SO. We are in National Harbor, MD to market our ABA Program. Yeah, in case you haven't been following my life, I graduated from collage (holla!) and am now working for an online education program in Florida, and am here with my coworker and dear dear friend Liana (http://lianakangas.blogspot.com/) for the Council for Exceptional Children conference. The trip so far has been... an experience. I never would have guessed, when I first poked my head into Liana's office 9 months ago to shyly tell her I liked her Darth Vader Mr. Potato Head, that I would one day spend Easter Sunday holding her hand in the ER in Maryland. Life, man.
We have had tons of awesome meals, which means Liana is going to have to fill out lots of paperwork for reimbursement, so I am blogging about it.
First of all, I am really into fruit for breakfast. Today and yesterday Liana and I had a cup of fruit salad and a cup of tea for breakfast. So refreshing and invigorating. And, like, 15 bucks at this hotel. Thanks, Gaylord National. You suck. (I have mixed feelings about this hotel. The room is nice and the service is great, our room service has always come punctually and the service people have been so friendly and pleasant. But when we ordered a car to come and get us from THE HOSPITAL it took 2 hours to get us. What? No.)
Second of all, Rosa Mexicana? Delicious. I feel like I'm betraying Ricardo and Viridiana of http://www.mexicanmariachigrill.com/ any time I get Mexican food anyplace else, but I really enjoyed this meal.
I've been to Rosa Mexicana once before- my friend and I went in 11th grade for a Spanish extra credit project to the one in NYC. It was so funny watching her try to order the pomegranate margarita so matter-of-factly, even though she didn't look even close to 21. I was also too young to enjoy the guacamole. The guacamole is AMAZING. They made it at our table, just mashed up an avocado, some tomatoes, onions, salt, pepper, and CILANTRO <3. They served it with little freshly-made tortillas, that tasted like the authentic Mexican ones Ricardo and Viridiana introduced me to, and two types of salsa- tomatillo, and some smooth, heavenly, dark-maroon colored one that sadly I have forgotten the name for. We also got vegetarian enchiladas (I ate a burger the other day and felt like shit for the first time in a long time, so I think I'm going to go mostly vegetarian. I'll still eat meat... but rarely.) which were tasty and beautiful, and some wonderful black refried beans, and yellow rice with corn. It was a lovely lovely meal.
Today, we went to Capital Teas and OH MY GOD. I have a Harney and Sons addiction, many of you may be aware, but today I was introduced to the wonderful world of loose leaf teas. Harney's has loose tea too but their satchets are so lovely I was never motivated to try anything else. (Paris tea? Heaven.) Capital Teas, however, had out a sample of their Royal Wedding Tea (I guess some royal people are getting married? I live in a cave.) and... man. It was subtle, it was complex, it was smooth. Slightly sweet. Heavenly. And only loose leaf! So I bought a tin and a product called a tea infuser (http://www.teaforte.com/store/tea-accessories/other/luci-loose-tea-infuser/) and now I can't wait to delve into the world of loose leaf tea. And being poor.
So this was a fun return to blogging. Maybe I won't just do food and will update this Friday when I get my KITTEN. That's right bitches. Rachel is a cat person now.
