Yeah, I'm kinda lagging on my blogging so let's backtrack to Monday when I had just arrived to Dulles airport from a red eye flight from San Francisco.

Wasn't the most comfortable airline seat but I managed to sleep through most of da trip. We got to the car and headed towards Arlington where my brother dropped me off at the Rosslyn metro. He offered to drop me off at the Pink Flamenco (in Chevy Chase) but before going home to catch up on much-needed sleep, I decided to get one necessary chore out of the way : transferring my sound system from Cabanas to Cafe Citron.

But the problem was that even if I did stop by Cabanas at this early hour of 9:00am and picked up my system, there'd be nobody at Citron to let me in, so I had to kill some time until a typical decent hour for night club employees to arrive to work. So....where to go in Georgetown to keep myself entertained for two hours? Barnes and Noble, yes!

Still feelin' groggy from the trip, I stopped by Starbucks for a doppio to jolt my system and went to the washroom to splash cold water on my face. And I was good to go or at least good enough to browse books for a few hours. Of course, my eyes were bloodshot and I looked like I just crawled out of bed after sleeping in my clothes from the previous night. :-) Doesn't it always seem like you "randomly" run into people you'd like to impress on the days you look your worst? Oh well, I was so tired I almost didn't care anyway.

I was instinctively drawn towards the self-help section. I don't know why. In my groggy state, I suppose I needed something easy and uplifiting to read and this seemed like the place to go. I found a book titled No Opportunity Wasted : Creating a Life List and started skimming the first few pages. It had a good intro that drew me in and made me want to go on and on, but I couldn't help it, I started nodding off. I put the book back on the shelf and decided that I just needed to keep walking and get the blood pumping through my body. So I wandered the streets of Georgetown and eventually made my way to the Georgetown Harbour and came across something I had heard about but never seen before:

They have these steel walls that rise out of the ground (see pic) when the Potomac river level rises higher than usual. Of course I had been away in San Francisco most of the past weekend and hadn't been reading the papers or checking the news so I had no idea of the heavy rains and flood conditions that were happening here in DC.

It seemed like business as usual at Cabanas when I went in to pick up my sound system. The cooks were in the kitchen doing their usual food prep chores, the floor was freshly mopped and the wait staff hadn't arrived (probably late due to flood-related road closings and metro delays). But it was about to rain, again, and I was about to be caught in a downpour while walking from Georgetown to Dupont Circle with my equipment as I usually do.

Caught a cab and got to Citron around noon and found it filled with people watching the Copa Mundial on a large screen TV. Quickly parked my sound system in a corner by the bar and left to catch the metro and dive into bed and get some rest so I could have some energy to perform at Citron.

Here are the pics from that night. Enjoy!