Saturday night was the beginning of the weekend for me, since I had to work during the day. After getting off of work, Justin suggested we go out for dinner... after heading to the Galleria so he could buy some polos and I could buy some yummy Philosophy bath gel. By the time we headed out, it was already pretty late... We almost felt like we had to resort to the Cheesecake Factory since we knew they would seat us around 9pm.
But then we thought about going to the Jive and Wail in Maplewood.
It was seriously fun, even though we were the only people there that weren't part of a birthday/bachelor party. Initially, we wouldn't have gotten a table... I think we might have stolen part of a reserved one. But the waitress was smart and let us keep it... because man, we were hungry and neither of us had work the next day. I had the Saint Louis ribs with fries and cole slaw... and then for "dessert" since we were drinking, we tried the Elvis:
Oh yes, a peanut butter and banana sandwich fried with cinnamon and served with honey and powdered sugar. Talk about something so fucking good, it should be illegal.
At the end of the night, the waitress gave us some tickets for priority seating and some free drinks for the next time we go... Which given that I'm already craving another Elvis, will probably be rather soon...
The next morning, I'm woken by my cell phone going off. I don't answer, because I'm half asleep and I didn't think anything of it. I checked my voicemail and it's my mom laughing that my parents were 20 minutes outside of Clarksville, TN and on their way for the rest of Labor Day weekend. Total surprise!
We had a very late lunch at P.F.Chang's (my parents have never been to the one in Nashville, since the parking situation is horrendous) and by the time we were finished, it was time to head up to Mandarin for a surprise party for Pete's wife. I'm very thankful he was able to add them to the guest list (each guest had their own VIP name tag and a packet) on such short notice... but they had a great time!
We had post-party breakfast at Uncle Bill's Pancake House. My dad gave really good advice for post-party snacking: buy the frozen White Castle cheese burgers, bacon and eggs... fry the eggs and bacon, microwave the burgers and mix. That is genius!
The next morning, my parents and I met up for breakfast at the Majestic (Eh, same thing as going to the Greek festival minus the lines) and then headed to the shop to pick out my mom a pair of jeans. Probably the biggest surprise of the entire weekend was that she wanted to pick up another pair of denim... Maybe her dark days of Mom Jeans are behind her?
She picked out a really cute dark wide leg trouser cut pair... Then we headed back to my apartment. I showed them our new residents' lounge, which is pretty fucking awesome.
Our new lounge can fit about 30 for dining... there's several seating areas, including video game chairs and a Wii. And there's like, 10 different varieties of free coffee. Since our apartment is so small, having the option of additional space is pretty sweet. Thanks creepy people that were watching TV in the gym, now we have an awesome lounge!
And entertaining we did this weekend as well. Just as my parents left with a "See you in like, two weeks!," my boyfriend and I were cleaning the apartment and slicing things in preparation for a BBQ we had in our courtyard and green space. A few days ago, he invited over about six law students for a BBQ... Of course, no one really saw our clean apartment but that's okay since it's all perfect for me to enjoy today.
Here's a picture of Justin grilling:
It was a nice time and as tired as I was... fortunately, the law students were worried about class the next morning. Crazy that the "last day of summer" was the first time that we used the grills and patio furniture available to us. The weather should be pretty nice for another two months...
Whole lot of laboring this weekend.
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