An exciting evening tonight!

Getting all set for an exciting evening/weekend. Our friend Josh Liller is coming to Rochester for the weekend to take his NYS Teachers Certification exam on Saturday. So, as a result, we have a weekend of eating and drinking planned. Here's the agenda so far:

Friday, February 25, 2005:

Pick up Josh at airport around 5pm and take him to the house. Why? To prepare for...

DINOSAUR BAR-B-CUE!!! Woo-hoo! I love that place. I'm thinking of getting a Cuban sandwich (pulled pork, ham, pickles, and sauce... Mmmmmmm!). Of course, their ribs are amazing... their half-chickens are amazing... EVERYTHING is amazing.

Following that, I'm not sure what we're going to do... maybe back to our house... maybe over to Shannons... we'll figure that out.

Satuday:

Early morning start... over to the Rochester Public Market for empanadas and coffee. Then, I think I'm driving Josh to Brockport to take the test.

Dinner... plates. Maybe Nick's, maybe Mark's... then Phillips European for desserts! Woo-hoo! I can feel my gut growing from all this excess! (oh wait, we're not done yet!).

Sunday:

Breakfast at the Highland Park Diner. Why? The Highland Skillet of course! We're talking about a bowl, lined with fried eggs, filled with sausage gravy and homefries, and served with buttermilk biscuits. Add some hollandaise sauce if you don't want to make it to Monday.

Lunch? Probably not.. what we're thinking is, skip the lunch and around 2 or 3 o'clock go to Corkey's Craving Parlor for ice-cream. While it is true Josh can get ice cream in his new adopted home of Atlanta, Corkey's successfully combines low prices with excess. That's $3.75 for more ice-cream than I can eat in a single sitting. But that's why this is lunch!

Dinner - probably something late, and probably at my house, as there's only so much someone can do in one weekend.

Hmm... i seem to be missing something. Dinosaur - check. Phillips - check. Highland Diner - check. Corkeys - check. Garbage Plates - check. Empanadas - check. Well, if I am missing anything, I'll be sure to post it here once we're done with all this gluttany. Check back later for details and maybe pictures? (noooo!)

Nothing too interesting

I'm writing this with Woody Allen's voice in my mind... mainly because I'm sitting here listening to guitar great Django Reinhardt who is featured in so many of Allen's films. But to describe it in that way really puts a lot of pressure on me to write something that somehow compares, and considering my writing is in general fairly wretched, I'm not going to try!

So, it's been a while, and there's not a whole lot of news to report. My wedding planning is nearly done. Julie has been fantastic - making sure everything actually happens! I would probably still be thinking about location if it weren't for her! Basically we've got everything but flowers confirmed. Oh, and we need to work on our music playlist. And we still need to pick what meals there'll be. I'm thinking a beef filet, chicken french, and swordfish (possibly grilled?).

The music should make for an interesting experience. I'm a fan of techno, electronica, that sort of stuff... which Julie can't stand! On the other hand, she's a big 98PXY fan. I know there'll be some compromises, but I've got to have at least one Beastie Boys song played that night!

Now she's standing here reading as I type, so I better be careful! (Just kidding!) Though I must say, the cookies she's eating right now look awfully tasty... maybe she could share?! Hmmmmm... the words "fat chance" come to mind!

Well, I'm being kicked off... I have tons of stuff to write about, but I'll just have to wait till tomorrow. Cheers'