Fall Festival and Taste of Falls Church Saturday Sept. 13

It’s time for one of the most fun events of the year in Falls Church — the annual Fall Festival and Taste of Falls Church.  Festivities start this Saturday, Sept. 13 at 10 am at Cherry Hill Park.  Read more

Dining: La Caraquena

Claudia and I have eaten at La Caraquena several times over the last few months and enjoyed it every time. The restaurant on the corner of Little Falls and W. Broad St. in Falls Church is small and pleasantly decorated, the staff friendly and happy to advise on the menu, and the food interesting and tasty. I particularly enjoy their Saltenas and Sopa de Frijoles (black bean soup).  Claudia tends towards the Sopa de Maní (Bolivian peanut soup), and Adam likes the Barros Luco (Chilean steak sandwich) because of the Gouda cheese.  Don’t forget to ask for the spicy green chili salsa.  I don’t know what it is called but it is delicious (and darned hot.)

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Time for Twister

A new study by toy maker HearthSong reveals that a vast majority of parents engage in “active play” with their kids for six or less hours a week, and 16% report playing with them only 10 minutes a day.  In other survey results, of those parents who do play with their kids, over one third (36%) say they most often play with games or toys, another quarter (27%) most often participate in unstructured play and a like number (27%) play outside, in either unstructured or structured activities such as sports. Read more

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