Holiday Weekend

We have had a nice holiday weekend, so far. We spent yesterday hanging around the house. We did get out during the afternoon to drive around, just to see what all was open around town. Burger King was the only fast-food restaurant open. The Waffle Houses (all three of them) were open (of course). A couple of grocery stores and Blockbuster, along with a few other things.


We woke up and had a marvelous breakfast--french toast casserole. Sorry the pic is sideways--just turn your head:
Lunch was incredible. The picture does not do justice. Turkey stuffed with dressing--unbelievable. Asparagus with ham. Lauren's family's tradition--Irish Potato Casserole. A meal to remember for a while:

A Dallas Cowboys win topped the day off just right. Has been quite a sports weekend, so far. Mavs won. 'Boys set a record, going to 10-1. Right now, though, things do not look that great for the Longhorns. The pesky Aggies are up 10-0 and driving early in the second quarter. That would be just like A & M--they're not having that great of a year, win or lose they will probably make some sorry bowl. Texas has an outside chance to still make the Big 12 Championship--and A & M will probably go on to beat them now. Stinkin' A & M (isn't that right, Janet?). And I've just about given up on Colt McCoy--great as a freshman, he can't remember what sport he is playing as a sophmore--he better shape up before next year (or everyone will be wondering where Jevan Sneed is).

This morning, we woke up early and went shopping for a little bit--here in Carrollton, then over in Newnan. This was my first experience with the Friday-after-Thanksgiving shopping deal. Not too bad. There really were some good deals out there. The amount of people was incredible. Even Carrollton's parking lots were full before 7:00 a.m.

What amazed me most was how inconsiderate people were. That, and how much stores stock their aisles full so that no one can walk down them, when the stores are full. People on cell phones walking around in parking lots, walking in front of cars . . . people walking around department stores with HUGE shopping carts, completely clogging aisles up. People just don't care. Something's wrong with that.

Newnan is really cool. There is a cool stretch of shopping on one of the major roads. Saw a Mazzio's Pizza place that looked to be shut down--but still, been a while since I have seen one of those. We had some breakfast at another Chick-Fil-A Dwarf House. They had a breakfast buffet (which we regret not eating at)--looked incredible--but we did not have a whole lot of time to mess around with Lauren needing to get back to work--so we just went to the fast-food part. Also said the breakfast buffet is on Wednesday night--that's awesome.

Newnan has a really cool downtown; and a pretty good barbeque place. Sprayberry's. Lauren had a barbeque sandwich that she liked. I had ribs (pork, of course--they have not discovered what good beef bbq is here) and brunswick stew. The ribs were pretty good. This stew stuff is everywhere--but we had not had any before today. It was actually pretty good. Seems like they just put some different scraps together and make a stew--pretty good. The bbq sauce was good--different from what we're used to (as is all bbq here--we just had to come to that realization today--it is just different, but good in its own way)--the sauce was vinegar-based. Here is a pic:

Well the sports weekend still has a ways to go, even if the Horns can't come back (this comeback junk is going to catch up to them before too long)--all kinds of good high school football tonight, then some good college football tomorrow--Georgia/Georgia Tech, Kansas/Missouri, etc.

--be