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[sauergeek]

I will be visiting the DC area this weekend. I plan to drive down on Saturday afternoon/evening, arriving either late Saturday or Sunday around noon. I already have a place to stay. I am interviewing for a job in Arlington (VA) on Monday morning, and will be driving back on Monday. Sunday I may be looking at apartments, depending on how scheduling works out with a real estate agent I'm working with. That leaves the rest of Sunday free, especially Sunday evening, and possibly part of Monday. Anyone have suggestions for stuff to do, or know a good place to assemble Many Fine DC-Area People for a grand foo?

EDIT: If there are other DC-area people that I know, who you know of, who do not follow my LJ (such as huey), please invite them along if there is a foo in the making.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

broken_gizmo and fuzzichi know good sushi in Manassas

sushi in DC

[cos]

If you seek sushi, my favorite sushi place of all (by which I mean all, not just DC) is in SW DC, walkable from the monuments - though hidden behind a neighborhood perception barrier.

Phillips Flagship
900 Water Street SW
Washington, DC 20024
202-488-8515

It's a posh seafood restaurant. Ignore the restaurant part, just walk over to the sushi bar in the back corner and sit down. The sushi chef is a woman. Feel free to tell her the longhaired guy from Boston sent you :)

If you have a good arm, it really is a stone's throw from the fish market on the waterfront, where the boats come in. If you're lucky, they might be cleaning a new batch of fish right off the boat when you get there. Ask her what's fresh today.

[lizzielizzie.livejournal.com]

Beadazzled in Dupont Circle! MUST!!!

[andrewfeland.livejournal.com]

If you get time, the Spy Museum was wicked fun. You start by memorizing a persona, and then you get quizzed periodically all the way through. I went through with a bunch of friends, and we had a blast.

The National Air and Space Museum annex is also not to be missed. It's a HUGE hangar with an SR-71 Blackbird front and center, flanked by things like the Enola Gay and a Boeing 737. The hangar is big enough to make the whole display look small.

[yoctohedron.livejournal.com]

I second the Spy Museum. rhysara and I hit it, it was great. The hours are a bit funky though, and you have to get a ticket (they let people in hourly, I think.. its quite popular and they have to limit the inlet rate to keep the place from getting too crowded).

And as rhys pointed out, the National Postan Museum (across the street from Union Station) is actually pretty cool.

If you've got a car, I hear the NSA even has a museum these days.

[cos]

Do you know aquariumgirl? If not, you should meet her, and include her in your foo-planning.