Point Chaud

        A million years ago I went to a restaurant called Point Chaud. It’s technically a creperie, a restaurant that serves crepes.                  I had a chocolate crepe, and a mushroom and spinach crepe, and they were DELICIOUS.         Check out the chocolate crepe:         It was FILLED with chocolate. SO good! And the spinach and mushroom:         It [...]

Fro-zen-Yo

There is a really cool frozen yogurt store in Columbia Heights that I visited a few months ago called Fro-zen-Yo. It’s kind of a self-service soft-serve bar. Even though it’s colder now, I figure it’s never too cold for frozen yogurt! Unless it’s -10. Then it’s too cold. Anyway, at Fro-zen-Yo, there are a bunch [...]

DC’s Best Snowman?

We in the DC area had our first significant snowfall last Wednesday. You may have heard about how about five inches of snow brought our nation’s capitol to its knees. You may have heard about how our city’s transportation authorities (along with MD and VA) were totally unprepared for the snow. You may have heard [...]

The Corner Gym

One of my favorite things about spring and late summer/early fall is the workout guys. There’s a group of men who use a street corner as their own personal gym, complete with a punching bag, super-push up handles, and the street light for pull-ups. It’s basically awesome! Of course, they’re not outside any more, since [...]

Weird Elmo

Driving down the road recently, I passed a daycare center that had paintings of children’s characters on the windows. They were easily recognizable, and it was only after looking at them for a while that I began to see some oddities. Best example: good ol’ triangle-leg Elmo:

Pumpkin Picking at Larriland Farm

Saturday a bunch of Centro Maria residents headed out to Woodbine, Maryland to get some pumpkins at Larriland Farm. After the hour drive, we were really happy to arrive! We stopped in at the main farm first, where the food, store, and hay maze for the kids was loacted. The farm was decorated for fall, [...]

Ledo’s Sundays at Mosaic

One thing my church does that I really love is Ledo’s Sundays. The first Sunday of every month, the entire church (whoever wants to, that is) gets together at Ledo’s Pizza to eat lunch together. It’s often loud, and always fun. Unfortunately for me, I despise tomatoes, so pizza is not very appetizing to me. [...]

Georgetown Cupcake Pretty Much Lives Up to the Hype

A final thing Mom and I did on her visit was check out Georgetown Cupcake. Mom has heard about them from the TLC show DC Cupcake, and from me, since I read a lot of DC area food blogs. I’d wanted to take her there when she visited in March, but there’s always way too [...]

The New SIS Building

The very same Monday mentioned in the last post, Mom and I visited American University’s campus, to see where I work and study, and of course to get some AU merchandise so my family can proudly display that they have someone who attends there. That day the parking garage under the brand-new School of International [...]

My Monday with Mom (or, Lauren Loves aLliteration)

While my mom was here for a visit, we were able to spend a day just the two of us (while Aunt Becky, Grandma, and Clare were out on the duck tour!). After checking out where I work, we stopped by the National Cathedral for a little bit. We parked in their parking garage and [...]