The Last Few Days

Friday August 28: A fairly low-key day with a trip to the grocery store. There we happened upon this gem of a cake. It's always appropriate to present your 3-year-old with Elmo's Road Rage. The only reason I even look at the grocery store cakes is this website. This woman collects images of professionally-decorated cakes gone horribly wrong, and shares the love with the internet. Good for some serious laughs.
Saturday, August 29: We started the morning off with a trip downtown (in Bethesda) to our favorite bagel place. They make real bagels--chewy, crusty, absolutely delicious. We picked up some toasted everythings with homemade chive cream cheese and headed next door to get some locally roasted coffee. Quartermaine doesn't mind if you eat your bagel with your coffee. Bethesda is hopping on a Saturday morning--families, joggers, dogs. Also on Saturday we went downtown to Natural History to the Ocean Hall, which was kind of disappointing. Although, I really do like marine life. Reading about them on giant placards, not so much. And going to the Mall on weekends makes me want to tear my hair out--lots of whiny touristy families. So we went to the Old Post Office and rode the elevator up for a view of the whole city. It was cool to see how much I could recognize just from my knowledge of where things are and what they look like. Sometimes I feel like I belong to this city.

Sunday, August 30: Nora was in town for a bit, so Sarah and I met up with her for Dim Sum. Nora and I managed to dress the same, so we thought we'd get some nice photos. But I couldn't resist tickling her, so we also got one of these:
Apparently, the National Hillel chose Chinatown for its home, which resulted in this awesome sign:

In other news, I am starting my new job tomorrow. AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!! I will be the H1N1 Specialist in Prince William County, in Virginia. Basically I'll be their swine flu go-to girl. I think it will be really cool, and what an opportunity!!! I will have a long commute in my car, so I am taking any and all suggestions for books on CD, including but not limited to juvenile and young adult titles.