Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Louisville, Kentucky?
Plane tickets, only $49. Hurrah.
So I'm sitting in Mary's Market "Yuppie fashion is in!", sipping a Cafe 89 and thinking about all the people around me. It's kind of fun, I think. I would probably look more normal if I had a friend with me, but they all were doing other things. Whatever.
So yesterday was great! While getting ready I decided to have a picnic. I asked Elizabeth and Mindy and they asked the rest of the girls at Mass. So, six of us packed up our picnic baskets (ok, I was the only one with a picnic basket) and went down to Shorewood Park (which is NOT Sherwood Park. Turns out Robin Hood doesn't really live there...), which is right along the river. We decided to put our blankets down on the dock which juts out into the river and have our picnic out there. It was sooo great! The water around us on three sides, the sun above us, the ducks nearby, and when a boat drove by the dock moved, which was a tremendous sensation. We sat out there eating watermelon and chocolate chip cookies and sandwiches of every kind (from McDonald's cheeseburgers to peanut butter and jelly). It was quality. And of course, we had to bring a knife to cut the watermelon. That conversation went a little something like this:
Me: Aren't you going to need a knife to cut that?
Elizabeth: No, we'll just throw it against a rock or something.
Me: What? No. Here's a knife. Which size?
Elizabeth: Aw, come on. That's not as rustic.
Me: Which size?? The bigger one?
Elizabeth: Yeah, I guess so.
Me: ::takes the knife out of the drawer and attempts to set it in the basket::
Elizabeth: At least wrap it in a towel...
Me: ::wrapping it in a towel:: Now it looks like a murder weapon!
Elizabeth: Haha, oh man, this is probably illegal. Haha!
So we brought the knife to the park, and it worked out just fine...even when the cop drove by to check on us. Then when we were leaving I almost left it on the dock, and Alyssa calls out "You forgot the murder weapon!". Oy vey. ;)
Later, we went to the swamp area to play with the wonderful yuckiness. Or actually, to look for frogs. I was the only one who shoved a stick into the wonderful yuckiness to see how deep it was. We guesstimated about a foot deep. Not bad. Turns out that that area is like a mating ground for the ducks. All the ducks were paired up in random parts of the swamp. We were a little weirded out, so we left. Then I went over to the river to wash the wonderful yuckiness off of my arm, and the rock I jumped onto moved. So I decided to dance on it. The rock made this horrible "clump, bump, clump" noise and I was having a wonderful time until someone says "You know, that's probably like, a duck mating call"...and just as I jump off the rocks, the two geese in the middle of the river start squawking and take to flight - right at me!! I started running away and everyone was just laughing at how ridiculous I am. Good thing the guy who drives around in the "Geese Peace" car didn't see me.
So now Alyssa is writing a musical about life. The picnic has two songs in the musical. One is about the cop driving by while we had a huge knife, and the other is about Geese Peace and mating calls. Oy vey.
Well, I have to go to work...I love books.
Until next time!
Pax et veritas et Geese Peace.
I heart wonderful yuckiness.
Plane tickets, only $49. Hurrah.
So I'm sitting in Mary's Market "Yuppie fashion is in!", sipping a Cafe 89 and thinking about all the people around me. It's kind of fun, I think. I would probably look more normal if I had a friend with me, but they all were doing other things. Whatever.
So yesterday was great! While getting ready I decided to have a picnic. I asked Elizabeth and Mindy and they asked the rest of the girls at Mass. So, six of us packed up our picnic baskets (ok, I was the only one with a picnic basket) and went down to Shorewood Park (which is NOT Sherwood Park. Turns out Robin Hood doesn't really live there...), which is right along the river. We decided to put our blankets down on the dock which juts out into the river and have our picnic out there. It was sooo great! The water around us on three sides, the sun above us, the ducks nearby, and when a boat drove by the dock moved, which was a tremendous sensation. We sat out there eating watermelon and chocolate chip cookies and sandwiches of every kind (from McDonald's cheeseburgers to peanut butter and jelly). It was quality. And of course, we had to bring a knife to cut the watermelon. That conversation went a little something like this:
Me: Aren't you going to need a knife to cut that?
Elizabeth: No, we'll just throw it against a rock or something.
Me: What? No. Here's a knife. Which size?
Elizabeth: Aw, come on. That's not as rustic.
Me: Which size?? The bigger one?
Elizabeth: Yeah, I guess so.
Me: ::takes the knife out of the drawer and attempts to set it in the basket::
Elizabeth: At least wrap it in a towel...
Me: ::wrapping it in a towel:: Now it looks like a murder weapon!
Elizabeth: Haha, oh man, this is probably illegal. Haha!
So we brought the knife to the park, and it worked out just fine...even when the cop drove by to check on us. Then when we were leaving I almost left it on the dock, and Alyssa calls out "You forgot the murder weapon!". Oy vey. ;)
Later, we went to the swamp area to play with the wonderful yuckiness. Or actually, to look for frogs. I was the only one who shoved a stick into the wonderful yuckiness to see how deep it was. We guesstimated about a foot deep. Not bad. Turns out that that area is like a mating ground for the ducks. All the ducks were paired up in random parts of the swamp. We were a little weirded out, so we left. Then I went over to the river to wash the wonderful yuckiness off of my arm, and the rock I jumped onto moved. So I decided to dance on it. The rock made this horrible "clump, bump, clump" noise and I was having a wonderful time until someone says "You know, that's probably like, a duck mating call"...and just as I jump off the rocks, the two geese in the middle of the river start squawking and take to flight - right at me!! I started running away and everyone was just laughing at how ridiculous I am. Good thing the guy who drives around in the "Geese Peace" car didn't see me.
So now Alyssa is writing a musical about life. The picnic has two songs in the musical. One is about the cop driving by while we had a huge knife, and the other is about Geese Peace and mating calls. Oy vey.
Well, I have to go to work...I love books.
Until next time!
Pax et veritas et Geese Peace.
I heart wonderful yuckiness.
