Red, Hot, and Blue

Saturday morning Pete and I headed over to Arlington, VA to get our haircuts at Willy's Barber Shop.  The damage from the storm on Friday caused one of the stops on the Red line to be down, and the trip along that section of track was horrid.  We would move forward for three seconds, hit the brakes (drift back because we were heading up hill), move forward, hit the brakes, move forward, hit the brakes.  I even felt a little sick after 10 minutes of such rocky movement.  The newspaper that was located next to me had an apropos title page for the moment.  It was the Washington City Paper, that had an image of a large pig constructed on top of a trailer that was made to argue against the proposed construction of a Metro line into Loudoun County in VA.  Very interesting article; http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/42920/planes-trains-and-conspiracy-theories/.  After finally making it to our stop, we walked over to Willy's that was also without power...but they still remember how to use scissors there!  Pete and I walked out with fresh fades, and headed over to Ray's Hell Burger for round two.  Ray's, of course, didn't have power either.  A family was walking up at the same time we were that said they were from Florida, and that they came all the way there to try Ray's.  I really hope there was more planned in there itinerary, but they did venture in to see the non-operating restaurant.  Pete and I headed back towards the Metro and stopped at the restaurant Red, Hot, and Blue where we were joined by Keenan (I also noticed the family stop in there a few minutes later).  We somehow managed to receive the worst service we have ever come across at a restaurant, featuring a forty-five minute wait before having our order taken, another 25 minutes or so before the food came, an overcharge on Keenan's ticket, an absence of silverware for the majority of our dinning time, and Pete went without his order of potato salad until just before we were going to leave.  Somehow the lady didn't offer us a discount, but she did float an apology our way.  The food was great though, and I have a feeling the service was an exception to the rule.  We stopped at Safeway to pick up some groceries on the way home, never want to do that on an empty stomach!  For a nightcap, Keenan had won a raffle for VIP status at Front Page on Dupont Circle, granting us drink specials and the opportunity to win a $100 bar tab if we had the largest party show up.  We were in second or third place the last time I looked, and considering we didn't get the word out until Friday night it wasn't too bad of a showing.  No word yet on whether we won or not.