I’m finally getting around to updating you on my last two weekends. I’m sure you all were anxiously waiting to hear about how awesome our bonfire was two weekends ago. Let me tell you, it was awesome. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
On Friday, October 10th, Bird and I headed over to St. Paul and stopped for dinner at our favorite Thai place. That cost me $36. From there we walked over to the Lowertown Art Crawl and visited a friend of mine who does ceramics. I was tempted to buy some of his work because it’s so amazing, but I didn’t. Then we wandered through a few more studios before heading for home. We needed it to be an early night because the next day was going to be a big day.
On Saturday, I got up early and picked up two friends before picking up Bird. Then the four of us headed to T’s farm where we had built the bonfire for our Fall party. On the way, we stopped for breakfast at McDonald’s which cost $9.36 because I paid for everyone. We also stopped at Walmart to get groceries for the party. $38.16 later and I had burgers and brats to grill, buns, pop, and chips. We also stopped for gas and paid $26.60. Upon arriving at the farm, we put the finishing touches on the fire. Here’s what the finished bonfire looked like:
I’m pretty proud of it. After the fire was finished, all our friends arrived and we spent the afternoon doing fun things in the Fall weather. As night fell, we lit the ship and watched it burn:
That’s me and T.
It was a great day and everything I had hoped it would be.
On Sunday, Bird and I went to church and then went back to her place and made lunch. We rented 21 from the Redbox which cost me $1.07. I also got a cooler at Caribou before lunch for $4.75. The movie was okay, sort of entertaining, but overall pretty forgettable. It was a nice waste of an afternoon when we just felt like being lazy.
So that was two weekends ago; now for last weekend.
As you know, I took off Friday from work and headed up North near the Canadian border. I brought along Bird and T. We once again stopped at McDonald’s for breakfast. This time I only paid for Bird and myself -> $7.66. We spent the weekend just having a good time; four-wheeling, hunting, hiking, etc. T and I both shot a grouse but because we only got those two, I gave mine to T. So much for hunting as a means to save money on food. Despite the lack of birds, we still had a lot of fun.
Here’s a picture from the trip:
We left around noon on Sunday and headed for home. Once again, we stopped for McDonald’s. You’d think I really love McDonald’s, but I don’t, it just happens to be the most prevalent fast food in Northern Minnesota. This time Bird paid for me, but after lunch we decided we wanted dessert and I paid for the three of us -> $7 (paid in cash so I’ve rounded up). Also stopped for gas on the way home and paid $26.65.
And that folks, is a brief summary of my last two weekends. Sorry that it took so long to get them posted.
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