Tonight's the night, let's live it up

So I know yesterday’s entry was a bit intense. I contemplated doing a more light and airy approach to the DC adventures, but it wouldn’t do the emotions I felt justice.

Speaking of going to DC,(which Emily and I always call “Let’s go to Delaware,” because of the one time we had intended to drive to the Delaware boarder but ended up in Virginia.) People always ask us WHY we do these things. “Why are you in DC?” or “Why are you in Brooklyn?”

My response? Because I can.

The story behind it “Let’s go to Delaware!” is this:

Emily and I have a habit of getting up and driving somewhere “because we can.” I mean, neither of us have children or major responsibilities that would prevent us from using our down time to travel the area around New Jersey, so we take advantage of it. Usually it is during some major weather thing happening (read: Snow storm, torrential down pour etc.)

On this specific night (around 5PM) it was raining and we were sitting around watching TV and stumbling around on our laptops, I turned to her and said “we should drive to Delaware, right now.” She looked at me, shrugged and asked if she needed to put on pants. I told her she didn’t.

But she was smart.

We get to Delaware; I can tell you that it took 3 songs to drive through it before I saw a sign welcoming me to Maryland. Moments later, I saw a sign that said DC 56 miles. That’s when the idea hit me. My friend Wendy from Tucson had moved their recently to live with her parents. She was a night person, she would be up.) I made the call.

Me: What are you doing with your life?
Wendy: Laying on the couch why?
Me: I’m in Maryland, let’s get coffee.
Wendy: What? Okay.

Wendy lives about 15 minutes outside of DC in Falls Church, VA – We drove to her house, picked her up and then skipped the coffee for a Nighttime Tour of DC.

P.S That is the best time to see DC, there’s nobody around!

This is a regular occurrence for Emily and I. We’re constantly going somewhere because we can. Midnight excursions into Connecticut to get wings and beer, or to Union Beach, NJ to have a snowball fight on the beach (can you say you’ve done that? I have. It was fantastic.) We’ve made trips to New York City, and just recently long Island late at night. Though, all of our adventures don’t happen at night…most of them do. We’ve even trapeze through the biggest snow storm of the year in my 2001 Eclipse. Yes, we did get stuck. Yes we did get out without TOO much hassle. Yes, we are stupid sometimes.

Even though some adventures are tragic (being towed off the New Jersey Turnpike, costing me 250.00) they’re all worth it in the end. I’m experiencing more that I would have ever thought I could. I’m living my life as if today was my last day.

Because I can.