Weekend Roundup: North and South

This weekend reminded me so much of when Rob and I used to live in San Luis Obispo (aka: SLO). Even though we’re in Northern California now, this weekend felt like Southern. A relaxing time, sunny weather and lots of casual hanging out with friends!

On Friday, Rob, Margaret and I went on a small roadtrip to see a friend perform in the band of a local theater group. In SLO, our routine was to take a 40 minute drive south to see PCPA. For this show, we drove over an hour to Newark and stopped for delicious Taiwanese noodles before.

Stage 1 put on an amazing production of Hair Spray at the local high school auditorium. I honestly didn’t expect much from the show. But everything was so well done! The main characters were perfectly cast, the choreography and singing were very professional, and of course the live band was our favorite part. It was the best production of Hair Spray I’ve ever seen – you should definitely go if you have a chance! I’ve had You Can’t Stop the Beat in my head ever since.

On Saturday morning, Rob went off on a bike ride and I did some gardening. Margaret came over and we went to lunch at Epicenter and then walked over to TJ Maxx. It was supposed to be a short visit, but we found so many great things. I came home with a sequined French Connection dress, duck boots, throw pillows, cupcake toppers and eye cream! In SLO, Margaret and I would have similarly epic shopping trips at Ross all the time.

After dropping off our bags, we met up with Rob at home. It was such a warm nice day, that we walked downtown to get pints on the sidewalk patio at The Grove (a lot like our old routine at Spike’s in SLO). Cream puffs from Beard Papa in the park. Margaret headed home and we met up with Nicole to see The Artist at the independent movie theater (equivalent to the Palm Theater in SLO).

Lazy Sunday morning. Rob and I had coffee and oatmeal with the paper. At 11:00, we met up with Seth & Amy and their baby for a day at the beach (very SLO). We drove over together to Muir Beach and stopped in at the Pelican Inn for a classic pub lunch.

From there, we set up camp on the beach with chairs, blankets, the dog and the baby. Rob, Seth and I hiked to the overlook.

And we played rounds of bocce ball on the sand.

We only packed up to go home when it started getting overcast.

Quick stop at Trader Joe’s on the way home and then a quiet pizza dinner.