Labor Day Weekend

For labor day weekend Julio and I both took Sunday and Monday off work. We wanted to take a short trip, but money is tight and Cat's boyfriend Ben was in town visiting so we decided to stay home. Friday we went to dinner and bowling since there was a pretty intense rain storm that prevented us from going to First Friday downtown. Saturday we had a "couples night out" with Cat & Ben and Dani & Brent (Dani is Cat's sister). Sunday we went to Lulu's for brunch with Cat & Ben. Lulu's is a local restaurant that was on the Travel Channel's "Man vs Food" a few weeks ago. For those of you that haven't seen the show, basically the host, Adam, travels around the country to partake in food challenges-- which are usually just super size versions of some type of food, or eating a large quantity of something. He came to San Antonio and ate at 3 local restaurants here: Chunky Burger, where he ate the spiciest burger- it had jalapenos, serrano peppers, habanero peppers and ghost peppers which are 16 times spicier than habanero peppers...ouch; at Big Lou's Pizza he ate a ginormous pizza- I don't remember exactly what the measurements were, but each slice was the length of his arm...he didn't eat the entire thing luckily; and, at Lulu's he ate their famous chicken fried steak smothered in queso and the giant cinnamon roll.

We ordered the 3 pound cinnamon roll to split between the four of us and didn't even finish all of it. Ben and Julio split the chicken fried steak which was about a foot long and looked pretty disgusting. After brunch we went to check out one of the local art museums. The McNay is a very unique art museum. The feature exhibit was a collection of international art collector,Tom Slick's paintings. He had a few Picassos and Georgia Okeefe paintings. The museum had a nice impressionist collection, including a few Monets, and a great sculpture garden. The building itself is also pretty impressive. Above are pictures from the courtyard that had beautiful tiling and fountains. After the museum we had another barbeque at Dani and Brents house and game night afterwards.

Sunday Julio and I did some flea market shopping, but didn't really find anything interesting. We went to one of the Thai restaurants that I went to a lot in college so Julio could try out the bubble tea-- a tea filled with tapioca balls. He didn't like it. Sunday evening we just relaxed at home and rented a movie.