Friday, I spent most of the day drinking coffee, eating cookie dough, and watching Gilmore Girls. It was wonderful. Then, I went to the Lucas' that afternoon...where Adam met up with us later to babysit Colton and Jack while Heidi and Jedd had date night. It seemed a little odd, though, that Dominos kept me on hold for 15 minutes...I hung up...they answered...and told me that I'd be on hold for another 15 minutes before they could take my order...and yet, Adam went TO the store, made an order, and had pizzas to us in 15 minutes. There seems to be something wrong with that...maybe it's just me. We enjoyed babysitting. We had dinner, walked to Foster's Freeze and back for some ice cream, and then watched Follow That Bird (the perfect excuse to subject Adam to a Sesame Street movie without objection.) There was a moment of excitement for Adam though...as the Belleville News-Democrat (his hometown newspaper) made it's cameo. He also enjoyed his return to Super Mario Brothers and Duck Hunt.
Saturday, we woke up late(ish) and had some homemade croissants. I now know how Pillsbury made their money. While they were good...a 2-3 day process is a little labor intensive for 8 croissants. It's worth doing once in a while, though.
Then we went to Palmdale to return some clothes and go kitchen table shopping. We didn't end up getting anything...much to the dismay of the very pushy salespeople...but we're closer to making a purchase. After I had had enough (which didn't take a whole lot...I'm not a big fan of shopping) we had lunch at Souplantation. It was a buffet style soup, salad, etc. place. I wasn't that impressed...and it was a little expensive...but Adam liked it, and said while he wouldn't go without a coupon, he'd consider going back with one. That evening, we packed a picnic dinner, met up with the Lucas', and went to watch "Grease" in the park.
Waiting for the movie to start...
Watching the screen go up...
Let the fun begin.
Not only did we have fun watching the movie...but Adam also won a Pujol's jersey in a drawing. Of course, the drawing was to soley benefit the man running it...but...he won a nice jersey for only $2...so it was worth it, right? Here's a picture of him in it. I know it's hard to prove it's him with his head cut off...but he made me take it like that so "it will be like a magazine ad."
I was hoping that, after that, I'd win the Macbook Pro or Macbook Air from the local NPR station we donated to...but alas, being that I haven't gotten a call, I'm pretty sure we didn't.
Sunday, we went to Sunday school at Wayside Chapel (the church we've been going to). And while we've been going to this church since we've been here...and enjoy the people we've made friends with in the process...we decided to search for a new church to go to service at. We will still probably go to Sunday School...and possibly service once in a while...but we want to see what other churches might have to offer that might be more suited to what we want in a church. Therefore, we visited the Church of Christ with Jedd and Heidi. It was nice. There were only about 30 people there, and most of them said hello to us and welcomed us. There were no instruments, and we sang mostly hymns...but it seemed more homey and we agreed we liked it better...but it still wasn't everything we had hoped...though we also agreed that we wouldn't mind going to visit there once in a while. Heidi showed me a website, though, of a new church plant in the Lancaster/Palmdale area. Originially, we had wanted to stick with churches in the area in order to meet people in town. Now that we have made some connections...I think we feel more open to look other places. I'm excited to see what this church is like. The pastor is from St. Louis...and was an art major before seminary. He's a younger guy...and the congregation is also younger, but I like that. Here's the website, incase you're interested: thewellav.org I think it'll be interesting to check out.
After church, we went to the Lucas' for fajitas. They were delicious, and as always, it was fun spending time with them and the boys. Adam's been bonding quite a bit with the boys lately. It's fun watching them do things together.
After lunch, we went to the laundromat, Adam went grocery shopping, we watched some Gilmore Girls (a common theme lately...especially without reliable internet...our usual source of TV shows to watch), and then went to bed...being that we had been up late several night in a row prior.
Today...we received a cool wedding gift in the mail from Jill and Denny Doss. It was a picnic/insulated carry bag for wine...along with a really neat, engraved bottle of wine. Everything, other than the printed label, was personally engraved on the bottle. It was pretty elaborate and very cool. The bag came with a gel ice pack, a cheese board, cheese knife, and a cork screw. It's neat...here's some pictures:
And with that...I'm going to try and get geared up to clean a little more before Adam gets home. I hope this was a fair compensation to daily updates. Hopefully, our modem will come in the mail soon...and we'll be back up and running more consistantly.
Have a great day!
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