Fun Weekend = $0.00

This last weekend was wonderful. We've found that being involved in clubs and sports and making friends has given us things to do on weekends that cost less compared to our boring expensive weekends in the past.

Well this past Friday we went out to dinner with our friends at TGI Fridays then we had a fun game night playing Famous People (thank you Laura for teaching us that game). Shane and I scored on a free dinner at TGI Friday's because we had let our friend Jack use our car the past weekends and he wanted to pay for our dinner in return.
After dinner we played a couple of rounds of a game called Famous People at our friends' house. Famous People is a really fun charades type of game that Shane's sister in law Laura taught us. We had so much fun. We spent a total of $0.00 dollars last Friday.

Saturday we decided to buckle down and make our budget for the month of October. 
Saturday night the girls got together and gamed it up totaling $0.00 dollars again.
On Sunday we had an amazing conference. I got up early to prep for our dinner that evening because we were having the missionaries and our neighbors over. Then, since we don't have internet at our place, we watched the first session of conference at the church building. We went from there to have lunch with a family from church who'd invited us over for food and the last session of conference. We had a whole Thanksgiving dinner with turkey, mash potatoes, stuffing, rolls. Very delicious food and amazing company. There were two families, another couple our age with no kids, and us. We had so much fun chit chatting, making jokes, hanging out, it was really awesome getting to know our new friends. We watched the 2nd session of conference and we were off to our house to get ready for our dinner. When our guests came over we ate and played games afterward.
 Over all our weekend didn't cost very much. We played a lot of the same games and the environment was someone's home, but what made it so much fun is that we got to hang out with different groups of people  every time and had good conversations. I always think about the conversation in "Eat Pray Love" when some Italian is explaining to the main character Elizabeth how Americans pass time always looking or wanting entertainment. We as Americans can't sit still. Apparently the Italian lifestyle is to sit and do nothing, just talk, eat, and stay local. This has helped me to realize that if I'm not spending my weekends traveling, site seeing, going to shows, eating out at restaurants, doing something different to identify that it's a weekend, well, it's OK because I can relax and enjoy life with simple activities, good company, and of course my husband.