A Wonderful Weekend!

This was probably one of the best weekends I’ve had in a while.  We got a lot done, saw a lot of people who we haven’t seen in a long time and had a great time doing it.

Friday

We started off Friday at the movies.  I read the book The Help last month and have been wanting to see the movie ever since.  It was really good, but I feel like they left out some good parts from the book, but I guess in the interest of time they had to because the movie was already over two hours long.  We were lucky enough to sit next to some older women at the theater who were either falling asleep and snoring loudly [no joke] or telling each other what would happen next.

Since the weather was gorgeous on Friday, we decided to head over to the piers after the movie.

We laid by the water and just enjoyed the gorgeous night. After that we decided to take a drive down Bedford Ave in Brooklyn where we encountered the Luke’s Lobster truck.  At first we were a little taken back about the thought of eating seafood out of a truck, but something in my head clicked and I remembered hearing about it on TV and we decided to give it a shot.

We got a lobster roll and a crab roll and shared.  They were both surprisingly really good, but we both agreed that the lobster roll was better.  The lobster was almost sweet and the sauce on it was really good. If you live in NY, you can follow the truck on twitter and know when it is in your area.

Saturday
 On Saturday we woke up bright and early to go to the McCarren Park Farmer’s market.

We got a bunch of farm fresh veggies like kale, carrots, baby potatoes, tomatoes and zucchini.  We also got plums, peaches and nectarines.  We got some yummy fresh bread stuffed with spinach, garlic and mozzarella and foccacia.  Tommy also surprised me with some gorgeous flowers which are standing in front of me as I write this.  We also tries some yummy chocolate and coffee flavored milk from a local dairy farm.  It had been a while since we had been to a farmer’s market and we both decided that we have to make this a regular occurrence because we not only had a great time, we got a lot of great things for half the price of the supermarket.  
I also had two parties to go to on Saturday.  First up was my cousin Kristina’s baby shower.  She is going to have a little baby girl and is due on September 20th.
It was nice to see all my cousins because we don’t see each other very often because they are all a bit older than me and we didn’t really hang out as kids.
After the baby shower, I had to rush home to get ready from my friend Lukasz’s wedding.  Since the wedding was out in Long Island, they hired a bus to take guests there and back after the wedding, so me and Tommy took advantage of it. The wedding was a Chateau Briand Caterers in Carle Place. We got there just in time for the cocktail hour which was held outdoors in a gorgeous loungy type area.

After the cocktail hour, we were all invited upstairs to greet the bride and groom and their wedding party.

I’m telling you, in you ever have the chance to go to a Polish wedding, jump on it.  We had a blast and danced our butts off big time.  I think we didn’t sit down for more than a song just to get a drink.  The music was great and everyone was having a really great time.  Congrats again to Lukasz and Mariola!

On the way home, the rains began.  Lukasz doesn’t live to far from our house, so we decided that we would walk home after the wedding.  Too bad that by the time we got off the bus it was pouring and got home without a dry thread on us.

Sunday

We woke up on Sunday to something that sounded like a huge explosion.  Then again, judging my Facebook and Twitter, most of our neighborhood woke up to the sound.  Lightening struck somewhere nearby because the whole house shook.  It was a foreshadowing to what the rest of the day would be like because it poured and poured and poured some more.  It was actually the rainiest day since the weather started being recorded like a 100 years ago.

Tommy and I had planned on making BBQ for dinner and we didn’t let a little lot of rain stop us. After some difficulties with the grill not lighting correctly, we were ready to feast.

We made chicken and Italian sausage with corn, red potatoes and a kale, mushroom salad I made.  We served it along a yummy garlic bread that Tommy made.

After dinner, we headed out to Ikea where Tommy and Munchkin got matching Poang chairs. Well not really matching because Tommy got his in black and the children’s version only comes in white.

This morning we woke up to even more rain and it doesn’t look like it will be going away anytime soon. Rain, rain go away little Munchkin wants to play!

What was the most exciting thing you did this weekend?
Do you frequent Farmer’s Markets?
Do you have your arc ready for the impending flood?

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