It was an epic weekend, to say the least. I'll try to break this down as succinctly as possible, but with so much stuff on my platter, it'll be tough to do. Here we go...

Stef and I went to see Marie Antoinette on Friday (see my review below) afternoon. The movie let out at six something, so the timing was perfect for us to head out and get some din-din at the Outback in Okemos. I hadn't been to this new one yet, and while it's basically like every other Outback in America, it's nice to finally have one on the East side of town after all these years.

After dinner we pretty much just came back to my place and spent the rest of the evening watching Charlie's Angels on TBS. It was pretty low-key, but it was nice to just take it easy for the night, since we knew the rest of the weekend was going to be so nuts.

Since I spent all of Friday with Stef, I never really had any time to go out and get stuff for Sweetest Day. So, I got up bright and early at 7:30 on Saturday morning to go pick up some stuff for my girl: a cute card, some flowers, some sweet treats for her to keep at my place, and her Us Weekly.

We did our little Sweetest Day exchange at my apartment later that morning before taking off for my Aunt Elaine's house for the Pohl Party. All the Pohls seem to be doing well, and it was nice to see some of the young'uns that I haven't seen in a while. My cousin Lisa's son Joey has to be one of the cutest kids on the face of the earth (behind my sisters, of course). In fact, Joey has his own blog, which you can read here. What was so cute was that, while we were watching the truly bizarre MSU-Northwestern football game, Stefy told Joey to tickle the players on TV since he was standing right there. The kid can barely say his own name -- he refers to himself as "Dewey" -- but he sure knew what "tickle" meant, because he started wiggling his fingers on the screen. I know it sounds silly, and it was, but at the time it was pretty much the highlight of the day.

After a few hours of catching up with the family and pigging out on all the amazing food, Stefy and I had to duck out to head off to her house for the World Series games. I know, boo hoo, right?

Well, we made it downtown about an hour before game time, and the atmosphere was already electric. There was just something in the air, and you could tell that everyone was ready to go nuts. Of course, as it turns out, the game didn't go so well for the Tigers on Saturday night, but we still had a great time. I give a lot of credit to the Cardinals for holding us in check, but it was nice to see our guys even things up on Sunday.

Anyway, we made it home by about midnight on Saturday, and pretty much crashed immediately. I slept in until about ten the next morning, which felt great. Stef and I had a somewhat lazy morning in an effort to save our energy for the long day ahead of us. We did venture out into Birmingham for lunch before going to an afternoon screening of The Departed (you can read my review of the film below too). The movie was pretty long -- although it went by quickly -- so we didn't make it back to Stef's house until after 5. By then we pretty much had to pack our things up and hit the road for downtown.

It pretty much rained the whole day in Detroit yesterday, and Stef and I were virtually certain that we would get to Comerica Park, just to find out that they'd cancelled the game. Fortunately, the baseball gods were smiling on us last night, and the rain let up enough for us to play the game. I'm so glad the weather cooperated, because Kenny Rogers was able to through the Cardinals' lineup for eight straight innings, and the Tigers managed to pull out a much-needed win to even the series with St. Louis.

So, after the very long/wet/cold/exciting game, we hit the road for Lansing. It was after 1AM by the time I got home, and it was about 1:30 by the time my head hit the pillow. I'm totally zonked this morning, but it was all worth it. Now I'm just hoping that our boys can snag at least one in St. Louis so we can head back to Detroit and do it all over again next weekend!