Maryanne and I managed to both get a day off on Friday, which we used to run errands. We used the loaner car. I don't know how many miles we put on it, but since many of our stops were on the west side of town at places we'd never been to, it must have been quite a few.
We stopped for lunch at Qdoba. We wanted to go to Outback, but they're only open for dinner. Qdoba was OK. It's a chain, so it won't go on my restaurant review page. The food was tasty enough. The atmosphere, in some respects, reminded me of Panera, except much louder. There are no soft surfaces in the place, so the acoustics were terrible, and the staff didn't speak very clearly. Not only did Maryanne have a hard time of things, but so did I.
Saturday was busy as well. Maryanne went with her friend Bernadette and another girl, Karen, to look at bridesmaid's dresses in Janesville. I hung out with Brad and Ryan at State Street Brats, watching Marquette open a can of whoop-ass on Kentucky. The six of us had dinner at the Prime Quarter, another chain. It was my first time there, but it certainly won't be my last.
We spent much of Sunday morning cleaning before having to go to Stoughton so that Maryanne could make choir rehearsal. We did some grocery shopping when we got back to Madison. It was nice to get home.
