Great weekend;

Good evening!

How is everyone?  Great, I hope.

Amanda and I had a pretty fun filled weekend.  Friday night I went to a potluck dinner party with my friends from my investment club.  It was really fun.  I made fruit salad, brownies, and took some Nathan's Famous pickle spears (we love Nathan's Famous, great company).  We also had hotdogs, chicken, cookies, hummus, and tons of other junk.  Fun!  Amanda didn't make it, she had a happy hour to celebrate a friends birthday.  She had fun too, which is what's important.

Saturday, we went to the Eastern Market neighborhood of DC.  It was really fun.  We walked through the arts and crafts section, the flea market, and had fun looking around at the wares.  The locally grown produce and flowers were beautiful and smelled wonderfully.  We walked around for a couple hours before going a few blocks south to grab lunch.  We went to the Banana Cafe, a Tex-Mex/Cuban/Puerto Rican restaurant.  It was really tasty.  Then we went back to the Market and walked through the large food section.  They had so much meat, fish, and other foods, it was really something.  Amanda and I both agreed we'd love to live in the area.  It'd be fun to be able to shop at the market daily for our food.

Today we went to the National Gallery of Art to see the special Afghanistan exhibit.  The exhibit was the featured article in National Geographic Magazine, from several months ago.  Reading the article, I instantly wanted to see the artifacts.  Lucky for me, at the end of the article it said that the exhibit was in DC until September 7th!  I probably never would have heard about the exhibit if it wasn't for the article.  It was very interesting.  Lots of gold, glass and clay pieces.  I couldn't believe some of the glass vases they had, very amazing.  Great condition, especially for being 2200 years old.

After going through the exhibit, we went back to the Eastern Market to try another restaurant we walked past yesterday.  It was a small little Thai restaurant.  It was very very good.  I'd go back, definitely, although I can't remember the name of it.  Something like, Old Siam, or something.  I'd suggest it to anyone that likes Thai.

Not much else going on.  I'm falling asleep sitting on the couch, so I'll leave it at that.

:)

JMB