Last Weekend

Work hard. Play hard.

This should be the motto of the semester.

Since I dedicate every waking hour to school or work, plus social gatherings where I try to incorporate doing homework, when the weekend rolls around I am ready to party!

Anders and I decided we would try to have a date night every Friday night.

Our schedules are a lot more complicated since school has started back up 

so we are determined to make this happen!

This last weekend:

We kicked off our Friday date night with dinner at Cafe Rio.

Everyone loves this place.

And for a good reason!

So yummy.

We met up with Marie & Alex (Anders' sister + brother-in-law) at Nickel City.

We killed it there!

We got tons of tickets even though we wasted most of our nickels playing the most addicting game ever. 

That silly price is right game where you just drop the nickel in and it pushes the nickels off the edge...

I realize that is the worst description ever but regardless, it is addicting. 

We made some friends (and enemies) playing laser tag (sorry kids!) and it was a blast!

I had forgotten how much I love laser tag.

I also discovered my long lost competitive side.

We spent our tickets on fruitie tooties and flutes.

We had a lot of fun with those flutes!

Saturday:

Anders and I met up with one of our favorite couples to double with, Matt & Libby.

They had us try a new Mongolian restaurant on Bulldog Blvd. called Mongo's stir fry.

It was sooo good!

Basically you create your own noodle bowl (buffet style) and at the end of the line there is a really old Mongolian man with what looks like a Samurai sword who cooks/fries your food. 

If you are in P-town, go try it!

We followed dinner up with a movie.

We planned on seeing Lincoln but that was sold out when we got to the theater. 

My parents had seen The Impossible the night before and highly recommended it so we decided to just see that.

Boy, were we in for a surprise!

This was the most intense movie I have ever seen.

Not to mention the most gruesome and emotional movie. 

The acting is incredible and the plot is inspiring (since it is based on a true story).

However, you either feel like throwing up from the graphic injuries or just crying.

Also be warned that there is some nudity in this movie.

My mom just happened to leave that little detail out so we were a little bit shocked when Naomi Watts' boob flashed on screen. It wasn't sexual or anything but I mean if you don't want to see boobs then don't see it, haha.

I don't really know if I recommend seeing this movie but if you do just be aware of what I mentioned.

And bring tissues :)

Sunday:

Sunday night I cooked some white chicken chili and strawberry shortcake.

I found the recipe online so I was a bit nervous if it would taste good.

But it turned out great and tasted even better than I thought!

Our little dinner party loved it as well.

Anders and I attempted to watch the CES fireside Sunday night.

But this was the result...

We're a tired couple of kids.
I'm already counting down the days till next weekend!