Old Town with Old friends

Old Town Alexandria is one of the most pleasant and fun outing opportunities that the greater Washington D.C. area offers. If you've never been, it is accessible by metro or car, although street parking can be difficult to find. The main attractions are cute shops, ice cream parlors, quaint and well kept houses, and a lovely waterfront.  There are boat tours and an old torpedo factory right by the water that has been converted into an inside artisan market of sorts. Often, musicians come in the evenings to play music for loose change; I think we get the better end of the deal.

About a week ago, it was my old friend Bethy's birthday. We have photos of ourselves lying on the same mat as infants, staring at each other as toddlers, sitting at each others birthday party tables as children, on field trips in middle school...all the way on up to cutting our graduation cake at the end of high school. And no, we did not feed it to each other. Bethy is one of Old Town's biggest fans, so to celebrate she invited myself and two other close friends to spend an evening there.

We walked around, got take out pizza and brought it to the dock. On the way, we passed a man playing classical music on water glasses! He had a table set up with probably fifty or sixty cups and was very adept at using a flat part of his thumb to create gorgeous harmony. After the free concert and the pizza, we got ice cream and took goofy photos (and a couple good ones).