I’m afraid it looks like a stretch of 5 day work-weeks in my immediate future.  Oh the agony.  Honestly I don’t know how I’m going to pull through.  Time will tell.

I took off Friday because we had company in town.  Actually, we didn’t have company in town, per se;  A friend of ours was getting married, which led to the presence of several mutual friends.  Anyway, our friends David & Jill were the first to arrive, late Thursday afternoon.  Donette hung out with them while I went on a quick bike ride with Munkirs, then I met up with them at Cantina del Ray up the street for a late dinner.  After a while our friend Steve showed up, in from California.  He managed to find the restaurant despite getting some rather erroneous directions from us.  After ten years you might assume we know what street we live on.  Not so much I guess.

Friday we had intentions of hitting our “Tour de KC” in full force.  Well, it didn’t quite work out that way in the end, but we made a decent run at it.  Our first stop was the Boulevard Brewery tour;  One of our favorite options when we can remember to get reservations early enough.  It’s definitely worth going on if you haven’t been, even if you live in KC.  I had to remind them (again) to throw in a little Ripple Glass info though;  I don’t know why they leave that out.  It’s a pretty cool program, they ought to pimp it a little more.  After the tour, we debated a short bit about heading downtown to the P&L area.  Ended up cutting that part out though, mostly because it was a “work day” (for everybody else) and we didn’t want to deal with the parking, traffic, etc.  Instead we headed straight to Westport, for a quick lunch at McCoy’s.  Checked that box off the list and then walked across the street to Kelly’s.  We hadn’t seen the new upstairs deck at Kelly’s so there was a new feature for us to check out too.  Despite the furnace-like temperature, it was actually a pretty sweet deck and we ended up hanging out there for quite a while.  After Kelly’s, well, the whole tour kind of broke down.  We ended up fast-forwarding clear to the end of our list, and headed to Waldo to meet up with Steve’s wife & daughter at 75th Street.  It was a fine day for the tour, but David & Jill’s fun-hating daughter Casey called and shamed the whole lot of them into going to the rehearsal dinner.  Me, I have no shame, so I went home and watched TV.  (Of course I paid for it, it sounded like they had a good time.)

Saturday we got up, waded out into the monsoon, and met up with the Aushermans at Eggtc for some breakfast.  I think that place just may have surpassed Sharp’s as my breakfast of choice.  I don’t know, it’s still a close race.  It could be because I haven’t made it all the way through the menu at Eggtc, where-as I’ve lapped the one at Sharp’s several times over.  Anyway, after enjoying a particularly tasty (albeit unhealthy) selection, we headed down to the P&L to watch the big soccer game.  Don’t feel bad if you didn’t know there was a “big soccer game.”  I didn’t either, or maybe just didn’t care.  I appeared to be in the definite minority on that though, the place was packed.  Outside at the big-screen was a little too rowdy, as a matter of fact, so we elected to watch it at the Flying Saucer.  We ended up watching the entire match, a decision that would cost us a 30 minute wait getting out of the parking garage.  I found it remarkably entertaining though, it was a good time.  After that we all went and put on our goin’-to-town clothes, and headed out to Independence for our friends Kirk & TJ’s wedding.  It was…  You know, a wedding.  You’ve been to ’em.

Sunday, as the happy couple was heading off to Jamaica, we headed out for breakfast at Sharp’s.  Solid breakfast, and they actually had room for all eight of us, which was a bonus.  Unfortunately I felt the need to knock out an entire order of biscuits & gravy, effectively ruining the rest of my afternoon.  Carb overload I guess.  I laid on the couch and watched the Royals game, and the next thing I knew my whole day had been wasted.  We did go out and meet up with everybody for one last outing at 75th Street.  Just what I needed;  MORE food.  Hey, it was good, and I can always cut back a little this week.