Our first dinner guests!

Last month we went to Daryn & Nichole's house for dinner so we thought it was time for us to have them over at our place. Conor and Kate also asked to hang out on Friday night so they came over as well. These were our first guests over for dinner and I think the night went very well!!! I made homemade lasagna (which Brian and I thought tasted really good) and Brian put together a Caesar salad and garlic bread. We cleaned up the house on Friday and it looked awesome! It was our first time pulling our kitchen table away from the wall so that we could all 6 sit. We knew our kitchen was small, but it was REALLY tight with all of us at the table. I liked it though. :) As we were sitting at the table with our new friends I just thought to myself that this is happiness! I was so happy to have them over and getting to know them better. They are all wonderful people and it is so fun that Daryn & Nichole were just married in August and Kate & Conor are getting married in December, so we have lots of fun wedding stuff we can talk about too. I didn't get any pictures of our dinner or guests, but these are a couple of the kitchen table. :)

On Saturday, we met Angel & Dan at Parish Cafe downtown for lunch where we also met their friends Amanda & Josh. They are from Virgina (and were actually at the BC vs. VT game we went to) and they moved here a couple years ago - Dan and Josh work together. We enjoyed our lunch at another great restaurant and then we walked over to the bowling alley. My first two frames were strikes! I was so shocked! Josh won the first game with a 144 I think (and I had a 142 I believe) and I won the next game with a 108. My total for both games was the highest with a 250! :) Brian was bowling really well too! We had fun, but our lane needed repairs - we had to go to the counter all the time because the pins wouldn't set up or they got stuck in the back or something. At least they gave us all free shoe rentals because of it! That was a $8 savings per couple :)

After bowling we walked over to the Boston Vegetarian Food Festival. I found out about it a few weeks ago when looking up things to do, so I thought we should check it out. It was free and we got free samples and tastings. It was fun - it was our healthy trick-or-treating!! :) After Amanda and Josh left, we walked around some more with Dan and Angel and then we left. They walked to the nearby subway station and we waited for the bus which was right outside the building (Brian pointed out that we were at that stop from when we came home from the zoo). So we waited, but then decided maybe we would go back in and buy some vegan pizza for dinner. By the time we got to that table it was gone, so we just walked around once more and sampled a few more things and then left, making it JUST in time for the bus! Perfect!

We ended up going to mass at 8pm at St. Clement Shrine. Brian and I were comfortable in what we were wearing except our faces and ears were freezing!! I believe it was about 37 degrees out at the time (the low that night was going to be 31). Mass was nice - another great homily by Fr. Peter!! It is pretty amazing how many young adults go to that church - I would say that mass had about 93% young adults!! Pretty cool. Unfortunately, it took us so long to get home because the subways were all so busy going in our direction - must be due to halloween although we didn't see too many people dressed up.

We had another wonderful weekend!! The trees are looking amazing, but the leaves are falling quickly it seems. I am worried that there won't be many more on the trees by the time we come home from our trip back to California. We leave on Wednesday to go back home and we are so excited to see our family and friends!! Our days are jam packed with get-togethers, including 2 weddings, but we are looking forward to it!!