Shake Weights and Statues

Reston, Virginia......after soaking up the midday DC traffic, jeff and I arrived at the lovely home of Gavin and Pamela Wade. We were greeted by hugs, beautiful decor, and imported cheeses. After devouring fistfulls of brie we set off to meet the troops at Spider Kelly's in Clarendon. A big, heartfelt thank you to all of the peeps that showed up on a Monday night to wish us well on the first leg of our trip. I felt like Amanda Bynes at her "Back From Retirement" soiree...I mean...have you seen She's the Man...or Sydney White....it's basically a countdown until she's handed the oscar.

Good conversation was followed by a shake weight demonstration from a set of Northern Virginia oonks and a bedazzled, ill fitted dress wearing oonkette at the bar. We enjoyed pitchers of the liquid rust known as PBR for prices that put New York to shame. The evening was capped off by a personal DC tour from Mr. Gavin Wade as we performed a drive-by on Obama as well as reenacted Jenny's scenes from Forrest Gump. Our quest to have our own show on the Travel Channel has officially begun. It's basically Man vs. Food...meets any Samantha Brown show...meets Shark Week...meets The Odd Couple...meets a Ladysmith Black Mambazo concert on PBS....meets Silk Stalkings...meets any show on TBS like Burn Notice? Royal Pains? Psych?....Saving Grace?...actually I've heard that's a decent show. Actually Kyra Sedgwick was on Work of Art last week. That show is really great....Miles is a bit pretentious but he wears plain, tight sweatshirts and copper corduroy pants.

It's now 3 am and I'm sitting here posting as jeff figures out the video uploading situation. I've been staring at this screen for 20 minutes....why am I so rusty at blogging? Remember fallingstarz.net that covered "all things celebrity"? We had tens of viewers that relied on my ability to post important updates so I'm trying to get back into the swing of things.

So far, on this first day of travel, I have already experienced my first symptoms of Degrassi withdrawal. How am I supposed to concentrate on this amazing adventure when the epic Boiling Point 6 week Degrassi explosion is occuring? Sure DC and Virginia are awesome but what's going on with Declan and Holly J? How are his eyebrows doing this week? Is he still terrified?

Too tired.....off to Charlottesville in the afternoon but once again I have to thank Pam and Gavin for their hospitality as well as all my Virginia peeps for reminding me how blessed I am.

-MIKE