Tonight we had fresh sweet corn for dinner. It was delicious. Eric brought home quite a bit of it from Lodge last week, when one of his Brothers brought in a bunch from his field. He brought home so much that I was able to freeze up several pint bags of corn. I heart sweet corn, and truth be told I am a bit a corn snob. But when you grow up on a farm well that will happen.
Monday was Eric's birthday, but we have been celebrating for over a week. Last Sunday we went out to Mike & Linda's camper to celebrate both Eric's birthday, and his Mom, Linda's 60th birthday. We had yummy kabobs on the grill, birthday cake and broke out the ladder ball aka hillbilly golf. As seems fitting of this bizarre summer we had a campfire at 4:30 in the afternoon because it was chilly... what up with that. It was a good day.
This past weekend we headed to Indy with the Barkers. We celebrated Eric's birthday on Friday with dinner at Rock Bottom Brewery, and birthday cake back at our little apartment for the weekend. Saturday we headed downtown and took in the Indy Indians baseball game. It was our first time at that ball park, and I must admit we rather enjoyed it. The World Famous Chicken (formerly the San Diego Chicken) was in attendance that night and he was great. He is completely silly and ridiculous, but still hilarious.
Sunday the guys took in the Nascar race, the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard. Tara, Kira and I ventured to the Indy Children's Museum and saw the King Tut exhibit. It was really cool, and we all enjoyed it. After the race we headed to the yummy Chinese restaurant for dinner that has now become an annual trek. Monday we headed home, and I kind of felt bad that Eric spent most of his birthday in the car, but hopefully the earlier celebrations made up for it. Overall the trip to Indy was a good time, and even the car ride wasn't too bad. I was totally dreading the 4.5+ hour drive, especially considering that for the majority of my life Indy was usually a short 2 hour trip.
Eric and I are headed to STL this weekend. We had a voucher for two tickets to a Cardinals game to use, and found a cheap hotel on Priceline. We we are looking forward to some relaxing couple time, away from the chores at home.
