Journey to the End of Night
May. 4th, 2008 03:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
figmentLast night we did our best to survive DC.
We recruited![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
whthorse and together we formed the somewhat haphazard Team Spoon!
Along with close to 250 other people, we headed out from Dupont Circle into the night.
Our tactics - take indirect routes, avoid the Metro, be very paranoid - saw us through 5 out of 7 checkpoints. The best costumes we saw along the way were those of Checkpoint 3, where scientists were studying Brownian motion...
Heading right down the middle of the Mall, we all reflected that DC is an awesome place to have an event like this.
We got jumped just after Checkpoint 5 by a very clever chaser who hid in a bus shelter. We went on as chasers ourselves, but rather half-hearted ones who were, quite honestly, footsore and hungry. So we had dinner at Ben's Chili along with many of the other participants, before continuing to the end of the night and the party...
The entire event was awesome. The weather was perfect. The people were cool. The atmosphere was hilarious and tense and exciting and just fun! We obviously didn't take it too seriously - we paused on the way to Checkpoint 5 to get some ice cream - but we had a lot of fun. I think we ran and walked about 4 miles (especially with all of the doubling back we did to avoid chasers) all over DC.
We recruited
whthorse and together we formed the somewhat haphazard Team Spoon!Along with close to 250 other people, we headed out from Dupont Circle into the night.
Our tactics - take indirect routes, avoid the Metro, be very paranoid - saw us through 5 out of 7 checkpoints. The best costumes we saw along the way were those of Checkpoint 3, where scientists were studying Brownian motion...
Heading right down the middle of the Mall, we all reflected that DC is an awesome place to have an event like this.
We got jumped just after Checkpoint 5 by a very clever chaser who hid in a bus shelter. We went on as chasers ourselves, but rather half-hearted ones who were, quite honestly, footsore and hungry. So we had dinner at Ben's Chili along with many of the other participants, before continuing to the end of the night and the party...
The entire event was awesome. The weather was perfect. The people were cool. The atmosphere was hilarious and tense and exciting and just fun! We obviously didn't take it too seriously - we paused on the way to Checkpoint 5 to get some ice cream - but we had a lot of fun. I think we ran and walked about 4 miles (especially with all of the doubling back we did to avoid chasers) all over DC.
