It was a fun, relaxing weekend - we didn't travel at all and had very "play it by ear" plans. Sometimes, those weekends turn out to be the most fun. On Friday night, we all hung out at my friend J's house for an impromptu barbeque. A lot of us got very tipsy and even decided to swim in the low 70 degree weather (which didn't last long)! Towards the end of the evening, one of my friends bet me money to ride up in the dumbwaiter from the garage to the second level of the townhouse. I can usually never turn down a bet and I know another one of our friends rode successfully in it before, so what could possibly happen? Well, I guess I wasn't sitting perfectly centered and as it started to go up, it listed badly to one side and then completely stopped and got stuck. There was a smidgen of an opening, enough to see through but that's about it. I started envisioning the fire department having to come and pull me out with the "jaws of life". It didn't help that my over-tipsy husband was standing on the second floor yelling "I"ll come and visit you on weekends, hon" and other sayings. Then I got a little panicky, but some quick thinking friends turned off the breaker, which quickly lowered the dumbwaiter promptly to the bottom. So, the lesson learned is don't try this at home :)
On Saturday morning, I prepared 17 meals for Kyle & I in a little under 2 hours with absolutely no prep work or clean up. I am starting to LOVE these meal preparation places, they really are the cooking of the future. And an absolute life saver when you have unpredictable work hours!! Saturday afternoon I did some gardening and picked out seeds for a vegetable garden I'm going to try soon - summer squash, cucumbers, spinach and beans. I haven't grown a veggie garden since I was little and my mom and I did one together...
On Sunday, I went to a friend's church with some couple friends, and then Kyle met us all out for brunch at one of our favorite bistro, complete with tasty mimosas. The rest of the day I lounged in the sun reading, and then did some mulching in our frontyard.... this was the first holiday in a long, long time that we didn't travel or entertain people and it was very enjoyable!!
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Holy cow that is too funny. Thank goodness you got out of there without too much fuss!
There is one of those food prep places near our house - I thought it was kind of weird, but maybe we should give it a try.
The dumb waiter incident was definitely something that we'll be talking about for years to come! In fact, I bet we'll even refer to it as "The Dumb Waiter Incident". :) You're much braver than I!
I'd love to try out that food prep place. Where do you go?
Sounds like a wonderful weekend! (well maybe minus getting stuck in a dumbwaiter!)
Gotta write that down - don't ride in dumbwaiters.
I have plans to go to one of those meal prep plans w/a girlfriend. Glad to hear that it's fun. Your weekends sounds like it was nice.
Your weekend sounded fun. Thanks for the tip about dumbwaiters. I especially liked all of Kyle's "help".
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