Working for the Weekend

During the week David and I have pretty much stayed at home at night except for the occasional walk around Como Lake after supper. Here's a picture of the lake at sunset. 

It's so beautiful and the path is full of cyclists, dogs, and families.  It's about a mile around the lake. 

One of David's Cantus friends, Shahzore asked if we would join him Friday night for some Indian food.  He told us to meet him at a restaurant called Gandhi Mahal for dinner because a couple of his friends were playing live Indian music at the restaurant.  The food was absolutely amazing.  Shahzore knew everyone that was working at the restaurant because he has done some publicity work for the restaurant via NPR.  After his friends finished playing music they came and sat with us and ate with us.  We had a lot of fun having conversation with them.  They were very interested in the South, and we were listening to their advice about the winter! 

Saturday morning David and I got up and went to the St. Paul Farmer's Market. It was very impressive.  This market had every type of potato, pepper, and tomato you could think of as well as eggplants, carrots, corn, honey, jams, cheese, meats, pasta, flowers, and some fruits.

The flowers they had at this market were absolutely gorgeous.  What we found so interesting was that this farmer's market goes year round.  Once it gets cold, they cross the street and the vendors set up indoors, but while the weather is wonderful they are embracing it and set up outside. 

Saturday afternoon David and I went to see The Help (that could be a whole post entirely, but just read the book). We went to Woodbury because we found a theater that was 4$!!! Take that Slick! 

That night David and I went to Grand Avenue to try out one of the restaurants.  We picked Punch Neopolitan Pizza as our first try on the Ave and it was delicious!  Here's a picture of our delicious Palermo pizza that had spiced salami, sun dried tomatoes, olives, and oregano.  David said it was as good as Gallo's. (David was a good husband and ate the piece with the big black bubble).

We finished eating outside and walked up and down Grand Avenue scouting out our next restaurant choice for next weekend. 
 
 We went to church again Sunday morning and got to meet a lot of new people and some more connections.  I was talking to a lady named Vicky Hawley and she told me she had been to Africa this Spring.  She asked where I went to church in Searcy, and when I told her Downtown, she told me she and her husband had been part of the team building people for the Makonde team and that they had stayed with Sarah and Andrew for 4 days! When I told her that I knew all those people on the team she just grabbed me and hugged me.  It made us so happy that we loved the same people.  She also told me that she knew Mona Lee because she was there in the Spring too. 

 We're having fun so far.  that's all for now.