High Five For Friday

It's about time to celebrate Fridays again! (Except it's nearly midnight and you probably won't be reading this until Saturday... but at least I'm here tonight, right?)

Lots of things have been going on to keep us busy lately, but here are a few highlights from this week:

1.  Our most frequent visitors, Matt and Heidi, came up this past weekend.  Jesse and I got to help celebrate Kayla's (Heidi's sister) birthday at The Cheesecake Factory.  There was quite the wait, but we girls made the most of it by window shopping while the guys held down the buzzer in line. (Can you still call it window shopping if you walked through the entire store...?)  Our meal was delicious, and of course the cheesecakes were divine. (Photo taken after all the damage was done.)

(((Still wishing you a Happy (early) Birthday, Kayla!)))

2.  Okay, so I didn't just window shop (or whatever we are considering it), I picked up these darlings at Charming Charlie's.  Aren't they adorable?! In the spirit of Valentine's and all.

3.  Jesse had guys night at the movies to see the latest Bond, which he enjoyed a lot.  For those of you that realize this is "out of theaters" we have a dollar theater (really dollar-fifty theater) nearby that shows movies right after they are out of the "real" theater.  It's awesome - it beats paying a million dollars to see it as soon as it first comes out and makes for a great cheap date, which I am. :)

4.  I've had two great lunches this week:  one free lunch from Urban Cookhouse (yum!) during a club meeting - and let me tell you, free lunch (that's not pizza) is kind of a big deal for a room full of broke students; and one with my lovely friend Hannah who goes to school right across the street from me, yet we manage not to run into each other very much.  She's been doing cool things in school like suturing pig feet.  Oh, the things we experience in professional school! Speaking of which, let's throw in a 4 and a half:

4.5.  This is technically not related to only this week, but over the past 4 weeks we have been dissecting in the cadaver lab for our Gross Anatomy class.  As disturbing as it may be, I'd just like to point out that I know what all of your insides look like. It's gross and smelly (formaldehyde how I loathe thee) but I remind myself that it is a great learning experience and a privilege to learn from these donors, because they gave themselves to further our knowledge as health care professionals.

5. On a different note, which may not be the best of transitions after that one:  Jesse and I had date night tonight and tried a new Chinese restaurant. We picked it off the urbanspoon.com top list of places to eat in Birmingham.  It is definitely a happening place. It's a small little hole in the wall, but it was packed the entire time.  So much so that an older couple asked if they could sit next to us, since we had been seated at a four-person table.  After they pulled up their chairs we told them it was our first time eating there, so they gave us a few menu tips for next time, then insisted we try their food choices as soon as they were served.  Apparently a hot item there is the sauteed snow pea leaves. Not the peas, just the leaves!  They were SO delicious - like eating cooked spinach that tastes like fresh, crisp snow peas! We were so glad they shared.

UPDATE:  I has seemed like such a long week I forgot to also mention that we watched the Superbowl game this year.  I know....I watched the Superbowl!  (Surprised, no?)  Our neighbor friends, Mike and Kelsey, prompted the get together, mostly to hang out and watch the commercials and not the actual game.  There were definitely some odd and some disgusting ones, but here was a favorite, in case I actually watched a football game that you didn't:

Good answer, dad.

I'm so glad to finally link up again with High Five for Friday.
What was a highlight of your week?