Weekend Recap Part 2 and a Menu

Picking up where the last post left off, we woke up Saturday and drove to meet my brother and his fiance before heading up to Alexandria Bay. The wedding ceremony took place at Boldt Castle, which is on an island, so you take a ferry to get there. This is one of the smaller buildings on the island:

And this is the view of a castle as you come up in the ferry.

The wedding location was beautiful, and the bridesmaids and bride walked down the outside stairs on this building.

 Here you can see the matron of honor, flower girl, and bride making their way to the ceremony.

I didn't take too many other shots of the wedding itself, but it was beautiful and I'm sure the photos will be something they treasure for a long time. After the wedding we had some time before the reception started, so the four of us did a little exploring of the castle. I was having some shoe trouble (read: heels and outside wedding on an island with lots fo walking- what was I thinking???) so I didn't take to many photos.

After we had our fill of the island we headed back to the mainland to go to Bonnie Castle Resort, where our room reservation for the evening and the reception were.

It was a fairly small wedding (between 80-90 people) and the tables were decorated beautifully.

 My brother and his fiance (they will be doing this sometime next year!)

Friends Larry and Yolanda, who also sat at our table.

It got hard to take photos because of the lighting, but this is the bride and the groom with the bride's brother. 

It was a great wedding and it was nice to know so many people at the reception because I have known the bride and her family for a while now. Best wishes to the happy couple!

Sunday morning we got up and had breakfast with my parents, brother, and fiance and the North Star Restaurant. 

 I ordered their brocoli scramble, which was hash browns topped with scrambled egg, broccoli, and cheese sauce. YUM.

Afterwards we had planned to go on a boat tour of some of the islands, but since it was raining we decided to head to the Syracuse Mall. My dad was very interested in the racing Zach and I had talked about, so of course that happened.

Mom, Amy (my brother's fiance) and me waiting for the boys to race!

Random racing photos!

After hitting up a few stores and the food court for some lunch, we said good bye and drove home. It was a great weekend!

Now that I have to cook for myself again (what is it about vacation and eating out that makes cooking for yourself seem like such a drag?) we need a menu!

Monday: leftovers/random snacks

Tuesday: lunch- chicken noodle soup and cottage cheese (not together though!)

Dinner: Fish (I think salmon is what is in the freezer) with rice and a veggie

Wednesday: lunch- whatever I can come up with

Dinner- out

Thursday: lunch- undecided (maybe Subway?)

Dinner- Slow cooker BBQ chicken and pasta salad

Friday: lunch- leftovers

Dinner- homemade pizza and salads

This weekend should be fairly quiet, just working around the house and a family event with the hubs. Knitting and spinning progress tomorrow!

Wedding Weekend

Early Friday morning the hubs and I packed up the car and headed out for the wedding of a close friend of my family's. Since the wedding wasn't until Saturday afternoon  the hubs and I spent Friday in Syracuse before meeting up with my brother and his fiance Saturday morning and heading the rest of the way to Alexandria Bay. 

When we arrived in Syracuse it was about lunch time, so we were more than ready to hit up Stellas Diner. We were really impressed- this dinner has a small town feel but the staff was professional and you could tell they stayed busy!

 The hubs ordered a mushroom and swiss omelet with corned beef hash. 

I got the "Garden Stella" which was a egg, tomato, spinach, and cheese sandwich on a bagel with homefries.

Both were delicious! After our tasty lunch we headed over to the Destiny USA mall. Holy cats, this place is huge! We were really impressed with all the modern decor and their commitment to sustainability and low impact on the environment. Here you can see one of the many touch screen directories to help you find you way.

They also had neat sculpture/decor in various places around the mall.

None of this was more exciting (for the hubs anyway) than the indoor go kart track on the third floor. Yup. You better believe he took advantage of that!

They had elevators as well as escalators throughout the mall, so it was really easy to get where you wanted to go.

More cool decoration :)

For dinner we settled on Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, a local hot spot. There is another location in Rochester closer to us, but we hadn't been before but had heard great things.

The hubs got a rack of ribs with fries and cottage cheese. Those ribs were really good!

However my plate was awesome- pulled pork and beef brisket platter with mac and cheese and cole slaw. I wish I had two stomachs so I could have kept eating! (We did take leftovers, but didn't end up finishing them either!) I really want to go to the Rochester location next time we are up that way.

The only downside to Dinosaur BBQ was the wait- almost an hour! We thought by waiting until closer to 8pm to go for dinner we would beat the rush but it was almost 9pm by the time we ate. The good part about this was that we caught some of the live music they had before going back to our hotel for the evening :)

I'm going to wait to post the rest of our weekend adventures and my weekly menu until tomorrow, partially because this post is long and we need to go grocery shopping before I can say for sure what we will eat :)

Catching up

This is a hodgepodge of a post, so I'm apologizing now. The family that was visiting me has left and I'm working furiously to finish 2 knitting projects before I leave for Maine! One of the projects is the Hydra Multnomah shawl. I'm so close! Two more rows, a cast of and some blocking and that baby's done. My other project, Snape's Socks, is a little more daunting. I'm a very slow sock knitter. I'm about halfway done with the heel of the first sock. I'm only doing a mini sock to complete the pair, so once I get the regular sock done it wont be but another hour until its mate is completed. I'm thinking I'm going to have to take it to Maine with me to try and finish on time! I'm torn between knitting like a mad woman and trying to finish the sock or just casting on a really quick project to turn in before I leave. I'm also getting tight finishing the current dish towel and knitting another by the end of August. Oh, and I need to do a ton of laundry and pack and hopefully bake something to take with me to eat in the car. Stay tuned to see if I finish it all!