Playing Catch-Up - Backwards

Yes, it does happen to be easier to remember things backwards sometimes. Thus:

Advent, Day 8: Christmas Dinner at La Cote D'Or, an excellent little French restaurant near East Falls Church Metro. The menu included escargot (I had one - I've had them before and feel ambivalent towards them), mushroom soup, lamb, "salmon in love with sea scallops" (the best, most excellent seafood I've had, maybe ever) and chocolate profiteroles (a little disappointing).

Advent, Day 7: This day gets as far as listening to Christmas music. Definitely more in line with opening a perforated door in a piece of reinforced paper and either taking a moment to look at a cute picture, or gobbling a tiny hunk of yummy chocolate.

Advent, Day 6: Christmas roll at Maneki Neko, a tiny, excellent (and reasonably-priced) sushi restaurant in Falls Church. Again, not much involved here.

Advent, Day 5: This was the day I was supposed to got to Scottish Christmas Weekend Walk, but it snowed. And snowed, and snowed, and snowed. So I stayed inside after some Christmas browsing and watched Jane Austen movies.