I’m afraid it looks like a stretch of 5 day work-weeks in my immediate future.\u00a0 Oh the agony.\u00a0 Honestly I don’t know how I’m going to pull through.\u00a0 Time will tell.<\/p>\n
I took off Friday because we had company in town.\u00a0 Actually, we<\/em> didn’t have company in town, per se;\u00a0 A friend of ours was getting married, which led to the presence of several mutual friends.\u00a0 Anyway, our friends David & Jill were the first to arrive, late Thursday afternoon.\u00a0 Donette hung out with them while I went on a quick bike ride with Munkirs, then I met up with them at Cantina del Ray up the street for a late dinner.\u00a0 After a while our friend Steve showed up, in from California.\u00a0 He managed to find the restaurant despite getting some rather erroneous directions from us.\u00a0 After ten years you might assume we know what street we live on.\u00a0 Not so much I guess.<\/p>\n Friday we had intentions of hitting our “Tour de KC” in full force.\u00a0 Well, it didn’t quite work out that way in the end, but we made a decent run at it.\u00a0 Our first stop was the Boulevard Brewery tour;\u00a0 One of our favorite options when we can remember to get reservations early enough.\u00a0 It’s definitely worth going on if you haven’t been, even if you live in KC.\u00a0 I had to remind them (again) to throw in a little Ripple Glass<\/a> info though;\u00a0 I don’t know why they leave that out.\u00a0 It’s a pretty cool program, they ought to pimp it a little more.\u00a0 After the tour, we debated a short bit about heading downtown to the P&L area.\u00a0 Ended up cutting that part out though, mostly because it was a “work day” (for everybody else) and we didn’t want to deal with the parking, traffic, etc.\u00a0 Instead we headed straight to Westport, for a quick lunch at McCoy’s<\/a>.\u00a0 Checked that box off the list and then walked across the street to Kelly’s<\/a>.\u00a0 We hadn’t seen the new upstairs deck at Kelly’s so there was a new feature for us to check out too.\u00a0 Despite the furnace-like temperature, it was actually a pretty sweet deck and we ended up hanging out there for quite a while.\u00a0 After Kelly’s, well, the whole tour kind of broke down.\u00a0 We ended up fast-forwarding clear to the end of our list, and headed to Waldo to meet up with Steve’s wife & daughter at 75th Street<\/a>.\u00a0 It was a fine day for the tour, but David & Jill’s fun-hating daughter Casey called and shamed the whole lot of them into going to the rehearsal dinner.\u00a0 Me, I have no shame, so I went home and watched TV.\u00a0 (Of course I paid for it, it sounded like they had a good time.)<\/p>\n Saturday we got up, waded out into the monsoon, and met up with the Aushermans at Eggtc<\/a> for some breakfast.\u00a0 I think that place just may have surpassed Sharp’s as my breakfast of choice.\u00a0 I don’t know, it’s still a close race.\u00a0 It could be because I haven’t made it all the way through the menu at Eggtc, where-as I’ve lapped the one at Sharp’s several times over.\u00a0 Anyway, after enjoying a particularly tasty (albeit unhealthy) selection, we headed down to the P&L to watch the big soccer game.\u00a0 Don’t feel bad if you didn’t know there was a “big soccer game.”\u00a0 I didn’t either, or maybe just didn’t care.\u00a0 I appeared to be in the definite minority on that though, the place was packed.\u00a0 Outside at the big-screen was a little too<\/em> rowdy, as a matter of fact, so we elected to watch it at the Flying Saucer<\/a>.\u00a0 We ended up watching the entire match, a decision that would cost us a 30 minute wait getting out of the parking garage.\u00a0 I found it remarkably entertaining though, it was a good time.\u00a0 After that we all went and put on our goin’-to-town clothes, and headed out to Independence for our friends Kirk & TJ’s wedding.\u00a0 It was…\u00a0 You know, a wedding.\u00a0 You’ve been to ’em.<\/p>\n