The Florida Gatchel Daily: The return of Meg O'Malley's!

As Grant so appropriately stated in the car tonight "I feel like order has been restored to the world; Meg O' Malley's is open again!" Last April everyone down here was devastated to learn of the fire that swept through Meg O'Malley's, the local Irish pub. It is a favorite of the Florida gang down here as the food is fabulous and the atmosphere is always a lot of fun. Originally, we had heard that the repairs were only to take a few months at most. But six months later we were still waiting... As of earlier this week they have had a "soft" re-opening and will officially be up and running with a Grand re-opening next weekend for the annual Meg O' Ween. The majority of us went and had dinner there tonight and found that it was just as good as we all had remembered. Yay for Meg O'Malley's being open again!!!

Today we also went and hung out the Kunkle's for awhile to try out the new Guitar Hero, which is must like Rock Band now and has all the instruments. I have to say with my very minimal experience that I prefer Rock Band... Though the new drums for Guitar Hero (which have two "cymbals") look pretty neat and got rave reviews from the guys. Fortunately, I'm not overly into video games and am just as content to watch everyone else play while doing something else.

Grant took Noah and Bella on a walk this morning as the weather has cooled down a little bit and the humidity dropped again. They're already "warning" that it's to get into the 40's tomorrow night - make sure to check on the old people ;-) (Which is nearly every other house down here) It was cute to watch them walking down the street together.

Yesterday we went over to Chris' to eat all the ribs left from the Harris new grad event last weekend :-) And we also played some games. I actually played Risk for the very first time and got my butt kicked of course by all the boys. It was good to hang out with everyone and play games. The ribs were fantastic, which coming from me is saying something since I'm not necessarily a huge rib fan.

The real fun happened when we got home, though. Bella had gotten into the candy dish and was literally racing around the house in circles. She was on a huge sugar high! I've never seen her so wired before. Bless Grant for running her around the house for awhile before coming to bed :-)

Alright, as you can see it's been a busy weekend and I've still got plenty to do before going to bed for the evening. Tomorrow is trunk or treat at the Church so I'm sure we'll have lots and lots of great pictures. Noah asked me to send a shout-out to Papa Larry for being a trooper and to send lots and lots of hugs and kisses. Enjoy the pictures!!