When It Rains It Technically Always Pours

Usually when I think of the term when it rains it pours I think of bad things getting worse over time. But, this weekend was awesome, and today somehow was pretty darn tootin close to being awesome as well. Since most sensible things follow a linear train of thought, I'll start from the beginning of the weekend.

Friday was actually really rough. So it probably shouldn't be included in a raining and pouring positive post, but I guess that goes to show that the rest of the weekend went well because I forgot Friday sucked until just now. Work went okay, but after work I tried to find a local bike shop to finally get fitted for my bike. Of course the address wasn't in my gps, and I couldn't remember where the street was, so I drove 20 minutes on the street I thought it was before getting frustrated and going home (only to Google map it and find out I was on the right street, but going the wrong direction >__< ). Then mom wanted to bug me, but whatevs, it was off to my g/f house after.

Saturday was actually semi-rough, and I'm starting to see a real pattern her. I promise one of these days during the weekend wasn't bad. Just go to a farm and grab some reins so you can hold your horses. So I was supposed to volunteer with some BB people, but again, my gps didn't have the address. So I woke up early and got in my car for nothing, also frustrating. But after that I just edited my book, worked on someone else's book, edited an article, wrote up some letters for BB and then played video games. That was were the cool awesome goodness started.

Sunday I went to church with the g/f and then we decided to celebrate Valentines Day this weekend instead of after the 14th. So we went out to eat at a restaurant named Gordon Biersch Brewery in Tyson's Corner. Took me back to my AmeriDays in Milwaukee when all we did was tour breweries. The food was awesome for the most part, but came at a pretty penny. Here's the beer I had (also yummy) and the food and the menu (cause you love the front of menus!!!)

Oh yeah, look at that waist of phone memory

Missy's main entree, California Cobb flat bread pizza with house-made cheese. Not too shabby. Conversation upon her receiving her pizza. Missy: Why does it look like a salad. Me: You know Cobb is a type of salad right? Missy: Ooohhhh

Southwest Egg rolls - it was aight...but they thought they were slick...saying you get 4 egg rolls...pish this is two egg rolls cut in half...can't trick me you swindlers!!

The beer I got. Actually really good. Description below, it was the Marzen

My entree. Lobster and crab cake sandwich. Actually pretty darn good. I was debating if the crab meat was fake since it was only 16 bucks...no way to know for sure though. 

So to make Sunday even better, we decided to go to Coldstone and the movies!! I'm not a pirate so I didn't take any pictures of the movie we saw, but it was the Hansel and Gretel movie. PS...this movie is super violent and not like the fairy tale at all! Lol but it was still okay. Here's a picture of the wonderful Coldstone Hot stone thingy. Soooo good. It's A warm cookie with warm cookie dough with vanilla ice cream with Oreo pieces on top. Yeah, my mouth just got a little moist thinking of it again. The picture does NOT do it justice at all. 

To make sunday even even better, Missy's roommate's boyfriend John gave me a 200 dollar pair of Oakley sunglasses for when I go bike riding. Definitely a need for the trip. Never in 30 years would I even think about buying a pair of glasses as high quality as Oakley, but God moves in mysterious ways. So thank the Lord for wonderful people! I always think of donations to my trip as monetary help, but I never imagined someone would donate materials I need. Here's a picture of the snazzy things, though I dare not wear them until I'm on the road.

Crazy shades came with a second pair of lenses, replacement nose thingies, a cleaning kit, a big carrying kit, a small carrying kit, and a taste sample of how people with money live. Whodathunkit. Then Missy gave me a really nice thermal and a long sleeve shirt and some sweet coupons (she def stole my idea)

To wrap up this wonderful slew of two days, today was awesome. Work was cool, but the weather was amazing! So warm I could have rode my bike today with just a T-shirt and shorts and been okay. I ended up being hot and wanting to take off layers for the first time since I started training!! Then my workout was crazy crucial in the gym, and the ride home was even easier in this mild weather. Boy am I excited for constant warm weather. Welp, this post has already gone too long, so as a reward here's a video of me swinging on a vine and falling into a creek.Video Figured it went with the theme of raining and pouring and such. Anywho, thanks for listening with your eyes!