AlanBarber.Org
Wednesday, January 21, 2004
Going to Washington D.C.
Well the time has finally arrived and I'm off to the nations capitol, Washington D.C. Going to CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) I'll be getting up tomorrow morning at 4:45am and meeting up with the rest of College Republicans. Well all squish in a few cars and drive 3 hours to the airport where our plane leaves at 9:40am.It should be an impressive caravan considering some 30+ people are going. I'm excited since it was a blast last time. I'll get to see many great speakers, roam through the booths of different conservative organizations, and just hang out with fellow republicans. Of course not everything will be great.
First off, the weather is going to be just nasty this year. It's looking to cold and snowy most of the time. That's just going to kill the fun of visiting the city. It was windy and the rain was drizzling last year when I visited D.C. It made walking around a drag and all the pictures looked terrible. Considering this will probably be my last visit to the city I had hoped this year would be warm and sunny so I could take a few spectacular shots of the monuments. But that's life so I guess I'll live. Luckily, I have a great digital camera with me instead of a junk disposable. I should be able to play with the settings and make up for the bad weather.
Secondly, the room assignments just plain sucked! No one in the club reads this, heck they don't even know it exists so I shall rant freely. I didn't get into a room with any of the people I know. There are two group of people I wanted to bunk with. The first was the same group as I was with last year. I'm not really friends with any of them but we had a good time and got along well. The second group, well, while the others in the club are large groups of friends, roommates, boyfriend/girlfriends, etc there's the small group of guys and girls that are the outsiders. We aren't the "average" college students so we naturally just clicked. Since we don't know anyone else we wanted to get in the same room. It just didn't work out that we could get a room together. I mean I understand, the numbers just worked out with girls and guys that we couldn't get a room together.
Oh sure it doesn't matter that much. Most of the time I'll be out and about alone but still, I know (at least can match a name and face) maybe 10 people out of the 30+ going and yet I didn't get roomed with any of them!
Oh well, I'll just live with it. It should still be plenty of fun.
So I'll be back Sunday afternoon. You all behave while I'm gone!
Very cool blog. Wish I was going to the conference. Think President Bush might stop by? Wouldn’t surprise me at all!
Posted by
God bless America
on 01/24/2004 at 11:03 PM
Don’t forget to check out Metro station: Gallery Place/Chinatown to see how wretched that part of D.C. is like.
Have fun.