What a Great Weekend '-)

After a rough week, Friday finally arrived. I should have known that it would have been a different sort of day because I woke up early that morning after having a very bizarre, yet realistic, dream. I came to work and had an email from my ex. Now, I always say that I'm going to delete his emails without reading them, but I never do because I always hoped that that one email would be the one I was waiting for. And my faith paid off because it was! We met for lunch and it was nice. He got a new "toy" and was showing me how it worked so that was interesting.

Friday night my girlfriend and I had dinner at Fogo de Chao. It's a Brazillian steakhouse and the experience was incredible. The food was the best that I've ever eaten and I left there feeling very full and very sleepy! Then she and I went to see a play entitled "The Night of the Iguana". It's based off of Tennessee Williams' poem of the same title. A guy that I work with was in it and Carla is my theatre buddy so that's why we chose that one. It was a good time.

Saturday I cleaned the house and then my friend Chris came to pick me up. We went to a Mexican restaurant had had dinner. The food wasn't all that great but the drinks were! Randy met us there and the waitress bought us all shots. As much as those men tried to goad me into taking it, I stood my ground and didn't. Then we went to the haunted house. Or rather, we tried to go to the haunted house. We fought our way through the maze of the parking lot and got in line. After standing in line for 2 hours we decided to leave since we weren't even halfway there. My daughter told me the next day that she stood in line for four hours before getting in so I'm glad that we left.

Sunday Randy and I went to breakfast and then chilled around the house watching football (our typical Sunday tradition). It was nice. He brought his guitar over and was playing and singing for me. He has a beautiful voice and plays very well. Then my brother came over for a little bit. After he left, Randy and I decided to go to the local forest preserve so he could take some photos. It was a nice experience because he is so passionate about his photography. He was explaining all these different things to me about good light and bad light and angles and things like that. I think he thought that I didn't care, but really it was just a lot of information for me to absorb. Most of the time, even if I don't understand what he's talking about I just like listening to him because of the wide range of knowledge that he has and his ability to make anything sound exciting.

So that's it. My weekend was great and it was a much needed break.