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May 19, 2006
Arrived in Columbus
So, Chrissy and I made it to Columbus. We actually left Rochester at 3 as planned. I had joked earlier with Chrissy that I was going to force her to listen to Country music the ENITREEEEEEE drive since it was my birthday ;-) and she actually took me seriously! She and my mom bought me three new country CDs for the drive! (Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, and Tim McGraw)
We listened to each CD at least twice, and somewhere in no-man's land Ohio (where there were some REALLLY REALLY strange people) we stopped and had my birthday dinner. Yup, we had an elegant meal at McDonald's where my sister sat across from me with this weird eye twitching problem. It totally freaked me out. I couldn't look at her and eat my food :-) hehehehehe. Her one contact was ripped, so she took it out and left the other one in...and then the eye with no contact just started twitching and wouldn't open all the way. It was really gross. LOL. Right outside Columbus, on I-270 or something we had CD sing along. We blasted our favorite driving songs (Alison Krause-When you say nothing at all, and the Bangles-Eternal Flame) and sang at the top of our lungs.
Anyway, we made it to our cousin's place by 9, in 3 hours on the dot. We didn't do much...Just sat around in the living room talking, catching up, and reminiscing about the last couple times that we saw each other. (i.e. the family cruise to the Bahamas, when I won big in the Casino, and my cousins were no where to be found while I celebrated with a bunch of strangers...and where we bar hopped on the ship so often that the bar tenders had our drinks waiting for us...and learned that my cousin Daniel has memory of steel and even remembers their names!!)
So as a birthday gift, one of my friends from work gave me a bottle of homemmade wine. We broke it out last night, and I pretty much passed out from exhaustion and too much alcohol.
Anyway, today Daniel had to get up at 5AM and write an article by 7:30, and then go to work for half a day. Chrissy and Gary are still sleeping :-(( Booooooooo! I'm bored...so I got on my e-mail and did a little work, but got yelled at by my co-workers to stay on vacation ;-). So now I'm here...writing in my blog, hoping that the typing on my keyboard will wake up Gary so we can go get some food. I'm so hungry. :-) Unfortunately, no such luck on Operation wake up Gary. He's sleeping on the couch with the lights on and the TV on...I think I will have to drop something right hear his ear.
Oh and one other thing...HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY MOM!!!!
Posted by beth at May 19, 2006 10:35 AM