Here is a picture of my particular friend

Here is a picture of my particular friend at Fogo de Chao: you know, the one with the lamb. Notice his look of delight at getting rid of his burden. You can tell we were hitting it off quite well.

Saturday, we went to City Market; this is a terrible picture, I don't know why I didn't take another picture of where all the vendors were, but this is how it looks when you first see it...
Mr. Bloom would make a great Dickens character. Very personable, we remembered him from last year. He tells you all about his baked goods, and guesses what he thinks you would like while giving out samples with occasional outbursts of "FRESH BREAD, GET YOUR FRRRRREEE SAMPLES RIIIIGHT HERE!!! FRESH BREAD!!!" as other people pass by. Wifey and I find it refreshing to find people who are really proud of what they do and are confident that you will enjoy and appreciate it as much as they do.
Brynn really liked these apple things. They are apple slices arranged to look floral-y-ish on a crust.
This Italian grocery store was a little more my speed. Whole barrels of olives!! thas wat I'm talking about!
This was almost an assault to the olfactory nerves. This picture doesn't even do it justice; there was more spices than you could imagine. All for a dollar a scoop! Really cheap for spices. Quite cool to see the riot of colors!
Then after the City Market, we went to an exotic place full of wonder and delight. It's called "Target." Its a magical place where they have things like, say, underwear, and shorts, and toothbrushes or other sundry items that someone may forget on an out of town trip. These things that they sell aren't unlike or dissimilar to anything that they sell on the Plaza, but the real magic is this: They cost a third or a even fraction as much at this magical store!!!

From there we went to a movie called "Courageous." Its a good movie, and that's all I will say about it, other than I'm glad that people out there are trying to make a difference in the world. I hate to be so "ho-hum" about it, but when you had a dad that deliberately exemplified those things, and the importance of passing them on, you don't so much thrill at seeing it taught in the theater. It really was good though. But it takes more than that to jerk tears from this hill-billy.

Saturday night was really fun, too. We decided that we were actually going to spend some money and go to a Tapas Restaurant. If you dont know what that is, click here. We decided upon La Bodega; Here is their Menu; it is worth looking at. We couldn't find coupons for it, so we decided to just go anyway. While we were eating, we overheard our neighbors talking about the "happy hour" menu prices. We had looked, and thought that there was no happy hour menu on Saturday. Brynn encouraged me to ask about it, so when we got the check I did. Our server informed us that we came too late; OK, no big deal. She came back in a few, and informed us that we did come in a few minutes before six, and we should have been able to order from that menu, so the manager gave her permission to discount EVERY thing we ordered by HALF! even though we ordered virtually nothing from the Happy Hour menu!! She got a good tip from us!

Sunday, we plan on Going Nowhere and Doing Nothing; something pretty much unheard of by Herself and me in darned close to 12 years of marriage. We are going to try relaxing. All day long. Try it anyway; we both get restless and feel the need to go do something outside most of the time. If it works, there won't be much to blog about...