The weekend in review
As to my weekend, it was truly great. I went to Yakima to visit the best friend that moved. Her new place is very nice and already a cosy little home.
I also looked up a friend from college, that I travelled to Europe with in 1998, and we saw each other a couple times. She has two children now (both gorgeous). It was strange to hear children call her 'Mom'. I should mention that we hadn't seen each other in about six years, and talked in about five. I definitely want to keep in better contact with her, and I will definitely be visiting her again on future trips to Yakima.
Friday night saw me drinking wine at a "Hops Festival". I surely didn't know that 52% of the hops that Anheuser Busch uses are from Yakima. I learned that grape and hops production are now larger industries than apples in Yakima.
And the wine is great.
Between guzzling a couple glasses of wine, I watched the men and women cruise each other, men ride around in cute little tractors, beauty queen contestants and people eating corndogs.
It was fun.
I got drunk.
We watched the fireworks, then headed out. Partially so we could avoid the drunken traffic smash that would was inevitable a couple hours later, and because we'd had our fill of the festival.
We avoided the traffic and made it home in time to watch the young boys (20ish) light a small fire in their barbecue, and have it grow higher and higher and then we watched the embers float in the wind onto my friend's roof. Stupid boys. Very stupid, indeed. (The weather at 10pm was still in the upper 80s, in a city with drought-like conditions.)
The roof didn't catch fire and I'm still here...
I came back in time to make it to a bbq at a friend's house, then we went for the first of our walks. We're going to start walking 2-3 times per week.
I've missed walking. It's been too long, and I'm about to be chained to a computer... Though, I'll be getting paid!
I'm finally starting to hit a stride with a new routine.
Though, would of course much rather be hitting a stride in a country where I don't speak the language...
I also looked up a friend from college, that I travelled to Europe with in 1998, and we saw each other a couple times. She has two children now (both gorgeous). It was strange to hear children call her 'Mom'. I should mention that we hadn't seen each other in about six years, and talked in about five. I definitely want to keep in better contact with her, and I will definitely be visiting her again on future trips to Yakima.
Friday night saw me drinking wine at a "Hops Festival". I surely didn't know that 52% of the hops that Anheuser Busch uses are from Yakima. I learned that grape and hops production are now larger industries than apples in Yakima.
And the wine is great.
Between guzzling a couple glasses of wine, I watched the men and women cruise each other, men ride around in cute little tractors, beauty queen contestants and people eating corndogs.
It was fun.
I got drunk.
We watched the fireworks, then headed out. Partially so we could avoid the drunken traffic smash that would was inevitable a couple hours later, and because we'd had our fill of the festival.
We avoided the traffic and made it home in time to watch the young boys (20ish) light a small fire in their barbecue, and have it grow higher and higher and then we watched the embers float in the wind onto my friend's roof. Stupid boys. Very stupid, indeed. (The weather at 10pm was still in the upper 80s, in a city with drought-like conditions.)
The roof didn't catch fire and I'm still here...
I came back in time to make it to a bbq at a friend's house, then we went for the first of our walks. We're going to start walking 2-3 times per week.
I've missed walking. It's been too long, and I'm about to be chained to a computer... Though, I'll be getting paid!
I'm finally starting to hit a stride with a new routine.
Though, would of course much rather be hitting a stride in a country where I don't speak the language...
posted by Shana @ 10:49 PM
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