We all put on our walking shoes again and Adam guided us up Embassy Row to The Textile Museum to see a show on green design (including a knitted leopard 'pelt', a delicate paper sculpture made to look like the undulating rhythm of moving water, a turquoise-coloured men's kimono and fourth-century tapestries). There were also lots of workshops going on in the museum's beautiful backyard gardens. Adam and Chris tried making paper from invasive plants with Patterson Clark (The Washington Post's natural history columnist whose company is called Alien Weeds). They were working with mulberry bark to make the paper and we all got to try a mulberry! Sarah and I went to another station to stencil repurposed muslin cloth. And it was a 'make and take,' so we brought our work home! The highlight was watching a black ewe get her summer shearing. There were a lot of kids crowding around and scaring her silly, but the shearer (a woman!) kept her cool and got all that hot wool off the poor thing. She was feeling pretty fine afterward!
The four of us then tromped down to 14th and U where we had lunch at Eatonville, a modern soul food restaurant with large, American-sized servings. We were starving, I think, because we inhaled everything on our table: Gruyere-rosemary grits, buttermilk biscuits, scrambled eggs, extra-sharp mac and cheese, steamed and salted collard greens, frittata, lavender lemonade and cold ginger beer spiked with capsicum.
We trundled down to the mall to check out the Air and Space Museum, but we started to flag after about an hour and decided to come home for naps, video games, iced tea, Haagan Dazs and long dip in the pool. We all strolled down to Chipolte for dinner (and everyone went back for seconds!), but Sarah and I threw in the towel afterward, walking home together for an early bedtime while Adam and Chris went out on the town to The Big Hunt, a multi-level beer bar that was taken over by an area microbrewery for tonight only.
More to do tomorrow. More, more, more!
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