I know, right! Two consecutive weekend posts in a row. How long has it been since that happened? Off we go!
Friday night marked the first of what I’m sure will be many, many upcoming baby showers. This showerish/dinnerish co-ed affair took place at Ben Wheeler’s house and was complete with food, presents, and games. What kinds of games can you play at a co-ed baby shower? The men played a game called suck-the-water-out-of-the-bottle-and-try-not-to-pass-out. No kidding. A bottle was filled with 4 oz of water and Chris, Ben and myself were tasked with seeing who could finish the fastest. These bottles were not plastic, mind you, but were traditional old school glass bottles. Photographic evidence can be found at a horton life. I don’t know how babies do it, seriously. It was ridiculously hard. The ladies had to identify baby food. Brook nailed the bananas, Kacy struggled a bit with turkey tetrazzini.
Saturday took Brook and I car shopping for the afternoon. As many of you know, I generally loathe my car with every waking moment so in an effort to remedy that, and reduce my monthly payment, we decided to scour the internet and a few dealers for a slightly used, new-to-me vehicle. We came across a 2006 VW Passat at the Leith VW dealership. The test drive went well and they were really itching for a sale but in the end Brook and I decided that we hadn’t looked around enough- that was only the second place we’d been to. The first was Crossroads Ford in Cary. We went there mainly because the showroom was completely indoors and we thought it’d be cool to look around. Of course, the used cars were outside
That night we met up with Dave and Lindsey for some Shiki Laka Laka scrumptrulescense. Sushi is delish, albeit quite slow. We had planned on going to see the new Disney movie, A Chrismas Carol, but we didn’t get out of dinner in time. Not to be discouraged, we decided to go chill at casa de DingLingBing for a while. The ladies chatted about stickers and jelly beans or whatever it is they talk about and Dave and I played assorted Wii and PS3 games until it was time to go. Brook got in on the action towards the end and proved herself at a game called Rag Doll Kung-Fu. It was most impressive
So, earlier in the week my dad had called and said he was going to the Redskins game on Sunday and asked if I wanted to go. Smithfield has a suite at the stadium so we’d have great seats, air conditioning, and all the food, beer and liquor that we could consume.
Who turns that down? The game was at 1pm. We had to leave his house in Richmond by 8:30am and its a 2.5 hour drive to Richmond. Yikes. The alarm went off at 4:40am and was out the door around 5:30. Of course, it’s still dark out at that time but one thing I hadn’t counted on was the fog. Holy crap! It was probably the worst fog I’ve ever driven in and there was no escape from it for the first 45 minutes of the drive. I was limited to around 60mph and that was putting a lot on blind faith that there was nothing in the road ahead of me. We got up to Washington around 11am to meet some of my dad’s work folks: customers, brokers, buyers, etc. We had a platinum parking pass so we got to park practically at the front door at the stadium and then headed through a side entrance for suite owners. Crowds, shmowds.
Here is the only pic I got of the proceedings, taken during warmup.
The view was awesome!As an added bonus, the Redskins (2-6) beat the Broncos (6-2)! It was a great game going all the way into the last part of the 4th quarter tied at 17. We headed out with a minute or so left in the game and the Redskins had a ten point lead. Unfortunately, an ish-ton of people had decided to leave just a minute earlier and we sat in traffic for days. The bad thing about parking up front is that you have the longest way to go to get out! We got back to my dad’s around 7pm and I grabbed a quick bite to eat and was back home around 9:30pm. Exhausted. Time for sleepies.
This week the car hunt continues. I don’t really have a clue as to what I want so this might take a while. Peace out homies!
















