All Things Woompty

No more wacky weekend hijinks here

I had a nice weekend this weekend. Quiet, but busy. Friday night found us at home, just the two of us and some takeout watching The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, which is quite easily the funniest movie I have seen in the past few years. I really have no way to make an evening with two very tired people more entertaining than that sentence so I'll just move on.

Saturday morning Kris and I headed up to RoadRunner Sports to find a pair of shoes that won't give me blisters. I was a woman on a mission, and I shanghai'd a guy into helping us by demanding repeatedly that he NOT bring me a pair of Adidas because ugh, they suck for walking because they give me blisters. I ended up with some New Balance 766s and some highly technological socks that promise to keep me from getting blisters. I have yet to balance my checkbook after that little trip but ouch. Who knew socks could be so expensive?? On the good side, I wore the shoes all day today with nary a twinge of blistery badness trying to occur. We'll see what happens on the next training walk I do (Aside to Pomegranate...give me a call and we'll get together this week...Thursday?)

Then on Saturday night the girls and I gathered up Kev and we all headed out to one of the local Indian casinos. Kev headed straight for the black jack tables and we headed in for...some bingo. Woo, wild Saturday night! We actually had a lot of fun, even though there was this cranky ass blonde lady (replete with fanny pack from the Rio in Vegas and a good luck Smurf figurine) who kept shushing us whenever we dared to snicker during the game. Bitch. But we found the lovely and kind Rosa who helped us through all the complcated games because my GOD, the shapes and the numbers and the rules.

And also, I did not know it until I had already taken a few pictures, but it is totally against the rules to take pictures in the bingo hall, so these are contraband.

Kris frowning as she tries to find her numbers



Shannon and I were going to throw down with the blonde lady but we had to concentrate...see?



This is the only one of my cards that came close to winning...



It's easy to be the hot girl when you're at a bingo hall....



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Today found us lazing about in bed for a little while until we finally dragged our asses out of bed and off to Coco's for our usual Sunday breakfast break. And then we hit the road to head up to Julian and check out Angels Landing. We discovered it's about a 90 minute drive from downtown, which means the wedding will have to be in the afternoon because seriously, we'll have a hard enough time getting people there on time as it is. But it's a nice drive, through lots of meadows and trees and things like that.

We got up there and got to talk to the daughter of the owners and by the time we left, we both knew this was the exact right place to get married. The daughter had her own handfasting done there so yay for people who won't freak out about the Pagan wedding! We went ahead and put down the deposit (after having gotten recommendations on florists and photographers and hair/makeup artists, not to mention the number of the carriage ride lady) so now I can start daydreaming about my entrance down an old stone staircase and our exit through an archway into a carriage and a wedding surrounded by mountain wind and rose bushes. Hooray!

Also, I'm kind of a dork because I didn't take any pictures while we were there, but I did take pictures of some other things along the road....


A friend once described SoCal mountains as looking "like God just dropped a bunch of rocks and left them there." Yeah, it kinda fits.



This was one of the areas that was totally burned out during the 2003 fires...the trees are still all charred but the surrounding areas are growing back well.



We were followed or surrounded by bikers more than a few times today...the road into Julian is a popular route for weekend rides.



And last but not least....this sign cracked us both up. Lasers....IN YOUR BUTT!!!!!


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So yeah, not nearly as wild as last weekend, but I did get to take two really nice naps and we got stuff rolling on the wedding prep and I got some phone calls done and I got to actually get some stuff cleaned up around the house, so it was a successful weekend at least.

Even if I didn't win at bingo.

posted by Melinda @ 9:27 PM