Festival Frenzy

Our friend Zack emailed us 8 months ago to set a date to hang out and this weekend was that day. Lucky for him, he inadvertently chose a day full of festivals. We hit the zoo, the National Cathedral, a great yard sale, and the Greek Festival all before 3 PM. The Greek Festival was unfortunately a bust, since the line for gyros was more as long as a marathon (that's the closest I could come to a Greek joke, pitiful I know) and the gyros were $9!! What?!

We then made our way to the Asian American Heritage Festival-- Fiesta Asia-- down near the mall. This had moderately priced Asian food, and, in the tourist area, had many free samples. We tried candied pineapple and candied gooseberry, fortune cookies, tea, and pineapple cookies. Caitlin also found herself a headdress.

Final note from the weekend: I bought pipians to see what they were and, upon grilling them, have discovered they are not noticeably different from green squash. Still, a fun adventure w/ food.

caitlin update: laura also secured us a papaya. it was the best, ripest, most luscious papaya in all the world. the texture was perfect and soft and orange. however, it tasted like throw-up, undeniably so. if you kept eating it the throw-up flavor would ebb, but then return. this was our experience with the papaya. we also tried grilling some but that didn't change it much. more like hot vomit then.