Welcome to this month’s edition of our Sacramento Apartment Living Blog, brought to you by The Confluence, our apartments for rent in Sacramento, California. This month we’re bringing our residents suggestions for celebrating National Barbecue Month and National Bike Month, ideas surrounding upcoming holidays like Mother’s Day on the 13th and National Sunscreen Day on the 27th, movies you might want to check out this month, and books to keep things interesting on your down time. Read on to learn more about these topics in today's blog post.
May Celebrations
National Barbecue Month
We have the perfect way for you to celebrate National Barbecue Month. Visit MoMo’s Meat Market! This barbecue joint near your apartment will serve you up what some are calling the best ribs you’ll ever consume. Check out more about what people are saying! Here’s a review from Josh S. on Yelp:
“Anytime we are in town we always go to MoMos. We found them in 2013, and have made it a point to eat at this fantastic bbq joint. The meat is smoked the traditional Texas way. I always get the 4 way authors Mac and cheese and potato salad, or greens. I have never had a bad meal there. Glen and Sharon are awesome people, it's as if you are eating at their house! See you next time guys”
MoMo’s Meat Market is about 3.8 miles from The Confluence. Happy National Barbecue Month!
National Bike Month
Work off all that barbecue you’re eating this month by celebrating National Bike Month as well! Take a bike ride around town or commit to cycling to work for a more healthy lifestyle to yourself and the earth. Cycling is a great activity for staying active and for lessening your impact on the environment. Visit these bike shops in Sacramento for personalized advice about everything to do with biking and for help tuning your bike before you get started.
Upcoming Holidays
Mother’s Day
Celebrate mothers and mother figures all year but especially on the 13th — it’s Mother’s Day! Do you have a gift yet? Give that special woman in your life a token of your appreciation for them by finding a gift personalized to them. Browse Etsy’s selection of Mother's Day gifts, sorted by the different types of gifts and for a host of interests, to find something she’ll love and appreciate all year.
National Sunscreen Day
You may be rocking a tan all year long living in California, but it’s always important to refresh yourself on the effects of tanning. Check out WebMD's Tanning Myths: What's True, What's Hype? article. It will help you learn how to keep a healthy glow about your skin while protecting it. Take today, this month, and National Sunscreen Day on the 27th as an opportunity to remind yourself to lather up!
Movie Suggestions
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Solo: A Star Wars Story comes out this month! Check it out this month after Friday, May 25. Get the synopsis: “Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo befriends his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and meets the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga’s most unlikely heroes.” We think you’ll love it. Buy your tickets online for a great weekend.
Life of the Party
Get yourself ready for a month of fun, in or out of your apartment, by watching Life of the Party beginning Friday, May 11th. Check out what to expect! “When her husband suddenly dumps her, longtime dedicated housewife Deanna turns regret into re-set by going back to college - landing in the same class and school as her daughter, who's not entirely sold on the idea. Plunging headlong into the campus experience, the increasingly outspoken Deanna -- now Dee Rock -- embraces freedom, fun, and frat boys on her own terms, finding her true self in a senior year no one ever expected.” Watch Life of the Party this month! Buy your tickets today.
Book Suggestions
Feel Free by Zadie Smith
“Gathering in one place for the first time previously unpublished work, as well as already classic essays, such as, ‘Joy,’ and, ‘Find Your Beach,’ Feel Free offers a survey of important recent events in culture and politics, as well as Smith's own life. Equally at home in the world of good books and bad politics, Brooklyn-born rappers and the work of Swiss novelists, she is by turns wry, heartfelt, indignant, and incisive--and never any less than perfect company. This is literary journalism at its zenith.”
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
“Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn’t commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding. As Roy’s time in prison passes, she is unable to hold on to the love that has been her center. After five years, Roy’s conviction is suddenly overturned, and he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together.”
