Life Lately

This time of year is quite busy at work (budget and the end of our fiscal year) but I took Thursday off to watch my niece graduate from the 8th grade. 

It was in a local high school in their outdoor football stadium at noon so before I went to the graduation I pretty much dipped myself in sunscreen and wore a big floppy hat.  I was successful in not getting sunburned so I will call that a success.

For a graduation this was actually a relatively short one at a little less than an hour and a half. The speeches weren't great (8th graders don't always have the best writing skills) but there were only a couple and then they were on to reading all six billion names of the graduates.

After the ceremony we took some photos with the new graduate in her robes before we all got hungry and it was time for lunch.

We went to lunch at a vegan place called Veggie Grill that I have always enjoyed. My husband was skeptical of this restaurant but even he had to admit it was pretty delicious. The two best things we had a lunch were the buffalo wings and the chocolate chip cookie.

Since my husband's whole family was in town for the graduation we decided to do an Escape Room Thursday night. We didn't quite make it out of the room in the 60 minute time limit but we were close so they let us finish the room even after the time ran out. Even though we didn't quite escape it was still a blast and we plan to do another one next time my sister-in-law is in town. Next time we will escape.

Friday I went to work, went to OrangeTheory, came home, made dinner and called it an early night.  I can tell you are super jealous of my exciting Friday.

Saturday my husband, my brother in law and I went to a local Portuguese festival. We have been to the festival before and know it gets busy later on and they sell out of things so we went about an hour after the festival started to make sure we had all the options.

The real reason we went early in the day was because the last time we went they were sold out of this sardine plate that my husband really wanted to try.  As evident by the picture we made it before they sold out.  I am not a big sardine fan but my husband thought it was delicious.

I ate lots of other delicious food at the festival that I can't remember the names of but I know I went home full of good food. In addition the lots of good food there were games and such for the kids, booths selling things and a stage with different performers.

Sunday I drove down to Monterey County to meet my parents and one of my sisters for lunch and then I headed to the hair salon.  My hair was super overdue for some care and is much happier now.  There was a ton of traffic on my way home so it took way to long to get home but I did finally make it home. Not quite the way I wanted to end my weekend but overall a pretty good weekend.