Memorial Day Weekend Update

Friday Nate and I went to El Cid for Mexican food. I hadn't been there since November and forgot how good it is. Nate had never been there. It's an easy blue line ride, so hopefully we'll go more often and take advantage of the outdoor dining. Then we met up with some of his friends to see Hot Fuzz at the cheapo theater. The theater was pretty nasty, as were the people who were there (both workers and movie-goers). Hot Fuzz was undoubtedly well done and very intelligent, it just wasn't my cup of tea. Despite the gore being "humorous" it still had gore. I hate bloody movies. Especially unnecessarily yucky ones.

Saturday was supposed to be the awesome Patio Party day. We were going to go to the Patio at Cellular Field, then watch the game from the first row above the visitors' bullpen. Half that happened - we definitely did the patio, complete with all you can eat hot dogs, fried chicken, burgers, potato salad, and two beers per person per round. Too bad the weather wasn't cooperating and the game got called before a single pitch could be thrown. It was a pretty big disappointment, as I had been looking forward to this day for months. Also somewhat of a waste of money. We can go to the make-up game, but it isn't the same without the patio beforehand.

Then Nate and I headed home slightly tipsy at 7:30 pm, which sucked because nobody was going out. We both passed out early and the night was over. Sunday turned out to be much more exciting. We went to Windy City Cafe for waffles, then I went home to watch the Sox get slaughtered by the Twins.

Sunday evening we went to the Fasts' apartment for a BBQ. I was allowed to bring Audrey so she could enjoy unfettered playing in their awesome fenced-in back yard. She was there for five hours, and was active the entire time. Did lots of running in huge circles for no reason, lots of sniffing stuff, digging, lapping up the attention, pooping...she loved every minute of it. I loved it too because she's been knocked out ever since. I hope she can go over there again in the future for more activity time.

The humans played badminton (I sucked), BBQed, and sat around enjoying the summer weather. It was a great way to ring in the 'official' start of summer.

Monday Nate and I flipped between the Cubs and Sox games, got a late lunch at Cleo's, played scrabble...we were pretty bored on Monday. I was depressed because it was the end of a relaxing weekend.

Tonight I went grocery shopping and made us falafel sandwiches with strawberry shortcake for dessert (Nate has NEVER had strawberry shortcake. Unamerican? Yes). I also did laundry. Hooray for domesticity.

Tomorrow is round two of my attempt to get a driver's license in Illinois. I have the "super duper official" social security card now, along with my three other pieces of identification so I'm good to go I think. Nate's headed to Portland with his band, Sleep Out, to record with some super awesome dude for the rest of the week. I'll be kept busy by cleaning and organizing in preparation for my aunt and uncle from Menlo Park, CA to visit this Friday.

I promised photos in this post but flickr is down, and I got lazy.