Some culture, some food

Recently, I noticed a plaque noting a historic site had been erected in my decidedly unhistoric-looking neighborhood. It's more concrete canyon than charming cobblestone, so I was curious what exactly qualified as history.

So... apparently they pretty much, like, invented the internet one block from my apartment. No joke. So it makes it all the more ironic that the internet in our building is sometimes slower than what we had in Bangladesh. I feel like we are shaming the glorious history of Rosslyn.

Okay, and now that I look at the Wikipedia article on Arpanet, there is no link to Arlington mentioned, so now I am wondering if this is a fictional historic plaque, as in, hey, we thought it might be nice to give the neighborhood some character.

In other news--last night we made our first trip our to Wolf Trap, a national park dedicated to the performing arts, to see Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore. It's a pretty place and we enjoyed ourselves, perhaps James more than me, as he is the Gilbert and Sullivan fan.

And lastly, forgot to mention a couple things on Boston, and of course, they are about food. Given the descriptions of dining hall chicken, this clearly wasn't a food-focused trip, but have to give a shout-out to Felipe's, the still-astoundingly-good burrito place, and The Independent, a fantastic gastropub in Somerville that Alex introduced me to--the trout was all kinds of fabulous.