Starting Over is Scary

Busy Weekend

Yep, you read that right. I had a busy weekend. I know that doesn't happen much so trust me it is a (pleasant) surprise to me as well. Anyway, my aunt, uncle and I drove to Kalamazoo on Friday afternoon. We met up with my cousins Krista and Katie and Katie's friend Adam and eventually Chris for dinner at a place called Cheeseburger Paradise. Pretty good restaurant known for its mixed drinks. Then we headed to the Western Michigan University campus to see Phantom of the Opera or as Chris called it, "some Shakespeare thing". As always, the show was amazing and even my brother was impressed. I really enjoyed seeing it again and it was close to as good as the first time. After the show, Chris, Krista and I headed out to join some of Krista's friends at a birthday party at a bar in town. It was crazy crowded. We had to wait to get inside because everyone from Western was out celebrating the end of finals week I think. We stayed for a while and then headed to another bar. This one I was excited to go to because it is a piano bar and is supposed to be a lot of fun. We had to wait a few minutes and right when we stepped inside the door, Krista made a funny face and turned around. I sent Chris inside with the groups we were with and I went after Krista. Turns out she was throwing up between the mailboxes. She wasn't the only out there throwing up either. We saw several people who had too much to drink. We even got advice on what to do from some of the babysitters with their drunk friends. Needless to say, it made us laugh. But don't worry Krista was not drunk, she just had some sort of flu becasue she felt fine the next day. On Saturday morning, the three of us got up and helped pick up trash along a highway for the Adopt-a-Highway program. I actually won a contest and got a free dozen donuts (I don't like donuts) for picking up the most Beefeater gin bottles. I found 5 bottles in a half mile stretch. My certificate went to Krista so she can bring the donuts to work on Monday. Right after Adopt-a Highway we headed to Adopt-a-Pet day. Krista is involved with some group that fosters stray animals and tries to get them adopted. So we had to bring her foster cat to the location and we also admired some very cute dogs and cats while we were there. I tried to get Chris to get a dog but he thinks that he needs a house first. In the afternoon, my cousin Katie graduated from Western. Fortunately the ceremony was under 2 hours and didn't feel too long even on rock hard bleachers. It was nice to see a college graduation and I figured that was the closest thing I was going to get to my own college graduation. A little sad but oh well. I enjoyed being busy and it made me realize how much I am missing out on. Or maybe how much I miss having a life.

posted by Erin @ 7:04 PM