To our mutual surprise, Tomkin and I didn't have anything scheduled for this weekend. So we decided to play things by ear and do what we wanted to when we felt like it. The
City Pages recently put out a restaurant guide, so Friday night we decided to pick a new place from their listing and give it a go. Unfortunately, the first restaurant we chose (a "healthy" Mexican eatery) had already closed (for good). So we made another selection and headed to
Taqueria la Hacienda. As suggested, I ordered the football-sized al-pastor torta (a big sandwich with Mexican-spiced BBQ pork roasted on a spit). Delicious! (And huge!)
On Saturday, we took Scout and Chloe to the dog park in the afternoon, and that evening Tomkin and I went to our first movie together! We headed to the Uptown neighborhood and window-shopped around the area (we especially enjoyed
Go Home), then we saw
In Bruges at the fabulous
Uptown Theater. (It's an old single-screen movie theater with a balcony--so cool!) Both of us loved the movie and would highly recommend it.
On Sunday we did a major housecleaning so we could take pictures to post on our new Web site (which Tomkin is creating)--an ad to rent our house during the week of the Republican National Convention, which will be held about three miles away from us the first week of September. (We'll be happy to get out of town that week!)
We popped over to a nearby open house to see our realtor neighbor AC, and then we took the dogs and walked down to Selby & Snelling. I did a little shopping at the newly opened
Patina, then met up with Tomkin, Scout, and Chloe, who were relaxing inside nearby
Cosmic's Coffee. (Dogs in a coffee shop? I love St. Paul!) It wasn't the warmest weekend, but at least it was sunny. Spring is on the way! Or so it seemed until it snowed all day today....
To our mutual surprise, Tomkin and I didn't have anything scheduled for this weekend. So we decided to play things by ear and do what we wanted to when we felt like it. The City Pages recently put out a restaurant guide, so Friday night we decided to pick a new place from their listing and give it a go. Unfortunately, the first restaurant we chose (a "healthy" Mexican eatery) had already closed (for good). So we made another selection and headed to Taqueria la Hacienda. As suggested, I ordered the football-sized al-pastor torta (a big sandwich with Mexican-spiced BBQ pork roasted on a spit). Delicious! (And huge!) 
On Saturday, we took Scout and Chloe to the dog park in the afternoon, and that evening Tomkin and I went to our first movie together! We headed to the Uptown neighborhood and window-shopped around the area (we especially enjoyed Go Home), then we saw In Bruges at the fabulous Uptown Theater. (It's an old single-screen movie theater with a balcony--so cool!) Both of us loved the movie and would highly recommend it. 
On Sunday we did a major housecleaning so we could take pictures to post on our new Web site (which Tomkin is creating)--an ad to rent our house during the week of the Republican National Convention, which will be held about three miles away from us the first week of September. (We'll be happy to get out of town that week!) 
We popped over to a nearby open house to see our realtor neighbor AC, and then we took the dogs and walked down to Selby & Snelling. I did a little shopping at the newly opened Patina, then met up with Tomkin, Scout, and Chloe, who were relaxing inside nearby Cosmic's Coffee. (Dogs in a coffee shop? I love St. Paul!) It wasn't the warmest weekend, but at least it was sunny. Spring is on the way! Or so it seemed until it snowed all day today....
1 comments:
Getting out of town that week is such a great idea...except for the part of Republicans living in your home. You'll need to burn some sage when they go. :)
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