a weekend of eating in review

this was a great long weekend. seems like chris and i spent most of our time eating out. and you know i love eating, so it was all good.



on friday night we went to the olive garden. we usually only go there like once a year when we have gift cards because 1) it's all the way on the other side of town and 2) it seems like there are a whole bunch of really good local restaurants right in our neighborhood. last year i remember thinking that the food really wasn't worth the long wait for a table. this time we again waited what seemed like an astronomical amount of time (okay, it really was just over 45 minutes) but the meal was surprisingly good and fairly reasonably priced. the bruschetta was awesome! i had an adequate glass of wine to complement the portobello mushroom ravioli which was delish! chris had 4 cheese ravioli and though i didn't taste it he said it was quite good.

we spent most of sunday in the mall. we shopped right up until dinner time so we ended up going out to dinner again. plus, we figured we hadn't spent any of our money on friday night's dinner, so we could afford another night of eating out. this time we went for mexican along our route home. veggie fajitas for me and bean burrittos/cheese quesadillas for chris. however, the pleasant meal was marked part way through by the unmistakable sound of the locking and unlocking of a revolver. that would be the high school student behind the check out counter playing with apparently what was the restaurant's (hopefully) unloaded gun. it was really strange, not so much that he was playing with a gun while the rest of us went along with eating our meal. it was more the ease with which he played with the gun that really struck me.

today the weather was spectacular in columbia so chris and i took a long walk along the riverwalk. and then we rewarded ourselves with a little rosewood dairy bar. i had a strawberry milkshake and chris had their famous (to us) apple turnover, which we got to enjoy while sitting outside.

tonight we met up for a yacs event to brainstorm ideas for meetings in 2007. we also partook in mellow mushroom pizza (kosmic karma and veggie) which is always delicious, as was the company.