hood, food, good

As I was walking to work today, they were putting some police tape across Princeton. Turns out there was a shooting there last night. The block was real quiet and none of the usual drug dealers were out since the place was swarming with police. They are going to be working out of the little building over by the playground, right along the street where everything went down last night.

In happier news, today was cooking day at camp and we had a couple of Thai dishes: Thai lettuce roll ups and Thai curry noodles. Both were hits with the kids, though they preferred the first.



They were delicious. My boy, M., was so excited because he says he only eats "fast food" and didn't know he liked other stuff. Cute, but sad.

The weekend was spectacular despite the fact that I dropped my phone in a toilet and was without running water for a day. I'll have to post pics of that later.

For now, there's only this:

"More Than Friends"



I love Estelle.....

Here's lookin' at you kid....

So I went out with B last night for some much needed fun. We met up at Target and did a little shopping while we tried to figure out what to do. I'd imagined a little pool or something low key down this way, but we started talking about food and settled on going to Old Town and seeing what struck our fancy.

So we parked way down on King Street, over by the water, and walked around, talking, watching the kids going to prom (so cute!), and stopping by to get balloon hearts with balloon animals attached (later given to some lady on the street who asked where we'd gotten it). We walked past all the usual suspects in search of something different. So, we walked and walked until we stumbled across Casablanca, this Moroccan place. We walk in and there's bellydancing, and all the tables are positioned around the dance floor. We got a table right along the dance floor, leaned back on the pillows, and let the waiter order for us.

The food was AMAZING, the dancing was entertaining, and we had a lot to catch up on. We left so FULL after our Kasbah feast, so the walk back to the car was welcome. We thought about stopping at this tapas place with good music for a little dancing, but it was getting late.... Maybe next time....

It's been a hot minute since I've had that much fun....

PS - If you're in the NOVA area and haven't checked out Casablanca, you're missing out.