Why can't every day be Saturday?

Hey there! I hope you're all having a great weekend so far, we are and I can't believe it's already Saturday night. Last night we went to eat at Peacock's, a Vietnamese restaurant on West End avenue in Nashville. We always buy the Entertainment book each year from kids selling it raise money for their schools so we can try out all kinds of restaurants throughout the year. It's a lot of fun and it's helped us really learn our way around the city and also try places we would've never thought to try. Anyway, we had several coupons for this place so we gave one to our friends Phil & Sarah so they could get the discount, too. The food was REALLY good, I had chicken in a sauce that had cinnamon in it (along with some other stuff I don't remember). It was excellent and all of us really enjoyed our food. We went to pay and were told we couldn't get our discount because we had not told the server upfront about our coupons! Whatever!! They showed us a tiny note on the front of the cover - that was sideways - that said you had to tell them before ordering. As if. Our server (who was very nice and friendly) was a company man and refused to give us the discount but did ask the manager to come over. She was not overly friendly and gave us a total line of bull about why they have this policy but in the end we did get our discount. It would have been a perfect experience if it wasn't for the whole checkout debacle but I did enjoy it and I would recommend it to anyone wanting something a little different.

Eating took a while, so it was about 8:30 by the time we got out of there. We were headed to an improv comedy show (Uncle Sonny's Pudding Parade) a co-worker of ours is in that started at 8. We weren't really sure how to get to the show, so a few wrong turns later and a detour through the ghetto we made it to the show around 8:45. We wedged into the back and had a few good laughs. We still got to see about an hour of show. From there we stopped to visit Sara's cat Emma & then had some Starbucks and went to see Phil's new house. It was a lot of fun and we didn't end up getting home until around 1. Pippin was so psyched to see us he actually was able to jump up into our bed (which is RARE). For his accomplishment we were going to let him sleep in the bed with us but he kept trying to sleep on my back so he got the boot at 3 am.

Needless to say I wasn't about to get up for an early morning run! I woke up around 8 and had a light breakfast and headed out for a 4-miler. It was bright, sunny, and hotter than hell. It felt great to be running, but I had a tough time staying hydrated. I couldn't drink enough water. It was a tough run and certainly not a PR but it felt great to be out burning some calories.

We had a ton of errands to run today. Since we were gone last weekend I had several things I needed to return to stores (I classically buy everything I like and then end up taking back half of it when I get home). We were going to go to Cheekwood (the local botanical gardens) so Brent could do some photography but it was really hazy and looked like it was going to rain so we decided not to go. We ended up in the downtown area near Music Row. I'd hear of Otter's Chicken Tenders before so we stopped there to check it out. All of the restaurants in that area have outdoor patio seating so we decided to enjoy the cool evening. We were sitting there eating when two guys walked up, and Brent said 'hey, isn't that one of the guys from the Real World'? Sure enough it was MJ from the Philadelphia season. I can't believe Brent recognized him since neither one of us watch that wretched show. His hair has gotten a little longer, but it was definitely him. He was a Vanderbilt graduate, so I guess he decided to stay in Nashville. Lucky us. (The picture below is him leaving the restaurant.)

That was all the excitement we had today. The evening was so nice when we got home we took Pips for a short walk. Now we're watching some old 80's movie called War Games. Brent says it's a classic, so it must be! Matthew Broderick looks like a baby.

See you later! Hopefully tomorrow we'll get to do some trail running at Percy Warner.

Rachel

Exercise:
Fri-1 mile am walk with Pippin
Sat-4 mile am run,20 minute workout with Denise Austin focusing on intervals, arms, butt & stretching (1 reference to burning butter), 1.5 mile evening walk with Brent and Pippin