Weekend in Review

Despite all of the goings-on, I found it to be a really relaxing weekend. On Friday, Lent toured around Portland while Ken and I went to work. Ken met him for lunch and then we all met up after work for some drinks along with a guy I work with. We forgot to eat dinner though. Oops. Oh well, we made up for it on Sunday (see below). Saturday, we woke up and walked to breakfast. Turns out we have a great, cheap little old school place about a half a block away. Afterwards, you can 'spin the wheel' a la 'the price is right' to get your breakfast for free. Pretty cool. We all had to pay, but we left all full and happy. That afternoon, we went down to Oregon wine country and drank a bunch of wine, ate some pizza and then came back to the house to meet up with Rob Church, who was visiting this past weekend. We walked down to the Pinback show, which was pretty good although the opening acts left a lot to be desired. Crashed that night. On Sunday, Rob woke up and left for his interview in Montana while Ken, Lent and I packed up the car and went to Seattle for the Seahawks vs. Miami game. Got there before the traffic hit and tailgated with some awesome beef and pork ribs we picked up in Portland, some polish sausage, peppers and onions. It was amazing. 2nd best barbecue sauce I've ever had -- after the one Beverly's family made for graduation weekend from UVa. We got so full that we haven't eaten since. Our seats were awesome. 45 yard line, 3rd row. Actually got to see Feeley take all these painkillers on the sideline after he got injured. Pretty cool. Made it back by 8:30 last night. Ken and Lent moved our new fridge in and the old one into the basement (we didn't know they were leaving us with one and we had already purchased one). So now I can buy massive amounts of turkey after thanksgiving (a la dave and kristen) and store them in the freezer. I'm very excited about it.

This morning we packed up the car and headed back for the hotel while they seal our floors over the next three days. They're also ripping out the rest of our upstairs front bedroom floor so we can install a new (level) subfloor and fir floor. Ken, Lent, me and Hughes... chilling in a hotel room. I imagine we'll go watch monday night football tonight. Lent leaves tomorrow. Then two more days until we can move back in... permenantly. I'm so excited. I can hardly wait for the holidays.

-L