Weekend update

We had a pretty fun weekend here in Denver suburbia. Jon and I both worked Saturday (me at the clinic and Jon from his office at home - he's got another big deadline coming up.), and then we went out to dinner Saturday night. We went to Benihana's - a Japanese steakhouse hibachi place - with some friends from my work. I LOVE this place! We used to go for my birthday or other special occasions when I was a kid. You sit at a C-shaped table around a huge hibachi grill. All the food except for soup and salad is cooked right in front of you. The food is really yummy, but what makes this place so fun is that the chefs are entertainers. They flip food in the air, catch it in their hats (toques?), throw it on other chef's grills, make steaming volcanoes out of onions slices, tell jokes, etc. It's super-fun, but on the expensive side, so definitely a rare treat for us! We had a great time, and we learned the all-important lesson that I cannot recognize several major athletes and actors in photos. (They have lots of pics of famous people at the restaurant with the owner.) Yes, it's a flaw - I'm working on it, I swear! =P

Sunday we had lunch at PeiWei (yummy noodles!), went grocery shopping and did some cleaning/chores around the house.

Today Jon was at work, and I got some things done around the house. I had a guy from a local garden center come out to do a landscape design for our backyard. I'm sure we've posted about this before, but gardening in Denver is way different than gardening in Texas! He had lots of great tips, and I'm very excited to see the final design next week! He also gave me a phone number of a guy to come out and "blow-out" the sprinkler system. Because it gets so much colder here, you have to have someone use a compressor to blow all the excess water out of the pipes to prevent freezing/expansion and other damage to the system. Who knew? (Well, apparantly lots of people - and now I'm one of them!) Luckily, I was able to get the sprinkler guy to come out today as well, because despite the great weather today (70s), rumor has it that we're getting snow and temps in the teens on Wednesday.

Then the highlight of our weekend (I always consider Monday part of the weekend because I have that day off instead of Saturday) - Jon's parents arrived this evening! They got here around 430-5pm, just in time for the sunset. We had fun showing them our house, and then we all went out for dinner. We went to a cute local restaurant and had mini buffalo burgers, sweet potato fries, and pizza! But not just any pizza - one had chicken and asparagus and sundried tomatoes, and one had pears and walnuts. Yum!! We're very excited to have them up here for Thanksgiving!