Eat! Drink! Make! Win!
A few weekends ago I was lucky enough to attend Seth and Lia’s wedding, an intimate ceremony held at Purgatory Chasm.
They prepared at their home – the bride had her hair braided while the groom groomed his beard.
What is this? A post that is not a recipe or drink instructions? See guys, I do other things in my life, I promise.
Over the weekend I decided to hold a clothing swap to get rid of some old clothing and perhaps gain a few new awesome items. The swap rules were simple:
We started out by having drinks and snacks while watching Mean Girls and gossiping. I may have had a number of drinks by the time I remembered to take pictures…sorry for any blur.
One year ago today I started veequeue.com in a queue to see the final Harry Potter movie. I posted about goats.
In honor of the pseudo-occasion (I didn’t start regularly posting until October) here is my cat being pensive.
Hooray for blogging!
One of the qualities that makes Las Vegas what it is is the sheer rediculousness of everything there. There are scale models of world monuments, over the top show, the ability to fire a machine gun in the desert…and the giant quantities of food and drink available. There are all you can eat buffets everywhere, and they’re a good way to cost effectively consume if you don’t mind eating one proper meal a day (supplemented by stolen fruit and hardboiled eggs from the grocery store.)
“Le Village Buffet,” Paris’ offering is attached to Ballys where I was staying, so it is unsurprising that I wandered over for brunch.
Welcome to the Vegas posts. A small warning – they are mostly going to be food porn, as my time was spent hanging out at the pool and eating things. Oh, and drinking champagne in my room with friends. It was excellent.
Anyway, after a few days of buffets (more on that later) I was ready for something a little different. I grabbed a few friends and we headed off to Mon Ami Gabi, a steakhouse under the Eiffel Tower the Paris Hotel.
…so right now I am watching ET. For the first time. It’s kind of amazing, unlike the not so quality Atari video game where the plot involved falling in holes. Over and over. Then dying.
Anyway, that’s what I am doing with my afternoon. It has been a long weekend and I am exhausted and in bed in Boston…real blogging resumes tomorrow.
I am still in Vegas and am heading home tomorrow. It’s been a good week, though I am a bit daunted to sort through the photos – I’ll probably start doing that while I wait at the airport at 5:30AM. But I’m still not finished with Ohio fun times!
One of the nice things about being in Ohio is that there is a whole lot of outdoors to explore, so we went on a 15 mile family adventure down the Little Miami river with Little Miami Canoe. At the start we were told that the trip would take between 3 and 5 hours, and we would have 5 bridges to mark our progress – the third bridge is halfway, the fourth is the 45 minute point, and the last is a few hundred feet from our exit point. Armed with our knowledge, and our canoes / sandwiches / cameras / sunscreen, we set off down the river.
Today is Father’s Day, and right now I’d like to take the time to thank my dad for being himself. While he does my head in at times I love him very much, and appreciate his pushes towards making me a better person. I’m grateful to have him in my life.
Call your dad(s), and I’ll be back tomorrow.
Last weekend marked a rather epic milestone in my relationship with Chris – the meeting of the parents. While usually impossible (living in different states and/or countries depending on the year will do that), as we all happened to be in central Ohio at the same time it was easy enough to wrangle everyone together for a Saturday morning brunch at the centrally located Level Dining Lounge in the Short North.
Part of the reason I came back to Ohio this weekend was for another graduation – Chris’ sister Abi had her commencement ceremony for her graduation from (the!) Ohio State University. With a graduating class of 10,000 the ceremony was held in the football stadium. As you can see here it was packed, and there is a firm section of grads (in black) versus everyone else (in red & white.)
