OK, I just sent it again. Let me know if it works this time.

Ahhh! I figured it out. I am on laptop now, and I see that I got a TON of e-mails today, and bumped y'alls to a 2nd load on the phone, which I didn't do.

I just got back from lunch with omnis and Hil. Great American Indian food. As omnis said, something other than the usual burger. Also great conversation (though I fear omnis and I may have bored Hil with all the talk of pets).

Great American Indian food.

As in Native American food or Indian food made by Americans?

As in Native American food or Indian food made by Americans?

It's food from the cafe at the National Museum of the American Indian, which is delish.

In other words, Native American. Multiple serving stations, representing different regions of the Americas.

C'mon people. We need specifics.

I went to the South American station for a chicken tamal (bean tamals were also available) and sweet potato w/coconut cazuela (and I probably got that last word wrong). The Great Plains station relied heavily on buffalo. I don't remember what the North Woods station offered.

I think I had food from the North Woods station when Mom and I were there last spring. IIRC, I got bread pudding there, and some soup as well.

Excellent food at that cafe. (BTW, I remember that the cafe at the East Wing of the art museum was supposed to be really great back in the late '80s--does it still have the same reputation now?)

I got a burrito at the South American station (the sign said it was filled with white beans and cheese, but it was actually filled with black beans and vegetables, which was still good, but not what I was expecting) and some crab apple pumpkin soup from the Northwest station. And a traditional Coke. There were a whole bunch of different things I wanted to try. And the labels for the food-difficult among us were very good -- the signs told which things were vegetarian, which were gluten-free, and which had nuts. If there were also signs saying what was vegan, it would have been perfect labeling. The gift shop sells a cookbook with a bunch of the recipes.

Omnis and I went to the Air and Space Museum in the morning, and then stayed at the American Indian Museum after lunch. The American Indian Museum was really great -- learned about all kinds of cool stuff. It's organized in an interesting way -- there are big theme rooms, and then within each room, little sort of inlets that each show stuff relating to that theme from a different nation. There was also one display that showed some artwork that challenged the appropriateness of putting a living culture into a museum, which I thought was pretty interesting. One of the things there was a photo of a Native American man from Washington State (I think) who'd done a performance art piece of lying in a museum display case with tags identifying the different scars on his body.

I left a little while ago -- I wanted to see more, but my legs were giving out. Omnis is still museuming, I think.