memorial day whirlwind

Oh, how I love long weekends that bring summer back into the mix instead of the usual rain we've been experiencing in Cleveland.

My weekend was filled with driving all over northeast ohio to visit friends and family for cookouts and girls' nights - because you can never have too many of those.

Meet my friend's new puppy, Mira

First stab at making funnel cakes since the rain kept us away

However, you better believe I spent some time outside laying out and planting a few flowers too.

I was hopping all over the place from the far west side back to the east side and then the Detroit shoreway neighborhood yesterday for a long motorcycle ride. From the east side, we came down Chester into the city and the ride in was an interesting way to view the city, seeing as most of the area was deserted for the weekend. I've never noticed some of the remodeled homes that are on Chester, leading into the city. Normally, I'm driving so I'm not paying attention but this time I had to chance to look all around and just hold on for dear life so I didn't fall off the bike.

We stopped for dinner at Reddstone but they stopped serving dinner so we headed over to Stone Mad for a late dinner. Who knew we weren't the only ones who didn't attend a cookout on Memorial Day?

I'm all about the warm weather and don't want to hear anyone complain about it. Here we come summer. Now, if I can just get bathing suit ready and not scare my neighbors?

what a lovely weekend....

What a long weekend. Oh, how I’ve enjoyed my longer than expected holiday weekend.
It was fantastic. I loved every bit of it and don’t want to rejoin the working world yet. It’s been so much fun.

I began my holiday weekend a bit earlier than expected. I was able to introduce the BF to a bunch of my extended family, although I wish it was under happier circumstances but life happens.

During the day on Saturday, I safely tanned myself with a friend, agreed that my backyard was perfect for an in-ground pool and toasted with champagne and chocolate-covered pretzels. Saturday night my friends and I headed down to Tremont to have dinner at the Taphouse before we headed over to the Greek festival for gyros and Greek beer. It was an absolutely beautiful night after what was a hot afternoon.

After the Taphouse, we went over to the Greek festival where we were very under dressed. VERY under dressed. But, we managed to enjoy ourselves and eat some fried dough with Alexa. We also watched a 17-year-old Casanova attempt to dance with every girl who walked by. If he struck out, he decided to break dance instead. (I WISH I would've taken video of this. He made our night.)

On Sunday, I managed to grab another few hours of sun and headed to my first ever Blossom Time Fest in Chagrin Falls. I've lived on the east side for four years and somehow I never knew this existed or have attended. Never fear - I made it this year.

This starts the summer festival experience for me. Oh, how I LOVE funnel cakes.


I instantly beeline for it at any and every festival I attend. After quickly eating our funnel cake, we headed over to Jekyll’s and sat outside on the patio to enjoy a few John Daly cocktails. However, I didn’t know we were going to be sitting next to Mr. and Mrs. PDA. I’m not talking about a little kiss here and a hand hold there.
Um…. I’m talking full-out-I’m-going-lick-her-neck-up-and-down. I don’t even think they were 21. They couldn’t have been. Everyone was staring at them because a) they were wondering how old they were and b) how many times was she going to massage his hair and put it in the pony tail for him. If you were wondering, she did it two times while we were sitting next to her in between licks and sloppy kisses. Being the blogger that I am, I tried to take video or even a picture of the love fest but he was making out with her with his eyes open, so I could never grab a picture. Plus, the boys were cracking jokes that they kept turning around and giving us the evil eye.

Now, back to the work week reality.

Weekend roundup

So I'm just a few days late with a recap from my Memorial day weekend.

You never would've thought that an iPhone, a reality TV show, high school friends, Twitter and a coke float would make up for a freaking hilarious night but it did.

Right at the beginning, my friends ,Steph and Gretchen, thought it would be hilarious to tweet from my phone "Coke floatin' it bitches :)" and then, of course, not tell me about it. Well they didn't realize that I couldn't see my status updates, until I checked my phone a half hour later to see that a follower had retweeted "Coke floatin' it bitches:)".

Here is my past weekend in pictures.



The picture that started it all.





Sak kills at Sakapalooza says Steris. Thank god Jesse can laugh with us.





The parental side of the deck.





With the star himself.




Party at the table.