Picnic

I packed a delicious, nutritious, fun picnic for our dinner this evening in Oakland....

Last week, we ate at a wonderful Thai place - it was really, truly fantastic! And it was $45 for dinner - for just the two of us.

We've found and enjoyed some great restaurants in Oakland/Berkeley this summer - and we'd love to enjoy eating out continually -

But three nights a week for the foreseeable future is not in our budget....not at all.

So I've packed a cooler with Blue Ice and a variety of food items sure to please....and we'll find a quiet place to sit and eat and chat. And then we're going for a walk. We have an hour plus 'on our own' (while H. is in his counseling appointment) before we join the family counseling group. So we're going to make the most of it - picnic dinner, take a walk and enjoy the evening.

Thankfully, it's almost always 20-30 degrees cooler there than here - so a walk will be pleasant,
hopefully.

I know a picnic dinner with my hubby will be fun!

Don't worry about H. - he just went to pick up McDonald's at the newly opened site in our neighborhood. He's happy as a clam and can snack on whatever we have left if he's hungry on the way home -

Survived my first day back at work and was sort of 'glad' to be able to leave 'early' 'cuz I had somewhere I had to be.....