The Andrews and Seans go to the market or How I learned to stop worrying and spend lots of money on yummy looking stuff.

Sorry for the double post but we wanted to add a few things to Helene's post. Also, seriously the Eastern Market deserves at least two blog posts.

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If by some miracle we weren't yet convinced that we aren't in Ohio, Eastern Market changed that. Eastern Market changed a lot of things…

Seeing the diversity of food, people, culture, and artistic talent was simply awe inspiring. Stands of art, produce, music, and random trinkets are virtually inaccessible in Ohio outside of faraway fairgrounds, parades and/or markets. The absolute best things about Eastern Market are that it is so close, so accessible and that it is ours for the next 8 weeks.

Eastern Market taught us several other things:

• Puffer Fish looks freaking scary

• Bring your own bags!
• You'll always spend WAY more than you meant to
• No matter what you plan on getting you'll wind up either buying or wanting something completely random

• You will always see a hair or fashion style that you have NEVER seen/believed existed
• The world cup penetrates even the air conditioned confines of the Eastern Market (THANK GOD!)

Oh yeah- all that meat and food looks, smells and tastes absolutely delicious on our grill.

你好 and 再见 to our random Chinese commentators.

-Drew, Andy, Sean and Shawn