well, we cooked for some of it, but local food joints we visited were: rosa mexicana, ben's chili bowl, brickskellar, and some baller take-out chinese joint near dupont that was awesome (seriously, we have some okay chinese places around here, but that was damn good chinese!)

the gf and her friend, since they're artists (while i most certainly am not) spent a great deal of time at the hirshorn, the freer gallery, the portrait gallery, and the sculpture gardens

the other guy and i did the natural history, library of congress (i got my library card, hah!), air and space, national archives, and that new(ish) air and space out at dulles (that place was crazy cool)...by myself i walked from the capitol building to the washington monument to the WWII memorial to the lincoln monument and then to arlington...the last day i walked to the zoo and then to the national cathedral

my favorites were arlington and the national cathedral and the sculpture gardens...national archives and library of congress were cool, as well

also, we desperately need a metro

8/7/2008 11:13:14 AM

i go to church at the national cathedral sometimes, if only because it's much easier to get through an hour of church when there's cool architecture to look at

it's also the highest natural point in DC, if i remember correctly.



how did you like the guacamole at rosa mexicano?

8/7/2008 11:19:40 AM

No Postal Museum? That is my sleeper pick.

8/7/2008 11:21:46 AM

ugh, now i'm craving some rosa mexicano......

8/7/2008 11:22:44 AM

haha ben's chili bowl. good ass food and hot ass habesha women

8/7/2008 11:25:15 AM

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"how did you like the guacamole at rosa mexicano?"

'twas awesome...rosa mexicano was our "splurge" place where we all pretended like money didn't matter...i can honestly say that $13 guacamole was worth it

gf and i shared cabrito stew and the pork shoulder and a pitcher of sangria...the bill was definitely up there (~$80 before tip, IIRC), but it was worth it...not too many places around here (IMO) that cost that much that i'd deem worth it

thanks for all the suggestions, y'all

^ hah, yeah...didn't see cosby there, though

i meant to get to the dupont grille, but we never did

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8/7/2008 11:30:43 AM