4:29 PM Monday, <August 11>, <2008>
Tracy and I finally got to spend an entire weekend at our new place. It was awesome. Friday night got home, went around the corner to have dinner at Las Mananitas. Good margaritas, and they put us down for the night after splitting 3 entrees since they didn't have good enough combination plates. Saturday, planned on making waffles, but didn't have any of my baking supplies, so went with crepes instead. But before that we ventured down to the Green City Market on our bikes. Ate up on the deck, lounging about in the living room. After brunch we took the bikes west to North Center, looked around Curtain Couture for window treatments and Homey for a floor vase, wandered around a couple antique/thrift stores and Trader Joe's and CB2 before heading home. Tracy had put a dry rub on some spare ribs so those went on the grill for a while and we enjoyed the music from Northalsted Market Days. It was like having a band for our deck. Very nice. Sunday I walked over and picked up my baking supplies, and came back to make some waffles, just enough for 2. Also Tracy had some squash blossoms she wanted to try deep frying, and did some turon from the freezer since the oil was hot. Then we walked down to Barnes & Noble to pick up some books, passing some other stores and getting some odds and ends, before grabbing some ground beef for burgers. So up on deck again, grilling burgers, before heading over to Market Days, which was crazy. Cleaned up a bit, but a pretty great summer weekend. Next year for sure having a party during Market Days though. Parking will be a pain, but can't beat the free entertainment.