Savor the weekend

This weekend was our favorite beer event:  Savor!  It’s an amazing opportunity to meet brewers and owners and try some really amazing beers.  It’s held each year at the National Building Museum, which is a gorgeous venue.  I can’t really put into words how much fun this is each time we do it.  So, I’ll just give you the highlights…

• We were first in the line to enter. I’d like to say I planned it that way, but it was one of those times when everything went smoothly and we got there 20 minutes earlier than I expected.
• We went to a beer-wine hybrid Salon put on by Lucid Brewing.  The guys were great and the beers ranged from good to awesome.  Perhaps starting out the evening with an 18% ABV beer was not my smartest move ever…

• I got my annual picture with Sam Calagione from Dogfish Head brewing.  It’s ok to be jealous.

• The food was amazing.  I think I tried at least one bite of everything they offered.

• There were some beers there that were just AMAZING. One was a barrel aged Imperial dry Irish stout on nitrogen from Pinthouse Pizza in Austin, TX.  I think Beer Geek was afraid I might leave him for the beer.  Yeah, it was that good.

• My annual collection of “beer boyfriend” photos.  I swear one year I’m going to make a calendar LOL.

• The “parting gift” is a collaboration beer between Flying Dog and Firestone Walker – both really good breweries, so I can’t wait to try it.

Note to self: Don’t wear heels.  It doesn’t matter if they are super comfortable. Tipsy. Literally.

I did a surprisingly good job of moderating my alcohol intake, so I felt fine on Mother’s Day.  Beer Geek took the boys out on a long bike ride, so I was able to just chill out.  I’m proud of myself for actually sitting and reading a book for fun instead of doing chores or spending all my time on social media.  Then we ordered Thai for dinner.  YUM!

I also did my first Metabolic Effect weight workout.  As I told Kim, it was easy. Until it wasn’t.  Two days later, I’m still sore in spots.

And I nominated one of my closest friends to win the ZOOMA contest.  If she wins, I win, so I’d love it if you’d vote for her!!  (Also?  She’s awesome and I want to be a runner like her someday…)

Finally, thanks to everyone who has come by to enter the Altra shoes giveaway!  I hope you’ll stick around for a while as I’d love to get to know all of you.  If you left a blog address, I’ll be stopping by in the next week or so (there were a ton of new to me blogs!)

How was your weekend?  Did you do anything fun?