A Very Good Day

So yesterday I went down by Metro to visit smillaraaq at her place. I met her lovely doggie Ms. Biscuit and her sweet but shy cat Strega, and Biscuit and I got along very nicely indeed, and Strega got used to me pretty quickly and even came and hung out around me. And smilla baked bread and we talked for hours and then smilla let me play with her "Okami" game. And then we ate popcorn and watched anime: "Ginga Legend Weed" in strange Nordic fansubbing, which was cutely heroically silly, and the first couple of episodes of "Samurai Champloo," which was very cool.

And then the Mr. and the Young Lady came and got us, and we went to Old Town Alexandria and had (sadly) an only average-ish French dinner at Le Gaulois, which was disappointing because 20 years ago, when it was in DC, Le Gaulois was a really great restaurant. But then we went back and hung out at smilla's some more, all together, and listened to Anna Russell (classical music humor) and ate goodies and drank tea and read smilla's books, and then the Mr. fell asleep on her floor. XD

I brought smilla some books and manga to borrow, and she sent me back with more than twice as much, because that's just the sort of awesome person she is!