A labor-ful labor day weekend
We were ready to welcome the labor day weekend on Friday. Quinn spent the night at Grandmater Jan's house on Friday. David and I were looking forward to a night"off" and catching up on sleep.
We soon realized that our attempt at a fun-filled Friday evening would not workout in our favor. It started with a trip to a car dealership in hopes of finding a vehicle that we liked enough to test drive (our '91 Accord needs repairscosting more than the value of the car, so we decided it's time to replace it). Turns out dealerships close at 6PM on Fridays - who knew! This was our second failed attempt to search for a vehicle. Last weekend we drove out to Maplewood on a Sunday and learned dealerships aren't opened Sundays either.
Since we had extra time, we checked the newspaper to see if we could catch a movie. Factotum had already started and Talledega Nights was showing within the time frame next at the Mall of America. So, we skipped the movie. Then an attempt to order dinner from Pop's before they closed ended up with a hostess asking us to hold and forgot we were on the line. We ended up getting there as they closed, but they felt so bad having left us on hold that they went ahead and whipped up our order. When we came home, we were looking forward to getting to bed early. However, there was a really loud party down the road which wecalled the police twice to complain about.
After catching up on some sleep, Saturday proved to be a lot more productive and fun. We test drove a couple cars, went out to lunch, and saw Talledega Nights before we went back to pick up Quinn. Sunday, I was called into work for a few hours and David is working tonight so we didn't have a labor-free labor day weekend. Still, there is a whole day of the weekend left, so let's see what sort of fun adventures may still be in store.
We soon realized that our attempt at a fun-filled Friday evening would not workout in our favor. It started with a trip to a car dealership in hopes of finding a vehicle that we liked enough to test drive (our '91 Accord needs repairscosting more than the value of the car, so we decided it's time to replace it). Turns out dealerships close at 6PM on Fridays - who knew! This was our second failed attempt to search for a vehicle. Last weekend we drove out to Maplewood on a Sunday and learned dealerships aren't opened Sundays either.
Since we had extra time, we checked the newspaper to see if we could catch a movie. Factotum had already started and Talledega Nights was showing within the time frame next at the Mall of America. So, we skipped the movie. Then an attempt to order dinner from Pop's before they closed ended up with a hostess asking us to hold and forgot we were on the line. We ended up getting there as they closed, but they felt so bad having left us on hold that they went ahead and whipped up our order. When we came home, we were looking forward to getting to bed early. However, there was a really loud party down the road which wecalled the police twice to complain about.
After catching up on some sleep, Saturday proved to be a lot more productive and fun. We test drove a couple cars, went out to lunch, and saw Talledega Nights before we went back to pick up Quinn. Sunday, I was called into work for a few hours and David is working tonight so we didn't have a labor-free labor day weekend. Still, there is a whole day of the weekend left, so let's see what sort of fun adventures may still be in store.
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