Thanksgiving and Days Off

The past few days have been quite busy! Last weekend we hosted our annual Thanksgiving for our good friends. Since moving to the area, and becoming friends with this group of people, Thanksgiving has become one of my favorite traditions of the year. This year was extra special since there was a lot to celebrate in our group. Personally, it was also a nice opportunity to thank everyone for their love and support earlier this year. Having such an amazing group of people in my life certainly made the difficult times a little bit easier.



I love the fact that our city apartment has enough room for 16 people to sit at one long table. Last year we fit 23. We often joke that if we were on House Hunters the part where you talk about what you don't like about your current residence would be a joke. Other than the fact that we don't have a buzzer and we have finicky doors that sometimes lock you inside of rooms there is nothing we don't like about our apartment.

Thanksgiving was a smashing success! Thanks to our local Trader Joe's we had lots of fresh flowers :-)

This week was a short week at school since we had today off. I absolutely love having this day off. It's so nice and relaxing. On Monday night we decided to check off one of the local restaurants from our "to-do" list by having dinner at Ole. We both agreed that it was pretty dumb of us not hit up this great Mexican restaurant earlier in our life in Inman. Delicious is pretty much the only word that fits. I especially loved the guacamole made right at our table. I ate so much that I'm surprised I didn't turn green. The drink menu, and their new tapas menu, are both very intriguing. We'll definitely be going back.

Last night we joined our friends at The Thirsty Scholar and today we hit up Mr. Bartley's Burgers in the Square before seeing the Social Network. You might think we visited these places on purpose, since they are prominently featured in the movie but it was just dumb luck.

I've never been to Bartley's Burgers and I have to say putting grilled sauerkraut on a burger is sheer genius! I did find it quite annoying that 18 people, all of whom were seated ten minutes after us, got their food a good 20 minutes before we did. But, I totally get the fact that service isn't the selling point of Bartley's.

In between all of these fun events and outings we picked our wedding venue and date. The countdown is on... September 24, 2011 at Gunstock Mountain Resort.