A really nice weekend. Nice mix of relaxing, productive, and fun.
Friday
Our friend V came over. Dina cooked Lamb roast. Awesome. Possibly the best lamb I’ve ever tasted. Martini #1: Limoncello. Tasty. Refreshing. Martini #2: Frangelico. Still tasty, but might be a bit too sweet. Good conversation.
Saturday
Woke up, headed out to the river to rent a kayak and tool around. Dina got us there early, 45 minutes before they opened. We took the opportunity to sit on a bench and watch the river flow by. Lotsa birds. Some things splashing in the river itself which we assumed were fish. Squirrels.
If a squirrel and a geese got in a fight, who would win? Seriously, if you put them in a cage and put a single peanut between them… who would win?
A whirlwind tour of fine commercial establishments including Babies’R'Us where we polished off most of our registry, Magic Bean, ditto, and Costco to buy 248 diapers and 704 wipes. We are going to wipe our son’s ass thousands of times. Makes me want to call my parents and apologize. Started doing laundry with the baby laundry detergent… baby clothes shed a lot.
We also bought 4 pounds of king crab legs and a pound of scallops at Costco for our dinner with E&O. Scallops were marinated in ginger-sesame, rasberry-chipotle, and jerk sauce. Note to self: frying stuff on high heat in jerk sauce needs to be done in a very well ventilated area. Martini #3: Dirty Espresso. ½ shot of espresso plus some fresh coffee grounds. O liked it. Possibly one of my best martinis ever. Martini #4: Applesauce martini. ¼ apple, puréeed in blender. E wasn’t a big fan of it. Martini #5: Belgian Chocolate Ice Cream. Good, but ice cream doesn’t cut the alcohol taste of the vodka as well as other flavours do. Lotsa good conversation, but I think I put E&O to sleep with my drunken repetitiveness drunken repetitiveness drunken repetitiveness. Or maybe it’s just that it was midnight… yeah… I’ll go with that.
After that, I was still hyper. Played some online poker. S dropped over for some late night conversation and then crashed on our couch since she was too tired to drive home.
Sunday
Woke, fed ourselves, and started playing with our new toys. Assembled stroller. Added infant car seat attachment to stroller. Cleaned infant car seat. S was surprisingly helpful. Did a bunch of stuff around the nursery, which is now pretty much ready. Wow, it’s 5 already. Time for a BBQ at K’s, J’s GF. Had a very good time. We may have ragged on J too much, especially considering K’s mom was there… oops. K also has nice friends. It’s (sometime) fun meeting our friends’s friends or our friends’s SO’s friends.