Well, I had quite the eventful holiday weekend! For having started the weekend with no solid plans, things really fell into place nicely. Let’s see….Friday night I met some girlfriends for dinner at The Tavern on Broadway (mid-town) which is a pretty cool place. It’s been a number of restaurants over the past few years; this one is distinctly different, so I like that. After, we headed to one of the nearby bars for some patio conversation over drinks. The night ended relatively early for a Friday night and I believe we were all in bed before midnight.

Saturday I accepted an invitation to go out on some friends’ boat and hang out at a popular cove in one of our large lakes. We got to the cove around 10:30am and had a great time. The water was warm enough, but felt very refreshing against the mid-day sun. I hitched a ride on a jetski around 3 so I could make it home in time to clean up to go to a dinner at 5. After dinner, I was pretty exhausted and I just went home to chill out. I knew another big day was ahead of me.

Sunday was pool day at one of my best friends’ condo complex. We sometimes grill out or bring finger foods. I was in the mood to cook in the morning so I wanted to come up with something fun to take with me. I have a bunch of phyllo dough leftover from one of my dinners (due to a misunderstanding of the instructions that said to get 10 sheets, not boxes…) and I decided to make two things, some pastry cups with ground chicken and queso (a healthy version) and then some mini “beouf on croute” bites. For the latter, I made the mushrooms and steak how you would normally prepare it, but I cut the steak into small pieces which eventually went into a triangle shaped rollup along with the mushrooms. The chicken bites turned out really good, but the steak ended up being overdone and under crispy. Oh well, they can’t all be winners.

So after a few hours at the pool, I headed home to, once again, clean up for a dinner. This time it was at 7pm and was one of those hibachi grills for a friend’s birthday. It was a lot of fun and I headed home afterwards. I just couldn’t bring myself to begin partying again!

Monday we went back out on the lake, but with some different folks and just hung out by a popular area to cliff jump. No, I did not jump, but we watched brave people who did. It was a very relaxing time and we stayed for about 4.5 hours. I got to ride behind a jetski on an innertube, which I am feeling today!

As if I hadn’t been in enough water for one weekend, my friend and I went straight to a pool party at a mutual friend’s house. I couldn’t stay too long and needed to get my body out of the sun, so I left a little after sundown. Having eaten very little on the lake and not much at the pool, I decided to meet up with another friend at a Mexican restaurant that was open on the holiday. I ended up getting my food to go and took it over to her house where we watched a horrible movie starring Matt Damon, and I can’t even remember the title. That’s how bad it was. We didn’t finish it and I was about to fall asleep so I ended my holiday weekend by going home and promptly going to bed.

Phew. I’m tired just typing all that and its probably even more tiring to read!