Good Weekend

It started with the sun coming out on Friday as I walked home - beautiful.  Saturday up and out early to go see the 9-11 exhibit at the American History Museum.  I forget, living here in MD so close to DC, that we have some of the best museums in the country.  In any event the line was way too long so we skipped it and headed over to Chinatown to stop at the Asian market for some ginger drink.  When we got to the Portrait Museum (across from Zola's) we happened upon the Art on Foot festival.  What a blast!  We spent a good amount of time sitting in the food tent watching various chefs from DC prepare dishes and the we sampled - always good to try new foods and I did try cerviche and I have to say the best were the tuna sliders.

Now for dessert - Co Co Sala blew it out of the park with their dark chocolate mousse, salted caramel brulee with crunchy chocolate balls - I could have eaten it until I went into a coma!

We cruised some of the tents and there was beautiful furniture, paintings, clothing, etc.  Prices were a little steep though.  There was a photographer there who did have the most amazing pictures - amazing enough that I just had to buy 4 of them - various animals that I will hang in my bathroom.

We then trooped down the street to the wonderful dance enticing sounds of the brass section from the House of Prayer.  This was music you could not sit down and listen to.  Even in the hot sun there was a line following the tuba player as he came off the stage and wandered around - great to get your heart pumping.

When we left to go to the Asian store we noticed a line of people waiting to go into the Verizon Center.  We found out it was something called Spirit of America (multimedia show of the armed forces from George Washington through today complete with orchestra).  A very nice lady turning in two extra tickets gave them to us (the show was free for all who wanted to attend).  To my amazement I sat there for 2 hours and enjoyed every minute.

We never made it to the Asian store on Saturday but came home exhausted and fulfilled at 10:30 PM.  We were lucky that we caught a train right away since the wonderful metro was of course doing track work on the red line AGAIN!

Sunday brought us another beautiful sunny day and I headed out early to see the 9-11 exhibit.  This time I got in with just a 20 minute wait.  It is a small exhibit but nevertheless it stirs up all the emotions from 10 years ago.

Leaving there I went back to the Art on Foot festival in time to eat what the chef at Legal Seafood cooked up.  I have to say in this one weekend I had more raw fish than I have ever had - raw tuna, raw scallops, raw shrimp, raw pollock. . . . and while it is not something I would prepare at home I did eat and enjoy it.  The chefs were very entertaining and we did get courtesy cards for free food at some of the restaurants.  I did again get the opportunity to stroll some of the tents and look at the wonderful items for sale.

This time I made it to the Asian market and again went home exhausted.

P.S.  I did get up on Sunday at 5 AM so that I could prep the food I needed to cook for the week and also do laundry and prepare for jury duty on Monday before I went off to enjoy the day.