Weekend Roundup: IMAX, Mice, and More Soccer

This past Friday we hit up the Fernbak Museum for its weekly Martinis and IMAX event. Apparently Matt's MBA class has an "essential ATL checklist" floating around somewhere, and if you complete all of the items before graduation then you get invited to a super secret party with all of the other list-completers. Let the games begin!

Proof that Matt attended the event. The black and white hides his most distinguishable feature, so FYI he is the one sporting that dashing white cardigan.

This event draws in a diverse crowd who are there to enjoy live music and overpriced martinis. This IMAX theater only shows documentary-style IMAX films that are about 40ish minutes in length, so don't come here expecting to get up close and personal with the latest Transformers installment. You can, however, get up close and personal with one of these bad boys: 

Rawr

I hadn't seen an IMAX movie since like the fourth grade, but I am definitely on board for the boozing while watching philosophy that I can partake in as an adult. Matt enjoys it too, so much so that he proceeded to jump out of his seat during a sudden shot of an iguana and spill straight bourbon all over himself. This incident occurred roughly 10 minutes into the film, so there was a nice odor wafting through the air for the duration of the movie. (Oh yeah, we saw a film on the Galapagos Islands - very interesting!)

After the movie we headed to a bar in the Virginia Highlands neighborhood of Atlanta called Highland Tap, and this, ladies and gentlemen, is where I saw the MOUSE. Let's be clear - this is a steakhouse where people are actually consuming food. Apparently people can just come in and out of a back door as they please, and during one such instance this mouse (or rat, who knows) saw its opportunity and made a break for it inside and out of the rain. Girls screamed, guys kicked the mouse/rat back out the door, and I decided then and there that I will never return. Unfortunately I do not have a picture of the mouse/rat, but I imagine it looked something like this: 

On Sunday we ventured over to our local Irish pub, Fado, for Arsenal's FA Cup game. The Gunners pulled out the victory and live to play another day! 

Why hello there, Theo Walcott

We are laying low this week in preparation for Marge the Party Barge's triumphant arrival in Atlanta on Thursday to celebrate the Atlanta W&L chapter's infamous Lee Party. 

This weekend is going to be a full-fledged throwback to the life and times of 4 Frank Parsons Way circa 2007. Look out!

Weekend Roundup: Netflix, Tapas, Massages, and the World Cup

Don't you love it when you are smacked in the face by reality after a long weekend? I was hit hard this morning when I woke up 35 minutes before an aggressively scheduled department meeting that I totally forgot about. I somehow managed to make it to my meeting with two minutes to spare, but my appearance is dangerously close to turning any potential visitors to my office cube into stone.

Our weekend was rather calm, with a few social gatherings sprinkled in here and there. In my downtime, I was intensely binge-watching Season 1 of House of Cards on Netflix.

Why am I so late to this party?! (Besides the fact that I just began borrowing Netflix from my parents - don't judge). The acting in this show is top notch and I now see why Kevin Spacey won a Golden Globe for his role as Frank Underwood two weeks ago. Also - please God, let me look as good as Robin Wright when I am her age. She looks flawless as she effortlessly executes every step in her day to day life. The music is creepy yet powerful, and I couldn't help but compare the intense political drama from House of Cards to the what now appears to be the fluffy, sensationalized (but still great in its own way) drama that embodies Scandal. Season 2 binge-watching commences this evening...

On Saturday we went to Barcelona Wine Bar with Matt's MBA case study team, and all I got was this picture of sausage hanging from the ceiling:

Not my picture

Not my picture, but this is where we sat

Despite being seated an hour after our 9 pm reservation, the meal was fantastic (per usual) and we stuffed ourselves silly with tapas and wine. We truly lived the European c'est la vie lifestyle by dining outside (in January) next to a roaring fire and covered in fur blankets. You can check out my full-length review of our Barcelona experience on Yelp, which is my new favorite way of reviewing businesses and giving them the 411 about my experience. I have been pleased to see that many businesses truly value the reviews that their customers leave them on Yelp -- we have even been offered a fully compensated meal to retry a restaurant whose service was lackluster at best when we dined there a few weeks ago. I will report back on how our follow-up visit goes!

Seeing that Monday was a holiday, I initiated a "Day of Molly" by scheduling a last-minute massage, hitting up Starbucks, getting my car washed and detailed, and last but not least, engaging in some retail therapy at our local Home Goods.

Greenery for the guest room

Mirror options #1 and #2 for our bedroom 

The weekend roundup wouldn't be complete if I failed to mentioned that I booked my ticket to Vancouver for the 2015 Women's World Cup Final!

I could not pass up the chance to attend the Women's World Cup when it was basically being held in our own backyard. No one wanted to attend the group stage matches with me, so I am tagging along with my aunt, uncle, and cousins for the big kahuna - the final game! I believe that we will win!