I don't think I've ever felt patriotic before

I went to a party hosted in a hotel downtown here by two of Kelly's friends to watch the election results roll in. Because of the time difference it was an all night affair. In the lobby of the hotel was a much larger party hosted by a bunch of organizations, the original plan was to spend most oof the night in the big party and duck upstairs now and again for a bit of a rest. Turns out that the big party was a little too big so we spent the night in the gorgeous suite on the top floor. We watched CNN most of the time and switched over to BBC or some German chanel for giggles. The brits seemed asleep compared to the flashy lights and crazy animations of CNN and the Germans seemed a little too enthusiatic as a whole, but one of their announcers was so old he looked like he was going to keel over mid-sentencce, he kept swaying while he talked.
Anyway, it was a long night and the 5 of us (Stephanie, Trevor, Myriam, Kelly, Gudrun and myself) were the only ones of our group who stuck it out the whole night. I was expecting to have many more than that, but it was a Tuesday so I guess I can't blame them. It seemed like it took forever for polls to close and when they finally had all closed I think I felt for the first time actual patriotism! I was (for one shining moment) proud to be an american (and I swear I don't know you if you started humming after reading those words). I was floored that Virginia turned blue as well, it kinda gave me hope again.