Many people have advised me to spend the remaining weeks of pregnancy 1. relaxing (check!), 2. sleeping (check-minus), and 3. going on dates with my husband (check-plus). Heeding their advice, Casey and I took advantage of Friday night's relatively cool weather to go out and about.
Our evening started with some good ol' backyard BBQ. Casey fired up the grill and we cooked some delicious shish kabobs, with marinated beef, chicken, peppers, onions, pineapple, and, my favorite, cherry tomatoes. Seriously, if you have never cooked cherry tomatoes on a shish kabob, you don't know what you are missing. They are so juicy and flavorful, I think they just might be my favorite food right now!
After dinner, we went to the Lantern Festival at the Missouri Botanical Gardens. I've been told that the festival is a great honor for the Botanical Gardens because these lanterns are rarely seen outside of China. They were a sight to behold, for sure! It was cool to see them before it got dark, and then after dark when they were lit. The dragons (there were two even though you can only see one in the picture below) were by far the most impressive. These majestic creatures were made out of 40,000 porcelain plates tied together with kite string. And they breathe smoke!
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| Lantern Festival pics |
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| Looking VERY pregnant! |
Even though it was nearly ten o'clock by the time we finished at the lantern festival, we were having so much fun that we decided to extend our date by doing something we have rarely done since we were dating (pre-marriage)--star-gazing! It was a gorgeous (and cool) evening, so we drove out Interstate 44 to our favorite spot and cuddled in the back of Casey's truck underneath a clear and starry sky. Surprisingly, it was cool enough that we even needed a blanket. In total, I think we saw 4 shooting stars. It brought back fond memories of our second date, and many other dates in the fall of '07. All in all, we stayed out until almost 1 a.m. I was quite proud of myself for making it that long, but like I said, I am determined to make the most of these last few weeks of "us time."
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