Monday, July 27, 2009

A Great Weekend!

Since Brandon was on call on Thursday, he was post call on Friday and then had the day off on Saturday which made for a perfect weekend! On Friday, we went to dinner with Nick, Cassi and Adam at Carlos O'Kelly's. Brandon mentioned it was my birthday so they sang to me and brought me fried ice cream.

On Saturday, after sleeping in and getting some things done around the house, we went and played golf with Brandon V. at a course that we haven't played at before. When we started out the weather was nice but at the 8th hole, it started to rain. Since I am a fair weather golfer, I skipped out on the 9th hole and let the guys play in the rain. It was fun though to play on a golf course that reminded me more of the ones in Oregon.

The Brandon'sSun!Rain..

That night, we had some people over for dessert and games. Thanks Allison for the snow cone maker...it worked great! I didn't get a picture of Nick, Cassi and Adam but they were so sweet and made me a "Smores Kit" to make it easier to bring all of the supplies outside. It was so much fun to spend time with our good friends. We feel so blessed to have them in Rochester.

The cute Smores Kit that Cassi madeThe boys except for Nick - David, Christopher and BrandonThe girls except for Cassi - Me, Lesley and Erica

Yesterday, after Brandon surprised me at church (he got done early) and after we got the lawn cut, weed killer sprayed and cars washed, we decided to head up to the Cities. I had always heard about Minnehaha Falls which is right in the city, so we headed to the Falls but when we arrived, there was no water! We heard people say that this is the first time they have seen it dry, but I still pictured it in my mind and thought it was pretty! It was a gorgeous day up there so we sat in the park and people watched for awhile. Afterwards, we drove around trying to find somewhere to eat and we eventually decided on Old Chicago where we ate outside. Afterwards, I wanted homemade ice cream at Sebastian Joes and I guess the rest of the town did too because the line was very long. We, of course, waited and it was delicious! It was a wonderful day!

In front of the dry Minnehaha FallsBrandon looking at the FallsThe long line at Sebastian Joe's!

5 comments:

ErieContrary said...

We had fun! Thanks for having us over. Sebastian Joe's sounds amazing..never been there..I might need to do that soon!

Unknown said...

Homemade ice cream and Brandon did not have to turn the crank.

cassi said...

We had a fun time with you guys! And the snocones were delicious!

Who knew the waterfall could dry up?? For some reason, we do love the name Minnehaha though, we'll have to check out the falls, maybe when they come back? Will they?

Missie said...

In a completely unrelated comment, HOW FUNNY!!!

http://registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/18589295-41/story.csp

Lisa Michelle Turner said...

I'm probably way behind on the times here, but your hair looks shorter!?!? It's very cute!!