On Saturday we took it easy again, did some errands, rested my hip and painted a bamboo sideboard we bought when we first moved here. We initially had our TV on it but Luke has since hung it up so that it makes more space and I LOVE it! I decided to go bold because, why not?! The thing cost like $40 and if the color was a total miss, I could repaint it!
Here's how it turned out:
We woke up Sunday (my birthday) and Luke had decorated the house with "happy birthday" streamers, signs, and tulle my mom secretly sent him. It was the sweetest! He then made me pancakes. I may have talked him through every step but he really did everything himself and they were amazing! I was very impressed. I am lucky to have such a kind, loving husband :)
Here are my decorations! :)
After pancakes I decided I wanted to go out to the "country" (suburbs) for something different, because I love a road trip adventure, and I needed to breathe some fresh air! We looked up where to go/ what to do and decided on a vineyard about an hour outside of the city. We drove the hour to it, pulled up, and it wasn't even a vineyard! Yes, it was a very pretty building, but there were no grapes growing there, no pretty views, no fresh air! We decided to drive around a bit more to see what we could find. I pulled up the map and a riverboat casino showed up. Luke and I looked at each other and shrugged, why not? So we adventured our way to a riverboat casino in the middle of nowhere. When we walked in we brought down the median age... but it was still well over 60 years old. Still, we decided to go with it for a while- it was an adventure after all! We got some cash, went to the craps table, and tried our luck. An hour later we were up a good amount of money and pretty pleased with our decision! After I rolled, we cashed out and called it a day but it was such a fabulous, ridiculous adventure and I am so happy we did it.
This is us after we cashed in our winnings. Very happy..... :)
After our casino adventure, we headed home where we were so lucky to visit with one of Luke's good friends from high school who was in town. They talked nerd, I tried to keep up and surprised myself at how much I have learned in the 3 years I've been with this guy. Uh oh....
After our visit we got all fancy and went to dinner at our favorite Italian restaurant that happens to be 25 yards from our house. We had a fabulous meal, amazing wine, and topped it all off with tiramisu and espresso. It was a perfect dinner (and I didn't take a single picture!!!)
On Monday we met our friends from DC (originally Luke's friends from Wake Forest.) We went to our first Cubs game and it was so much fun! I finally got some sun on my translucent self and just got to hang out and soak up the pretty weather. It was such a perfect end to an amazing birthday weekend.
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