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Mom's bday dinner, and another day in OC
Home again, home again.
Friday: Partially disassembled bird cage, wedged into truck, took bird and drove to Manassas. Set up bird's cage in parents' house, decided mom's birthday dinner location at length. Ended up picking Chevy's, a Mexican place near 495/50, the highlights of which included El Machino, an automatic tortilla press/cooker. Nifty! While waiting to be seated, Matt and I critiqued cars in the parking lot, ending up in favor of the Dodge Magnum and opposed to boring and posermobiles. Dinner was tasty and ridiculously large, but I realized I'd left my wallet (and thus ID) at home, so no alcohol for me. Alas!
We finally got home around 2230 to have some pie that Steph had made, and I ended up leaving a few minutes after 2300. This wasn't good, see, because I'd told Christine that I'd call "when I was leaving Lorton, probably around 9 or 10." Thus, I gave her a call, high-tailed it back to Lorton, spent just shy of six minutes throwing stuff in my backpack, and high-tailed it to DC, arriving a few minutes after 12. I then received some moderately-light-hearted ribbing about my tardiness. (Eep!)
Saturday was an early day, up around 05 and out of the house by 0630 (with Christine and Erika), headed east to Ocean City. First order of business once there: breakfast (omelettes and crepes) and drinks at Bayside Skillet. After that, we parked in the free lot, took the bus to the boardwalk, and hopped on the OC Rocket, a speedboat with room for 60+ passengers, powered by two 660hp diesel engines. As it was already raining, there was little hope of staying dry, so we didn't really try, and just enjoyed the ride--out of the inlet, up and down the coast, stopping to watch some dolphins, and doing what would be called "donuts" in a car. ;) Afterward, rather wet from the waist up, we found a corner diner and grabbed some coffee and more breakfast (pancakes, fruit, waffle, coffee) while we dried off a bit.
Next up, the arcade, for many rounds of $0.25 skeeball--20 rounds for Christine, 11 for me--on machines that didn't add properly, and were pretty arbitrary with coupons all the same. We then donated our 120 accumulated tickets to a random little kid--who was thrilled) via her mom. Next door, we watched a young DDR showoff--dancing in circles and hardly even looking at the screen, but still pulling massive combos--before I played a couple rounds on an adjacent machine to show Christine and Erika what the game was about. They approved. :)
By that time, Christine was ready to be dry, so we headed back to the car and thence to Sneaky Pete's, where we sat out on Leaky Pete's, had some tasty drinks and crab/shrimp-stuffed potato skins. And then, we headed back to the Bayside Skillet one more time, for more drinks and appetizers--seafood chowder and coconut chicken. I'm telling you, Ocean City is all about the good food and drink, especially when it's raining all day. :D (Oh, and every hour, on the hour, Erika's watch beeped, and we sent good vibes to her MCAT-taking sister. :)
We finally head back to VA, to Christine's dad's house, where Christine left her car, and Erika drove us back to Christine's apartment, and in the morning, there was Beatles, tasty breakfast, and I headed home, only encountering a bit of unavoidable nasty traffic on 95S. And it's sunny again. :)
Whee, ~160 new Friends page entries since Friday late afternoon.
Friday: Partially disassembled bird cage, wedged into truck, took bird and drove to Manassas. Set up bird's cage in parents' house, decided mom's birthday dinner location at length. Ended up picking Chevy's, a Mexican place near 495/50, the highlights of which included El Machino, an automatic tortilla press/cooker. Nifty! While waiting to be seated, Matt and I critiqued cars in the parking lot, ending up in favor of the Dodge Magnum and opposed to boring and posermobiles. Dinner was tasty and ridiculously large, but I realized I'd left my wallet (and thus ID) at home, so no alcohol for me. Alas!
We finally got home around 2230 to have some pie that Steph had made, and I ended up leaving a few minutes after 2300. This wasn't good, see, because I'd told Christine that I'd call "when I was leaving Lorton, probably around 9 or 10." Thus, I gave her a call, high-tailed it back to Lorton, spent just shy of six minutes throwing stuff in my backpack, and high-tailed it to DC, arriving a few minutes after 12. I then received some moderately-light-hearted ribbing about my tardiness. (Eep!)
Saturday was an early day, up around 05 and out of the house by 0630 (with Christine and Erika), headed east to Ocean City. First order of business once there: breakfast (omelettes and crepes) and drinks at Bayside Skillet. After that, we parked in the free lot, took the bus to the boardwalk, and hopped on the OC Rocket, a speedboat with room for 60+ passengers, powered by two 660hp diesel engines. As it was already raining, there was little hope of staying dry, so we didn't really try, and just enjoyed the ride--out of the inlet, up and down the coast, stopping to watch some dolphins, and doing what would be called "donuts" in a car. ;) Afterward, rather wet from the waist up, we found a corner diner and grabbed some coffee and more breakfast (pancakes, fruit, waffle, coffee) while we dried off a bit.
Next up, the arcade, for many rounds of $0.25 skeeball--20 rounds for Christine, 11 for me--on machines that didn't add properly, and were pretty arbitrary with coupons all the same. We then donated our 120 accumulated tickets to a random little kid--who was thrilled) via her mom. Next door, we watched a young DDR showoff--dancing in circles and hardly even looking at the screen, but still pulling massive combos--before I played a couple rounds on an adjacent machine to show Christine and Erika what the game was about. They approved. :)
By that time, Christine was ready to be dry, so we headed back to the car and thence to Sneaky Pete's, where we sat out on Leaky Pete's, had some tasty drinks and crab/shrimp-stuffed potato skins. And then, we headed back to the Bayside Skillet one more time, for more drinks and appetizers--seafood chowder and coconut chicken. I'm telling you, Ocean City is all about the good food and drink, especially when it's raining all day. :D (Oh, and every hour, on the hour, Erika's watch beeped, and we sent good vibes to her MCAT-taking sister. :)
We finally head back to VA, to Christine's dad's house, where Christine left her car, and Erika drove us back to Christine's apartment, and in the morning, there was Beatles, tasty breakfast, and I headed home, only encountering a bit of unavoidable nasty traffic on 95S. And it's sunny again. :)
Whee, ~160 new Friends page entries since Friday late afternoon.