the weekend

My mom arrived late Friday night and we have been out flea-marketing and garage-saling and thrift-storing all weekend! Saturday morning we went to a local flea-market that is open every Saturday and Sunday. Turns out it wasn't a flea market at all, more like a Spanish Walmart. You could buy everything from toothpaste to birds to quinceanera dresses to car floor mats. Not the kind of flea market we were looking for. We did buy some german sweet breads from the only non-Spanish speaking person there.

We met Nick for lunch downtown and ate at a collection of food trailers! It was over 80 degrees out - the perfect weather for wandering around town!

In the afternoon, we went to a city-wide garage sale. We bought a pound of old linens and the most awesome microwave cart ever!That's a 1950's oven/cart once owned by Elvis' songwriter. And it works (our german sweet breads are being broiled in it)! I don't think this is what Nick had in mind when I said I found a microwave cart. But, considering our oven has no temperature gauge (which this one does), I think it's perfect. Plus it has a rotisserie. I love it! On our thrifting adventure on Sunday, we did find the most perfect green and metal microwave cart - and they seemed interesting in buying this oven - so we might be parting with it.

They also had this at the garage sale:
Saturday night we went to a hockey game. It was sold out a few minutes after we bought our tickets (the arena only seats 8,000 so that's not saying much). It was a great game - lots of fights and slamming into walls.