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This coming Monday will be our 2nd wedding anniversary so it was only fitting to take a 4 day weekend for ourselves. Our plans are to have no plans. We’re going to do what we want with minimal planning and just enjoy our weekend.  Usually we travel but since we just finished moving we decided to stay in PA this year.

Today started with a trip to First Watch in Cranberry for breakfast. Honestly, I’m not a breakfast person. I could do without it but someone was hungry   Amazing food that made me reconsider my stance on breakfast.  We then headed to town to pick up our passes to the Good Taste Pittsburgh which is happening tomorrow at the Expo Mart. It’s a full day of cooking toys and foodie goodness (thanks Norm!).

Realizing that we had to go grocery shopping and that we were close to the Strip District a trip to Wholey’s was in order.  Stocked up on meats for the freezer and some chicken.  The pic above is the Delmonico with Cajun rub that I made for dinner. Shopping on a Friday is a must if you don’t want to be tackled by aggressive shoppers on the weekend. Plus you have time to talk to the butcher which I love to do.

I had order a CD back in late August from Record Rama and honestly just forgot to pick it up. Since we had today off we drove to McCandless to pick up Patricia Barber’s Cafe Blue. Yes, some people still buy CD’s.  Record Rama is hands down the best music store in Pittsburgh and probably PA based on the selection in store and online.

One last stop was to 3 Sons Dogs n Suds for beverages this weekend. If you listen to the show you already know of this place. We spend quite a bit of time there so it was a no brainer where I was going for my beer. I had a taste for Stone so I picked up the Smoked Porter (pictured above), 11th Anniversary and Russian Imperial Stout. I swear it’s a candy store for me. I was able to spend a couple minutes talking to owner Bill Sr. before he was bombarded with lunch time customers.  They have a free beer sampling every Thursday night and last night the store had over 130 people for the Pumpkin Sampling. I had a family function last night otherwise you know I would have been there!

Tonight we cooked a great dinner (again, pictured above), I’m doing homework for my class and we’re watching the Pens/Cans game.  OK, I’m doing homework in between periods and commercial breaks

I may need my rest for tomorrow!