Wonderful Weekend

We had major plans this weekend: do even more shopping! Man, are we tired of shopping. We started Saturday by visiting Victorian Square for the Farmer's Market that was supposedly happening. What we found was a table with some garlic bulbs and another table selling dried herbs and soaps. Not really the bounty of winter produce we were hoping for, but we had a good time wandering around the rest of the Victorian Square Shoppes and peaking in windows because nothing was open yet. It was all very pretty and slightly pretentious. The kind of place where the name of the shop has absolutely nothing to do with what the store actually sells. It will be interesting to explore some more in the future. As for the Farmer's Market, we'll have to wait until March or April to see what kind of produce can be had once the season starts.

We headed over to Third Street Stuff (a coffee house and art/silly stuff shop) for a yard sale to promote some grass roots movement in Kentucky. We showed up right at 10 while everything was still being set up, so we got a couple of drinks (decaf coffee for Dan, mocha latte for me) and poked around the shop until we got bored. The coffee was really good and the store was filled with all sorts of merchandise with funny and inspiring quotes. We headed back over to the yard sale hoping to find a dresser. No such luck, but we did walk away with a nifty humidifier for $2.

We spent the rest of Saturday afternoon driving around Lexington just checking out the sights and then headed out of town towards Paris. One really cool collection of sculpture is right in downtown Lexington called Thoroughbred Park. We keep wishing we had the camera with us as we wander around, but the charger is packed up in our stuff which has not been delivered yet. The battery is running low so for now we're leaving the camera at home. Dan was very sad about this when we saw the line of sculptures of horses and their jockeys racing towards a finish line. He's really hoping to take a picture of him riding the jockey riding the race horse. Somehow, I think that might be frowned upon...

The land outside of Lexington is just absolutely beautiful and filled with horse and cow farms. We're enticed to look for a house out that way, but they all seem to come with at least 8 acres, which seems like a bit too much yard for just a cat. The road from Paris to Lexington is lined with one horse farm after another, and by "horse farm" I mean "giant, beautiful houses surrounded by state of the art barns and other horsey facilities on over 100 acres." We oohed and ahhed the whole way home.

We tried to keep Sunday as simple as possible due to Dan starting work on Monday. We hit the grocery store and the biggest Super Walmart either of us has ever seen. For dinner, I made the meal on the cover of Real Simple this month. We're getting back to healthier eating after spending about a month living on frozen pizza, hot pockets, and take out food. All of our spices are still being sent here with the rest of our stuff, so any recipes I've been planning to use have to be made with only one spice. It's a weird criteria, but when you have probably $100 in spices headed your way, you really don't want to duplicate. So planning menus has been kind of challenging, but I feel like I have risen to the occasion. So last night I'm making dinner and really in the thick of it, when I take a can of tomatoes off the shelf and realize that we don't have a can opener! We bought all this random kitchen stuff to tide us over but somehow forgot the can opener. Luckily Dan's dad gave him a Leatherman this past Christmas, and it has a can opener as one of the components - crisis avoided and our meal was really good. So thanks to Dan's dad for looking out for us even when he's not around. That Leatherman has come in really handy time and time again. And Dan got a big kick out of my yelling "We don't have a can opener!" in just about the most frantic voice I manage.

Tomorrow, I have an interview in the morning. I'm excited about the job, so I hope it all goes well. I'll keep everyone posted!