Two Perfect Weekends

Hello everybody,

Last weekend, Jeremy left for a trip to Michigan and so it was just Rachel, Carol, Cat and me. That means we had a Girls’ weekend and that means: PARTY :) 

On Saturday morning, when I got up, I went with my “Adoptive Family” to a Winter market in Elgin. They had scarves, hats, sauces, breads, jewelry, bread, sausages, etc.

I bought a baguette and Karen bought me a chocolate croissant. Yummy :) 

For lunch we went to “Big Apple” and it was really delicious. During that time, the others went to IHOP.

After lunch we drove to the library, got some movies, drove to Springfield Mall and went shopping. But I can’t forget the important stop: before shopping, we went to JAMBA JUICE. That means smoothies for everyone!                       After a few hours shopping and after everyone bought something, we thought we had spent enough money and should watch a movie. So we drove home, but first we picked up Virginia. At home we had dinner and for dessert we had cake, donuts and a lot more. After that, we watched one of our movies: “Kate and Leopold”. During the second movie (“Penelope”) we decorated our aprons and we painted our nails. All together it was a really nice day. We had a lot of fun.   

On Sunday, of course, we watched the Pro Bowl, which I enjoyed. 

During the next week after this weekend, we went to EPH for dinner and to a Mexican restaurant for lunch. Yummy!

On Saturday, we (Cat, Carol, Don, Jeremy, Rachel and I) went to Wisconsin. So we left at about 10:30am and drove about 2 hours. Our first stop was Culvers to have a delicious lunch. The next stop was at Brennan’s, which is a local grocery store and they have a lot of different CHEESE and FRUIT. So we bought some cheese and some other things and then we went to Swiss Colony. There we bought CHOCOLATE :). After everyone was satisfied we drove to Carol’s house. There we relaxed from our exhausting day, played Wii and had a delicious dinner that Carol’s mom cooked. Also we had dessert. Then about 7:30pm we drove home, went to bed and dreamed of our nice day and what we bought.

Sunday was the big day: Super Bowl. So we prepared everything (we cooked and baked together), tried to clean our big mess in the kitchen and then we went to Virginia’s to watch the final football game. Everyone was super excited. It was a very interesting game. But in the end the Giants won and some of us were happy. For dinner everyone brought something. So we had a ton of food: chili, pasta salad, tacos, cheese dip, spinach cheese dip, bread, rolls, football shaped cookies, etc.

All together it was a very nice weekend and everyone enjoyed it!

Denise