Easter Weekend Roamings

So I've been a bit of a bad blogger, huh?!  You'd almost think I gave up blogging for Lent!  Hah, I didn't....I just had absolutely no desire to do anything particular so I didn't really have much to share!  It's been a lazy couple of months to say the least.  But this weekend I got out of the house - out of Grand Rapids and went on a little adventure with my beau!!

Our anniversary is coming up this week so I took Rob on a weekend date-cation to celebrate!  I kind of gave away the surprise a month ago or so, so I could plan around  his on-call schedule or anything else that could possibly interfere with our fun!  I "surprised" him with tickets to a Tigers Game so we headed over to Detroit on Friday to make a weekend of it.

▲▼▲ FRIDAY ▲▼▲

I took Friday off work so I could relax, clean the apartment, do some laundry, etc., etc., etc. When Rob got home we headed out.  Of course we had to make a quick stop at the Outlet Mall in Howell on our way across the state!  I replenished my candle collection with some great Spring/Summer scents and took home a few new clothing steals too!  (Okay, truth telling time - I gave up Shopping for Lent.  I was really good this time - so I figured it was okay to cheat a little so close to the end!  I mean, I didn't go crazy or anything!!) ☺

We arrived in Detroit around 8ish and checked in to the hotel, cleaned ourselves up and ventured out into the night in search of dinner!  Rob had heard good things about Fishbones, so we went there!  We started with Flaming Cheese!!  Rob had Jambalaya and I got a Crunch Roll.  Both were delicious!  They had a HUGE menu - and everything looked terrific - I definitely recommend checking them out if you're ever in the area!

Next we wandered over to the Greektown Casino - and managed to go in the back door!  There's a whole little village of shops and eatery type places back there, complete with faux shrubbery!  Neither one of us is much of a gambler.  In fact, we were watching some of the table games and decided that we basically understood nothing that was going on...so we made our way to the video game side - Hello Penny Slots!  I lost $3.00 and Rob somewhere around $6.00ish.  We did some people watching and exploring and then decided to wander back to the hotel, finding ourselves in the hotel bar for a nightcap before heading up to our room for the night!

▲▼▲ SATURDAY ▲▼▲

Game Day!  We woke up, grabbed a quick bite to eat and some coffee and headed out to Tailgate a bit.  The Tigers played the LA Angels and even won 5-2 which was awesome because they kind of got their butts kicked the night before!  The weather turned out great too!!!  The beer was flowing and our seats were in the sunshine so we even got a little pink-cheeked (with a minor case of raccoon-eye) - oh the wonderful beginning signs of summer!!  ☼  Rob picked up some new Tiger Gear (a shirt and a hat) and I got a tee-shirt too - my first official Tiger merch (not counting a VS tee from a few years back)!  

We did a post-game dinner / beer deal at the Detroit Beer Company - Rob had the 'Hair of the Dog' Burger and I devoured a Grilled Cheese with bacon and granny smith apples! Yum!!  After dinner we headed back to the room, relaxed a bit in the hot tub and then popped down to the hotel bar again!  Creatures of habit, you know...  Deciding that we wanted to get out on the town a little more, but not wanting to venture too far out we headed across the street and discovered this little po-dunk, hole-in-the-wall bar called The Bathtub Pub.  It was interesting - kind of looks like it's closed on the outside, but its just a great little secret spot.  We even got a basket of free fries (I don't personally like potatoes, but Rob enjoyed them) - either way, it was a nice gesture.  We were introduced to a new weird little cartoon called Golan the Insatiable (something about a cast-out demon and the little goth girl he befriends)?  One more trip to the other hotel bar and that was a night.  

▲▼▲ SUNDAY ▲▼▲

Happy Easter!  We checked out, had breakfast/lunch at Lafayette Coney Island and headed home....or to IKEA rather!  I tried the meatballs!!!  Finally...tricked out with gravy and lingonberry jam....and they were awesome!  We got some new trow pillows and shams and a new summer comforter because ours is too warm.  We ended up back in GR around 4:45pm and were welcomed home by a noisy little kitty!  The Easter Bunny even dropped by with a little surprise!  We wrapped up Easter with a low-key pasta dinner and some relaxing couch time!  And, we started watching Bob's Burgers on Netflix - which we both like so far!  It's kind of one of those sick-funny animated sitcoms for adults - similar to something along the same line as Family Guy or The Simpsons.  

The weekend was fabulous - and getting away for a little while was just what we both needed!  Hope everyone else had a wonderful Easter weekend!