The World According To Chris Brewer

With a renewed interest in my weekend life, I traveled along with Tyler Ashworth to Washington, D.C. to visit my dad and uncle John. For those of you who don’t know, my Dad is temporarily in Washington to work for a construction company while my Mom and brother Jason are living in Missouri.

SHOCKING NEWS….The Demon of Interstate 64 lurks near milepost 215.

My poor passenger was attacked by an invisible creature. About 15 miles east of Richmond, Tyler inexplicably started bleeding profusely from his nose. It just happened….no reason, he wasn’t in pain…just blood dripping. Then he started spitting blood too….it freaked me out to no end. Thank God for two things: (1) he brought a cup to catch the blood and (2) there was a Dairy Queen a mile away. So we pulled into the DQ and I ran in to get napkins while he stood there outside my car and bled like a stuck pig. About 15 minutes and a pint of blood later, we started on the road again. It still freaks me out to think about it….he was perfectly fine after that. As for the car, his clothes, etc…they escaped relatively unscathed.

On with the trip. We found a hidden Sheetz off the Atlee exit on I-95 north. Praise God.

Let’s fast forward. We rendezvoused (is that even a word?) with my dad and John at their hotel in Oxon Hill, MD (a few miles from downtown DC). Then we went to the Smithsonian Museum of American History to check out a few exhibits. After that we ran around for a bit, first to Bugaboo Creek Steakhouse in Upper Marlboro, MD to get my BARBECUED CHICKEN NACHOS (sorry, I get so excited about them), then to Petsmart to look for fish for Tyler.

Before we knew it, the visit was over. But man, it was good to hang with the family again and bring Tyler up to meet my dad finally. Good stuff.

The night ended kinda dreary though….on the way home, I-95 south was closed due to a terrible wreck and we moved about a mile in 45 minutes. Having to find a different way home was fun…but it also meant we couldn’t get home in time for Tyler to hang with his girlfriend. But we DID make it back to Newport News by midnight.

That’s about it. Peace.

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What Am I Currently Listening To?

Artist: Nelly / Track: Over and Over (feat. Tim McGraw)
Album: Suit
Label: Universal
Year: 2004