Beach Bound!

We're taking Buckley to the Crystal Coast for the first time this weekend. I know all of you frequent beach goers are taking a break off because of all of the tourist crowd, but Latin Teacher is almost done with school and I have an extra long - long weekend, so we're going to bite the bullet and fight the crowd. The trip down wasn't too bad despite the 1:30pm launch from Raleigh. We killed our time listening to podcasts from Stuff You Should Know and playing the "ABC" memory game. If you're not up on this game, you have to remember all of the items before and then add one more. Starting with A for Apple, B for Boysenberry... and so on. Our topic was none other than downtown Raleigh restaurants/ Bars; are you surprised? I didn't think so.

Here was how our list ran:
Applebee's (SAD I know, but it's more of a joke than anything)
Busy Bee Cafe
Coquette
Dos Toquitos (Started as Denny's but we wised up half way through)
El Rodeo
Flaming Amy's Burrito Barn ( Not in Raleigh, but a significant place in Wilmington)
George's Garage (Former Durham Staple)
Havana Deluxe
Issac Hunter's Oak City Tavern
Jersey Mike's (a chain, I know, UGH)
Kanki
Landmark Tavern
Marbles Kids Museum :)
Neomonde or Nofo (It changed every other round)
The Oxford
The Point or The Players Retreat
Quizno's
The Remedy Diner
Sono
Tir na Nog
Ugly Monkey
Vic's
Waraji
X, Z (we got tried and were struggling, so we just stopped.)

I'll be keeping you guys up to date on what we're doing over this long weekend.

Were headed to appetizers with my work friend and her husband and then to a booze cruize on his parent's boat. Should be a good (read: possibly sloppy mess) time.

Stay tuned :)

Oh yea, Buckley was an angel in the car. We're so blessed with an amazing pup.