Another one turns the big 2-9. Only one more year in your 20's, Meghan! Live it up! I stopped by her birthday lunch to wish her a happy bday. Wouldn't you know this was one of the few times I didn't have either of my cameras with me though. That hardly ever happened this year surprisingly. Thankfully Emily had hers and I was able to get my pic of the day. Whew! Close one!
Jon and I went to dinner with Meg and Taylor on Friday night. Meghan gladly obliged to be my subject for my pic of the day after this little project came up in our conversation.
I mentioned I still needed to take my pic that day and that maybe Meghan would like do be in it. She was all, "but you don't have your camera here"...and I was all, "who do you think I am? I have that thing with me ALL THE FREAKING TIME!" We then busted out with a kind of obnoxious series of pictures in a somewhat crowded restaurant. Some of the funniest ones were blurry because I was laughing I think, so this one won out.
As a side note, this is the first year in a while that we haven't gotten up super early for Black Friday shopping! Our partners in crime, Gina and Todd, weren't in town for Thanksgiving this year, which I think is the main reason we didn't go. It was pretty nice to sleep in...but something tells me we'll be back at it next year.
So this is exciting. This restaurant used to exist on East Wash. Jon and I went once a couple years ago after I saw a write up about it and their wood fire pizzas. It was super tasty, despite the fact that they served their sodas in glass bottles. (the glass bottles are cute in theory, but not that cute when there aren't free refills and they aren't out of a fountain. ya heard?) Anyway, it shut down for reasons that I do not know, but recently reopened at Hilldale Mall!! Wahoo! The restaurant is in a pretty cramped space, but I think my margerita pizza made up for it - despite the fact that they STILL don't have fountain soda...this time it came out of a can. Jon might beg to differ though. He did not enjoy the close quarters or his panini.
This place is popular around these parts for their take out - mostly their fish fry I think. We finally decided to try it out last Friday night. It was asi asi. I've had better.
Thursday was Jon's birthday (and my mom's!). A while ago, we were planning on being in Vegas for his bday, but those plans fell through. So instead, we decided to go to a Vegas restaurant we love that also happens to be in Oakbrook, IL. We had a tasty steak dinner, got a cheap room at a really nice hotel (thank you Priceline!), watched The Hangover in our room and overall had a nice little getaway.
A little tidbit of note: Our hotel was at Hamburger University. I'm not kidding. You think this is fake? It is not. The hotel was a Hyatt and is on the grounds of the McDonald's Headquarters...aka Hamburger University. This place is awesome. Weird McDonald's artwork all over, McDonald's shuttles driving around that say "I'm Lovin It", teams of McDonald's employees walking around. Fascinating!
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Shari, Nancy and I went to Lombardino's last Tuesday and it was taaaasty. I already ate before I got there, but I snagged some of Nancy's pizza and the bread was delicious. We were there close to closing time and since Shari knows a lot of peeps that work there, we scored the extra loaves of bread. Yesssss. It's the little things, people.
Nancy found out about a beer tasting going on and decided to get a group of Tyler's friends together to sign up for all the spots in honor of his big 30th bday...and it was a surprise. It was so great! Jon and I walked in and Tyler did a double take when he saw us, then the rest of the group trickled in and he was even more surprised. Such a great idea and we had such a great time. Oh, and yes, he got a Hannah Montana jumbo sized birthday card that played music.
On Monday night I was having Pizzeria Piccola withdrawals, so I took my hubby out to Pizza Brutta to try and satisfy my craving.
Look how cute it is!
It is a new restaurant that I heard had good wood fired pizza, so I figured I'd see how it measured up to my beloved Pizza P.
I had to compare apples to apples, so I got the margherita pizza. Jon got the margherita + pepperoni and we got the flatbread to share.
The flatbread was asi asi, bordering on bad, but the pizzas were good. They could use some help on the decor inside though. The outside facade is so adorable, you would think the inside would be equally charming. Instead, I sort of felt like I was in Qdoba. I would give it a B+. I think we'll go back.
Meghan, Tom and I went to Pizzeria Piccola on Friday night. Gosh, I miss that place so much.
My visit on Friday made me miss a lot of things about "home" actually. I saw a lot of people from my childhood, had a hot fudge sundae with pecans from Gille's with two of my best grade school friends, hung out with Dre and to top it off, did some shopping with Meg at Mayfair.
Perhaps one day I will return for good...
Check out the new numbers at Culver's. I'm not so much a fan as I was of the blue ones though, to be honest.
The color of the ice cream is throwing me off also. Not a fan.
We went to Edo's for a yummy sushi dinner on Saturday night. As I recall, I had been out at the pool, reading in the direct sunlight all day long and when I tried taking this picture my eyes were totally cross eyed and everything was blurry. Hardly any of the them turned out because when I looked through the camera I couldnt even tell if anything was in focus.
I think I should probably get my eyes checked out :-/
I got together with my sister in law and some other friends on Tuesday to discuss our upcoming yurt trip. Since all the ladies I was with had children at home, they werent ready to go home right after dinner...so we went to Bdub's for a drink.
Look how witty they are over there at BW3's! All of the wipes had equally humorous messages on them. TN, BW3's. TN.
Last weekend was Diz and Andy's big wedding weekend! We had such a good time and a proper full post will follow. Friday night was the rehearsal dinner at The Wicked Hop. It was lots of fun and there was a big turn out since Andy's fam and friends are from out of town. We chatted, ate, drank and watched the Brewers. It was a great start to the festivities!
Oh and this is Diz's bro and sister-in-law, who also happened to be newlyweds.
It was Lisa's bday on Friday. In celebration we went to HuHot for dinner and then out for some draaanks.
Meghan and I checked out the new Five Guys at Bayshore for lunch on Saturday. I had been to this fine establishment many times before in Madison and Delafield, but it was Meghan's first time!
You can find my opinion of this joint here.
Her opinion: The fries were better than the burger...but she thought maybe she picked bad toppings. Sobelman's is still #1 in her burger book.
Today we met Gina, Todd and Cooper at BW3's for lunch on their way out of town. It seems like Cooper is way older/bigger since the last time we saw him...which was a month ago. He can walk with help, he is eating table food all by himself (maybe he did that a month ago?), he waves and pretends to "talk" on his little toy cellphone. So precious.
After lunch we did a whole lot of nothing, which was pretty awesome. Not quite as awesome was how both Oklahoma AND Kansas got knocked out of the tournament, sealing my fate of not winning my pool. boo.
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