What a Weekend!

Wow!, This was a pretty good weekend on the scale of things to do. I had so many activities that I didn't get my normal 12 to 14 hours of sleep on a Saturday. If you know me, you know I am a big sleeper. Even in my 40's I require lots of sleep time. To start my weekend off right, it was payday, hooray! After work i had dinner plans at Jerusalem Cafe' in Westport. It was a very good meal. I went with a friend and we shared the Cafe's Jerusalem Dinner Feast and a dinner order of the Shawaramah Chicken. Man, that was a lot of food for two people. The Baklava to end the dinner was superb. Our waiter was very personable and gave us a free dessert sample that looked like a shredded wheat biscuit and tasted like pistachios and honey. It was delicious. I would highly recommend this restaurant for lunch or dinner. It has menu items for the both the carnivore and the vegetarian. Mmm Mmm Good! If you want to know more about the restaurant you can click here to link you to their website. Like I said good food.

Then after dinner we had tickets to Mannheim Steamroller in the Music Hall. When I normally think of this group I think of Christmas music but I was pleasantly surprised to hear their repertoire of some other modern composition music. I did not realize they combined imagery with the music and some of the photography/short film pieces timed to the music was to say the least interesting. Some of it, I was slightly disturbed by until I realized the titles of the compositions and how I put the two together then it made all made sense. It was a very uplifting experience. To end the night, my friend and I were having a conversation about me seeing anyone I might know there. It seems that almost everywhere I go, I see someone I know...and not just the folks I attend the event with. Its always another friend or acquaintance. This evening was no exception. Whilst, my friend was visiting the ladies room, another friend happened by, actually my Mom's RCIA teacher, who was also her sponsor to the Catholic Church. She was also there to see the Steamroller. My point to this is that it really is a small world. To beat all, as I was waiting for my friend, the nights featured violinist, Jeff Yang was coming into the Music Hall entrance from outside. The Security staff had stopped him, as if he were just some guy coming in without a ticket. He was telling them he was a with the group, I stepped up to tell them he was the violinist of the troupe and they let him in. he shook my hand and thanked me for the trouble. Snap, I forgot to get an autograph...

The next day, I awoke to a very beautiful day. The sun was out and a pleasant breeze was blowing. For some time, I have been wanting the time and energy to re tackle a task I began last spring, I think. Anyway, the block wall in front of my Mom's house needed a reset and this was the day to get it done. Well, I went to Sutherland's and got some of the necessary supplies and I started to redo the wall. It got a little late after time I spent figuring and thinking the project thru and I was late to get ready for a planned dinner Saturday evening. My Uncle and Aunt both had birthday's in March and April and tonight was the night we all planned to kind of celebrate. My Uncle is 85 and my Aunt is much younger....see Aunt Shirley...I learned a long time ago that a lady never reveals her age....at any rate we had dinner at Garozzo's in the Columbus Park neighborhood downtown KC. We like the original the best and always have an enjoyable meal experience and tonight was no exception. It was Prom Night as are most Saturdays ending April and most Saturdays in May and there was lots of little Prom couples dressed in their finest Tuxes and formal gowns for the night. I think Pastels must be the rage this year because I have seen a lot of Easter pastel colored gowns this season and lots of up do's on the young ladies. The tuxes seem to be the same styles for the guys from year to year and lots of black....as it should be. A fella in a colored tux is so 70's, please fellas, please. Anyway, I ate way too much but still had enough for leftovers at least one if not two additional meals. Wow! now that's Italian.... To end the evening, I had planned to attend a housewarming/congratulations party among work friends at a friends new house. I am sure it was a great time and will get all the scoop Monday but something had to give and it was late, I would have been late to the party (too late to catch up on my drunk, (just kidding)) so I headed for the comforts of home, my TV and my couch. Although, this is a typical evening for me anyway, most nights I have to get up for work the next day. There is nothing like spending time on the couch not having to worry about getting up the next morning to go anywhere or do something.

Ahhh, Sunday arrived and to also a beautiful day. A bit overcast but the temp was up and it was a good day. I of course went to Mass, then came home changed in to some comfort clothes and spent some more time on the couch, napping into oblivion. I did a couple of things outside and just relaxed. I love those kind of days and look forward to many, many more. If I could just win the lottery or something. I could make a career out of relaxing that is for sure. I hope everyone else had just as good a weekend as I did. Now its off to bed again to sweet dreams and another week @ work. See Ya...