We declared a "Keith and Jennifer Weekend"

Our priorities for the weekend included bike riding, eating good food, and spending time together.

On Friday, we both got off work early just because we got lucky. We ate dinner at Logan's, and we managed to get the $13.99 for two entrees deal because we got there early. After dinner, we watched Jeopardy and then went grocery shopping for the week to avoid the Saturday crowd.

Saturday morning was slow, but we knew we wanted to beat the heat for a bike ride. We headed out before 11am toward a part of town that our bikes had never seen. In the first 2.3 miles of our ride, we had to walk up two hills that are outrageous! We weren't even out of our neighborhood yet! At the top of that climb, we got to Forsyth Road, a main road in town with a sidewalk. We turned from there onto Zebulon Road, which also has a sidewalk, and we headed for Wendy's. We knew we needed light food because of the heat of our ride and because of our plans for the rest of the day. After Wendy's, we rode across the street to Wal-Mart and checked out bird baths, water hoses, grill brushes, step ladders, and digital frames. We bought a grill brush, and we decided on a step ladder, but we'll have to take a car to go pick that up later. Our ride home was warmer than we really liked, but we were fine. Total miles for Saturday: 11.7.

On Saturday afternoon, we went to two bike shops looking at road bikes for Jennifer. We're still shopping so far. We came home and cleaned up around the house, and Keith washed his cars. Then, we started working on dinner. We grilled steaks (our first ones on our new grill!), and we had twice-baked potatoes, brussel sprouts, and rolls. It was quite easy and delicious!

After church on Sunday morning, we continued with our digital frame shopping. We love the frame we got for Christmas, and we want to put our wedding pictures on a larger one. So, we hit several stores in the same shopping area, and we got lucky at HH Gregg. The right size for the right price! It's the same brand as our first one, so the learning curve won't be too hard.

We also continued our bird bath shopping, but we weren't very successful with that. So, we headed to lunch at McAllister's where we ate light again because our steak dinner was still with us, and we were hoping to get another bike ride in later.

On our way home, we drove around looking at other bike riding options to get away from the two steep hills in our neighborhood. No luck, though! On our ride that afternoon, we rode those hills again on our way to Virginia's house. We took our laptop with us to show her the digital pictures we've received from our wedding. We got home just in time to shower and go to a special event at church. Total miles for Sunday: 7.7.

At church on Sunday, they showed a documentary about Liberia called "Pray the Devil Back to Hell." It was quite intense as it told the story of the Civil War in the country and how women led the way to peace. Since we have some ties to Liberia already, it was an important movie.

So, on this Keith and Jennifer Weekend, we accomplished our goals!