I went to Reno week before last.
It was super pretty outside, but the insides were … Well. It’s a casino and resort in a place where smoking in public spaces is still legal and where local brothels (also legal) were heavily advertised. In the other hand I saw lots of people who were clearly there for an affordable luxury-style vacation, and good clean fun.
The casino carpet, on the other hand, was AMAZING. where can I get some for our house? I pretty sure that sweet mike will at least permit an area rug in the attic. 
And the fish/sushi restaurant in the resort. Underwatertown! It was delicious, actually. I read a book while I ate. Can you believe that this was the first time I’ve eaten in a sit down restaurant by myself? Rite of passage: passed!
Then I went to Columbus Ga for a family wedding. It was beautiful! And I spotted this knit bomb on the river walk:
A close-up:
And then home again to our gorgeous and clean-for-once home. With gargoyles. Aaah.
WHAT?! It’s the FIRST TIME you’ve eaten in a restaurant by yourself?! While I’m the first to admit that you’re way more popular than I am, I eat out alone all the time (well, probably 60-70% of the time). Not because I don’t have potential eating partners, but because I love it – not to say that I don’t enjoy company, but I enjoy alone time equally. The quietness, enjoying your food and not explaining it to people, people watching time…I loves it. I hope you liked it, too. Maybe someday I’ll find an eating partner I’d rather sit with over eating alone, but even then – I might leave them home for a night out and a “table for one”.
oh, it’s def. not a matter of being more popular – it’s mostly being CHEAP. when I can happily nom down on guac and chips at home, why go out?