** Weekend re-cap!

happy HOT monday all! another 95 degree day in Balto-land (wipe brow)!

friday night, caps and I took mick to my cousins house in mt. washington for dinner. the girls, Ella (almost 6) and Freckles (10) were there as well. my cousin by marriage who we will call NY (that is where she lives) was also in town and there with her significant other (ni chi bi kai). this meeting was more so for mick and their dog dutch to "meet". dutch, however, wasn't too excited about another canine in his backyard! i went to put a bowl of water down and dutch went crazy! he was growling and batting at mick who countered with the same snarl (totally out of character for him). this happened again maybe 45 minutes later. not too comfortable with them rooming together if i do decide to go out of town for a long weekend...

dinner was great, we had veggie kebabs and couscous. we followed that up with a chocolate torte (to celebrate 4 b-days.. including caps). it was so AWESOME, i like to call it "hot love" or "my new boyfriend".

sunday i gave mick a bath outside (with my DOVE frizz control shampoo)! he looks shiny and smells great! in the afternoon, i caught the lightrail from mt. washington into the city for Artscape 2008! always a good time and ALWAYS super hot!!! met up with meggy, irongirl & hubby, baby n, dom and his 2 wild friends. i am happy to report that i used my SPF 15 and didn't burn...i do have more freckles on my arms though..

we walked around and checked out some of the displays: lots of paintings, jewelry, pottery, t-shirts as well as some interesting "street performers" including a grown woman in a cat suit with a collar and leash being "spanked" by her owner (this was slightly creepy and she had to be HOT in all that black spandex)! we also saw the "art cars" which are pretty cool. one was literally covered in about 100 of those "singing bass" fish and had animated lobsters swaying and flashing red lights in time to a popular song.

after i had a rockin' crab cake and ice tea/lemonade, we caught a group of break dancers performing. they were impressive especially the guy that had a mechanical leg! we all parted ways shortly thereafter and i caught the lightrail back to my car.

caps' invited me to dinner at his casa. he made a delicious sesame wasabi salmon grilled on cedar planks. don't think i had ever had that before but it was great! we also had some tomato (the salmonella ban was lifted), mozzarella and balsamic salad and sweet corn! yee haw, that is was summer food is all about! to end on a high note, i had a leftover cupcake (from caps b-day saturday) with about 2 inches of butter cream frosting! that pretty much put me in a food coma!! zzzzz