The Awakening moved from Haines Point yesterday and the Washington Post covered it. Here’s a video that’s embedded on their website. I think the music is a little too cheerful.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/mmedia/player/wpniplayer_viral.swf?thisObj=fo609007&vid=022008-5v_titleThe Post also has a slide show about the move.I hope this National Harbor place works out and the giant is happy there.
Category Archives: Things
Goodbye Awakening
One of the coolest things about DC is the giant emerging from the ground at Haines Point. Granted, we don’t visit him often, but when we do, it’s always fun.
Next week he’s moving to a different location. Still in the DC Metro area, but somewhere we’d not planned on visiting.
Too bad.
Exploding Pyrex
I wonder if Martha Stewart ever had a Pyrex dish shatter while she was attempting to make a pumpkin pie from scratch. I doubt it. I’d just put the two halves of a pumpkin in two Pyrex dishes and was dealing with the seeds when I heard an explosion in the oven. I thought it was one of the pumpkin halves, but it turned out to be the 9×13 dish in which it was cooking. Glass shards were everywhere and I had to toss out the pumpkin. I was worried that some of the glass got on the other half and didn’t want to risk anymore ER visits this week.
Of course I looked up “exploding pyrex” on the internet. Here is what I found: It happens, even though Pyrex folks don’t want us to use the word “explode” it happens.
Luckily I anticipated a mishap with the fresh pumpkin and bought some canned pumpkin. The seeds turned out delicious though.
Clutch Cargo Lips 