this weekend was the first in several weeks that stuart and i had almost a whole saturday to spend together. and it was lovely.
stuart's day started at 4am, as he rises this early every day to go into the hospital for his surgery rotation (and despite the earlier-than-ought-to-be-legal hours, he LOVES it). i slept in until the ridiculously late hour of 6:45am. i was sitting at our table enjoying my coffee when the door opened, at stuart walked in. his day was over before 8am. stuart thought this meant he would get to nap all day long, but i knew that this meant we would have a day full of fun!
i quickly got dressed and put my shoes on, demonstrating that we were not about to laze about. we went to the local farmer's market and spent obscene amounts of money on locally grown broccoli and strawberries, freshly-picked-that-morning spinach and some arkansas-grown shiitake mushrooms (yum). on the way home, we couldn't pass up all the signs for yard sales that were going on in our community, so we stopped at a handful of those. it's just fun to go through other folks' old junk. and sometimes you discover treasures. but, not today. most interesting yard sale find of the day: a used bedside commode and PEG tube feeding system. we were tempted, but decide we couldn't afford them after our splurge at the farmer's market. after our shopping spree, i dropped stuart off at home, encouraging him to take the nap he continued to express his dying need for, while i went to the gym to get my heart-health on.
upon returning from the gym, i find stuart watching the news on hulu, which he had been doing for the past hour since arriving home. i guess that's as good as a nap, because i quickly swooped him up and off we went to get his oil changed and have a yummy lunch at senior tequila. nothing like americanized mexican food to enjoy our quality time together. it was delicioso!
after the oil change and yummy mexican, i convinced stuart it was a lovely day for the zoo. and because he loves me, he gave in to my unyielding desire to see the new penguin exhibit (i was just so curious how in the world those zoo keepers thought penguins would survive the arkansan summer!) so, off to the zoo we went. and it was fun! we took lots of photos (will post later...) and had a great time. and got a little sunburn. (turns out there are tropical penguins, so they will, in fact, love the summer in arkansas.)
finally, after the zoo, stuart got his nap. but alas, i let him sleep too long, because before we knew it, we were running late to go babysit our newest niece, abigail! we spent saturday evening with her to give her mama and daddy much-needed quality time (and an opportunity to go out and eat sushi) (also, we were glad to just get to snuggle with the abster for a while!) then, we got home and immediately fell asleep.
a perfect saturday :)
