Catching up

On Friday I decided to hit the links as it was a pretty nice day and I haven't been golfing enough lately. Plus there was no softball this weekend, so golfing on Friday was an option. I don't like to golf before a softball tournament as the swings and weight-shifts are different and can cause problems.  Anyway, I played absolutely terrible on the front nine, granted, without any warm ups, and picked it up on the back.  Afterwards, LL and I had Mexican food at our favorite place in the area, Garcias, and watched the "new" Sherlock Holmes movie. It's new to Redbox, but came out last year. Pretty good flick!

Saturday morning I cooked breakfast for LL: crepes with Nutella/bananas/blueberries and breakfast sausages.  Pretty tasty! It was mostly a relaxing day, so I decided to cook dinner for our neighbors, who are about 8 1/2 months pregnant. We ended up hanging out with them on the back porch from 6:30 until 10! Good fun.

Sunday was the Gay Pride Parade in the neighborhood, so we decided to head out to Naperville instead of hanging around for the massive celebrations. Actually, LL had made plans with a girlfriend to get pedicures and I had a softball game at 4, so we both went out early and saw my folks and I did some shopping for new bathroom stuff. Then we took my parents out for Father's Day to Catch 35, which is a really nice seafood place.  

When we got home, there was no problem getting into our parking spots. Last year, the police wouldn't let us down the street even 5 hours after the parade was over!! Finally, after 20 years of parading, they changed the route so it was more or less a continuous path instead of a circle around our block. The old route more than just inconvenienced us. It endangered parade watchers and inhabitants within the parade "circle". If there was an emergency inside the parade route, they would have (and have had!) a terrible time getting help inside with any urgency. This new route lets us come and go (east at least) and provides access (from both east and west). 

So all in all it was a nice, relaxed weekend. A shame it had to come to an end!