One of the reasons we love our neighborhood so much is that we host all manner of cool happenings in what Husband and I call "the Heart," which is the retail core of Georgetown. All City Coffee, 9lb. Hammer, Via Tribunali, The Mix and many more interesting establishments are there for one's shopping and dinning and drinking pleasure. The latest took place last Friday, Honk Fest West! Honk is what high school band geeks do after they graduate, gather together awesome musicians to rock out the songs they were never allowed to play in class while letting their freak flags fly. In short, it's a party. Part circus, part gypsy caravan, part pirate convention, Honk is a blast and the energy and enthusiasm is contagious and gets yer feet a movin'.
One of my favorite parts of Honk is the people watching. Many of the spectators dress up in their freakiest most fabulous finery to play the night away!
And party, of course. We met one of our hard working co-workers at the festivities taking care of the important stuff. Woot! Woot!
They're are a ton of kids that come down too, like this rad little dude hula hooping around his NECK! My favorite was this one little boy grooving to a samba inspired group while wearing a mini blazer over silver stretch pants and a tall yellow dome shaped fur hat. I can only pray that my future children are that cool.
One of the highlights for Husband and I was watching the Titanium Sporkestra which features our neighbor Richard on trumpet. They were awesome and their rendition of Iron Man by Black Sabbath was fantastic! The festivities lasted til early the next morning, but Husband and I left well before then to get our beauty sleep.
Really Husband had to get up for work at 4:30 am and I had a baking and doggy play date with my sister-in-law Karen and her dog Gus. Gus loves to come over and gallop around the yard and eat grass and Ruby loves to chase after him and tell him where he can and cannot go.
Oh yes, and then there are the hand pies. We had started this project about a month ago and got bogged down in all the chilling and waiting time required for the dough. The recipe came from Smitten Kitchen a well known baking blog which does have some amazing looking projects, but we were not so sure about the final product on this one. They look great but came out a little doughy in texture. Nonetheless we ate about three each after they come out of the oven and with Husband's help there are only three left today. Definitely
not disgusting!
