Year 2 - Day 332 - November 19

It's a little silly that this is today's picture, because we ate so much food today and these weren't the most exciting by far!

We went downtown tonight to use a Living Social deal, enjoy some dessert, and go bowling for a friend's 30th birthday party.

The Living Social was for Pacific Coast Dining Company which is actually in Little Italy. (It's on the end of the main street with a glass bump out. I know I've been there under different ownership at some point!) Our recommendation is not to bother stopping by. Doesn't "Pacific Coast" mean seafood to you? They didn't know what they wanted to be. There were fish type things on the menu, but Mike had crab risotto and it was sorely lacking in crab. I ordered ribs from the random menu because they sounded good, but then found out they were out of ribs. (That was weird, but not nearly as weird as being out of lemons as I was told when I requested one for my water!) In the end, we both had food that was fine, but we won't go back.

Since we had time to kill before the party, we walked over to Vacarro's. I don't really like italian cookies but I like gelato!! I wound up just getting a hot chocolate since we still had a party to go to, but Mike had  a huge dessert creation with pumpkin cheesecake, chai gelato, and some kind of fancy latte.

Finally, we went bowling at Patterson Bowling Center. It was the craziest bowling alley I'd ever been to - two stories! Just 6 lanes upstairs and downstairs. Our party had the whole upstairs which was pretty fun. It was definitely old school duck pin bowling, but nice to have the place to ourselves.

Oh wait - that WASN'T finally! Our PA friends were also at the party, so we hung out with them for a little while after the bowling party. Since we were in Canton and didn't want to look for yet another parking space, we decided to walk over towards the Outback & assorted places in that area. Somehow, we wound up in the Fieldhouse (used to be Ray Lewis' place) watching the UFC fight in a booth. Crazy, but true. And gross!!!!!!! However, we totally agreed with the judges on who deserved to win. We also agreed that perhaps we never need to watch another UFC fight because the announcers declared it one of the best UFC fights ever. How could any other fight compare? ;)

Year 2 - Day 178 - June 28

Tonight we celebrated a friend's upcoming wedding with a fun and relaxing bowling and mexican food girls night out. Of course I don't have any pictures from the evening because I was too busy enjoying it! There were some pictures taken, but I haven't seen them yet. :) I took this one while sitting at a red light after I made a wrong turn. I couldn't believe that gas in Columbia is 40 cents higher than up here! Hopefully this is like that White Marsh Exxon and not everyone down there is still paying in the 3.80's for regular!

Year 2 - Day 90 - April 1

I left the house this morning (2 1/2 hours later than usual!) for a meeting & lunch with my MLLI group.  I planned this as a personal day a really long time ago, and was looking forward to it.  But it turns out that the day wasn't just for a meeting!  Mike's friends called & suggested we go bowling later in the evening.  Since I thought it was silly to drive all the way home and then back to Timonium, I first killed some time at Towson Town Center.  I was the only person there who wasn't rich and/or a Scandinavian nanny with a flock of children.  Most of the stores were empty with several clerks chit chatting with each other.

After getting my fill of rich people stores window shopping, I went to TJ Maxx down the street to do some real shopping.  They had all kinds of outdoor and garden items for great prices.  I got a pan to do pizza on the grill, some gardening gloves & tools, and an assortment of other items for bargain prices.

Mike gets out of work early on Friday, so we continued our time killing by seeing the King's Speech.  I read weeks ago about them re-releasing the movie with a PG13 rating to widen the audience, but was unaware that the changeover was happening today.  We realized we were seeing the PG13 version when one scene had some bad word dubbing.  It's kind of crazy that one scene with bad words can change a whole movie's rating, especially because the language in this movie was used for a purpose.  Excellent movie, I approve of its Oscar.

Finally, we met up with friends at Michael's for dinner.  I made the best decision ever with my dinner.  I wasn't starving since I had a late lunch, so I got the ceasar salad with the $6 filet add-on.  It was almost a whole steak!  I'm glad I didn't spend $30 on the actual steak.  We never ate at the restaurant for all the time Mike lived over there, but it was good.  Everyone enjoyed their meal, and we had a wide range of food between appetizers, salads, sandwiches & entrees.

Bowling was fun too ... we did duck pin because there was a shorter wait, and I didn't completely stink. :)