This weekend was fabulous!! I headed off to Roseville, which is soon to be my new place to call home. I currently go every weekend to work and spend time with my very best friends, Doug, Tracey, their son Justin, Matt n’ Lisa and their two kids Grace and Jordan, and my good friend Matt, and his four year old son, Mattie. I arrived on Friday evening as usual, and met up with the gang at our good buddy Jeremy’s restaurant, A Taste of Tuscany. After dinner, I hung out with Matt and Mattie for a while and then headed to Doug n’ Tracey’s house for the evening.
Waaay too early on Saturday morning, I awoke to Doug tapping my forehead, informing me that he was hijacking my presence for the next 2 hours, to go shopping for Tracey n’ little Mattie’s birthday party, which was that evening. So I had to quickly get dressed and did some grocery shopping and a Starbucks run. (Cause Doug loves coffee soooo much ;) ) I got my usual Soy, Caramel Macchiatto and Doug picked up a Hot Chocolate to bring home to the Trace-ster!!
We headed off to open up the shop at 9:30am and my very first appt. was a 90 minute massage; ugh!! From there I had back to back appointments (no pun intended) until my last one at 5:30pm. I had a very hard-working, yet extremely rewarding day. We closed up the shop early and headed home for Tracey n’ Mattie’s party.
Matt n’ Lisa were already there along with Doug’s mom, brother Anthony and his wife and kids, Dylan and Melissa and of course Matt n’ little Mattie! We had a fab-U-lous time enjoying good
company, food and laughter! At about 10pm we all got hungry though, so Matt and I hopped in his super cool truck, and escaped for a bit to bring back In-n-out burger for everyone! Despite Matt’s GPS, affectionately named “Lola”, we still got a little turned around on our way home!! Getting to know the Sacramento area IS tough!! Anyways we made it home before Melissa’s chocolate shake totally melted, and all was good!
On Sunday morning, we were all going to get up and go to Tracey’s dad’s church, but we found out that he wasn’t going to be preaching that day, so we decided to stay home and do breakfast.
Well, except for the fact that Doug hired two new employees to come and work for him at the shop, and so he wanted to go get them settled in there before taking us all out to breakfast. I called it as he left, telling him that we would be waiting until LUNCH! He promised he would quickly return. Sooooo, Tracey, Justin, Matt, Mattie and I all hung out at the house all morning, and yep, you guessed it, he came home at about 11:45am!! Just in time for lunch.
Oh well, he made up for it and took us all to our favorite “Benihana’s” type Japanese restaurant called Kokyo, where they cook the food on a grill in the middle of your table, and do fancy, funny tricks with the food! We all had a good time eating and watching little Mattie’s face as the chef did circus acts with eggs, utensils and lit things on fire. After lunch, we went back to Doug’s house and hung out till I had to leave. Upon my departure, I sadly hugged my lovely friends goodbye, and kissed their beautiful faces, until we see one another again next weekend . . .
