Weekend Get-Away
Mike and I headed up to Laura and Nate’s mountain retreat this weekend to spend some time with them, which is rare, and do some relaxing. We took Cash, since he seems to get along well with Duke and Milan, and he likes getting away from the cats.
We all had a really good time and we ate a lot, which is one of my favorite pastimes. We were up at the house in time for lunch on Saturday and so we headed into Nederland to a place that Laura and Nate recommended for the barbeque and beer. Wild Mountain Smokehouse and Brewery you are my new favorite place for BBQ! I had the most tender beef brisket on a sandwich that I have ever had, with the best sauce! There were several sauce choices, and I chose the “Memphis” because that’s what Nate and Mike were ordering with their pulled pork sandwiches. Spicy, a little hot, but not overwhelming and so good with the beef brisket, I haven’t had any pregnancy cravings, but I could develop one for this stuff!
After lunch we burned a little of lunch off by walking around Nederland and went to visit the used bookstore. It wasn’t anything special, but it could do in a pinch; I wandered by the “Culture Studies” section and I could have sworn that a fellow anthropology major sold off all their books in this store. Come on, why didn’t you keep your book on the Yanomamo?
After that we wandered around while Mike took pictures of an old wagon and strayed into a small furniture store. Beautiful handmade items, all simple and Amish in style and the man who makes most of the stuff was in the store. It’s so nice to know that you can still find places where you can meet the person who handcrafts the furniture. Laura and I are going to get Nate to buy a walnut dining room table from this guy if it kill us, this stuff was so well done.
After that we headed back home, up the “Seven turns of death” road, to sit around and do very little. We ate elk stew and nibbled on the Lemon Cake bars and Cherry Chocolate Pastry bars I had brought up. (I’ve put the recipe for the Cherry Chocolate Bars up on the RRC website.) We played Boggle and Trivial Pursuit (Pop Culture, 80’s and 90’s) until it was very late and those people who can drink (not me) were too woozy to focus on the questions.
We finished the Trivial Pursuit game off in the morning after some excellent bacon and eggs prepared by Nate, with my Sourdough English Muffins as a side dish. I lolled around on the couch with my book while the others walked up the hill with the dogs, and then darn, it was time to head home. All in all, an excellent weekend. I love taking these little mini-vacations where I can take my dog (who spent the entire weekend on a dog bed as if he had never seen a soft place before in his life) and be home in an hour. Thanks Nate and Laura! Did we do anything but eat? Oh who cares! It was all so good!