long weekend.

even though this was a normal length weekend i felt like it was a long one. :)

i was able to shave 45 minutes off my parents time travelling out to portville. it must be that i didn't stop at all the rest stops along the way. those bathroom breaks add up cath!

i arrived so quickly that even em and ryan weren't home yet so i reheated some of their leftover brown rice and ate myself some dinner. my presence also made patty pee. she gets so excited to see me, or scared. not quite sure which..

we then went to the drive in theater. the drive in has been upgraded so now there are 2 screens. it cost $5 a person and we watched cars and pirates of the carribean. we really only saw cars, we were too drunk and tired to watch pirates. some of the highlights of the night were:

emily and i drinking wine out of the oh-so-covert wine glasses.

the family to our left screaming at, blowing smoke in their faces and beating their kids the entire first movie.

the car next to us draining its battery during the first movie and ryan saving the day by jumping it.



saturday i awoke to some rain, but luckily it didn't last long.. thank god cause sat was the italian festival. em and i lounged around and watched "match point" before we got going . i was kinda disappointed. it must be the director woody allen that made that movie so bad, i've seen scarlet johannson in other movies and i know she is a solid actor. this film had terrible dialogue, and was boring as hell. and jonathon rhys meyers character was supposed to be from ireland, but he didn't sound at all irish, and he is irish, so i don't understand... some scenes if not all were filmed in london, which was nice, but that it the only redeeming quality to the film.

apparently all summer long olean has "festivals". the one this weekend was the italian festival. its held at one of the churches, basically its a bunch of tents set up, little food stations, a beer truck and an area for bands.. it was ridiculously hot saturday afternoon, we were planning to spend the night at sarahs so we had to bring all teh dogs and all their cages. sarah and jr live in building that was converted from a business into an apartment. there is a store front window and a glass door, and its on the small size, so fitting 3 cages in the living room/kitchen was a challenge.

some of the highlights of the day were:

carrie matter of factly commenting that the pomeranians running for their lives out the front door into the street that ryan left open.

sarah walking around in a drunken stupor cause her and Jr had eaten all their food coupons worth (prob $3) :)

emily pinching her nose all night, looking with disgust at all the smokers around and preaching about her rights as a non-smoker, then.... at the end of the night asking someone for a drag.

emily and ryans typical drunken fight "you're a fucking liar, ryan"

ordering ice cream cones thru the walk up window at the front of sarahs house.

listening to an oh-so-appropriate drum solo by jr at 3AM when the kids returned from the bar.

sunday i was so glad not to have gone out after the italian festival so as not to wake up with a hang over. we left olean and headed up to ryans parents house and swam in their pool. it was very relaxing. we also had a cookout, the boys attempted to winch a tree out of the ground, and ryan was able to take my license plates off my car for me.. unfortunately either the lack of sleep or the swimming/sunning tired me out so much that i was pretty much falling asleep at the wheel on my drive home. i hit the rumble strip many times. thank god for the rumble strip, and its cousin the guardrail. thankfully i didn't have to shake hands with her though.



comprehensive pictures of the weekend are here.

while i was at work on friday my dad kindly took my information over to the dmv and registered my car. i am sad to report that i have had to surrender my mass plates. :( i only turned in one though, i hope that is enough to cancel my insurance policy so i can stop paying insurance in two states. i have plain plates now, but in a few weeks i will receive my personalized plates. i'll take a pic when they come in. :) woooo who!

this week i thought i would have an easy schedule, but its Monday and my week is filling up fast. tonight i have WW with cath, tomorrow night i am going to visit my high school friend who just had baby number 2, i haven't even met baby number 1 yet. shiiiiiiit. wednesday i am going to go to clarkes for trivia night. thursday i got an invitation to go see the skychiefs in time warners suite at alliance bank stadium, so magoo and i are going to partake in the luxury. then friday night jr and sarah are coming into town for the weekend. shiiiiiit...