Yesterday was our anniversary, so we had a nice day celebrating. My FIL has been struggling with health and his sister submitted his name for this trip to Lourdes France because it's a pilgrimage site where people go to pray, etc. The church pays for a trip there for sick people. They choose so many and they go for a week, and my FIL was chosen, so they just got back Friday night. So my husband and I dropped the kids off Saturday and we went to Arnhem. It was apparently the anniversary of Operation Market Garden in WWII, so there were British flags all over the place, and there was a scotish bagpipe and drum core.
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I found some cool stuff at Primark. I got matching Stitch shirts and socks for DD and I, and they had a bunch of Beauty and the Beast Christmas ornaments, and HP ones, too. And we got some minnie mouse ornaments for my niece for christmas.
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Then we went to dinner at a newish Mexican place we've been wanting to try. It wasn't what we were expecting, but it was good....I forgot to take pictures. We weren't impressed with the look...TINY tables, cheap chairs, and a lot of high tables with more barstool like chairs...just not a comfortable place. Not...inviting, I guess. It doesn't make you want to sit down and have an extended meal with family or friends. And the menu was very limited. We got quesadillas for a starter. Both a ground beef variety and a black bean one. They were both good. And then we got Enchiladas and fajitas for the mains and we shared. We got both with chicken. They were good, though we had ordered the fajitas without jalepeño and they even said it was without them when they served them, but there were tons of them on there. The fajitas didn't have much chicken...it was mostly carrot, so that was a bit odd, but they tasted fine. I liked the enchiladas better though. Then we got some sort of "Cake" to share for dessert. I use the term "cake" loosely because it was nothing like what I consider to be cake. It was this dense, hard chocolate thing (like a crunchy brownie) with flan on the top. It was not good. I've always thought flan was kind of a custard thing...smooth and silky. This was spongy, like scrambled egg. And very wet. It was just...very weird. DH had one bite and said "Nope. It's all yours."
So it was also a sort of city celebration where my inlaws live. They have a carnival, and every year they get a bunch of trucks...like 50 semis and a old fashioned American police cars, and they let handicapped people ride in them in a parade. It goes right past my in-laws house, and everyone comes out of their houses and waves and the drivers honk and flash their lights. The handicapped people LOVE it. I saw one woman was bouncing up and down in her seat with excitement as she waved out the window, and one guy...probably early 20s, had an Elmo plush that he was making it wave for him. One of DH's cousins has spinabifida, and she's ridden in it before. Most of them have Down Syndrome, but there are some others as well. They look forward to it all year, so it's kind of neat to watch it go past and wave to them.
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Then we took the kids to the carnival and played skeeball and got enough points so DS could get a stuffed dragon, DD a stuffed owl, and DS got a slinky and a fidget spinner.
Then we took the kids back to my in-laws' and we went to the movies to see The Spy Who Dumped Me. A few graphic parts, but it was a pretty fun movie. So that was our Saturday.
