This was the weekend of the special getaway for Beth and me. Friday after work, Beth and I headed over to Fort Wayne. I know that's not exactly glitzy but not the point. Beth got us a reservation at the Holiday Inn across the road from the Coliseum. We checked in, and the hotel is nice enough but not spectacular and not exactly new either. And we couldn't get into our room at first, so they had to give us another one on a lower floor. Beth had got one on the top floor. No matter. We went out to dinner at Storming Crab by which time it was already 9:00, so we just went back to the hotel to do some hot tubbing. That was actually the #1 reason we got the room there, was for the hot tub. Guess what? The hot tub was out of service. Empty. The pool was open, but we weren't really interested in that so we just went back to the room and spent the evening there. The next morning we swung by the Coliseum, exchanged the Komets tickets we still had for the game that was cancelled in December for 2 tickets for Saturday's game and refunds for the rest. Then we went to Stitch & Frame to pick out framing for my cross-stitching of Clarence & Smokey, which I just finally finished a few weeks ago (I started stitching that during the lockdowns for the covid pandemic, so almost 6 years of off-n-on work). We picked out some that I think will look really cool, and picked out a next project as well. So did Beth. Afterwards, we went to the big even which was a glass blowing class. I had bought Beth a groupon for a glass blowing class for 2 about 10 years ago... for some reason she didn't seem enthused about it and I never knew why. But I recently found it again and was determined that we were going to do it anyway. We took the paperweight class so both of us got to do it. The guy that runs it lets you do as much of the procedures as you feel comfortable doing, so we did about everything except the actual dangerous parts. Beth made one with red, green, and white which looked like it could be Christmas so then she added blue and black. I made one that was go-green-go-white. It took around an hour or so, and at the end the guy put then in the kiln to cool slowly so we could pick them up the next day. That was the big thing for the day, so we then went on to the other stuff I'd found to occupy us for the day. It was a short list really...we went to Hyde Brothers Booksellers which I'd found online, which is a cool used books store that has rows and rows of books stored floor to ceiling on two levels with everything you could imagine...and a shop cat named Scout. How cool. We spent an hour or two there, Beth found some mystery novels to buy, and we headed to lunch. By this time Beth's back was hurting a lot so we just went back to the hotel to rest. In the evening, we went to Barnes & Noble to look at some new books, then over to the Coliseum to catch the Komets playing the Tahoe Knight Monsters (dunno...must be a Vegas farm team). I'm not sure we've ever seen a shutout before, but the Komets won this game 6-0. By the end of the 1st period, the K's were up 3-0 which was the same score as the last game we went to that they ultimately lost. Not so this time: a dominant performance start to finish. The next morning, we decided to try breakfast at a restaurant we'd never been to before so we went to Don Hall's Hollywood Drive-in. We were kind of tipped off as to what kind of place it was when we saw only old people there...it was basic, and it was fine, and we don't have to go there again. Anyway, we went to pick up our paperweights after breakfast, and headed home.