Since we wanted to get out of the house for a bit today, and Roy is sitting up on his own, we figured we'd try an experiment. So we drove on into Manassas and hit Potbelly's. Roy got his very own booster seat, and a chocolate milkshake, and we got to actually sit down and eat somewhere with Roy for the very first time. He spent the whole time - between spoonfuls of chocolate shake - gaping at everything. I think maybe next time we'll take him to that Town and Country diner on 29. We went there a lot while I was pregnant, and I think it'd be nice to go back and let the folks there see what I was hiding under that shirt.
Oooh... and in other news, we also swung by the Global Foods market in the same shopping center with Potbelly's, since I'd sent Russ there to get me some rice, and he'd come home with wild tales of an insane produce selection and an entire aisle of rice varieties. Wow. He was right. I felt like a total tourist, wandering around the place, since every other person there was asian or hispanic, but they had all kinds of shit! Great big papayas, fresh herbs in bunches, fresh okra, garbanzo beans, green beans of several different varieties, five or six different types of fresh mushrooms... and then I hit their butcher/seafood section, and was floored again. Everything from live crabs and tilapia, to large squid, rabbit, quail... and the weird stuff, like containers of pigs blood, ox tails, entire beef tongues, fish heads, etc. This dingy, weird-looking market had a selection of meats and produce that would make Wegman's blush, and prices that made me wonder if I had teleported to another state with a much lower cost of living. When I can figure out some recipes for some of the stuff I saw there, I'll be back.
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