Last Friday the Winter 2011 class of Glenn Fellows, accompanied by Ken Kolson and Chris Adams, enjoyed a visit to the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, across the street from the Kennedy Center in Foggy Bottom. Our information officer host, Tariq Allagany, is the son of a former U.N. official and grew up in New York City. Best factoid from the presentation: there are some 400 employees of the Saudi embassy scattered across Washington. What do they all do, one wonders.

As the above photo indicates, two of the fellows, Meghan Gannon and Mark Hudak, "went bush," but only temporarily.

February 27, 2011 update: In today's Washington Post, Rachel Bronson touches on some of the issues I wish we'd had a chance to explore at the Saudi embassy.