Lebanese Taverna and Washington By Night

Baklava with a birthday candle

My birthday celebration began this evening with a wonderful dinner at one of my favorite restaurants, the Lebanese Taverna in Pentagon City, with Andrea and Roger and Betty Jean Anderson.

Betty Jean, Roger, Chris, Andrea

The food, as always, was delicious!

Grape leaf

Delicious pita bread

After dinner Andrea took us on a marvelous tour of selected monuments. which were incredibly evocative at night. We saw the illuminated dancing fountains at the World War II Memorial and the faintly-lit soldiers trudging across the field at the Korean War Memorial. Each Washington monument should be seen in the daylight and at night. The view and the emotions are quite different. Perhaps the memorial that made the greatest impression on us in the dark was the 9-11 Memorial at the Pentagon. (See photos of this memorial in the daylight earlier in this blog.)