Red, White & Frosted Orange

I seem to recall that last time we were left to our own devices for an entire weekend, we pretty much just ate our way through it. Old habits die hard, I guess!

We had a restful Friday night and lazy Saturday morning at home before heading to Fellini's for lunch. We haven't tried Antico, which is the best pizza in Atlanta by all Facebook and Twitter indications, but the white pizza at Fellini's is my current favorite! (Andrew gets the Special.)

White Pizza...mmmm

Luckily, we were both able to finish our slices before this crazy woman with a Hello Kitty backpack came bounding in and rearranging the tables to accommodate her party of 25, which she had not bothered to call ahead for. No biggie. Except she hit me with a chair.

Then, we moved on to Pike to look for some flowers for our balcony! We asked for a little help just to make sure we were getting the right type of easy-care plant for our space (R.I.P. Bromeliad), and before we knew it, the guy had planned a small garden that would have needed at least a three foot wide container.

Little Red Wagon full of Little Red Flowers

We told him thank you very much for the help and bought the red geraniums we'd had our eye on since the start. He did help us choose some little white verbena to go around the edge! I'm proud of our work. Please no bets on how long they will stay alive.

We've got about four more little bloom pods (official name) on there. I hope they actually decide to open!

After planting our new flowers (which is quite a challenge in an apartment, by the way), we had plans for an early-ish dinner at Local Three!

We've been trying to get a reservation for awhile but prefer not to eat dinner at 5 or 9, which would inevitably be the only times available on the nights we wanted to go. But, we planned ahead this time and got a normal reservation time. I refrained from taking photos of our food, but we gave it two thumbs up!

We started with duck fat fried hushpuppies with sambal aioli. Then, I had some housemade mozzarella with sweet corn and pickled onions (which was de-lish), and Andrew was a bit more adventurous with something he's wanted to try for awhile now...roasted bone marrow. I was much less adventurous--as in, I couldn't even look directly at it. It looked like steak Jello, people! He proclaimed it to be amazing, though, so to each his own [bone]. For our entrees, he had a duck meat loaf over some amazing mashed potatoes, and I had flat iron steak with unbelievably good chimichurri and three bean salad. For dessert, we had some mini portions of key lime pie bars and a fresh strawberry curd shortcake. How's that for a meal???

You'd think that today we'd want something light for lunch. I directed us here:

Yes. The Greazy V. (Gotta use the 'z'...not "Greasy V.") And, it was delicious in an entirely different way.

Wha'did we have, wha'did we have?

Ahhh, the F.O.!
(That's a Frosted Orange if you're not familiar.)

Of course, we felt totally energized after and were thrilled to go to the grocery store. In repentance, we did get lots of fruits and veggies for this week.

Hope you've stayed cool this weekend! I know we sure didn't. :)