We left our home at 2am heading to the Airport at Vienna. We left Austria at 7:05am. The flight was mild and the only thing that was scary about it was that we have only 25 minutes to get to the gate to DC on the next flight. We ran as fast as possible through the whole airport CDG which is as big as Bratislava :D
The flight to DC from Paris was about 8 hours long. I don't know how the pilot did that but but we departed about 45 minutes later but arrived just on time. I guess he just stepped on it ;) It was noticeble that the plane is from Europe- Niki and I had almost no space left- the seat was just as big as out butts and we could barely move our feet. We saw several guys who must crossed their legs to fit the seat (it was pretty funny :D)
In DC we had to pass through an immigratory check. Everybody told us that it is some kind of very important interview and check up so we should be super polite because if we woudn´t be, it might result into not letting us go to DC. It wasn´t like that at all. The guy ask us only if we have any food in our baggage (I guess he was hungry ...Just kdding :D ) then we took our fingerprints and that was it.
He said "Welcome to the United States" and that felt just great! :)
We took the bus from the Airport to downtown and then took the Metro to U-Street. Somewhere there was supposed to be the apartment where our future roomate Jamail shoud wait for us. Because of the fact tha we had no idea how does it work with street labeling we had to use our GPS through McDonald wifi.
When we found the apartment (we already knw how does it look like because of the Google Maps) Jamail saw us through the window and went to say Hi :)
He is super nice guy, he explained us everything- how the apartment devices work and stuff and he also showed us arround. He spent 5 hours wandering DC with us!
At the first day we saw quite a lot! We saw Drum Circle in Meridian Hill Park next to our temporary home- There was many people making music on drums or just anything that makes sound :) It sounded amazing! :) Than we went to Hard Rock Cafe to let them know that we re already in DC but we have to do so again today in the mornig anyway.
At the end of the "DC-trip" we went to a Gay Pride! It was amazing- there were many many people wearing rainbow clothes, flags and signs like "Born that way!" "Straight but supporting" but also a guy who has a shirt with a sign "Deal with it- I suck dicks better than you" :D It was amazing to be there, it takes 3 days ussually so we came to the last one only. The atmosphere was friendly and happy :) Not like in Slovakia where there are haters everywere wanting to get into fight. Maybe it is because it is very liberal city- the gay marriage is permitted here :)
In DC we had to pass through an immigratory check. Everybody told us that it is some kind of very important interview and check up so we should be super polite because if we woudn´t be, it might result into not letting us go to DC. It wasn´t like that at all. The guy ask us only if we have any food in our baggage (I guess he was hungry ...Just kdding :D ) then we took our fingerprints and that was it.
He said "Welcome to the United States" and that felt just great! :)
We took the bus from the Airport to downtown and then took the Metro to U-Street. Somewhere there was supposed to be the apartment where our future roomate Jamail shoud wait for us. Because of the fact tha we had no idea how does it work with street labeling we had to use our GPS through McDonald wifi.
When we found the apartment (we already knw how does it look like because of the Google Maps) Jamail saw us through the window and went to say Hi :)
He is super nice guy, he explained us everything- how the apartment devices work and stuff and he also showed us arround. He spent 5 hours wandering DC with us!
At the first day we saw quite a lot! We saw Drum Circle in Meridian Hill Park next to our temporary home- There was many people making music on drums or just anything that makes sound :) It sounded amazing! :) Than we went to Hard Rock Cafe to let them know that we re already in DC but we have to do so again today in the mornig anyway.
At the end of the "DC-trip" we went to a Gay Pride! It was amazing- there were many many people wearing rainbow clothes, flags and signs like "Born that way!" "Straight but supporting" but also a guy who has a shirt with a sign "Deal with it- I suck dicks better than you" :D It was amazing to be there, it takes 3 days ussually so we came to the last one only. The atmosphere was friendly and happy :) Not like in Slovakia where there are haters everywere wanting to get into fight. Maybe it is because it is very liberal city- the gay marriage is permitted here :)
We got back at "home" at about 9:30pm. We were tired as hell and our feet hurt. We took shower, check our mails and went to sleep. We woke up at 1am both shaking. It was cold in our room and because we were told that it is hot in here we didn't take any warm clothes. We went to Jamail's room ( he almost got a heart attack when we sneaked out to his room after midnight because he was smoking pot as he told us :D) He was very nice though :) We told him that we are cold and ask him to turn on the heating. He thought we were kidding and he laughted at us (the weed also worked I guess :D). When he saw that we are serious about it he turn that thing on and borrow us some blankets and pillows :)
DC is amazing! It is not a typical american city- I mean it is easy to see that we're in the US but it feels somehow like... Europe :)
Take care dear friends, let us know how are you doing and what's new in Slovakia :)
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