Being an optimist

Two weekends ago I went to the AFI Silver in Silver Spring to see Hitchcock's Torn Curtain with Paul Newman and Julie Andrews.  I didn't check the Metro website before I left so I didn't know that there was Metro station in Silver Spring was closed so I had to take a Metro Shuttle bus to the Silver Spring station.  Which means that I was about 20 minutes late for the movie.  But I actually didn't mind being late (I have seen the movie before).  It was kind of nice to go on the surface streets of Takoma Park and Silver Spring versus the elevated and relatively secluded location of the Metro Rail (though I did recognize some graffiti which allowed me to determine that I was close to the Silver Spring Metro Station.  But the most interesting thing about the bus ride was that it took me right based the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.  It is a little strange to think that the center is closing in the near future but I was kind of cool to see the center before it closes.  But kind of sad as well knowing the history of the Walter Reed Center, both good and bad.