausted, smelly, hungry, and smelly until our 7:00 AM bus to Boston. We were late to Boston. We got a taxi back to my house, Alex showered, and then I said bye. He had a 3:15 PM flight to Sao Paulo through Miami to catch.
I worked Friday. I went swimming and watched MIB 3 on Saturday. I played basketball and bought groceries for the week today. These updates take a while to type on an iPhone.
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