Date to Reading Terminal Market and the Sunday Blues

Well we had quite the weekend the last couple days! Not because it has been unusual, but more because we did not have to be at school!!! What an amazing feeling. Granted, our apartment is infected with some Sunday Blues today, brought on by the impending Monday and our having to sit around all day doing homework. Danielle has definitely been much better about the homework, but we are both sitting around at least thinking about school. But even the Sunday Blues have been intermingled with some cleaning, some Big Bang Theory, some impromptu singing, and making a giant batch of garlic mashed red potatoes. We bought two bags of the potatoes last week because they were on sale, and until today had used maybe a couple potatoes. I am embarrassingly grossed out by looking at potatoes even before they begin to sprout tentacles, so by today they were at such a level of sproutiness that I finally said enough is enough. Now, of course, we could serve a couple Thanksgivings with all these mashed potatoes, but at least dinners should be quicker to make this week (and next week...)! Plus Danielle does a splendid job spicing up the potatoes!

Yesterday Danielle and I went to Center City for a long-anticipated date to the Reading Terminal Market! We decided to utilize the openness and diversity of the market to piece together a patch-work meal, which ended up consisting of a chocolate croissant, a white chocolate chip/macadamia nut cookie, pistachio ice cream, AMAZING potato salad, a slice of tomato, spinach, and mozzarella pizza, and an Italian cold cut sandwich with balsamic dressing. So other than the potato salad the meal was fairly homogeneous, but even so we had a great outing, exploring the market for our second time. Also, I won't lie: we did get to try a sample or two from other stores and we bought some candy to take home with us! So we got more than our fill, and then spent the rest of the afternoon walking around Center City, including checking out the Shops at Liberty.

In other, very exciting news: Philadelphia received its first real winter snow overnight on Friday and into Saturday! While it was beautiful, it made walking around yesterday quite messy and pretty cold, too. By the time we were finished in Center City, we barely made it home in time before succumbing to frost bite on our little toesies! After changing shoes and going to church, it was the perfect night to change into pajamas and watch a couple movies: Bucky Larson (warning: it's raunchy) and Paul, a movie about an alien who befriends some British guys. We had a good laugh at both of them.

Now, as I mentioned earlier, it is time to hit the books and jump into reality tomorrow morning:( On the upside, as of tomorrow it will only be five more days until the weekend! Have a good week everyone!

-Rory and Danielle

P.S. Did you notice that each paragraph in this post gets progressively shorter? Is it a clever, artful design intended by the author, or an indication of his decreasing energy? Or something else altogether (insert Airplane! joke here)?

P.P.S. Here is a picture of the big cockroach we killed in the bathroom a few nights ago. I was not going to put the picture up, because I decided that the roach does not look as scary in the picture as it did in real life. Danielle disagreed, though, so now you can see my dove battling the cockroach, symbolic of the eternal struggle between good and evil.