Memorial Weekend

Three whole days off. I wish every weekend was like this. As usual, I'll give you a recap filled with entirely too many details of our gloriously long weekend. We started out on Friday night by taking the Vespa down to Vino 100 to purchase a bottle of wine for the evening. I hadn't heard that much about the place, but it was just okay. I prefer Times Ten or Best Cellars. At 7:00 pm, we were the only ones in the store, but the lady said it was more of a late night place. Then we picked up some dinner at Eatzi's and headed home to watch the Mavs play the Suns. Our baguette would not fit on the back storage area so I had to hold it as we drove home. I felt oddly French. There we were zipping around the city streets of Dallas with baguette in tow. All I needed was a beret for my look to be complete. And maybe one of those red and white striped shirts. Or is that what a mime wears? Picture it: Lee driving me around on the Vespa dressed as a mime carrying a baguette. Outstanding. Anyway, the night was capped off by watching Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals. I'm all for the Mavs winning the whole kit and caboodle, but SEVEN games for each series is a little too much. It's like I'm living in the movie Groundhog Day or I'm on the seventh verse of Henry the Eighth. Lee is in there right now watching Game 4. In the name of L. Ron, I hope they take it in five games, but judging by the performance I'm witnessing, it may be six.

On Saturday, I did a little shopping and that night we went to Lloyd and Amanda's house for a cookout. It was AWESOME and Amanda is an amazing cook. Anyone who knows me knows that I love olives and she made the best green olive dip. She was nice enough to share the recipe.

On Sunday morning, we headed out to Tyler to see Lee's parents newly built house. It was quite a project, but it looks amazing. We relaxed by the pool and ate BBQ with Ben, Tee and Beth in the afternoon. That evening, we headed to the lakehouse where we cooked out burgers with Lee's parents. I made Amanda's Green Olive Dip as an appetizer. The big dogs are insane at the lake. Insane. They can't get enough of swimming and retrieving tennis balls. Our arms will tire our before the dogs ever do. Ms. Trudie isn't much of a water dog so she just hangs out up at the lakehouse. Mom and Dad are keeping all three of our dogs plus their dog when we go on vacation this summer. I'm trying to wrap my head around the enormity of the hairball that will create.

Monday was for relaxing. On the way back from the lake and on the way back, we were listening to the radio. Lee was channel surfing and stopped on some horrific rap radio station. I said "Please turn this". He looked at me and said "What?!! I thought that you liked the contemporary artists". He is 85 years old. He is a papaw because he refers to gangsta rap as "contemporary". I love it. Anyway, while Lee went to the office, I caught up on the Oprahs I had Tivoed and cried at this man who had Tourette's Syndrome and then made Spicy Polenta Tamale Bake for dinner and we watched Munich while we ate. All of the Best Picture nominees have left me disappointed. The two best pictures from last year were Cinderella Man and Walk the Line and they weren't even nominated.

So that was our weekend. After it was all said and done, we were two very tired puppies.