Weekend Summary

On friday evening, Kiwi managed to come home somewhat earlier than normal. He took a shower, we went for a quick dinner at China Buffet near Hudson and High. We got to CABS somewhere before 9pm. There were still some games left for the give-away, but only 1 choice left. So we took it. Women and Men. Uh, okay then.

We were supposed to meet 2 friends of ours. We were somewhat surprised to see that they weren't there yet. But oh well. We started playing a new game with Michael and two others (I forget their names), called Fury of Dracula.

About 3 turns in, our friends arrived. So we had to abandon our current game (so sorry! ) and hang out with them. I taught them how to play Carcassonne. After 1 game, they were very tired, and left.

So we grouped up with Nathan and JB to play Tinner's Trail. Then we played Garden Competition with Nathan and Jeff.

By this time, it was 3am Saturday morning. We just went home and slept.

Saturday afternoon, we went out grocery shopping. We bought lots of fruit!! Mangoes,, plums, peaches, pluots, golden kiwis, and yellow tomatoes. Fruit makes me happy. Mangoes make me very happy!! :)

We also had a very early dinner at Mozart's Cafe near Weber and High. The baked emmanthaler appetizer was AWESOME!!! I had schnitzel and spaetzel, and Kiwi ordered pork and sauerkraut. After getting home, I started fixing cabbage rolls.

This is my first time doing this dish. And I ran out of cabbage using only 1/3 of the meat/rice mixture. Anyway, just dumped the rolls and tomatoes and sauce in the crockpot, and put the extra stuff in the fridge.

Kiwi and I started playing these 2 new games we borrowed from the CABS library. Aquadukt was just "okay" only. It's a 50% chance and 50% logic game. Not too bad, but not as good as Carcassonne. The other game, Dungeon Twister, was totally lame. I suppose for myself, if I wanted to play an RPG type game with characters, I like it on the playstation or on the computer. I'm too impatient to fuss around with dice rolls, or board games.

After we were done with the games, we were both hungry. We finished the entire pot of cabbage rolls. The only thing left was the sauce. That's an entire head of cabbage between us! Kiwi wanted more, so I promised him that I'd go out on Sunday to buy more cabbage and fix more cabbage rolls for him.

So Sunday afternoon comes along, and we wake up. After a light breakfast? lunch? meal, we went to Aldis to pick up 2 heads of cabbage, and some other groceries. So while Kiwi was mowing the lawn, I prepared twice the amount and used up all the meat.

There was leftover cabbage, so I threw that in a saucepan with some turkey stock, and I also had some leftover turkey meatball soup, and it was pretty good. For me anyway. Kiwi apparently is not a fan of cabbage unless it's cabbage rolls and sauerkraut.

We played India Rails, and after that long, intensive game, it was time to chow down on cabbage rolls part two. Kiwi had a whole plateful of cabbage rolls. I had about 3, together with some garlic toast, and some turkey cabbage soup.