Soucies, gone.

The Soucies who were here are gone. It was really a lot of fun.

Easter morning, we had an epic, fourteen course neo-Latino dim sum brunch at Cafe Atlantico and visited the sculpture garden behind the National Gallery. Next day, we loaded up the car and headed to Leesburg, VA for some serious outlet shopping and bad Burger King. Damn, my brother can shop!

The rest of the time, we stayed near our neighbourhood: strolling around crumbly, old Georgetown to stare at the architecture and stopping at Tackle Box for half price fish tacos, hush puppies, and cold iced tea; then walking up to Dupont Circle to sit by the fountain, eat lunch at BGR The Burger Joint, flip through design books at Kramerbooks (where we also saw Joe Clark!), and poke through a crowded wine store. Of course, I also had to take Jeremiah up to U Street, where gentrification is starting to ramp up, leaving room enough for Cork's gorgeous market and tasting room, hip pizza parlours, antique shops and beautiful little boutiques stocked to the artfully exposed rafters with local soy candles, skinny denim neckties and fun tools for feeding babies and kids.

Speaking of babies, Elspeth (AKA 'Fancy') kept us home some of the time, so we laid into snacks from Trader Joe's, watched bad comedies and good documentaries on Netflicks, talked until late, ate noodle bowls, and Skyped with Sarah.

I hope everyone had as much fun as I did.