Marina Grog & Galley<\/a>.\u00a0 We met Donette’s parents out there to celebrate their 52nd anniversary.\u00a0 (Congrats!)\u00a0 Aside from a long drive there and back it was a fantastic meal.\u00a0 I had a ribeye myself, which was perfectly cooked;\u00a0 No doubt the best steak I’ve had in a long time.\u00a0 If I was ordering again I would have chosen a baked potato over the rice, but I was trying to be healthy.\u00a0 (Which NEVER pays off, especially when you consider I was already tackling a 14 oz. ribeye.\u00a0 Would a big buttery potato really have made that much difference at that point?)\u00a0 Anyway, we’ll be going back sometime in the future.\u00a0 It’s definitely in the “special occasion only” range for us price-wise, but another one will come up sooner or later I’m sure.<\/p>\nFriday we got back into our rut down at the good ol’ Brooksider.\u00a0 The Group sorta threw me off by sitting outside though;\u00a0 They are generally a fair-weather group.\u00a0 I wasn’t really dressed warm enough for patio-sitting, but they cranked up the heaters and it was tolerable.\u00a0 We stayed a bit longer than usual too.\u00a0 There was some sort of MMA-related event going on inside so we stuck around and watched it.\u00a0 I don’t really know what it was, or how to describe it.\u00a0 They called it a “weigh-in” but there was no scale involved.\u00a0 Who knows.\u00a0 It was a spectacle to be sure, and we love a good spectacle as much as the next person.<\/p>\n
Saturday I crossed The River for the second time in as many weeks.\u00a0 Getting a little wacky to be sure.\u00a0 Martin had generously offered to fire up the smoker(s) again and sent out an email to the world in case anybody wanted to smoke up some holiday fare.\u00a0 It turned out to be quite a popular offering too.\u00a0 For my part, I had a nice brisket to do which will be going out to Mom’s this Thursday.\u00a0 There were also 6 turkeys, 8 slabs of ribs, 4 other briskets, and two pork butts.\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 Yeah the smokers were full.\u00a0 They are big though, so there was plenty of room.<\/p>\n
We stayed the night up at Martin’s, sort of like a little mini-vacation.\u00a0 If you’re going to drive that far, might as well make it worth the while.\u00a0 We had a lot to do Sunday though so we got up and scampered back across the river bright and early.\u00a0 As it turned out, “a lot to do” turned into reading the paper, watching football, and surfing the Web all day.\u00a0 We did take a brief foray up to the gym but it was a rather lackadaisical effort.\u00a0 We made a weak attempt at working out, then sat in the hot tub for the better part of an hour.\u00a0 Hey, we can still say “We went to the gym this weekend.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Happy pending Thanksgiving.\u00a0 Hopefully everybody loaded their freezers with $0.69 turkeys that will invariably stay there until next year.\u00a0 (Or the year after, or the year after…) We got a bit of an early start on that weekend.\u00a0 We actually went out Thursday night for a great dinner at Marina Grog & Galley.\u00a0 We met […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}