Friday, Mike and I went to see NIN. It was in a big outdoor venue, so it wasn't quite as enveloping as when we saw them at the Oracle Arena where we had floor tickets and were only 20 feet from the band. The set was better at the Friday show though. I have been fighting a cold for a while though,so sitting out in the cold made my cold much worse. We didn't stay for Jane's Addiction. From what people have said, they were really amazing. I'm a little bummed about not having stuck around to see Perry Farrell jump around, but my cold is punishing me for even going to an outdoor concert to begin with. We did have the best garlic fries I've ever had in my life there though. YUM!
We had our nanny watch Dex overnight. It was our first overnight without Dexter. We slept like rocks. Seriously, I'm not sure I moved after I fell asleep. We woke up around 7:30am. That's our version of sleeping in. We had breakfast at a spot called Buck's. It was great to sit, eat and have an uninterrupted conversation for half an hour. We don't get to do that anymore. I'm sure we will get the opportunity again, but life as a couple is so different with kids. We do have the benefit of working together, so we regularly get to eat lunch together, but 99% of the time we talk about work. IF we didn't work together, I'd really be missing my best friend.
Sunday afternoon we decided to have a playdate. It was great to have people over and have a bunch of little kids running around. Dexter did a really great job of sharing all of his toys. He only had one bad spot in which he didn't want to give back a little pink stroller back to his girl friend. He really liked pushing it around and had a hard time giving it back to her to play with it. I told him he could play with it for a little bit longer, but he had to give it back when he was ready. After a couple minutes, he pushed it over to her, handed it to her and said "thank you". He has good manners for a not-quite 2 year old.
We drank wine and beer, ate some yummy coffee cake from Arizmundi, pork rinds, chips and fruit (mostly Dex ate the fruit). We had five kids that were 2 and under and one 5 year old. Everybody played well together and there wasn't any trouble at all. It was a lot of fun. I hope to make it more of a regular thing to have people over now that we have some room.
