The Weekend Where Nothing Happened

Our friends came to town this weekend - we had a full schedule of activities. A 20 mile training run (23 for The Boy), a Brad Paisley concert and a brunch reservation at a local restaurant that's about to close.

And none of those things actually happened.

Preparing to run, we all ate a clean meal and said goodnight early Friday night. Then we woke up to thunder and lightening - lots of it - at 4:15 a.m. By 4:32, our training run was cancelled (Run in the rain? Yes. Run in thunder and lightening? No.)

Back to bed for another two hours of sleep, then a lovely do-nothing day followed.

Then we headed to the concert - held in a partially-covered amphitheater near downtown Dallas. But the skies, which had been sunny most of the day (save when we were scheduled to run), looked like this:

About 20 minutes after we arrived, this happened:

2" of rain within 15 minutes

And even more unfortunately, even the covered section of the amphitheater wasn't dry. Water poured through the ceiling. Sitting in our "dry" seats looked like this:

Five minutes before the concert was to begin, it was cancelled. Off we headed home.

I looked at our crew and said, We've done nothing we planned all weekend long. We might as well cancel our reservation for brunch while we're at it.

My friend's response? Actually, I didn't see anything I liked on the menu so I don't care if we go or not.

And that was that. We cancelled our reservation, slept in and had brunch at home before everyone headed back for a week that will certainly be filled with more do than do nothing.

Looks yummy! Recipe to follow another day...

I'm not sure if I should be happy or sad that it was a do-nothing weekend. It's frustrating to have plans of fun things you want to do that get cancelled by things out of your control. Yet it's always nice to spend time with friends and to build in deliberate time to relax.

Loss of control can be a bad thing or a good thing, I suppose. And for this weekend, it ended up being a pretty good thing.