Date Weekend

Hello everyone,

Bergie and I decided that we'd celebrate the Labor Day holiday this year by declaring it Date Weekend, which meant that we went on a different date event every day. Friday night, I made it my goal to get Bergie drunk, so I picked her up from school and took her to a swank little pizza place called Enoteca for happy hour. The happy hour wasn't especially cheap, but it 3 wines later, it was getting pretty happy. And that was just the start. After that, we drove over to a Spanish place called Vicente's. The tapas were half-assed, but the live music made up for it. After that, we topped the night off with more wine and some dessert at this fau-French bistro called Pastiche. Again - the food wasn't all that impressive, but it was still fun.

Day 2 started off with an early morning bike ride. Then we came home and cleaned our sty of a pad. That night, however, we decided to use one of our wedding gifts - a gift card to an upscale tex-mex place called Terra-Cotta. (Thanks Elise and Jamie!). And check out the fox in the picture on the right. Oh, and the fake animal behind her is pretty cool, too.

This time they got the food right. We ate and drank and ate some more. Damned good stuff. We definitely found a place we'll bring visitors.

After dinner, we went downtown to the HOCO Festival to check out Okkerville River. Turns out they have a new album, and it effin rocks. You can check it out at MySpace. The concert was fantastic. Unfortunately, they aren't going through Minneapolis on this tour, but if you have a chance to see them, do it. That did it for date night #2.

On Sunday, we got up and hopped in the car to head out to Mount Lemmon. It is about a 25 mile drive Northeast of Tucson. The drive is gorgeous. And you end up about 9000 feet above sea level, which drops the temperature about 20 degrees - a fantastic escape from the heat of Tucson. We hiked through the woods for a couple of hours. Then, we took a ski lift to the top of the mountain where we had a picnic lunch. That night, we just chilled at home. We were pretty shot from all the hiking.

On Monday, Bergie had a ton of school work to do, but to make sure we kept our commitment to Date Weekend, we did take in a movie that night. We saw Once - a pretty deece movie about a singer songwriter in Ireland who meets this Czech girl, and together they sing songs. It's almost a musical (and as you all know, I like musicals), but it's not they typical break-out-in-song-for-no-apparent-reason kind of musical. In this case, the singing makes sense, and it's pretty good to-boot.

So, that's it for Date Weekend. Good times. Good times.

I hope you all had as much fun.

Big hugs,
Godfrey

P.S. Arizona is a state of mind.