This weekend was pretty busy. Seeing as I did nothing creative this weekend, I figured i might as well write about the weekend. On Friday I finished work early itching for a delicious beverage. Nicole and I headed down to one of our favorite places for beer, The Blue Monk. It’s a Belgian beer garden with about 50 beers on tap. I am not a Belgian beer drinker, in fact I hate Belgian beer, but Nicole likes it and there is usually a delicious I.P.A. of sorts on tap that I can enjoy. I like my beer to be hop overload. Usually at night its almost impossible to get in there at night because its the best place to get beer in the city, so getting there at 3:00pm was quiet and relaxing.
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| Hopfenstark Post Colonial I.P.A. |
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| When the Middle Ages truck is parked OUTSIDE, that means its time for me to go INSIDE. |
At night we made BBQ Seitan on onion rolls with salt potatoes. We felt we should probably eat in because this weekend was going to involve spending money. The Sabres are in the playoffs and when that happens, we live it up!
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| Nicole slicing and dicing |
After dinner we watched “In the Company of Men”. Its one of my personal favorites and Nicole has never seen it. The movie is dark comedy about these two business men that hate the way women go through men like they are nothing. They both come up with a horrific plan to find a vulnerable woman, make her fall in love with them, and then destroy her emotionally. Its totally out there but I enjoy it ever time I see it.
Saturday was Sabres Day. 5:00pm game at one of our favorite playoff hot spot, Gramma Mora’s. We enjoy catching the playoffs because we always get a seat at the bar right in front of the TV and its some of the best Mexican food in Buffalo. We had a good time there as always even though we lost the game. Minus the insane amount of penalties we received in the second period, it was an awesome game that we could have won if we didn’t push our luck in the second. We will take them on Monday.
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| This was the Garden Platter which was delicious. I don’t remember exactly what was in it but it went down fast and I was satisfied. Above the Garden Platter is the Guacamole Nacho platter Nicole ordered. |
We had met our friends Molly and Patrick at the restaurant and after the game we came back to our apartment for some boardgames. We usually play Apples to Apples which is usually fun but then I broke out an intense oldie but goodie…..Jenga. It was an intense session of skillfully removing blocks one at a time, hoping not destroy the fragile foundation that it created as each piece gets removed from the foundation and placed onto the top. We then ended the night with a game of 90’s trivial pursuit where Nicole and I mounted a comeback and then I blew the game at the end by asking Patrick a question that he answered before I even finished asking the question.
It was a fun weekend and I’m looking forward to next week/weekend. More playoff games, a fundraiser to attend for a new micro brewery, and my parents visiting. I should have some new ideas and shirts to present this week and I have already been brainstorming and am ready to do something sweet.
