Who'd of thunk I might be First Lady one day. Check out his campaign: http://chrisandjudy.blogspot.com/
In other news, Katie is officially potty trained! That's a relief, and an extra $50 bucks in our pockets each month. Hooray for Katie!
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Monday, July 28, 2008
Sunday, December 2, 2007
7 hours later...
...we stood in line to checkout. That's right. We spent 7 hours in one store. Not just any store, though - the new Ikea in Orlando! For those of you that know us, you know that we're Ikea fans. Needless to say, we were pretty excited when we found out that a store would be opening in our state.
It was quite the day. We started the day at 5:15am and headed out to go pick up our friend Josh. We were also supposed to meet some of our other friends there, but they arrived a little later than we did and the store was so packed that we never crossed paths. On the way down, I also got a surprise phone call from one of my best friends and former college roommates, LB. We hadn't seen each other in close to two years, so when she said she had found out we were coming to Orlando and wanted to meet us at Ikea, it was just icing on the cake!
On our way back, we topped the already wonderful day off by eating some great pizza at a place called Satchel's in Gainesville. Josh had raved about this place for sometime, so it was fun to get to try it out. I have to admit, that was probably some of the best deep dish pizza I've ever had. But, Chris would disagree with me. He didn't like it so much. We'll just have to agree to disagree on that.
So, this week we'll be spending our spare time trying to put all the stuff together that we bought at Ikea. We also need to get the Christmas tree, wrap presents, work on our Christmas cards, and finish putting the lights on the house. If anyone is bored, feel free to come help! :)
It was quite the day. We started the day at 5:15am and headed out to go pick up our friend Josh. We were also supposed to meet some of our other friends there, but they arrived a little later than we did and the store was so packed that we never crossed paths. On the way down, I also got a surprise phone call from one of my best friends and former college roommates, LB. We hadn't seen each other in close to two years, so when she said she had found out we were coming to Orlando and wanted to meet us at Ikea, it was just icing on the cake!
On our way back, we topped the already wonderful day off by eating some great pizza at a place called Satchel's in Gainesville. Josh had raved about this place for sometime, so it was fun to get to try it out. I have to admit, that was probably some of the best deep dish pizza I've ever had. But, Chris would disagree with me. He didn't like it so much. We'll just have to agree to disagree on that.
So, this week we'll be spending our spare time trying to put all the stuff together that we bought at Ikea. We also need to get the Christmas tree, wrap presents, work on our Christmas cards, and finish putting the lights on the house. If anyone is bored, feel free to come help! :)
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Churrascaria.
Yesterday was Chris' birthday! If you don't already know us, you'll find that one of our favorite things to do is eat. So, it was only natural that I plan a week full of good eating for him. I was super excited because I planned a babysitter for two nights this week. We don't get to go out by ourselves much anymore, so I figured two nights in one week would be a real treat (along with the new iPod he very subtley requested).
Another widely known fact about us is that we are very much creatures of habit. We generally eat at a few select places. Some of them an awful lot. But, on a whim... We decided to try something different last night. Everyone is going to think I'm a unsatisfiable patron or something. My past 2 posts have been about bad customer service experiences, and here I go again...
A couple years ago, we were on vacation in Dallas, TX and tried a Texas de Brazil Churrascaria restaurant. It was absolutely incredible. How often do you get to sit at a table while people come around and slice off pieces of perfectly cooked filet mignon, lamb, pork, etc. And they had the most incredible salad bar -- and I don't even eat salad! We recently found out about another Churrascaria restaurant in our area, so we decided to give it a go last night. $40 a plate later, we were very disappointed. It's a locally owned restaurant and it was no where near the caliber of Texas de Brazil. All the meats we received were extremely rare. Not a huge deal if you like rare cooked red meat. But, when even the bacon wrapped turkey is cold and uncooked in the middle, that's a little too rare. There were no vegetable side dishes, only rice and mashed potatoes. We had to wait forever for people to come to our table to bring us meats and it seemed they were running very short on most of the selections. In the end, it probably would have been a decent meal for $15 a plate.
Oh, well.. at least Friday night we'll go back to one of our tried and true favorites - The Melting Pot. Melted cheese, melted chocolate and cheesecake... Mmmm.
Another widely known fact about us is that we are very much creatures of habit. We generally eat at a few select places. Some of them an awful lot. But, on a whim... We decided to try something different last night. Everyone is going to think I'm a unsatisfiable patron or something. My past 2 posts have been about bad customer service experiences, and here I go again...
A couple years ago, we were on vacation in Dallas, TX and tried a Texas de Brazil Churrascaria restaurant. It was absolutely incredible. How often do you get to sit at a table while people come around and slice off pieces of perfectly cooked filet mignon, lamb, pork, etc. And they had the most incredible salad bar -- and I don't even eat salad! We recently found out about another Churrascaria restaurant in our area, so we decided to give it a go last night. $40 a plate later, we were very disappointed. It's a locally owned restaurant and it was no where near the caliber of Texas de Brazil. All the meats we received were extremely rare. Not a huge deal if you like rare cooked red meat. But, when even the bacon wrapped turkey is cold and uncooked in the middle, that's a little too rare. There were no vegetable side dishes, only rice and mashed potatoes. We had to wait forever for people to come to our table to bring us meats and it seemed they were running very short on most of the selections. In the end, it probably would have been a decent meal for $15 a plate.
Oh, well.. at least Friday night we'll go back to one of our tried and true favorites - The Melting Pot. Melted cheese, melted chocolate and cheesecake... Mmmm.
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