Sometimes I have an exciting weekend that merits a blog post.  Since I usually work on weekends and live a fairly boring life, those exciting weekends are rare.

For those who don’t know, my husband likes cars.  That’s an understatement and along with all the random stuff he does outside of his job, he fixes cars.  In the time since we’ve been together, he’s never once taken his beloved 1989 BMW into the shop.  He fixes everything from the engine, brakes and whatever other car things need get fixed.

His other wife is a 1987 Porche he has been fixing.  When we lived in Texas, I drove it once and decided never again.  I can drive a stick shift fine, but I’m not about that life.   Now he has taken the entire thing apart and is rebuilding the engine.  It hasn’t seen the road for over a year, but I think he is almost done.

We had it towed during our move…since without an engine cars don’t go too far…

I read blogs for fun, and he rebuilds engines.

So, in summary, yes, I might be sister wives with two cars…

His hobby led us to the Prestigious Philadelphia auto show.  For $14, you got access to all of the latest and greatest cars.  Almost every brand is represented, and they have classic and modified cars as well.

My only photo of a car

They asked me to model, but I couldn’t stand still that long…so sorry to let them down…

My dream car is the BMW I8.  Considering I just paid off my car, that won’t happen…I need to make blogging a full-time income on top of my day job.  I would have to win the lottery as well.  Then I suppose I could afford one of these cars. 

Maybe I’ll start a go fund me for this car.

Despite only living a few miles from Philadelphia we don’t get down there as much as we would like.  We decided to make a date night out of it and went to a German restaurant called the Brauhaus Schmitz.  I’ve never been to a traditional German restaurant and beer hall, but it was fun.

We ordered the liverwurst app, and the entree called “Schweinshaxe”.  It was essentially fried bread around the fattiest meat I’ve ever had.  The layer composition was meat, fat wrapped with fried bread.  It was unhealthy, but it was one of the best entrees I’ve ever had.

If you are in Philadelphia, I recommend it.  Plus they have over 200 beers on tap!

On Sunday, we headed up to North Jersey and Morristown for the Pregame 4 miler.  As I said yesterday, I had a good race, but my husband finally had a breakthrough race.  He was able to run a 5:50 pace on a challenging course.  He has been working hard, so it was nice to see that pay off.

Afterwards, we went to the Jefferson Diner, where I got the most delicious red velvet cake.  In the 89 diners, I’ve been too, I think this might have won best dessert.  There will be a review in a couple of weeks.

I guess that’s all my excitement of the weekend.  I’ll post another interesting weekend post for about three months when it happens again…

Questions for you:

What is your dream car?

Have you had German food before?