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Jul. 3rd, 2006 09:43 amI'm back! :-) Had a great time on the anniversary trip-- we've now been married for a year and two days. lol
Kansas City was fun, mostly. We went to the Ameristar Casino first (the name of which I misheard when Chris first told me about it, so I kept calling it the Amritsar). Went in with 100 dollars, won 78 of it back, so not too bad. Then we tried to drive further into Kansas City to find a little pastry shop I'd heard about, but then I really looked out my window and saw that every other shop was either closed-- at midday on a Friday-- or boarded up. Graffiti everywhere, and there was a guy peeing behind a phone booth. Me: "Hon, how about we just go to Wichita instead?" Chris: "Already working on it."
So we went to Wichita, and went to see Ashley and her friend Crystal. Ashley has a tattoo now. It's a Dragonball Z symbol of some kind (which looks kinda like the upper half of Satan's trident to the untrained eye) and huge. I still think she's at least vaguely nuts. ;-)
(and remind me sometime within the next few days to do a friends-locked entry on religious influences on my life. It's been brewing for a while, and flipping through some of the 'Christian' stations on the way to El Dorado-- where you can get country music or evangelists on the airwaves and remind me to bring CDs on a car trip next time-- helped me refine a few things)
When we got back, we went over to mom and dad's and watched the last four episodes of Long Way Round, which they really enjoyed. And since Chris and I have both decided to start trying to eat healthier, we made tandoori chicken for dinner there. (I finally got a chance to use my Indian Regional Classics cookbook, yay!)
Sometime today we're going to head off again to St. Paul to visit his family, and then tomorrow and Wednesday I'm not entirely sure what we're doing. Loafing, probably. And I'm definitely going to story-plot. :-)
Kansas City was fun, mostly. We went to the Ameristar Casino first (the name of which I misheard when Chris first told me about it, so I kept calling it the Amritsar). Went in with 100 dollars, won 78 of it back, so not too bad. Then we tried to drive further into Kansas City to find a little pastry shop I'd heard about, but then I really looked out my window and saw that every other shop was either closed-- at midday on a Friday-- or boarded up. Graffiti everywhere, and there was a guy peeing behind a phone booth. Me: "Hon, how about we just go to Wichita instead?" Chris: "Already working on it."
So we went to Wichita, and went to see Ashley and her friend Crystal. Ashley has a tattoo now. It's a Dragonball Z symbol of some kind (which looks kinda like the upper half of Satan's trident to the untrained eye) and huge. I still think she's at least vaguely nuts. ;-)
(and remind me sometime within the next few days to do a friends-locked entry on religious influences on my life. It's been brewing for a while, and flipping through some of the 'Christian' stations on the way to El Dorado-- where you can get country music or evangelists on the airwaves and remind me to bring CDs on a car trip next time-- helped me refine a few things)
When we got back, we went over to mom and dad's and watched the last four episodes of Long Way Round, which they really enjoyed. And since Chris and I have both decided to start trying to eat healthier, we made tandoori chicken for dinner there. (I finally got a chance to use my Indian Regional Classics cookbook, yay!)
Sometime today we're going to head off again to St. Paul to visit his family, and then tomorrow and Wednesday I'm not entirely sure what we're doing. Loafing, probably. And I'm definitely going to story-plot. :-)
