it's the freakin weekend lets square dance

a prominent blogger known only by the handle "acaciao" (probably portuguese) informs us of the fabulous, free washington folk festival this weekend in glen echo park.

looking at the schedule just for saturday i see an old time string band, a family that plays celtic music, tibetan lute, acoustic blues, sea shanties, swedish music, bayou cajun band, nyckelharpa?!
oh NO there are puppets i will examine the map upon entrance to avoid these puffy demons.
romanian dance workshop? yes. bulgarian folk dance? eh maybe
flexible steel swords
yurt
banjo
razz'm jazz'm
steel orchestra
linda fang (fang)
klezmer

i am overwhelmed with joy. laura, whatever we were planning to do, i am doing this now. if anyone wants to join, i will be biking there, it is a lovely ride from georgetown along the canal/capital crescent trails.
THIS IS LIFE

Embassy prep

Finding free things often requires advance planning. To that end, we have readied ourselves with maps of the European embassies, which are having an open house tomorrow, as well as description of the food all of them well provide. And, because we're no dummies, we learned from our last venture and are going to go to Embassy row right away and (this part is crucial) not eat beforehand. Last week we were fools, this week we are good to go.