D.C. (part 2)

Despite our late night out on the town, we still met at 7 am for breakfast on Saturday.  Craziness, right? 

I don’t have any food pics from Saturday until dinner.  If you knew everything we did and saw, you’d understand why.

• Washington monument
• WWII memorial
• Reflecting pool
• Lincoln memorial
• Vietnam Veterans memorial
• Natural History museum
• American History museum
• Stars and Stripes Cafeteria lunch (veggie burger)
• National Air and Space museum
• White House
• Starbucks (yes, it gets it’s own bullet point)

After what felt like miles and miles of walking, we finally made it back to the hotel.

I had a Z bar and showered before dinner (there was a serious rain-induced afro hair sitch going on).

Being Halloween and all, we wanted to get away from some of the chaos (at least for dinner) so we went to Busboys & Poets, thanks to Quinn’s recommendation.  It was great that they had both vegan and carnivorous options.  I love hippie friendly places that I can take others to without worryign about what they will think of the menu.

Knowing football was going to be the focus of the night, I started with some cerveza   Then for dinner I got the Baked Tofu Cake with a ginger-mushroom glaze, served with rice and julienne veggies.

WHOA!  This was very salty.  I loved it, but then, I love salt.  I think the cook lost track of how many “shake shake shakes” he was doing…  Aside from that, it was awwwwwesome.  For reals, I polished off the ENTIRE plate along with the rice and veggies.  The tofu cake was almost like a soufflé in texture and flavor.  Obviously it was eggless, since it was vegan, but dang, it was tasty.

The rest of the entrees:

Cindy’s Angus Beef Burger with sautéed mushrooms, gorgonzola, lettuce, tomato and onion (and a side of sweet potato fries).

Seamus’ Homemade Meatloaf with a red wine sauce, served with mashed potatoes, sautéed mushrooms and spinach.

Kyle’s Angus Beef Burgers with cheddar cheese, avocado, sprouts, lettuce, tomato and onion (and a side of fresh fruit).

It was all fantastic. 

The rest of the night was insane.  We went back to Georgetown and saw the most crazy interesting members of society.  Wow.  Halloween brings out the freaks. 

On Sunday, the rest of our friends had to head back home (to CA) so Kyle and I forged ahead with more touristy action.

As always, the day started with a Starbucks run.  Then we made our way to the United States Holocaust museum which took several hours longer than I thought it would.  Wow.  No words.  Next thing we knew it was 1:30 pm and we were starving our a$$es off. 

I was beyond excited for lunch because I’ve heard nothing but amazing things about Java Green.  Unfortunately, I was not on top of my game, and I failed to do appropriate research.  CLOSED.  What the eff?  Apparently, they aren’t open on Sundays.  I don’t know how I messed that up, but I was so sad.  I had saved this restaurant for last, and now, because of my poor planning, I didn’t get to try it at all   Guess I’ll have to return to D.C. again. 

Oddly enough, back-up restaurants weren’t too plentiful in the area either because everything was closed!  I guess that part of town is not exactly weekend friendly.  My handy dandy bberry device came to the rescue, and after a quick google map search I discovered we were less than a mile from Whole Foods.  Happy hippie.

I was excited to find some new dishes in the prepared foods section, including vegan “chick’n stir fry” with veggies and a chickpea, pepper, quinoa salad.

Of course, I added in the usual assorted yummies to fill the container out. 

After lunch we decided to go back to the Georgetown area for some shopping and campus exploration.  Just for fun…don’t get any ideas…

We stopped into a sports bar to rest our feet and watch football, and then got to-go dishes from Dean & Deluca before heading to the Amtrack station.

We got a pretty decent sized vat of the avocado/tomato dish, along with a smaller container of the pasta (seen in the corner), hummus, pitas, and fresh fruit.

This hummus was sooooo good.  It was way more liquidy and had a nice spicy kick to it.  I was half way through it when my stomach started giving me a bit of trouble (to put it in blog friendly terms).  Hmmmm…

So I took a closer look.

Feta cheese!?!  In hummus???  ACK!  I stopped dead in my tracks and ate extra plain pitas to cushion the blow to my tum tum. 

Thank goodness I noticed this before I did too much more damage.  I felt pretty crappy for the next few hours, but I still had a red delicious mediocre apple and fruit salad for dessert.

There were some delays in our train departure, so we didn’t get back home until 1:45 am…so I am still playing catch up on my sleep, and Kyle is still coughing.  We are a pair of invalids. 

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