(My post title sounds like a Scrubs episode.)
My birthday present from John (aside from a heart-shaped Boston cream donut and tickets to see Three Dog Night in May – that’s going to be very cool) was a day in DC doing tourist-y things, something that we’d been talking about doing for a very long time. The main attraction (and what gave him the idea) was this traveling Puppetry in America exhibit on display in the American History Exhibit from now until mid-April. Among other things, it has muppets, so we went to see Scooter, Bert and Ernie, Oscar the Grouch, and Cookie Monster.
I love the muppets.
From there, we headed for the National Gallery of Art, but our nasty habit of getting there shortly before it closes lives on. We saw the Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections exhibit, a couple of American landscapes (Lake Lucerne, Spirit of War, The Voyage of Life paintings) and ran up against 5pm, so we headed for dinner. Where, you ask? Ethiopian, of course! We went to Meskerem in Adams Morgan for the first time in years. The food holds up, but the restaurant could use a facelift. Then it was back to our car and home to rescue Riley (and more birthday cake for dessert).
The weather was perfect, and it was a beautiful day.
Momma Betty
Sounds like a great “outing,” and how powerful is John to order such beautiful weather! (We had it here, too, John, so thanks!)
Zannah
It was a really nice birthday present.
Wombat Central
Cute pic! Glad you had a great birthday. 🙂