Saturday, October 27, 2007

Slices of egg and flowers and houses




On Tuesday morning our "courtesy bus" arrived at Union Station at 7:30 and since our tour OTS bus did not leave until 9, we decided to find something for breakfast in the Station. The only place that appeared to be open was one called "Au Bon Pain," which had a sort of breakfast sandwich – a sort we've never seen before, and, with any sort of luck, will never see again! What you do is cut a bagel in half, toast it, then plunk on a slice of egg, a slice of sausage, another slice of egg – what's that you say? -- "What's a 'slice of egg'?" Well, welcome to the modern world – we have no knowledge of how they did it, but apparently they had some scrambled egg which they somehow cooked in a tube with whole yolks suspended in the center, cooked it and sliced it crosswise – what came out was actually a slice of cooked scrambled egg with a slice of yolk perfectly in the center – the slice of sausage is easy to grasp, but egg?? Anyway, the resulting sandwich filling was nuked, then plunked onto the bagel, and presto, breakfast sandwich extraordinaire!! [Sorry, no picture – I just didn't have the stomach for it . . . ]

Being a Southwesterner for most of my adult life, I was totally unprepared for the houses of Washington, D.C. – tall, thin and completely wall-to-wall. In the Southwest, such structures are called either condos or apartments . . . at least no land is wasted on side yards . . . don't know how they handle the fire insurance . . .

An interesting side note to our walks in the city was the condition of the plants – they apparently think it's still summer! Look at these roses! And this flower garden!

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