bastille day, used to mean nothing to me until this summer when there was 2 french rommates in the tke house. at the time i was sleeping in the basement of tke (rent-free) adrian and sullyvan became my close friends. perfect during the world cup to have two french friends living in the house. they go to the french embassy for bastille day. the stories they tell are of open bars and easy women. they come back with none of either but intent on throwing a party they contine to drink this time encourgeing me as well. i usually dont need much encouragement to drink and therefore became very drunk after a short period of time. adrian busy with his ex girlfriend (baberra) and her friend (hadriean) decides to stay as me and sullyvan along with an unattractive girl from dc that meet us through couchsurfing.com go to the lincoln memorial to smoke cigerettes and drink the rest of the liquor. as we stood on the momument steps we decide to put our feet into the water. the warm water carresed our feet but then the girl decides to swim. she gets undressed and climbs into the water. seeing her do it i thought to myself that there isnt a large number of people who have swam in this reflecting pool and i began to envy her being as one of those select few
as i take off my clothes and climb into the water an erie feeling hits me then it started being really fun. sullyvan is swiming with me but the girl keeps going further and further out we yell for her to comeback until we simply begin to enjoy swiming. i had some weed in the pocket of my jeans. this became the reason for my nerviousness when the police come over with their flashlights and was kicking our clothes
we quickly swim back to shore and get out of the water. the cops was surprisingly understanding makeing jokes about how dirty the water was and they began asking us questions, sullyvan speaks in broken english and i can tell that they are gonna leave so when they ask me what was going on i reply in the worst french accent possible "uhhh in pari is ok i dont know america" to wich they replied "well you cant do that here! so have a nice trip!" we walked away with a smile on our face and some weed in our pocket as we watch the sun rise at 7am
a night i will never forget
oh and sullyvan hooked up with that girl but its ok cuz i wasnt about to even though she tried lol
