On Friday, we joined up with church friends at Border Cantina for margaritas and dinner. Due to the extreme heat, we decided to pass on the free tango lessons at Centennial Park and headed home where we spent a little bit of time working on the adult religious education class we're facilitating Wednesday.
Saturday morning began with a trip to Dunkin' Donuts for our daily coffee with double skim milk. Being the weekend, we also had our allotted two donuts which were free due to DD's survey promo. Then we spent the morning perusing local yard sales for books and found some other gems, like a soccer ref shirts and flags for Kyle for ONE DOLLAR! Clark also found a couple of paint ball canisters for two dollars each. Not a bad haul of books, either. At one of the last yard sales, there was a riding lawn mower available for $350, so when we got home, we started talking about what we needed to attack the jungle in the back yard and voila! There was a self-propelled lawn mower with detachable bag freshly listed on Craigslist for $125. Clark called and we headed to Madison to pick up our new mower and drove thru A&W's for lunch. After dropping off the mower, we headed towards the airport where--after getting the car washed--we picked up Clark's mom, took her home and headed back to our own house to pass the hottest part of the day in air conditioned comfort. One more trip out to the Belmont area to get yummy smoothies from Fresh Blends Juice & Smoothie Bar and a meatball sub from Subway. The rest of the evening I read Kathy Reich's Devil Bones and Clark did his leatherworking with smooth jazz on the telly.
Sunday morning started early with a Dunkin' Donuts run before hitting the early service at church followed by the strategic planning team's meeting. Then we dropped off the books (from Saturday's yard sales and our own bookshelves) at McKay's Used Books, had a yummy Mexican lunch, and back to McKays for our $50 in-store credit. We made it home just in time to watch the U.S. Men's Soccer Team play Brazil in the final of the Confederates Cup in South Africa. Great game which just whetted my appetite for next summer's World Cup, also to be held in South Africa. After a Sunday afternoon nap, Clark dropped me off at the Nashville Sounds stadium, so I could grab a window seat in the bar while he picked up his mom. For her birthday, which was April 4, we had offered to take her to dinner and a ballgame at the newly renovated Greer Stadium. I joked with Betty that last night was the first time she and the Sounds were in town at the same time! The Oklahoma City Redhawks soundly defeated the home team, but it was a fun evening and a great way to finish up a wonderful weekend!
¡Hasta pronto, mis amigos!
~N
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