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Lost Doggie - Found Buddy!

 Reunion!!!!

While we were at Cafe Romeo, a dog wandered in. We only realised when there was commotion in the kitchen. A couple of guys from the birthday group got the attention of this dog and called it out to the dining area. It had no leash and was continuously on the go, running under and around the table and making his way back into the kitchen again. One of the guys then took the dog out, where we assumed he returned to his owner.

After enjoying the ridiculous quantities of food we ordered, I had a cup of coffee and we shared a slice of cake before heading home. As we walked up Wisconsin Avenue, I noticed the same dog outside Whole Foods being held by one of the Whole Foods' employees and he was checking the phone number on the dog's collar and making a call. We crossed the street and went up to them. They were giving him water, so we went into Whole Foods to get bread. 

When we came back out, I asked if they had been able to contact his owners and they said that they got an answering machine when they called, and that it seemed to be a place that is open 9-5. No contact with this big guy's owner, that meant. Then, another employee came out of Whole Foods and said a lady who works at Whole Foods and lives close by is going to come by and see if she recognizes him. At this point I told them that we had seen him at Cafe Romeo, so this meant that he had been wandering quite a bit and who knows how far he came from.

We wanted to wait, at least, until the lady who works at Whole Foods came by. While we were waiting, we noticed that this dog was a STRONGGGGG boy! Hard to hold down with just his collar! But, he was sooo good! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

As we were waiting, his mommy drove by with someone else. As soon as she saw him, they stopped the car and she hopped out. He got mighty excited to see her! :D She said that she was 'glad she decided to come up this way'. Which means, he was lost a fair distance away, if she didn't really think he would come up so far! I'm soooooo glad they did come up this way and he was found! :D

After his mommy came, we found out his name is Buddy and that he was recently rescued and that's why the number on his collar lead to the shelter, she hadn't had a chance to get him a collar yet. 

Ahhh...All's well that end's well! ♥

Happy Birthday Somebody!

We were at Cafe Romeo for dinner this evening. There was a large group of people celebrating a birthday. Turns out, they had too much cake, so they gave us a slice! :)

The guy standing at the table with the large group of people was celebrating his birthday. The other guy standing was the one handing out the cake

Giant Moth

After Safeway, there was a 20 minute wait for a bus, so I decided to walk home in the sweltering heat. It would have been INCREDIBLY painful to just wait in the heat (I think DC had a high of 117F-feels like today!! And, I think at 4PM it felt around 113-115F. ACK!) Anyway, because I walked home, I saw this giant moth on a tree close to the Chancery. I think it was dead. It's huge! Look at the photo with my credit card used as a reference (Yup! The forensic geek side of me kicked in)

A couple walking in front of me noticed this guy and stopped. I'm always curious, so I had to stop and see what it was that caught their attention, and then I HAD to take photos! :D 

The wings are hazy in this photo because the moth was fluttering with the breeze, and I was too hot by then to take enough photos to be sure I got a perfect one. 

Size Reference - the long edge of my credit card is on the right side of the photo

After taking a few photos of the moth, I realised that the size wouldn't get captured without a reference and the awe factor would then be considerably reduced. With just clothes in my bag, my credit card was the closest size reference I could get before the heat got me!

Safeway in Glover Park is FANCY!!!!

After my swim, I went to the Safeway in Glover Park. It is FANCY!!! It has a cheese bar and fresh cold cuts bar and fresh peanut/almond/cashew etc station and other things seen in other nice supermarkets, but I saw a couple of things I have never seen before! A Honey Station and a Wine Cellar!!!

 Honey Station

Wine Cellar

Swimming!!!!!!!!!!

Jelleff Pool

In the incredible heat that has taken over the North East, I decided to find a pool and spend a lot of time in it! Juliet, at the gym, told me about Jelleff Community Center (it doesn't show up if you google swimming pools in DC...which might not necessarily be a bad thing) on S street. It is closer than the pool at Volta place and is also free. 

I got there at about 1:15 and remained in the pool until 3:10. It was amazinggggg!! I was essentially the only person in the swim lane for the most part. And this is the first time since 2002 summer (at Shereton in Muscat) that I have been able to swim without stopping for as long as I want. It was just so so so incredible! 

After I finished the bulk of my swimming, I took advantage of being near the inlet of fresh water. The water that was coming in was much cooler than the water already in the pool. I pipe was to low to stand under the water flow, but I went under water and felt the cold water pouring over me there, it was just incredible! :D Happy Times!

I ♥ swimming!

He quite enjoyed Angry Birds!

On another note, while watching him tonight, I went through his school work. His drawings were very interesting! I also freaked him out, a little I think, when I accidentally pointed out that Vampire and Vincenzo start with the same alphabet! oops!

Mushrooming Squirrel

This little guy was eating some wildly grown mushrooms! I had seen them yesterday in the grass on the "hill" outside work and wondered about them. It was the first time in 5 years that I had seen mushrooms there, so wondered what actually happened to them and how they disappeared. I got my answer today...the squirrels chomp them away!

Macademia Kisses

...only available in Hawaii

Bua

After the movie at the NG Museum, we were ravenous! We headed to Bua, where Saurabh used to go often his first year in DC. He was craving Pad Thai. I am not a HUGE fan of Pad Thai, it's nice...but nt something I would seek out. 

After walking in the heat, we got to Bua, settled at our table and immediately ordered the Thai Iced Tea (for me) and the Thai Iced Coffee (for Saurabh). This was this first time both of us tried Thai Iced Coffee, and we aren't huge fans. 

We started the meal with the Tom Yum Gai (Sliced chicken and mushroom in spicy lemon grass soup) and the Fried Dumplings (I don't recall all that was in it, but it had crabmeat, shrimp, chicken and some veggies). And for our entree we got the Pad Thai (Thai specialty of noodles stir-fried with shrimp, egg, bean sprout and crushed peanuts). 

The soup was good, but not the best tom yum I have had. But, the dumplings and the pad thai were just FANTASTIC!!! I said in the beginning that I don't typically crave pad thai, this one, I would! 

Thai Iced Coffee (black-ish) and Thai Iced Tea (orange-ish)

Tom Yum Gai

 Fried Dumpling

Pad Thai - We got to it before the camera did :-/