The Weekend Not Planned

 This weekend didn't go like I thought it would but it turned out okay.  Originally I was supposed to go to a craft show with Vickie and Tonda but Vickie texted me to cancel because she was meeting up with her son who she hadn't seen in quite a while, and then a couple of days later Tonda texted me to cancel because she had to go to her parents because they both were having health issues.  I could have still gone by myself but that just isn't as much fun, especially to have to drive that far, so I said forget it.

I had been wanting to see the Sally Fields movie "My Name is Doris"

 and I saw that it was playing at the E Street Cinema in DC so I told Hector to look for a movie there that he would want to watch so I could see my movie.  He said he would see the movie with me and since we're there let's have dinner too.  He wanted to go to a Brazilian restaurant called Fogo de Chao

 which was pretty pricy but what the heck.

So we had dinner first and I have to say that for the price of the food I really wasn't all that impressed.  It was good but I didn't think the meat was very well seasoned or salted and was kind of boring. And the salad bar, eh.  The drinks were good, I had a strawberry lemonade thing that was $15(!) but it definitely had booze in it. A couple of those I would have been loopy.  For dessert I had a coffee that had Godiva liqueur and Baileys in it and boy that was delicious.  Maybe it was a good thing I had that alcohol because it dulled the pain of the bill which would have equaled a grocery shopping trip. Yeah, that much.  We decided that was my birthday dinner even though my birthday is a few weeks off.

Afterwards we went to the movie and it was cute and rather sad and had what I would call a "no ending".  That was kind of disappointing but I suppose they meant it to be.

We decided to drive around DC a bit so I took pictures:

The street the movie was on

New Trump Towers

The Capital

And the Washington Monument

Today was very quiet and didn't do much except take the dogs for a walk which evidently was tiresome for  them:

And later I called Mom's best friend Darlene to see how she is.  She seemed okay but I'm guessing with her dementia it does dull the pain for her than if she didn't have it. And maybe that's a blessing for her.