stacey ewing

On Friday, Jay had to put in some flight time with the Sheriff’s department so Lorraine, Tim, and I were left to our own devices. We drove out to Gulf Coast Town Center and dropped Tim off at Dick’s Sporting Goods while we browsed books at Borders. about an hour later, Tim met back up with us and we walked (and poor Lorraine hobbled on her crutches), over to Bass Pro Outlets. She and I found some comfortable camping chairs to sit in while we waited on Tim to finish fondling all the hiking/camping gear.

We headed back to the casa so that Tim could nap and Lorraine and I could kill more Nazi Zombies(!) while we waited on Jay to get home from work. Thanks big-big to her cuz Jonathan for taking us up past level 4- boy-boy had our backs! ;)

When Jay got home, he and Lorraine treated us to dinner at one of their fav restaurants, Two Meatballs in the Kitchen. Can I just say, “best calamari, ev-ar??” So flippin’ good! The dark, dark, dark, dark chocolate cake of freakin’ death was totally awesome too! Wish we had a place like that up here!

To work off somma those good eats, we went over to the Bell Tower Shops to walk around, window shop and drool over all the pretties at Williams-Sonoma and J. Jill. Lorraine and I met back up with the guys over at Brookstone (click each for larger view- haha):

and then before security escorted us out:

I tried to take pictures of Jay and Lorraine (again, click for larger):

But the images all blurred out because Tim was standing behind me, making them laugh:

The center was really pretty at night: