Well, we are back to school. This morning SB was out of the house by 6am and our apartment was dark and cold when I got up. I guess it really IS September. In preparation for this change and SB's return to an endlessly busy schedule, we crammed in a LOT over this last long Labor Day weekend. A few highlights:
- We went out for dinner, dessert and a movie on our one-month wedding anniversary. I think that Woody Allen movies will be part of many occasions to come - delightful, even when heavy content.
- 5 hours of MN State Fair fun including a sky ride, bonsai exhibit, crop art, K-9 unit demonstration, and FOOD: portobello tips, roasted corn, falafel, sweet martha's cookies and, of course, cheese curds.
- We made about 10 cups of fresh salsa and canned 5 pints of crushed tomatoes. Holy smokes, tomatoes are such a bear - between skin removal and seed removal. I thought that we were going to get more than 5 pints out of our huge bucket of romas, but c'est la vie. We also had friends over to bottle our next beer, which is a wheat beer.
- We went out for our annual end-of-summer fancy meal. This time we went to 112 Eatery in MPLS, because we got a gift card for our wedding. It was exquisite. Although the waiter was a bit snooty, in my opinion. We ate: cauliflower fritters, mussels, honeyed carrots, frog legs, pasta with foie gras meatballs (Let me just say that I wasn't going to eat a meatball because foie gras is morally objectionable, but they were all the hype at this restaurant so I tried one. We were both underwhelmed, particularly given the circumstances of how it arrived on our plate). We finished the meal with butterscotch budino, a delicious salted caramel custard/pudding. All in all, a meal of a lifetime.
- Time with each family was also part of our weekend. We saw each set of parents, siblings, and our niece. All pretty quick trips, but still nice to see each other before kicking off another busy school year.
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