Wizzer's World

I have officially had one of the best weekends ever! It was crazy, nervous, action packed, amazing, wonderful, and some might even venture to say…..magical. (Part of the magic was how much was actually crammed into so little time) So, I should probably start off with the question of who the mysterious girl from the last post is. She is someone who is truly a dear friend and has been for many many many years. Sadly we had lost track of each other for a while but had gotten the chance to reconnect. At first it was great to have a good friend back in my life (as a good friend), but over just the last few months something more came shining through. It’s silly how feelings like this grow where you wouldn’t expect them to, when you don’t expect them to. I hadn’t even thought about the idea of anything when bam, I was slapped in the head with the “I care for you a great deal” fish.

So, anyways, when I found out she was going to be in the area, I went for it and asked her out on a official date. It’s weird because we had known each other for so long, but we have never really gone out like this. When she agreed I went about planning one of the best nights ever. First stop, a reservation at Marrakesh. It’s a Moroccan restaurant that was VERY highly recommended. I have to say, it was one of the best places I have ever eaten at. It’s not in the best part of town, but it’s worth the trip. When we got there, we had to knock on the door (it’s very discreet). Inside was all themed in the Moroccan style, everything, it looked amazing. They took us back to the back room where we got to sit on this small pillowed bench in front of this little table. The waiter placed out a menu that had only the wines listed on it. We picked out the house red wine. Shortly after they brought the wine out, he brought by a small pot and a kettle. This was for us to wash our hands as he poured water over them. He explained the 6 courses that would be brought out. (Unfortunately, he had a very thick accent and I only caught about ½ of what he described).

First out was the “salad” which consisted of cooked eggplants in tomato Sauce cucumbers and tomatoes in Mediterranean seasoning oasis carrots with coriander. It’s important to mention the carrots here. REALLY important. The carrots were, oh my god, yeah, oh my god. Then, the B’Stella: layered pie with chicken, assorted nuts, almonds, eggs, parsley, and onions topped with confectioners sugar and traced with cinnamon. While it was hot to start with, which made it difficult to eat seeing as how, oh by the way, we had no utensils. Yeah, you don’t use them here. Every bite of this thing was heaven. At the time, I didn’t even know what was in it. It didn’t matter! Next, Tajine of lamb with almonds and honey. The meat fell off the bones and the honey added so much to the taste that it was incredible (I am so going to run out of words to describe). It was sometime during this that the belly dancing started. The music was pumping and we had an extremely talented (and muscular) dancer come out and dance. She even managed to get a number of the girls to stand up and join in the dancing. Including someone in particular.

After the dancing, we enjoyed a plate of Couscous rand Atlas topped with vegetables, chick peas, and raisins. I loves me some Couscous! Just before dessert we were treated to a good sized bowl of fruit with some of the best grapes in the entire freakin world! There was also these two really cute tiny apples, I almost didn’t want to eat them because they were so cute! (almost) Finally the waiter came out with a tray and two glasses to which he poured us tea from a kettle held about 4 feet above the glasses! We enjoyed it with our Moroccan pastries as our desert. The entire dinner took from 8:30 till after 11pm. (if you plan on going here, something to keep in mind, they don’t take credit cards, but they have a very well stocked ATM in the building.) With dinner finished, we set out on the rest of the night. A lovely moonlight walk through DC.

We found a great place to park just behind the white house. (did you know they shut off all the lights there at around 11pm? I guess George needs the lights out to sleep.) We walked around the White House and just to the east is a paved out map of DC called Freedom plaza. Thinking quickly I whipped out my cell phone and brought up the MP3 of a specific song. We danced slowly in the middle of DC (figuratively and literally). This was a very special moment, well, at least it would have been if we weren’t rudely interrupted by some jack hole who wanted to sell me a flower. Seriously, if you see two people dancing in each others arms, enjoying a moment, WHY ON EARTH would you interrupt them?? [sigh]. After we told him to go away and finished our dance (thankfully I think we managed to salvage the moment) we walked across into the Regan building complex. It’s really quite beautiful right now with the leaves in the trees changing to a stunning yellow shade. All of the trees were already decorated with Christmas lights so it appeared as if the stars were coming down to meet us. We sat beneath them for a long while and talked, staring into each others eyes.

After what seemed like only seconds but was actually quite a while, We continued along the walk. We crossed over to the main mall area to catch the breathtaking view of the capitol building and the Washington Monument. Although, they really couldn’t compare with the stunning view of a beautiful woman in a black and white dress (with a lovely furry coat, btw, thanks Shasta!). We started to head towards the Washington Monument, taking a slight detour in the leaves. Wait, did I say detour? No, no detour here. Straight on to the Monument! Needing a little bit of a rest, we sat on the railing in front of the monument and enjoyed the un-lit view of the front of the White House. Now, not saying that the rest is bad, but, had someone brought shoes for walking (like I had mentioned quite a few times) someone wouldn’t had gotten a blister on her foot now would she? We decided that it would be a good time to head back to the truck so we took a fairly direct route back. 2.61 miles later we arrive back at the truck. On the trip back we listened to soft music and I could tell that she was already very very exhausted. We arrived back to her door by 2:30am where I kissed her good night and she went in to (hopefully) have sweet dreams. I made it home just before 3am where I did the same. Thank you Emily, the date was indeed magical.

That, was Friday. The rest of the weekend was spent with me walking around with a huge smile on my face. I was in an incredible mood! Andrew and I had a great lunch a Fat Tuesdays (really cool New Orleans food down by the comic shop). Emily and I argued the finer points of who is the better Gomez Adams (I still say Raul Julia!), Doc and Diz came over and we had a great visit where we all watched Battlestar Galactica and got to chat it up. Oh, and before I forget, I got to spend the evening with Emily and her Sisters family watching the new Bollywood classic, “Bride and Prejudice”. (Ok really, how can you have a new classic, who would even say that, if it’s new, how can it be a classic! If it’s a classic, it’s NOT new!) It’s awesome to have a movie suddenly burst out into song and dance! (Screw in the light bulb, pat the dog.) Thanks again to Beth and Rene for a hosting a fun movie night. It really added to the weekend.

So now she is on a flight back to Florida and will be landing shortly. We said our “see ya laters” at the airport and I already miss her. Thankfully, she is coming back soon! Wow, what a weekend!