Falling into Fall!!!!

This past week was super busy with several meetings, including our monthly JWC meeting - not to mention work! So it was great to head into the weekend with some terrific plans!

Friday night Dennis and I headed to the State Fair, where we loaded up on our annual quota of greasy, junky fair food! Then we walked through the exhibits and the animals, played a couple games, and enjoyed the nice fall evening and the sights and sounds of the fair!

On Saturday morning, after packing the dogs up to the kennel for the weekend, we headed up the interstate to Greenville. We arrived at the mall in Greenville shortly before 11 a.m., and had an early lunch and walked around for about an hour... then our friend Alan met Dennis at the mall and they headed off to the golf course for the afternoon, and I continued to shop then met Stephanie (Alan's wife) at the mall. We sat and sipped a drink in the food court and talked and talked.... then continued our shopping and later met Alan and Dennis at Don Pablo's for dinner.

After dinner, we rented movies and headed back to their house for the evening, where we spent the night - and slept in the Sleep Number bed in their comfy guest room! (Now I want one of those things!) We had a terrific time sipping champagne and watching movies. (I love Failure to Launch - cute movie!)

Sunday we slept in a bit, got up and enjoyed the pot of coffee Stephanie made, then we headed out to an early lunch about 11:00 at Rafferty's in Greenville, then headed to the Peace Center for the 2:00 matinee of A Chorus Line.. we met up with our other friends Michael and Christy for the show. Following the show, we said goodbye to Alan and Stephanie and got on the road toward home, meeting up with Christy and Michael in Chapin (they live there) for dinner at Bomb Island Grill before continuing the rest of the way home. We caught some of the Arizona-Dallas NFL game on the TV while eating dinner and had a great time catching up with Christy and Michael (and making some preliminary plans to head to the TN-USC game together in November)

All in all, a fabulous weekend with friends - just what we both needed and what the doctor ordered after a busy, somewhat stressful week!