Weekend Update

Friday Night!
We went to a cooking class at Cook's of Crocus Hill. We signed up for the class way back in February as this class sells out fast, we have been trying to get into the class since September when we got back from up north. Anyway, we got in for April and it timed out well with Nicole's birthday. The class was Sushi 101. There was 17 of us in the class and we tried crab, tuna, salmon, and eel. The Chef, Jonathan Kaye is a Brit and his sense of humor was quite good. He was very blunt about the sushi places around the city and how bad they are and told us which 2 he goes to. We have never been to either. His first question of the night was, what is Sushi? Thinking I knew the answer to be fish, I said fish. NOPE! Wrong Answer. In fact, sushi has nothing to do with the fish. Sushi is vinegared rice and sashimi is the fish. We had some annoying blokes in our class too, first there was a bunch of women on a ladies night out, which is cool, but they were loud and annoying and Chef Kaye "shooshed" them twice because they were laughing and talking over his demonstrations. He said to be a sushi chef in Japan it takes 10 years to be certified. He has been perfecting his craft for 8 years and he is very good. There is a lot to it and Nicole picked it up pretty fast. I rolled 2 rolls myself and they were terrible, actually they tasted good, but they didn't look good. So, we know all the good spots to eat sushi now, and he told us all the good spots to buy sushi grade fish and how to make some good rolls. We are going to have the Snyder's over in 2 weeks and give it a whirl. The class was 3 hours and it felt like 15 minutes, it was very interesting and we had a great time. If they didn't cost so much I would do one every week.
Saturday:
We got up early, Nicole went for a run (she is training for a race with Ashley this coming Saturday, 6.2 miles). Then we WENT TO WORK! We started with the deck and got it all stained. It turned out great, we are so happy to have it done and in fact we are both sitting on the couch right now on the deck working on our computers. Life is good! After finishing the deck I mowed the grass with my neighbor Dave's mower. The grass looks good, thanks to George for getting it thatched and the warm weather has greened it up very nicely. I had 2 people stop over today to tell me how nice the yard looks.
After working we went golfing. My boss Mark Schultz drove out to play with us. He, Brent, and I are playing Interlachen Country Club on Monday after work so Mark wanted to get some practice in. He played pretty well, just got tired on the last 4 holes. Nicole struggled a bit yesterday and I played pretty decent.
Saturday night we cooked dinner for Brent as he worked 14 hours at the club and he doesn't eat well when he's at work, he forgets to eat, he just chews more! So, Nicole made chicken marsala and it was very good. Court was working until 10:00 so she didn't make it over.
Sunday:
We got up and got to work again. This time we were working on mulch around our trees and around Nicole's flowers on the south side of the house. We didn't buy enough mulch and have to go back to the nursery this week to get more. The work as a homeowner never seems to end.
We golfed again today, Nicole played well and today I struggled a bit. I held her off by 1 shot. I had 9 penalty shots on the back 9 and still managed a 46, oh what could have been.
We're heading to the Snyder's now for ice cream. Have a good week!