December 02, 2003

For anyone who's remotely curious, here is the belated and long winded entry for of the rest of my week in DC.

Friday
Shannon and Beth took me out to eat at Maggiano's Little Italy. Good god... lasagna to die for. It almost made up for the large table of little punks from the military academy who were obviously having some kind of pre or post dance meal.
After the supp, we walked over to Kramer Books, which is a strange mix of books, people, cafe and bad 2-man musical groups. We mainly sat up in the balcony seating eating desserts and describing (read: making stuff up about) the lives and goings-on of interesting looking strangers below.

Saturday
It was decided that since I'm a Michigan fan, maybe it wouldn't be good to go watch the annual Michigan/OSU game with the local Ohio State Booster's Association. So we hopped the Metro to Washington's ESPNZone for "The" game. Let me first say that as tourist traps go, this one is first-rate despite the fact that it took the cute bartender 5 tries to get beer for us. No kidding... I ordered 3 tap Killians', she checked and came back asking of bottles were ok. "Fine" I said. Then she came back saying they were out... would Newcastle be ok? "Sure!" This time she came back exclaiming that she was new and should surely know their beer selection by now. "Heh, ok... do you have Bass?" Everything was going smoothly until I notices she only brought 2 glasses. When I asked about the third, she said "Oh, three? Ha ha, well the Keg's being changed now." She wasn't kidding. At this point I just said, "Please... make it cold, yellow and vaguely beer-tasting."
The only other thing that developed for me that evening was a large case of jealousy because of the new 27"Panasonic Surround sound TV, Beth and Shannon bought. Damn, what a great picture.

Sunday
This was tourist day for me. See the sights, gawk and make the proper "oohs and ahhhs."
While walking to the Mall area, we passed the Dept. of Justice whose flag was flying upside-down. Looks like someone there is still pissed about the penalty for Microsoft after they "won."
We walked on to the National Gallery where I found myself standing in front of many pieces of art that I spent hours studying in my Art History classes in school. It's amazing to realize that you recognize a piece that you are finally standing in front of. It's like hearing your favorite song played live for the first time only better. Photos can't show the detail in a 16th century oil painting or the texture of the fabric on the Degas statue.
After some other typical sightseeing, aka. walking up and down the mall, we grabbed the red line to the Tenleytown-AU stop to eat at Guapo's Mexican restaurant. The food was as good as it was loud and they even had this curious machine next to our table that served both as a tortilla baker and crematorium. Apparently, if the vigilant tortilla maker guy isn't being very vigilant, a tortilla will get stuck, blow up like a balloon and burst into flame. Who knew there would be a floor show?

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