Election Night

Tuesday night was quite the event.  After going to Sprinkles to get a cupcake (I got a black & white cupcake), I went to a little place called Busboys and Poets with Matt and Kelsey.  It was great--decorated, balloons, high energy, lots of cheering whenever blue showed up on the screen.  We found an open spot in a little corner to watch the numbers roll in.  A {very drunk} man named Tony kept saying to us, "it's just a television show.  That's why they're waiting to reveal Florida."  I got a few interesting looks thanks to my Romney pin.  It was fun, just as I would imagine an election event, but kind of like being at a BYU-U football game in LaVell stadium with the Utes losing.

Kelsey and I decided to leave at 11:00 and waited at the bus stop for a while...until we called and found out that it stopped running after 9:00.  So we started walking toward the metro, and once we got to Chinatown we heard honking and some yelling.  We peered into a nearly-empty restaurant and saw people jumping up and down on the screen, so we figured some big numbers must have just been called for the Dems.  Then a man came out of Fuddruckers and yelled, "OBAMA!!!!"  Soon the streets were filled with people cheering and honking.  My heart sank a little.

It was a long metro ride home.  As we came out of the metro and got onto Pennsylvania Ave, crowds of students were running toward the White House.  More crowds of people.  More yelling and cheering and honking.  That was the night.


Side note, Kelsey showed me a beautiful website.  Click here.  It's awesome.  She also showed me a delicious song: