weekend in iowa

i made it back from my extended weekend in iowa. I had a nice relaxing time. Jr. celebrated his birthday at Recess, Go Banana's. He had a bit of a rough time there. He fell and twisted his ankle and then he got his tooth knocked out. It was rough but i think he still managed to have a good time. We spent a lot of time playing games the rest of the weekend. We played the dvd versions of Are you smarter than a fifth grader and scene it jr. My best friend from high school came over sunday night so we played Hand and Foot. The weather really sucked so it was good we had lots of games to play. Under the the several inches of snow on the ground was an inch or so of ice. this posponed my trip back to chicago by a day. I am so glad i waited till today to come back. In a 70 mile stretch from my parents house to close to the illinois/iowa state line we passed 167 car/trucks in the ditch. it was crazy. most had just slid into the ditch but some went for a crazy ride down embankments and some even flipped over. I was so thankful that i stayed at my parents cozy house an extra day.

busy week

I want to start with last weekend. Last friday was my actual birthday. It was a pretty good day. It got even better when i got to Sexy's. She had made me a birthday dinner. It was delicious. You can check out pics on my flickr site. We had a nice relaxing weekend. For more details you can check out sexy's blog. It was exactly what we needed heading into to v-day week.

Tuesday was Jr.s birthday. He had a friend spend the night the night before and then i took him and two of his friends to chuck e cheese for his birthday. He had a great time. Jr then went to his dads and i went to work at the flower shop. I said i would work tuesday and wednesday night and then deliver on thursday. And that is exactly what i did. I had a good time working at the flower shop. I had a good time last year and i was excited to do it again this year. Yesterday was vday and i delivered flowers from 10am till 6pm. The day went smooth on my end and it seemed to go well in the flowershop. I knew sexy was exhausted since she had been working 14 hour days so i took her home and gave her the valentine i made for her and then gave her a foot and back massage. Since I am going to iowa this weekend she will have the whole weekend to relax and get caught up on sleep. Hope everyone had a nice vday.

Fabulous birthday weekend!.....day 3

On Sunday we got up, did yoga and packed. We checked out of our hotel by noon and headed for the Milwaukee public market. The market was a nice place. I first got some coffee because i was cold and in desperate need of caffeine. After i had my delicious coffee in hand we took a look around the place and then decided what we wanted to eat. I decided to have a hawaiian sandwich and caitlin had some bean salad, an eggplant appitizer and some middle eastern food. After we ate our food we were craving some chocolate and there just happened to be a chocalate store downstairs. We got a rum bar, some tangerine bites, a peanutbutter ball, and a few more really tasty chocolates. Once we sat and digested for a few minutes we buddled up and we ended up walking all the way to the art museum. The art museum was fabulous. We walked through according to time periods. Sexy, was answering all my questions i had about art. I learned so much and i felt like i had my own personal tour guide. We stayed till closing but missed the wings closing on top while we were getting our stuff down stairs. We then hopped on a bus and ended up eating at a little pub near where our bus was leaving from. We had a drink and a few appitizers and then set off to catch our bus back to Chicago. We got to the bus stop just as the bus pulled up and headed back to chicago. On the bus ride back we knit for a little while and listened to a podcast. Then we had a brownie type bar. We cuddled for the rest of the trip. I kept thinking as we were cuddling about the great weekend I had. Sexy asked me what my favorite part was and it was hard to come up with one because I loved all of it. It was very thoughtful and it meant a lot to me. I have a great girlfriend. Thanks sexy!

weekend...part 2

Saturday we got up did yoga, took a shower and then headed out for our day. Our first stop was at the Pabst mansion. It was a beautiful mansion and we had our own personal tour guide going through the mansion. I really love seeing historical buildings. I am really glad it was one of our stops on the trip. Next we went to this little diner for lunch called Miss Katies and to meet Caitlin's friend Jen. The diner was ok. I have seen better ones and the food was not that good in my opinion. The onion loaf was good and I don't think Jen or Caitlin had had anything like it before. My hot turkey sandwich was not that tasty and dry. Jen and sexy seemed to like their food so maybe i just chose the wrong thing to eat. It was great talking with Jen and seeing her again. After lunch she drove sexy and I to the Milwaukee Public museum. After waiting in a long line to buy tickets we thought we were going to have an hour to rush through the museum but to our suprise the museum was going to stay open till 9 instead of 5 because of the body worlds exhibit. So, we planned what exhibits we wanted to see and started. We saw a lot at the museum and after 3 hours we were ready to move onto something else. Now it was time for my birthday dinner. Caitlin was taking me to a nice Indian restuarant. It was called Dancing Ganesha. Unfortunately, when we got there it wasn't there, but luckily there were other restuarants around. There just happened to be an indian restuarant right near there so i decided to go there. What a good choice that was. It was delicious. We ordered samosas and then we got the vegetarian dinner for two. I loved the veggie fried dumplings and the Chana Masala. Even the dessert was good, which rarely is at most of the indian restaurants we have been too. We were stuffed and we even had lots of food left over. It was way more food than two people could eat. We were stuffed and we headed back to the hotel. After relaxing for a few minutes we headed out the the Safe House. It is a spy themed "safe house" bar for spys. It wasn't hard to find but getting in was a bit more difficult. We didn't know the password so we instead had to sing "I'm a little teapot" in front of everyone in the whole place. once inside we walked around trying to find a place to sit. There were a lot of spys inside. We found a table and sat down and had a couple of spy drinks. We took sometime looking at all the neat spy stuff around. Then after walking around for a few minutes we found the exit. It was a nice themed bar but the drinks were a little pricey.....good but pricey! It was a neat experience and I would definitely take some friends there. We had a fun filled day.

Fabulous birthday weekend!

First, I want to tell you about my wonderful weekend i had last weekend. I was given a box to open on Friday. Inside was a backpack and a list of all the things i needed to include in it. I was told to meet my sexy girlfriend downtown at 5pm. with my backpack. We started walking and when we crossed the street i was told we were getting on a bus. The bus was going to Milwaukee. I had never been to Milwaukee and honestly I had no idea what was there but I was excited to be going somewhere with sexy. We worked on crosswords and talked on the trip there. Caitlin handed me a packet with the weekend planned out. I couldn't wait. We got to Milwaukee and found our hotel. We checked into our small cozy room and then headed out to dinner. We went to the bus stop to wait for the number 10 or 30 bus. unfortunately we were at the wrong bus stop but the very nice bus lady from the 26 bus stopped and gave us a ride up 2 blocks to where the 10 and 30 stop. We made it to the nice irish pub that we were having dinner at. It was nice food and then we stayed and listen to the band that played at 10:30. We had a few drinks and decided to leave when the creapy, drunk old guy started getting to close to my girlfriend. I am not really a violent person but i think i could have taken him! We got back to our hotel room did yoga and then jumped into bed. It was a late night but it was a good one and we did sleep in some the next day.

to be continued....

Such a long time

I was so nicely informed today that it has been two months since i blogged so i promise i will blog today. Lots has happened since then. Spent Christmas in PA but that was such a long time ago. It is now February so i will blog about recent activities in my life. I will blog soon about new year resolutions, my wonderful birthday weekend and other exciting things in my life. All is coming soon.