Friday: Met Michelle after work, she had a pitcher of sangria waiting for me at the bar, and NotNed was nice enough to pour me a glass when I walked in. Had Greek pasta (which Erin and I had talked about recently, perhaps it was even Friday) for dinner, yum! We walked over to the Coop, so I could look at photography and photoshop books, but was distracted and overjoyed to find a new book by Julia Child, called My Life in France, which was co-written with her grandnephew. He sat with her, listening to her recollections and stories, reading family letters and going through many photos. This book is the culmination of that, and it is spectacular! If you liked Julia in the least, are interested in France, cooking, photography or love, this book can't be beat. I want to savor it slowly, rather than dash through it, to make it last. One last visit with Julia...sigh...
We then went to see Transamerica, which I liked very much.

Saturday: Got up at the @#$-crack of dawn to meet Pat, her husband & mom and head to Foxwoods...which turned into a trip to Mohegan Sun! I'd never been to Foxwoods, but had been to Moghegan Sun last June to NOT see Robert Plant, altho the discovery of an excellent XXX dirty martini at Tuscany helped to dull the pain.

Anyway, with the coaching of MaryEllen, I quickly won back, at 21, all the money I'd lost at slots plus $40. Yippee! I'm sure I looked like an idiot, not doing things right, not cashing out correctly, but it was fun nonetheless. I bought Pat & Jim a drink with my winnings to thank them for taking me down there, went and pried her Mom off the slots and headed home. It was much fun!

Sunday: Colored eggs, made a coconut cake, and cooked dinner (pork roast, baked potato, green beans) for my Dad and brother. My brother and I walked, with Wolf, down to the cemetary to see where we wanted to put Mom's headstone and agreed on a place.

Took these pictures today, too:

click on each one to see the larger view...it looks much better!

How was your weekend?

XXX dirty martini ?? You wild woman.
All sounds like such fun.

I forgive you. BUt since everything went to hell anyway, it's probably good you weren't here. The cake I made was great though, and the recipe a keeper! BTW, I made that recipe up!!

It was an extremly busy weekend! Lots of church and then everyone here for a late dinner yesterday since I didn't get home from church till noon. We ate around 6pm. The kids had a ball! We planed a hunt and find the egg with the secret message that sent you to the next location where you found the next egg message till they found their Easter baskets. They loved it and did it over and over again. However I didn't have time to take pictures, sorry.

Sounds like you had a good weekend. Any weekend where Sangria is involved is a good weekend. :)

by the way, the Easter Bunny left you a present. He tagged you over on my blog. Now, don't get upset at the Easter Bunny. :)

sounds like you had a great weekend!

My parents have been to Tuscany and we were JUST talking about it on Saturday!!!

Happy Easter! I enjoyed your pictures of the eggs and others.

You've been tagged...check out my blog for details :-)

Had a wonderful Easter weekend, thanks for asking. Just posted about it as a matter of fact. Glad you had a wonderful one as well.

That Julia child book sounds great. I am wanting to read Frances Mayes'(under the tuscan sun) new book A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller. I really enjoyed her other 3 books.

Happy Monday!!!

A columbine? In bloom already? Hurray!!!

Mine's not even close...

Sounds like an awesome weekend :) Love the flower photos, I think the...Columbine?...is my favorite, but I like the angle of the shot on the iris.