Rainy weekends

So, what does one do when the weather stinks and one has no real plans? Nothing. Yay! It's so nice to do nothing, but I wish that it weren't raining while we were doing nothing. But actually, we did do stuff this weekend, just nothing big. No road trips, no appointments, nothing necessary. Just relaxing fun. The best kind.

Saturday we lounged around in the morning and then headed off to the Blue Hills Reservation, taking advantage of the lull in the rain. Saturday was actually rather humid, so we didn't do much walking. Plus, there were these little tiny frogs hopping about on the trail and we didn't want to step on them (aren't we kind?), so we cut our walk somewhat short and headed out to... Dunkin' Donuts for some iced coffee. I'm not hooked by any means, but I do like to drink them now. Decaf, though. And I was trying Splenda in them for a while, but that stuff just doesn't taste right. I'll gladly risk weight gain, diabetes and whatever else the real sugar might bring, but no more Splenda, please. After Dunks Doug and I went around looking for a bookcase for our growing collection of books. I've been on a massive book-buying frenzy these past few months and we are outgrowing our current book space. We didn't end up getting one, though, so the search will continue on some other rainy weekend. Bookcases are rather expensive, by the way.

Sunday the rain appeared again, and I headed out into it early on to get my grocery shopping done. I returned from the grocery store in time for a visit from Ryan and Janet and Peter, visiting Boston from their home in New York. So good to see them! We haven't seen them since our wedding (just typed "weeding"... oops), but we haven't seen Peter since he was a tiny baby in a stroller - maybe 6 months old or so? It's been a while. And what a cutie he is - and a lover of music. He was enthralled by Doug's guitar- here's a photo of him strumming. He's actually quite good at it.
After R & J & P left, Doug and I went out so that I could finish my grocery shopping (needed yogurts and Whole Foods has my new favorite kind... Brown Cow coffee flavor. I've always liked coffee-flavored foods, like ice cream and yogurt, and the Brown Cow yogurt has a mild flavor and is very, very creamy). We did that, but we also decided to stop by Crate & Barrel to see what they had to offer in terms of bookcases (nothing in our price range, unfortunately) and ended up coming home with a 60% off floor-sample chair.
In our defense, we've been wanting to move the Poang chair down to the basement, as it's a perfect Wii chair and that's where our Wii is now, so we've moved the Poang and put this one in its place. The cat wasn't included in the purchase, but Sasha's now a permanent fixture on the chair (when Wyatt's not on it, of course).

And while it's not technically part of the weekend, on Monday boy Chris stayed at the Sheriko Inn while in town for a conference and we took him out to dinner at Kiku Yama, a local Japanese steakhouse. Chris was bold and got sushi, ordering Boston roll and Philadelphia roll. The Philly roll had cream cheese in it, along with smoked salmon. What a flavor combo! Doug got brave and mooched a piece of sushi off of Chris - he'd never had fish sushi before; only California roll (with just the veggies).

What to do now that the rainy weekend is over? Look forward to the rest of the rainy week. Our new storm door in the front is being installed on Friday (as long as it's not raining that day... fingers crossed!), and Saturday we're headed down to CT - I'm visiting my brother for his birthday and Doug's heading down to the family homestead in Monroe. We haven't been back to CT since April, I don't think, or at least to the Hartford area, so maybe it's about time. I just hope it's sunny by that point. A rainy weekend in Connecticut is not ideal.