Out and About in Massachusetts

So what have we been doing this week. It was the Labour Day long weekend last weekend and Andy took a couple of extra days off so he had a 5 day weekend. Unfortunately Lexie and I came down with a bit of a cold during the weekend so weren't able to do much. On the Wednesday we had to go up to Walpole to drop in a bunch of documentation that the Mortgage Master guys needed to get our mortgage underway and on the way back decided to have a nice lunch out so went to a place called Toms Tavern. This is now the second time we've been to this place and we love it. Really good food (1.5 pound lobster for $17 & a pint of beer for $1.50 what more could you ask for) and a great atmosphere. Lexie of course was an angel - we were out of the house after all - and spent half the lunch gnawing on a chicken wing. mmmm chicken. On Friday when Andy was back at work, Lexie and I decided that we needed to try out the local bus service so we walked up to the corner and jumped on a bus down to the the local supermarket. The bus service was actually not too bad, its a flag stop service so you can flag it down anywhere on the route that you want to get on or off , and for only $1 a ride its really quite good value. The only real problem is that it only runs every hour, so you can't really go to one place, jump off and do some errands then jump back on and go to the next place, not without waiting an hour for an hour anyway. So we went down to the Triboro Plaza, only stayed for about 20 mins then caught the next bus back. Not a bad outing for a Friday afternoon. This weekend was a nice relaxing weekend at home. After being a grumbly girl all week Lexie was back to being her cheerful self on the weekend. I think she missed having her Daddy around after the loong weekend. So it was nice to just hang around the house playing with her. Since it was Fathers day on Sunday we had to go out and celebrate so we headed to the Longhorn Steakhouse....Now I'm usually wary of going to steakhouses, its not often you can find one that will actually cook the steak well done no matter how many times you ask...but this place....Lets just say it was the best damn steak that I've ever eaten. It was definitely cooked well done, no pink, but it was sooo tender it was seriously melt in the mouth, so much so that even Lexie was able to eat it up. I gave her a couple of pieces and she loved it, wolfed it right down. Add to that the lobster and Shrimp dip for Appetiser and the crab bake that went with my steak and you've got one fantastic dinner. Will definitely have to remember this place. This morning we got up early and drove Andy to work so that I could have the car for the next two days. Its the first day of a new training course today and there's a dinner that's put on afterwards so instead of trying to figure out how to get home after dinner the company is putting him up in the hotel where the course is (right next door to his office) for the night which means Lexie and I are on our own tonight, hopefully she'll be a good girl for Mummy, but since shes short on sleep after a late night last night then getting woken up this morning I doubt it very much.