Lessons Learned

This weekend turned out a lot differently than Robbie and I had planned. I apologize for the lack of pictures but it is a result of the lot of "nothing" that we ended up doing.

Saturday started out well enough, we had a delicious breakfast of scrambled eggs and "Toads" (little pastries with sausage in the middle) made by Robbie and then we proceeded to run errands in town. The best part of the day (at least for me) was test driving some new cars which has been something I've been subconsciously putting off for the past month. I tried out a 2006 Honda civic coup, a 2005 Civic sedan and a 2006 Mazda 6, the civic sedan being my favorite so far. I couldn't believe how easy the standards were to drive compared to my old 95 civic, what an eye opener! I have plans on trying out a few others but by this point we were quite tired of listening to all the salesman's pitch.

That evening we had planned on going for diner at the Fireside Grill and then to a Kitchener Rangers hockey game at the Aud. Dinner was so-so. We went only because every time we drive by, the place is packed and generally lined up at the door so we figured it had to be good. It was busy inside, the service and the atmosphere fairly standard and the food good, large portions but nothing special. It was definitely a family restaurant, emphasis on the family (lots of children) and I don't think we'll be going back. Our next stop was the rink. We have never been to a hockey game in town and didn't know what to expect so we went an hour early thinking we'd be in plenty of time. Apparently hockey is a really big thing in Kitchener and by the time we made our way to the head of the line at the box office there were tickets for standing room only!! Not wanting to spend $20.00 each to stand around for 3 hours we decided to come up with plan B; go see a movie at the theater. We figured that being around 7 PM there would be some movie starting shortly or at least one which we wouldn't have to wait around for too long. Again we were wrong and either would have missed the first 20 minutes or would have had to wait around an hour and a half. Next time we are going to have to plan ahead!! So then we came up with a plan C: Bowling. Wouldn't you know it, all the lanes were booked until 9:30. No bowling for Robbie and Jenn. By this time I was feeling fairly dejected and had lost any enthusiasm to do much of anything. Finally plan D: rent a movie. We ended up watching "500 Days of Summer" which, much like the rest of the evening was only so-so. Lessons learned; plan ahead!!

Sunday we planned on taking it easy and making a nice meal for dinner. We started the morning with fruit smoothies (made with our new blender which works great), beagles and cream cheese. Robbie kept himself busy by cleaning the kitchen and floors and I practically killed myself doing an exercise video that apparently is way above my skill level!! I then spent a few hours making pastry and a pumpkin pie ( I was in charge of dessert) and then handed the kitchen over to Rob so he could slave over making home made crepes stuffed with scallops and shrimp and preparing muscles. YUM. Everything was going great until an unfortunate accident involving a mix up with the stove burners. Unknowingly the wrong element was turned on under my pie where I had left it on the stove to cool. As you can imagine nothing good came of this; there was smoke, panic and breaking of the glass pie plate :( Robbie, never wanting to throw anything out, was determined to still eat the pie and despite getting a few mouth fulls of glass still says that it was delicious; I decided to go without. Easy to say I was disappointed in the whole pie incident but the main course was excellent.

We spent the remainder of the evening quite excited as we can now hook Rob's lap top up to our new big screen tv. It is like having one giant computer monitor, 40 inches is so much better than 12!!

So now that it is Monday I guess that we had better plan ahead and get ready for next weekend if we want to actually do something. Maybe we'll plan on doing the exact same thing and see how it goes this time!! So much for being spontaneous!