Anne of The Complaint Department and I went to Old Town yesterday. She wanted to buy some lamp shades and I went along for the ride. We had lunch at a Lebanese restaurant called Layla's (do the Lebanese worship Eric Clapton??) -- this was the sampler appetizer we shared.** And she wowed me by buying, seemingly impulsively, an enormous chest of drawers ... as a gift for her husband. It wasn't totally an impulse purchase. She had seen it just after Christmas and remembered it. I was just very impressed with the efficient, decisive, well-thought-out way she made the purchase. And then a gathering of store employees and free-lance workers-on-the-street helped load it into her car and off we went, back over the Woodrow Wilson Bridge into Maryland.
Old Town is a lovely place to visit and we're going back when the weather is better. I want to visit the Masonic Temple, which you can see way in the background on the left in the third picture from the top. I don't know why exactly, except that I'm always curious about these semi-secret societies.
**1/21/12 update: the restaurant was actually The Pita House not Layla's. Two Lebanese restaurants within a block or two of each other!
3 comments:
What a beautiful place and I love the look of the food. I've never had Lebanese food. (I don't think so anyway, maybe in NYC once...)
I'll be in Old Town tomorrow, as a matter of fact. Hoping for lunch at The Majestic, getting my hair cut, and window shopping. The weather better be better tomorrow than it is today! Glad you had a good time in my neck of the woods.
Btw, I saw on Neil Gaiman's blog (http://journal.neilgaiman.com/) that he wraps his bee hives for the winter. Now I'm worried we haven't done enough to coddle our girls.
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