Fourth of July was awesome. I went
with a bunch of fellow interns and saw the concert in front of the capitol
building on the fourth of July. We had an amazing seat right in back of the
marines who did the flag bearing at the ceremony. We were up really close and got to actually see the performers
in person. When they left the stage they literally passed right by us. I made
one mistake however, that is taking the subway on the fourth of July. For
starters on July 1st The Transit authority jacked up the prices by
one dollar for people that used paper cards. This literally forced me to buy a
smart card. The reason tghat they did this was to get extra money from all the
people that came to the fourth of July ceremony. Going on the Subway was a
disaster. We literally had to push and shove though a mass of thousands of
people packed together to get into the subway. It took me like a half hour just
to get to the platform. And the walk back to foggy bottom was only like a half
an hour. But once we got approached the
platform there was no turning back. There was no way we could push our way back
though the crowd so we just continued towards the subway. The metro police we blockading
the escalators and only letting a set number of people down at one time so that
we didn’t over load the trains. Anyway when I finally got on to the train. I literally
couldn’t move. I was completely squashed by people. Finely we arrived back at
foggy bottom after about an hour. But overall the experience was good. And now
I get to say that I used the DC Metro on the fourth of July
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