Every once in a while I like to buy a plastic dog toy for my dogs to have something new to play with. It seems like none of the toys last very long. Their favorite toys have a squeaker in them, but the dogs think that killing the squeaker as fast as possible is part of their game with those toys. So, the toys with squeakers don’t last long.

When we lived in North Arlington, we were just a few minutes from Washington or Alexandria, where they used to have fish markets open to the public. In Alexandria, they shut down the fish market and for years it was an abandoned warehouse down by the waterfront, which became a seedy part of town that was not safe after dark.

But last week I needed to be in Alexandria and while searching for a parking place I ended up down by the waterfront and drove past where the old warehouse used to be. It was interesting to find that the valuable waterfront property has been reclaimed and the old warehouse is now a restaurant, surrounded by lots of other restaurants and small boutiques.

The funny thing is, the name of the popular new restaurant in that old warehouse is, are you ready for this?: The Fish Market.