Mindy and the kids went down to Virginia for her cousin's graduation party, so I experienced life as a bachelor for the weekend. Apparently, what this entails is watching some TV, reading a book, playing cricket and cleaning up the house - quite the way to take advantage of my "single status" for the weekend!
Cricket on Saturday was a total disaster. Our team was significantly less than full strength and 1/2 of the guys out there (me included) were limping around, carrying some sort of injury. I actually bowled OK in the game (7 overs 2/8) but we gave them too many runs on a tricky pitch. Batting, I was going well before edging to the slip (17) but we were one partnership short of getting the runs. Kind of frustrating as we should beat this team in our sleep (perhaps that was the problem).
In the evening I watched "American Gangster", the based-on-fact story of Frank Lucas, a drug lord in New York in the 70's. Denzel Washington played the part very well and Russell Crowe was also good as the cop investigating him. It was an interesting story and from all I have read about the real people involved, remained pretty close to the actual events that happened. Kind of long but I did not find it dragged out too much. Anyone who likes gangster/mob type films will probably like this I would figure.
Sunday was Mother's Day. Mindy spent it in the company of our two children, driving all day back from Virginia. I spent it cleaning up the house a bit and waiting around for their arrival. We bought her a new juicer as a gift (something she had requested), I know, quite romantic, right? At least I had enough sense to not buy her a mop and bucket! I have another surprise in the works but not sure if I can make it happen yet, so perhaps a juicer will only be the start of the fun.
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