Long Weekend Recap

Even though I had to work this Saturday, it was still pretty sweet to have Monday off and get to relax this weekend!

Saturday
Saturday after work I went home, and promptly took a nap. Ha! Clinton and I both fell asleep and slept longer than we intended to, but oh well. When we woke up we went over to my sister's house to catch the UFC fights - it was super weird, for some reason I was just not into it or interested in the fights at all. For those who know me, it's not news that I'm slightly obsessed with UFC/MMA, so it was a weird night for sure. I was more interested in just playing with my baby niece and nephew and instagramming them being adorable, ha! Plus, I have a love-hate relationship with naps. I love taking them, obviously, but I hate waking up from them because I am so grumpy and tired afterward, and it takes me forever to really come out of it! So that happened Saturday and I was just kind of in a haze for most of the night.

After we left, Clinton decided he was hungry and so we stopped to eat at Pei Wei but it was totally throwing me off because it was almost 10p and I never ever eat that late. While we were in there a waiter went and locked the door, and then I felt bad for being those people (there were a couple other tables still dining), but I honestly didn't think they were closing at 10p on a Saturday night, I for sure thought it would be 11p! But luckily we were almost done, so we just hurried up. After we left we decided to hop into the Blockbuster next door and we walked around for a good half hour or so, but we didn't even get anything because nothing really stood out and we had seen most of the movies anyway, ha! Guess that's the bad thing about seeing so many movies! Clint decided that he wanted to actually buy a movie so we went to go to Target, but turns out they also close at 10, ha! Since I work so early I am never even out that late so I have no idea when things close! But he was set on buying some movies, so we went to one of my least favorite places in the world - Wal-Mart. We looked through soooo many movies and oh man, we were there for at least an HOUR with me just following him around aimlessly, and we didn't even buy anything! It was a weird night haha, we were awake at that point so we considered going to see a movie, but it was a few minutes after 11p and that's when the last shows start, so we just went home.

Sunday
Sunday was a pretty lazy day! In the morning we went to Bev-Mo because since we were having people over Monday, I wanted to get some interesting pop. They have a whole wall of specialty pop and you can buy single bottles, so I like to try different ones sometimes - usually whenever we have people over for bbq (about once a month or so) I go buy a few. This trip I got dry blood orange, cranberry, and black cherry.

The dry blood orange is pretty interesting! It's sort of in between a flavored club soda and regular pop - the sweetness is a happy medium between the two. The black cherry tastes how I imagine it might have tasted from an old-fashioned soda fountain, where they put the syrups into each drink and everything. It was a little sweeter and more viscous than say, Cherry Coke. The cranberry dream was one of the grossest things I've ever drank ha! It tasted like medicine. I didn't even finish it... and then I accidentally knocked over the remainder onto the floor and had to scramble to get it up since we just had our carpets cleaned Friday - whoops!! Another kind of interesting gross thing I saw there was one brand that had the weirdest flavors ever - bacon, peanut butter & jelly, and creamed corn. YUCK! Suffice to day, I did not try those ones.

After that we went to the mall so that I could use a $10 gift card I got in the mail from a store for my birthday, and we stopped for one of my favorite snacks at Wetzel Pretzel - pretzel bites and frozen strawberry lemonade. Yummmm. Good thing I don't go to the mall super often because if I did I would eat WAY too much of this!




This is an old picture, but it'll work! We made the mistake of getting 2 bags the 1st time and now we know only 1 is needed!

 After the mall we walked around Cost Plus World Market - we went there just to pick up some olive oil, but we always browse around any time we are in there. After that, the cutest thing happened! We stopped for gas and there was a mama quail and all her little babies crossing the parking lot. It was so cute to see them all running after her across the pavement from one sidewalk to the other! I tried to get close enough to take a picture, but the mom kept running the other direction and the chicks hid in a corner - I think she thought I was a threat and was trying to distract me from her babies - so sweet! But I didn't want to scare them anymore, so we just left them alone - but they were so adorable!

The rest of Saturday was suuuper lazy - we went home and watched the Netflix streaming Season 4 of Arrested Development - the only break we took was to make and grill bacon ranch cheeseburgers and corn on the cob - dinner was super delicious by the way! The burgers were way good and the corn was sooooo sweet.

Monday
Monday morning we did a little bit of grocery shopping and then just spent the early afternoon finishing up Arrested Development and doing prep for dinner. Clinton's parents, Tom and Debbie, came over and we had a nice night. We also originally invited his brother Devon and his uncle Ken, but neither one of them was feeling well, so it ended up being just the 4 of us so there was way too much food, but oh well, that gives us leftovers for lunches! We went with a southern comfort food menu. Grilled carolina BBQ chicken pieces, slow-cooked boneless country-style pork ribs, collard greens (my first time ever both making and eating them!), macaroni and cheese, and rolls.




The spread.

 When we first sat down, Tom moved his plate over to the side when nobody was looking and moved the mac n cheese over to his setting hahaha, and said, "Okay, I'm ready for dinner!" It got a pretty big laugh from everyone. Debbie makes the most amazing potato salad in the whole wide world, and I always do the exact same thing with that bowl whenever she makes it!

After supper (which was super good!) we all hung around for a little while playing board games and being silly - a lot of people don't like board games but we always play and have such a good time! Tom and Clinton are basically the same person and super silly, so there's never a dull moment.

Our poor little puppy was soooo tired and fighting to keep herself awake - she's used to us being gone during the day and spending it sleeping so whenever we're home for most of the day she gets all sluggish by the evening because she spends all day following us around and not getting any rest, so after two days of us being home most of the time, she looked like she could use a nice, long nap.




Little cutie.

 Overall, it was a great, relaxing long weekend, spent with ones I love so really, what more could I ask for? I'm pretty blessed. :)

We've got another long weekend coming up - I have to work Saturday again, but we both have Monday and Tuesday off because my birthday is the 3rd, and as of right now we have no particular plans, but who knows - maybe we'll decide to go somewhere. We shall see! I hope you all have a great week and enjoyed your long holiday weekend as well - what did you do? I'd love to hear about it!