Bell

Smita and I went to the NG museum for BELL - a one man play on Alexander Graham Bell by Jim Lehrer. The National Geographic Society turns 125 this year and is celebrating their second president, Alexander Bell. 

The play was excellently written by Jim Lehrer and peformed by Rick Foucheux. The play is focuses more on Bell's other invention while covering the phone too. 

Great performance! 

Photo courtesy Google images

Bobby's Burger Palace

Please don't go here. While the burger isn't terrible, there are a number of places in DC with muchhhh better and cheaper burgers. Totally wasn't worth the visit, especially being Iron Chef, Bobby Flay's restaurant. 

Disappointed.

Also, because I was feeling hot, I asked them to turn the temperature down on the air conditioner and they said it wasn't working. That just bothered me more. 

Russel Brand - Messiah Complex

After watching this hilarious clip, and seeing that Russel Brand was coming to DC at the Warner Theatre, I had to buy tickets. 

Though he came 30 minutes late due to bad weather, he was hilarious and entertained us for the entire 2 hours! 

Warner Theatre is so beautiful!

Potted Potter

The Golden Snitch part was my favourite! I wish google had a photo from the performance we went to

We went for Potted Potter today - a 70 minute parody on the synopsis of all the 7 Potter books. The show was hilarious and had me in tears. 

Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner perform this 2 man parody with many props and just do a wonderful job! In 2005 they were commissioned to create a 5-minute street show recapping the plot of the first 5 Potter books, for performance to queues of fans waiting for the midnight release of the sixth book. In 2006, Potted Potter is born as a street show and into an hour long performance in which the first six books are parodied. After touring the U.K. in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2011, they start touring North America in 2012. 

The performance started out okay, but it just kept getting funnier. The audience participation was fun and the little girls they brought on stage from the audience to be the seekers, in the audience quidditch game, were just adorable. Both were in witch robes! The audience was split into two teams - Gryffindor and Slytherin and had to punch around the quaffle trying to get it through the high goal post. It was just hilarious. Then Jefferson Turner came out as a golden snitch while the seekers tried to catch him. The. Best. Part. Ever! 

This snake was just hilarious! :D

Photos courtesy Google images

Uhhhh...We bought a car!

Sohini is a Doctor!

I went to Boston for a day for Sohini's defense! YAYYYYYYYY!!! She did an excellent job presenting and I'm thrilled I could be there for her big day! Yay Doctor Mazumdar!!! 

Only Cashews

This amused me! :)

Dog Days of Improv

We went to the Source Theatre for Dog Days of Improv, with fairly cheap tickets and seats on the stage! 

Three groups performed improv. I don't remember the names of the groups, though. The first one was decent (it was musical style), the second one was really not good, but the last one was HILARIOUS! :D :D. And! to add to it all, a lady behind us SNORTED really loud every time she laughed hard. She even made the performers laugh mid-sentence when she snorted. 

Habesha

The meat dish toward the front of the photo with some yellow in it - Alicha Wot! mmmmmmm!

We found a new favourite and cheaper Ethiopian place to eat at! Habesha! 

Clearly, we ordered way too much food when we got this platter, but, so much tasty! And! I discovered a new Ethiopian dish I love! Alicha Wot (mild lamb stew)! mmmmmmmmm

Sakuramen

On Eid day, we went to Sakuramen for dinner. The food was delicious!!! 

We started with the Bulgogi Buns (Steamed Buns with sliced ribeye bulgogi, lettuce, and peppered scallion), that we enjoyed. Then I got the Chosun Ramen (A distinctly Korean inspiration with sliced Angus ribeye bulgogi, roasted kimchi, seasoned) and Saurabh got the Tonkotsu Ramen (Tonkotsu {pork broth} with Berkshire pork belly chashu, kikurage {WoodEar mushrooms}, menma). We ended with Green Tea Mochi, my favourite! :)

 Bulgogi Buns

 Chosun

Tonkotsu

Green Tea Mochi