Washington List

In order to complete our Washington list we are sometimes forced to make some odd couplings, this weekend: Teddy Roosevelt and strip mall Lebanese food.

Teddy Roosevelt must have been fairly important as he has a whole island in his honor, or maybe they put him out there in the middle of the Potomac as some sort of punishment. Hard to say, not many tourists around. The statue is dignified, magnificent and some what Leninish? See for yourself, I am beginning to think he might be banished to Roosevelt Island.
However we enjoyed his island immensely, quiet, foresty and very close to Georgetown, just my kind of outdoor pursuit. The girls spotted butterflies, salamanders, some crazy big beetles and a plethora of sticks.

Next, Raouche Cafe in Falls Church, VA. The second last stop on the Orange Metro Line, which means it is very, very far from our house. Raouche was worth the Metro Ride and hike into no man's land suburbia. I will let the pictures speak for themselves. Liam was a very happy camper on the march home.

In the same strip mall there was an Asian grocer-simply call H Mart. The name seemed more elaborate in the Japanese script but why translate for the silly white people. I have greatly missed the Asian, Italian, Indian, etc....markets that are so easy to find in Edmonton. H did not disappoint, as soon as we walked in you could smell the deals (Liam describes it as concentrating more on produce then good air filtration like those fancy grocery stores). Ngila inquired as to what the odor might be, I just smiled. Yummy food my dear, just waiting for us to find it (or perhaps the half-dried shrimp (yep, that's the real name) sitting in an unrefrigerated cardboard box near the chicken necks in the "special deal" (yep, that's the real name) section of the meat department.)