quick post

we had a lazy saturday yesterday =). we finally made it out-of-doors around 3:00 pm for a trip to the new mahoney's. i'm on a hunt for a few "essentials" for my european excursion this summer. we checked out the backpacks and hiking shoes. my head is still reeling at the prices. i didn't buy a thing, but david walked out with a pair of columbia closed-toe sandals (with breathing holes, of course) and some brown shoe polish for his dr. martens. we were so exhausted with the shopping/spending money that we settled down to watch blazing saddles. not surprisingly, i fell asleep after about 30 minutes and slept for the same. did some online searching for backpacks now that i was equipped with "mahoney wisdom" and WAS surprised to learn that the gregory tega pack at mahoney's (on sale) is cheaper than any i could find online. i even checked overstock.com. they have lots of dana designs packs (i think they are the best??), but sadly they only offer size small which is too small for my med. sized hips =)

toying with the idea of investing in either birkenstocks or hiking sandals instead of a lightweight hiking shoe for this trip. but, no one seems to carry size 11 so that i can try either on... a little scared of ordering shoes b/c i am so picky. for now, i will be content with NOT purchasing anything outrageously expensive like shoes. i will probably buckle down and buy the pack, though =)

in the evening, we went out on a much-needed date. there is a brand new indian restaurant called SAHIB behind the old Days Inn. it was pretty sweet (actually, hot)! i ordered medium and thought i was going to die. Our waiter promised us that they would have masala dosa starting monday. i will definitely be back for that!!

then, it was a speedy gonzalez trip to the bathroom so that we could make it to RTR in time for v for vendetta. interesting and somewhat scary movie. the jump-out-and-kill-people scenes were too gruesome for me, but i thought the film was excellently done. i was amazed that i could perceive changes in v's facial expressions even though he wore a mask the whole time! weird.