My aunt and I have been doing some digging to figure out where exactly in DC this photo of my great-grandparents was taken.
But I’m too easily distracted. In trying to find a match for similar buildings in Google Street View, I came across this gem on a photo of 16th St., NW.
I received a little last-minute gift yesterday: two center-ice tickets to the season opener for the Boston Bruins. While the Bruins played pretty terribly against my once-favorite team the Washington Capitals, it was really something to be about a dozen rows back from the glass, watching Tim Thomas and Donny Beaupre Jose Theodore make great saves and, though Boston hates him, Alex Ovechkin make every other player look like a midget-leaguer in comparison.
Because the game stunk for the Bruins so much—an ugly 4-1 loss—the highlights were elsewhere. Such as seeing Patriots beloved linebacker Junior Seau ride the Zamboni:
One thing I have to say is that the fans in North Station after the game were just completely awful people. As my friend RJ and I slowly made our way to the Green Line, a Bruins fan shoved an older man to the ground just because he was wearing an Ovechkin jersey—and didn’t just shove him but walked off so that no one knew who did it. The gentleman on the ground needed a minute to get up, during which the woman with him, also wearing a Capitals jersey, yelled for the “asshole” to show himself. The men behind me muttered to each other that they would help but she wasn’t attractive enough to justify the effort. The whole thing reflected so badly on the fans and the city.
