weekend.

I've been completely MIA here since I finished blogging about our cruise; primarily because our lives have been fairly routine and unexciting since we got back, especially in comparison to our vacation.  Definitely no kissing dolphins or swimming with sting rays.


We had a pretty great weekend in the Pflugradt household.  That's not to say that it was wild and crazy- but it was the presence of down-time that helped make it wonderful.


Friday night we relaxed... watched tv, surfed the internet, and read.  Cori kindly kicked dinner- mandarin pork chops, yum!- and we were thrilled to be in bed before 11.  Call us lame, but our work weeks have been extra hectic recently, so we were beyond thankful for this time to be still and sleep.


Saturday morning was similarly chill- we got up around 9 and spent the morning reading, spending time with Lord, chatting with one of our neighbors, etc.  Then we headed off to meet some of Cori's co-workers to see newest Batman movie.  My opinion: definitely a great movie, although not quite as epic as the first two.  There was just something so engagingly chilling about the Joker as a villian, and I just don't think it was possible to top Heath Ledger's performance in the second movie.  All the same, we really enjoyed it.  After the movie, we ate dinner at Mr. Dunderbaks.  Dinner was delicious, and we loved the live German accordion music.  Cori even requested the Scnitzelbank song, which of course reminded me of when we first started dating.  After telling Cori's coworkers about our cruise at dinner, I started craving ice cream, so we stopped by Bo's Ice Cream, our fave local ice cream shop here, to get twist cones.  Yum!


Today, we went to church and enjoyed time worshiping with our church family.  Afterwards, we went to lunch with our friends Wes and Steph.  When our original plan to go to Ella's, our favorite restaurant in our little corner of Tampa fell through (an hour and a half wait when you're already starving?  no thank you!) we ended up eating Chinese food at Yummy House- and yes, it was yummy!  Amusingly enough, we stopped by Bo's again to get more ice cream, and spent some time hanging out at our house with Wes and Steph.  


It was definitely a wonderful weekend- the perfect mix of active fun and chill time.  Tomorrow starts another busy work week- here's to soaking up the last few hours before the craziness starts all over!