Saturdays are never dull around the Goadrich apartment, and this was no exception. We awoke and set about out thrice-weekly exercise routine on the elliptical machine and weights. I feel good about trying to get back into shape and it works well to exercise together with Laura. Lunch was a stop to Milio's (formerly known as Big Mike's Super Subs) for a Ham and Cheese for Laura and a Turkey Sub for me. Exactly the same sandwiches, it's hard to start saying Milio's instead of Big Mike's, but we'll get used to it, especially since it means they're expanding to more markets. Wherever we end up, we hope there's a Milio's there.

Right near by, we shopped for coats at Goodwill and St Vinnie's. No coats, but we did end up with some nice sweaters for Laura and a new game and 8 and 10 sided dice for myself. All of this was only leading up to the main event for the day, Putt Putt at Urban Links. Laura's taking Golf this semester and working on putting skills, so we braved the Polynesian course, battling water hazards and "rough" carpet. It was an indoor course, and we'll be back soon, especially since it was so warm. We had to let about 4 kids play through, man are they quick, as we were trying to practice setting up our shots, making most holes in par. Urban Links also has an indoor driving range, so once Laura's class is up to swinging, we'll be back.

After a quick run through the grocery store, we set about making dinner. We'd been planning this all week, and it came out pretty well, so we present "Settlers of Catan - Pizza Edition." It was amazing fun to turn one of our favorite board games into a meal, almost too much fun (as you can see in our photos). First, we cut some old cardboard to make a hexagon of the right size, rolled out the pizza dough to fit all the hexes, covered it with sauce and mozzarella, and went to work. The road and settlement pieces are four colors of bell peppers. The resource ingredients are: ore=olives, wheat=colby cheese, wood=broccoli, sheep=spinach, brick=pepperoni, desert=mushrooms. The robber was made with two whole olives and a toothpick. It was delicious and flavorful, since each piece had at least two distinct flavors. Next time, we'll need to get a hexagonal cookie cutter so the hexes can be served seperately.

We then settled in for some flicks from the video station, Forgotten a creepy thriller which didn't have much cohesion by the end of the movie, and Silver City, a satire of Bush and Rove that also didn't really work; some parts were funny, while others just fell flat, the pacing was off or something. Next week the plan is Little Black Book and Shaun of the Dead, hopefully they excite us more than these did.