A quiet weekend.

It's been a quiet weekend and after all the festivities of last weekend, it's just nice to not have to do anything this weekend. On Friday, I was at an all day conference up in Ames and after I got back, I went for a bike ride. The weather was perfect for a bike ride - it was sunny outside but not humid at all. There's nothing like biking when the weather is nice.

Saturday was a very lazy day. I really did not do a whole lot. I walked to the library and caught up on some magazines then took the bus to St. Kate's for Colleen Pokorny's piano recital. Before her recital, I walked over to Drake since it was street painting weekend. We (St. Kate's) were not supposed to have a square, but we ended up having one, and the person who designed it played off the infamous American Gothic painting and used Fr. Jim and Sr. Carola as the subjects. It turned out really well.

Colleen's recital went fine and the music she chose was very her. Colleen's a real bubbly and fun person so her pieces reflected that. Her brother, Matt was around so I got to catch up with him. Looks like he'll be getting his Master's Degree in Engineering at the University of Iowa. His girlfriend will be working on her Masters in Social Work at Iowa too so they'll be together.

After the recital, I pretty much spent the rest of the day in my apartment watching movies and not doing anything exciting at all. That's OK. Once in a while, you need to do something like that. It's good for the soul!

Today, Sunday, I'll be going to a new grocery store called Gateway Market (http://www.gatewaymarket.com) that is located not far at all from where I live. It's not scheduled to open for a number of days, but I had signed up for the soft opening and that's going on later this afternoon. I've invited Joel to tag along since he's excited about the market too. Later today, John and I will be going out for dinner. Not sure where we'll be going, but we'll figure that out later.

See, kind of ho hum weekend, but that's fine by my books!