2-7-10 Sunday (Empty Mexican Food)

For a Sunday, it’s odd that we made it to the gym.  It was empty there and we worked out hard.  Chest, back, core and stair master.  I did better this time on the stair master.  I only had to pause once!  Yay for me.   I’m hoping for some good boobilage pain in the next day or so.  You know - no pain, no gain?

We met up with Doug and Bill.  They drove us around various neighborhoods around town.  It was too early for dinner so we all strolled around the South Park mall.  After some shopping, we used a restaurant.com certificate at 1900 Mexican Grill & Restaurant.  We all enjoyed our food and will be back in the future.  Maybe because it was Superbowl Sunday but the place was dead.  We may have been the only ones there at the start of the evening.

  Above: Doug at a mall kiosk surrounded by Israeli women who want to make a sale.

Above: At the restaurant.  Bottom left – clockwise.  Jim, Garret, Bill and Doug.

 

The pets at Doug and Bill’s house.  Above: Moe.  Below: Chloe.

  

Once we called it a night, we came home and I started tomorrow night’s dinner.  I’m making a new crockpot recipe “Mexican Beef Stew”.  I like the ingredients so I’m hoping for the best.  I’ll let you know tomorrow if I think it’s a keeper and then I’ll post the recipe.  One step was to coat the stew meat with flour and brown.  This step didn’t thrill me as I hate to cook as a step of cooking… know what I mean?  Anyway, I got that part done, chopped the onion, combined the other ingredients and into the refrigerator it all went.  Tomorrow morning I’ll get the crock onto the heating element and hope for some magic.  I may serve it on a bed of brown rice.  We’ll see.

With City Walks walking tour cards in hand, we followed self-guiding tours of The Farmer’s Market, Civic Center, etc.  My feet hurt just thinking about it.  One of my favorite photos came from this day – The Painted Ladies.  I snapped so many funny photos on this day as well.  Click on the photo to the left to see for yourself.