Memorable Memorial Weekend

Greetings! After losing my last blog post mid-air :( I have taken a cautious approach to where I write my posts. I feel like it should be a land activity so here I sit in my little apartment fresh off the holiday weekend. I can still smell the barbeque grills and hear the music from neighboring buildings it finally feels like summer might be coming!?

To share a little recap...I arrived home from CA on Thursday evening after mistakenly booking the wrong flight home. EEH grabbed me from the airport at 6 PM and then I realized I was key-less to the apartment. We decided to hit up the patio scene and caught a glimpse of the nice weather before the sun went down. Grabbed dinner with EEH and MSA then MDK kindly let me into our place around 10 PM. Whoops...will remember my keys next time??? This was the 2nd time this has happened so far.

Friday was a great evening and night! My college girlfriends and I visited Yum! for some delicious dinner and enjoyed some wine. Then the return of DJC and KMC to MPLS was the focus of the celebration. We tried some cheese, shared some laughs, and traded pet stories at our apartment. Then the clock struck 11 PM and we were on our way out to Moto-i. We met with MSA (or @custymcnoob) and @TweeterReprise and camped out in the prime leather couch section of the bar. Great sake and a fun night welcoming back the C's :)


Here are some pics from the night courtesy of KMC:

KMC and LML

DJC & KMC and LML & MDK

@custymcnoob and @TweeterReprise

Saturday we ventured out to Wisco and decided that Valentina was in need of road trip. At first she was doing good, but we wanted to get her a special little carrier since we knew that it wasn't likely she would stay good. We opted for the plush, top of line "your cat will feel calm" carrier....LIES!!

She doesn't look happy, but I promise she got stairs to climb and birds to watch at my parents house!! After a little ran my dad and MDK finished their golf game and we headed back. And by the looks of it below I don't she minds being a city kitty...


On Sunday I laid low and enjoyed my apartment that I rarely get to see anymore. MDK played golf again and then we welcomed ERA to town. Another night of dinner and drinks in Uptown was a great Sunday evening event.

Monday, we 3 friends headed out to a Welcome Home party for DJC and spent the nicest day of the weekend with margaritas in hand, hanging out on a deck. Last stop, was to welcome my newlywed friends into their new home with a champagne toast.

Cheers to the long weekend and hope every had a nice day!!

LML

Airport Randomness

I have some time on my hands and I wanted to share a few feelings as of today----

Airports are weird. I have asked many people whether they think a hospital is more depressing or is an airport? Think about it for a minute though. Would you really want to run into someone you knew at the airport? Remember what you decided felt 'comfy' and remember that you used gum to brush your teeth with today. Not to mention what happens to people when they are told they are DELAYED. It is as close to saying your kid is failing kindergarten...people really freak out.

I have not and will not experience flawless travel and because of that I turn to prescription drugs. I mean let's be realistic who can handle sitting in huge, tacky carpeted terminal with a bunch of strangers just staring. Yes, staring. We pretend we are working, listening to music, or reading. But, really everyone is just staring at one another and judging---

"Doesn't look like a real Vuitton"
"Did he really just say that on the phone"
"What are those....ummm....PANTS?!"

Further, Smart Phones are the new watches. I recently told a friend about how I didn't even know that I hadn't adjusted my watch to PST because I didn't have to look at it anymore while passing a stranger in the hall at the office. People can easily just keep clicking 'contacts' for all we know...but at least they are pretending for 10 short seconds not to stare.


This is just the start of my traveling blogs...some can call it complaining, but I am just trying to point out some of the obvious. Also, I am trying to learn how to 'deal' with it all to so lets just try to have a nice flight...I mean DAY :)


LML