A breaking of the dawn...(slightly updated)

I think I need something a little lighter so I'm gonna tell ya all about the weekend we had one of my favorite adventures...

Once upon a time...

JK

So last Friday was pretty busy for me, lots of things to do and sleep to miss...

I went to work as usual where I feverishly completed all my team's monthly reviews until I left at 1pm and proceeded immediately to pick up Stacy and head to Juan Colorado's. Now, this wasn't just any Juan Colorado's, this was one of the blandest ones I've been to, not a lot of selection and the food was, Eh. But the company was fabulous, we met AS and A there who also enjoyed some less than stellar fare.

I digress...

After lunch we headed down the parking lot to the ceramics place to find some wares to paint. :) I picked a large square serving plate, to which, they were all able to see my complete OCD side as I tried to paint perfect burgundy squares and circles (with a stencil that didn't cooperate) and later with black in the center and around the edge which turned out much better with the use of tape (who knew!) :) (side note: S's paint job was much more creative, AS painted the cutest pot, and A's drawing could have jumped out of the computer!) but I still had a lot of fun! :)

Then it was off to Starbucks for much needed coffee and pastry. From there A was stuck with us for the remainder of our adventure while AS got to go home and I assume get more sleep than I did. :)

We high-tailed it out of there so I could drop off S and A then get Ros from daycare and feed her before heading right back out to BN to meet up with S and A so we could get to Sunset Lanes for a very unique early evening bachelorette party (with the bride having to work the next day at 6am, and the MOH nearly ready to deliver, I don't blame them!) We picked funny names to go by; Misfit, St. Anna, and I as JM, or Jim for this leg of our adventure. I think I got a few strikes but the best thing of all was the falling to a sitting position that I managed in a gracefully awkward way and thankfully I had let the ball go by this time so no actual damage was done, save the burning sensation that moved through my cheeks. :)

At 8:30pm-ish we had to leave our friends to get some dinner (yummy Schmizza Pizza) with a snippet of Kangaroo Jack, a very friendly coach and Lish. What ensued after that can only be described as a tribe of laughing maniacs with a complete lack of discretion, and maybe a little too much coffee...(thankfully S and A had already picked up the numbered bracelets!) We puttered around BN watching the multitude of age brackets fill out their special all book inclusive surveys that no one won but was still fun to compare answers too (S has a mind like a steel trap for all things story related!) and entertaining the Starbucks crowd with things I don't completely remember but I'm sure were hilarious (gooooaaat!) until they closed. Into the line we went!

They didn't plan this line very well, I'd say there were about 300 people there and telling us all that numbers 1-50 should go to the start of the line and "just ask your neighbor what number they are" just isn't feasible with that many people and if they were smart would have said 1-10, 11-20, etc, it would have been much simpler, I think (and I of course needed to mention this many times out loud but no progress was made on my behalf). :) As it were, there was much in the way of shifting as everyone got assembled but by 11:50pm, assembled we were.

There was a countdown, we half-heartedly participated, and we were out of there by 12:15am at the latest. We bid our adieu's and promised to stop reading at the end of the first section.

The first section....SURPRISE! SHOCK! STUNNED! (I believe I had an actual OMG moment) I was asleep by 3am.

The next morning we were all supposed to be headed to Flugtag (early for going to bed by 3am) but after a minor mishap (and a satisfying nap on my part, S and I met at her house, wrangled up some Taco Bell and read the second section while the dogs harassed us and each other. :)

The second section...PISSED! FRUSTRATED! IRRITATED! (I unknowingly called it)

After that I went home, I was in such a state I still don't remember what I had for dinner! In fact, I completely forgot, until S reminded me, that I actually went out for drinks (and visited Montage's and the Original Hotcake & Steakhouse before finally settling on Shari's once it was determined that Denny's at Lloyd Center closes at 10pm on weekends) and didn't get home until 4am instead of 11pm-ish and slept in until noon before finishing up the third and final section.

The third section...FAITH RESTORED! All ended well and in true Stephenie format, happily ever after...

THE END!