Weekend Fun

What a wonderful weekend, and a great start to my birthday week!

On Friday, we headed down to Carolina Stadium to see the Carolina v. Clemson baseball game. We tailgated for a bit before going into the stadium. The outcome of the game was a Carolina victory. 6 to 3! Way to go, Gamecocks!

On Saturday, we went to Greenville, hoping to see Game 2 of the weekend series, but the rain had other plans and the game was postponed. We had lunch with my parents for my birthday at Smoke on the Water- delicious if you're ever in the Greenville area- and then WEG and I decided to make the best of it and stay in Greenville for the night since we already had a hotel reservation. We walked from our hotel down to Mast General Store and shopped around for a bit, then stopped in for a couple of beverages at Soby's. While in Soby's we heard from the bartender that the hockey game was offering a discount off tickets if you showed them your baseball ticket, so we decided to go to that game. It was a lot of fun! I may or may not have had a bit too much fun, which led to me having the hiccups not once, but twice! The second time was when we arrived back at the hotel at the end of the night. Apparently I conked out mid-hiccup...impressive, huh? Ha!

On Sunday we headed home after a deliciously greasy Waffle House breakfast and took a brief nap on the couch before I headed to the grocery store and then to dinner with my friends for my birthday. Dinner was a lot of fun. We went to the new British Bulldog Pub out on Harbison in Columbia- if you're in the area, stop by. They have British-inspired food. We had the baked brie appetizer, and then I had cottage (shepherd's) pie with mushy peas, which look like baby food, but taste so good! After dinner, my friends had brought cupcakes from Cupcake- red velvet and chocolate- and we partook in those. I needed someone to wheel me out on a stretcher after that because I seriously felt like I was in a food coma!

All in all, a great weekend besides us losing to Clemson in yesterday's baseball game- oh well, we'll get them Tuesday, I hope! I ate way too much good food over the weekend, and it doesn't look like this week my eating will improve. It's our busiest at work, which entails board meetings on Thursday and Friday and dinners on Thursday and Friday nights, with Friday night being our big Alumni Awards dinner out at Riverbanks Zoo. I'll be glad to see Saturday!