Bucca Dinner & Walk to Cure
Friday night was a big BIG dinner at DC’s Bucca Di Beppo. The portions there are enormous, designed to be shared with large, stereotypical Italian familes — but the casual diner can eat there too. Try the “Pope” room. It seats around 20 in a shrine-like room to the Pope complete with photos, statues and all things Pope. Walking to Lucky Bar for a post-face-stuffing drink, there was a great 15+ piece band that set up in the middle of Dupont and did a New Orlean’s style jam-session. Hundreds of people gathered around to block traffic, dance and to listen to these street musicians fill the air with quality jazz. They played a song that was so unbelievably catchy and hummable, but I can’t for the life of me remember a single note. I hate that.
Saturday was Margaret J’s “Happy B-Day / Graduation” BBQ in Annandale. Sausages were cooked. Horseshoes were tossed. Water balloons were pelted. Cicadas were crushed. A good way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
Sunday, I was the official volunteer photographer for JDRF’s 2004 Walk to Cure Diabetes. It rained a bit in the AM but became sunny right when the walk began. 5K around DC — around 4,000 people showed up. Good times.
