Hello, hello, hello!  Merry Monday to everyone who is working.  I’m loving vacation but I actually am looking forward to having a “work” schedule again; not that I know where/if I’ll be working next year.

As predicted, Saturday night’s dinner was awesome.  The view from my seat was this –

Even better, they sent out a complimentary amuse bouche.
This was a crostada with chutney and chicken if I remember correctly.

Similarly, Adam ordered mushroom brushetta, which I ate a slice of, for his appetizer.

I didn’t do an appetizer because I knew my dinner was going to be pretty rich.  I ordered the Blackened Mahi sauteed spinach, garlic mashed potatoes, chipotle red pepper lobster cream sauce, avocado crab salad.

This was so good.  I gave the husband the avocado crab salad because he loves that sort of thing but I devoured the rest.

For dessert we split a plate of homemade truffles.

Doing some knife gymnastics we got each candy cut into four pieces so we all could try everything.

Intense torrential downpour canceled all of our bar plans, but we did manage to have another great evening playing games.  I had another iced coffee with skim milk,

and a big bowl of air-popped corn that I didn’t snap a picture of.

Sunday – no sun day

The rain continued but we didn’t let it get us down!  My mom made beer bread so I ate both end pieces for breakfast with a slice of swiss cheese.

Beer bread is so tasty, I think it might be time for me to get the frickin’ recipe from her!

Next Adam and I accompanied my parents on a trip to the grocery store.  We were pretty impressed by the variety of produce at The Fruit Bowl.  When I grew up here as a kid there were not a whole lot of choices.  To this day when I go to gas stations in the states I stand in front of the drink fridge and just stare at all the choices.

For lunch my mom semi-homade’d some super tasty pizza.  She sauteed onion, spinach, green olives and red pepper and then put them on top of frozen cheese pizza before she baked it.

This was so yummy I ended up going back for a 2nd, unphotographed, slice.  I also had some juicy watermelon.

And more iced coffee.

I enjoyed my coffee but I immensely enjoyed tucking into a stack of Archies in the middle of the day.  Mid-afternoon we headed out to the movies to see “I Love You, Beth Cooper.”  Terrible.  It was too teenagey for us, which is fine, clearly we were not the intended age group, but I was disgusted by the fact that they made it “cool” to drive like a maniac.  I’ve known way too many people who’ve gotten killed or seriously injured in a car accident so I don’t think it’s ever funny to be a bad driver.  In fact, my new favorite PSA is the one where a game show host pops into the back seat and reminds a kid to tell his friend to slow down.  My movie snack did not suck at least, I only ever eat Jordan Almonds from the movie theatre in St. Thomas.

After more relaxation it was time for dinner.  My mom cooked Adam and my dad chicken and dumplings, which I hate, so I rustled up dinner on my own.

I think I ended up with a pretty good spread!  Beer bread,

ants on a log,

and a salad – iceberg, Parmesan, cashews, red pepper, cucumber.

I semi-homemade’d myself some dressing by shaking together these two things:

The evening fun was, you guessed it, more games.  And I’m not going to say I didn’t eat 1 or 2 unphotographed chocolate chip cookies.

Monday

I woke up this morning in a total funk.  I was hot, hungry, and just plain aggravated.  I think a lot of it is that I’m getting nervous about our upcoming move and going (or especially Not going) back to school.  My cold shower helped and so did stopping at Subway on the way to my mom’s library.

6″ tuna subs are good but I was especially cheered up by the two cookies.

I played BattleShipwith the husband for a bit and after I am done with this post we are going to do some online consumer report comparing for my birthday gift.  He surprised me the other day by insisting that I get a heart rate moniter for my b-day; I’ve wanted one forever but haven’t been able to justify spending the money on myself.  We agreed to look for cheapish one and my parents offered to pay 1/2 as my birthday gift from them so I’m pretty excited.

P.S. don’t forget to enter this sweet Soap & Chocolate giveaway.