The Festival Is Upon Ye

Had quite the action packed weekend. Took Friday off because I went to the Ravens game on Thursday night (thanks Shani!) and the weather held off and the game was pretty entertaining. Friday we sort of just hung out around town, did a little shopping and it rained most of the day.. which was ok, it was our "down" day anyway without anything really we needed or wanted to do.

Saturday we went to the Renaissance Festival, which is quite a slice of awesomeness. On the way there is was fairly cloudy and looked like rain.. but once we got there the clouds parted and the sun came out... and it got pretty hot. Really hot (to me). We haven't been to the Renn Fest in a few years, but not much has changed. Lots of creepy guys wearing full body armor (lots of guys were wearing like black security shirts with a kilt... don't know what kind of club that is, but it is one I don't want any part of.) Lots of umm... "plus size" women with "plus size" boobs trying to see how close to their chin they can shove them with their girdle. And a lot of them tended to put like random crap in between them.. like a flower, or a fake knife or something.. I guess it kept me entertained as I was looking. Maria probably didn't notice them, but being a guy and seeing boobs hanging out with crap in between them I couldn't help myself.

Overall though, it was a blast... other than us magically losing $20 before even walking into the door. I swear that's why I never carry cash on me.. you lose it that's it... no recourse, I only had the cash on me because most everything there is cash only. It took a while for Maria to cool down about losing the money (I'm pretty sure she lost it paying for the tickets... I gave her my whole wallet.. which I'm used to by now.)

We also went to the beach on Monday and it was packed. Everybody getting in their last beach weekend of the year... hopefully we can go one more time.. but you never know. Hanna is looking like it's going to come up the coast, so we'll have to see how that plays out.

Not Turning This Into a Food Blog

But like Maria said, my mom out of the blue has now offered to watch the kids for about 2.5 hours every thursday (awesome). So today we went to Saladworks and had lunch... and while what I had today was mearly a salad, it was a mightily delicious version of a salad... greater than any mortal salad could hope to be (do people actually feed each other in public like this?). I like that they toss your salad (get your mind out of the gutter) in a wooden bowl.. only to pour it into a big ass upside down firehat of a bowl. I was excited that I might actually get mine in a wooden bowl.. so I was a little sad when it was not. And we had some super obnoxious douchebags there who didn't get along talking about work... one guy was talking about "The Office" and said he didn't find Michael funny.. that he offended him more than anything.

But it was fun to have a nice lunch with the wife and a more than decent meal to boot. Looks like we have a new Thursday mid-day date from here on out.