Sunday Evening Slowdown

A lot of weekends Sunday evening is the part of the weekend when everything kind of speeds up as you try to get ready for the new workweek. This weekend, though, Christopher and I have been celebrating his birthday, so this evening is kind of the slow-down point, instead.

But it has been a great - food-filled - weekend. Yesterday we spent part of the afternoon at a work-related event at a bar/restaurant I'd never been to. Even though it was an event for Christopher's work, it was actually really fun. We sat and chatted and joked with some of his co-workers and spent a nice hour.

Last evening, we went out to dinner - as part of a group of 10 - to one of our favorite restaurants (Cave Vin in SW Minneapolis). I had talked to them earlier in the week to let them know we were going to bring along a birthday cake (which I offered to cut and serve), and that we'd probably need multiple checks to keep the confusion down. And it worked out great. Everyone seemed to have a great time. People in the restaurant joined in when our table was singing "Happy Birthday" to Christopher. And the restaurant manager actually came around with ice cream to go with the cake. How cool is that?

This morning, since a certain pup got me up around 7am, anyway, I threw on a coat and drove about five minutes away to Patisserie 46 to pick up a few things for a "breakfast with choices." I mulled over my options, and came home with some sweet croissants (chocolate and almond) and some savory "breakfast" croissants (with egg, gruyere, and bechamel sauce). And I was home by around 8am. (Apparently, if you get there at 7:45 on a frigid January morning, there's no line and lots of service. It was great!)

We had planned to go out to dinner tonight at a place that is known for serving huge amounts of meat. But... well... we kind of decided that we weren't hungry enough for it. So we capped off our day going out for pizza at Davanni's (a local chain which - although it has changed names along the way - is one of Christopher's favorite pizza places from back when he was a little kid).

And, thus, we come to tonight. We have a couple of high-end pastries to consider, and we also have leftover cake from last night. (Have I mentioned that it was a Devil's food cake with Chocolate Buttercream frosting and a Bavarian cream filling? We got it at Kowalski's, if you want one...)

I suspect dieting will be on the "to-do" list starting tomorrow. But not tonight.