weekend round-up

as fate would have it, spencer was in del rio for a glorious 5+ days. since i was slave to the 9-5 on thursday and friday, i didn't get to really spend time with him until the weekend. friday night we got our buffet on at mr. gatti's. this is the trashiest, foulest pizza buffet on the planet. if you're from the NW, you're surely associated with the trash hole "izzy's". visualize izzy's with worse food, a worse salad bar, and no dessert. it's truly disgusting and a waste of $8. what really gets me are the wet buffet plates. blah. anywho, from there we (stef, ash, rem, spence and i) headed to rem's track party at the friendship pool on base. foregoing the margarita machine and pizza, we hit the diving board and water slides for a few hours. from there we reconvened at diamond lil's for drinks and dancing. spence got a couple phone numbers, rem knocked over a table full of beer, i did the cupid shuffle with my roomies and we called it a night at closing time.

saturday i went furniture shopping with matt. we were on the hunt for a recliner and nightstand. success in the night stand department but no chair. we all kind of laid low during the day and decided to pass on the country concert at gorzuggi's in favor of a little housewarming/birthday party for matt's 24th. we thought it would be fun to do up a big birthday dinner and some fresh maine lobster caught our eye at the HEB. since none of us had ever cooked lobster before, we got pointers from relatives, an enormous pot and did our thing. lobsters lounged in the bathtub until we were ready to cook them. it was pretty hysterical pulling them out and trying to cut them up. we finally gave up trying to gut them and just slapped a whole lobster on each person's plate (: i made a bang-a-rang cupcake cake in freedom colors and the birthday boy nearly got all 24 candles in one shot. due to the plethora of social events going on around del rio that night, we had 4 guests to our humble abode who quickly left after they got spanked in BP. that left the 6 of us to party like it was '99 with ourselves which turned out to be pretty damn awesome.

sunday found us rolling out to church and then skillets for lunchy. matt and i went to home depot and bought a grill and then proceeded to assemble it under the porch during a torrential downpour. del rio can flash flood in the blink of an eye, it's pretty creepy. sunday night we settled on dinner at home and game night. it was stef & spence, matt & i and rem & ashly in a heated game of trivial pursuit which lasted WAY too long, involved WAY too much arguing and ended up making everyone HATE trivial pursuit. we watched dumb and dumber afterward and prepared to wake early, early to take spence to the airport on monday morning.

not wanting to mother spence too much, i reminded him sunday night to check his itinerary to which he replied, "it's in my e-mail." satisfied, i left him alone about it. according to spencer's version, he called expedia the night before and was informed by a heavily accented assistant that his flight left del rio at 6:50 am. as we pulled into the airport at 6:09 on monday morning, he finally checked his itinerary to find the plane was taking off in 6 minutes. obviously the flight was closed, his seat given away and we got to spend one more PRICELESS day with spencer for the low, low re-ticketing fee of $175 (: since we were up anyway, we decided to head to san antonio for the day to pick up some items from target, kohl's, macy's and GET A NEW DOG!!! sandy the blue heeler/australian shepherd mutt joined our rowdy clan at a gas station in floresville and has completed our del rio family of 7. she has since been renamed sadie and is shadow's new best friend. they are a cute little couple (: pictures to come later.

tuesday morning we got spence off to the airport and began another short week of the grind.