On Friday, we went to the National Mall and visited the Natural History Museum (where I took Arietta behind the scenes to the National Herbarium and ant collections). Kira visited the Hirshorn museum and we all met up again for lunch at Teaism (I had a salmon bento box).
After lunch, we visited the National Gallery of Art (Kira gave us a nice tour -- she is an Art History major). We then wandered over to the East building of the National Gallery (more modern art) then took a really cool light-lined tunnel back to the main building then back out to the Mall.
Next we wandered over to the Capitol area to visit the Library of Congress -- I love that place.
After seeing a little of the Library, we walked back home, but stopped for tasty pizzas at 7th Hill along the way.
On Saturday, we started with a visit to Eastern Market (I bought some cool mittens here), then returned home to re-equip ourselves with warmer coats (it was in the 30's F today) before taking the metro to Dupont Circle for lunch at a Belgian cafe called Locolat.
I had never eaten here before, but I will have to bring Carlos here -- it was really good and fresh! We had dark hot chocolates and chocolate lattes to drink and all three of us had the same thing for lunch: a savory potato and chive waffle with grilled asparagus and parmesan shavings -- really tasty!
From lunch, we went back to the Mall and visited the Old Post Office tower for a nice view of the city.
Next, we traveled to Georgetown to stop at Trader Joe's to get a bunch of tasty things for dinner. We had a nice 'tapas' dinner for our last night: five or so different cheeses, baguette, crackers, bruschetta, apple, little yellow potatoes with melted raclette and riesling to drink.
It was such a fun Thanksgiving vacation with a couple of great friends!
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