After a luscious morning of sleeping in, we went to Eastern Market this morning around 10:30.
Eastern Market is a fabulous outdoor market about three blocks east of the Capitol. The normal jewelry, painting, and art booths are there, as well as several West Virginia farm stands with fresh fruit and vegetables. The best part about Eastern Market? The samples. Crisp, fresh fruits, salsas, and hummus out to taste in the beautiful fall morning. I even found fresh figs! (Ever since my roommate Lana gave me some fresh figs last summer, I’ve been looking for them in stores. But, alas, they are exceptionally uncommon. They were obscenely expensive, but worth every dollar.)
I found a good souvenir for myself and a good Christmas present for mom. I would love to go to Eastern Market again.
Heavy laden with our purchases, we wandered down to the Folger Shakespeare Library near the Library of Congress. Not the same as the Folger coffee brand, but the FSL possesses the most comprehensive Shakespeare collection in the world. It IS the Folger that publishes the “Folger Shakespeare Edition” To put it in context, FSL possesses 79 original Shakespeare folios, a collection in England possesses 5. We will try to go back there in October when they present “Much Ado About Nothing” in their old-fashioned theater.
In the afternoon we went to the National Zoo. We saw the pandas (and a baby panda!), some cool reptiles, the cheetahs (my favorite), and a bunch of other animals.
By the time we left the zoo, our legs were definitely sore from cavorting all over the city. We made it home just in time to eat dinner, take a breath, and run downstairs for the BYU game.
Hooray for Eastern Market!
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