Christmas Vacation and Assal Market in Vienna

Every Sunday after our morning walk in the neighborhood we take a short ride to Vienna. It’s just become a routine. Being the holiday season we are also on the look our for Christmas decorations. Before we knew it we passed by an interesting display and needed to turn the corner and go around the block to check it out again. It was a Chevy Chase Christmas Vacation scene - the RV and Randy Quaid, the bottom of a chair showing the electrocuted cat, and Chevy Chase. It made us laugh. When we turned the corner we noticed a place called Assal Market. So I looked it up to see what it was about. It’s an Iranian grocery. So we parked the car and stepped in to see if there was anything different about this place compared to Yas down the street. It was a bigger market, but had pretty much the same things. My husband got some bread and sour cherry jelly, but nothing else was appealing. There is another market in Rockville, Maryland that we haven’t been to since the pandemic. There is a very large Persian community in our area and a lot more restaurants. It’s nice to be able to visit them all and stock up on some things that you can’t get in the regular grocery. But for my husband it reminds him of home - which is the best reason to stop in.