Weekend Update

Saturday was celebration day for Raylene's birthday. She invited me to join her and some girlfriends for brunch over in Dartmouth, and since I love brunch and need to meet new people I gladly accepted. Brunch was at an Alderney Landing restaurant called Ducky's. By the name, I thought it was going to be a greasy-spoon sort of place, but it was more like a little bistro with a decent view. I had the Eggs Benny and it was really good. So was the coffee! (I'll have to go back and really wander around there one day...there was a market of some sort going on that had homemade pies and jams and stuff!)

There ended up only being three of us...one of the girls slept in (and it wasn't me!). We sat and chatted for a couple of hours and it was great. I miss just drinking coffee with my girls (and Mikey!) and chatting about whatever.

Afterwards, the girls went to meet some other friends and do some shopping. I was invited, but had errands to run so I opted out. I ended up doing a little shopping of my own trying to find some cute trouser jeans, but after about 30 tries I gave up and bought cute new shoes instead. LOL. I can always find shoes that fit!! The jean trials were frustrating...all of the good stores like Banana Republic or even RW&Co don't make their pants long enough. I was stoked to fit into size 6's (hello vanity sizing or what!) but nothing was long...even if they called it long it would only be like 33"....no good for me if I want to wear heels. Tres annoying! Oh well, such is life.

I managed to squeak in a short workout on my way home to check on the dog and get ready for the evening too.

The evening plans were for a group of us to meet up for a pub dinner, then go see a band at the Casino. Originally we were going to go to the Split Crowe to eat, but because the weather looked a little wet, it was changed to the pub in the Casino hotel. Good thing that the company was good, because the service was absolute shit and the menu was soooo boring. Our waitress was either new or just bad at her job, because she was about the slowest server any of us had ever had. Getting our bills was pure torture as well. (This led to some of the people skipping out on their bills, but I'll rant about that another time...un-freaking-cool!!)

But I got to meet a bunch more of Raylene's friends and most everyone (minus the bill-jumpers!) was fun and hilarious so that is really all that matters. Birthday girl had herself a very cute dress and a very cute boy too! Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of the night...boooo!

When we went to see the band, they had only played an early set due to the Comedy Festival that was going on....so the group ended up dividing up at that point. Raylene still wanted to dance and since it was her party a few of us agreed to go with her to the Lower Deck across the street. The others didn't want to go there, so stayed at the Comedy Show. The Deck was hot and crowded and I'm not a huge fan of the music upstairs, but it was still a fun night out. A few minutes before 2am, I decided to get my coat before everyone else did and grabbed a cab home.

A bit of a gong show, but a good time!

Sunday, Mojo let me sleep til noon and I spent the day just puttering and basically doing nothing. Lovely. :)