That weekend fit into the category of “hit it hard early and then hunker down.”\u00a0 We started things off on Friday by going out with a bunch of youngsters on a party bus.\u00a0 Seriously.\u00a0 Our friend Brooke is headed off to grad school in Texas so her friends got the bus to throw a going away party.\u00a0 The whole deal sounded sketchy enough, and then I looked closer at the invitation and noticed the fun didn’t even start until 8:00.\u00a0 Given that is about an hour before my bedtime (maybe an hour and a half on a Friday) the evening had all the makings of a train wreck.\u00a0 But, against our better judgement, we found ourselves on a bus with a bunch of 25-year-olds heading to Lawrence, KS.\u00a0 Luckily they behaved OK, we only had to put two of them in time-out and threatened to pull the bus over once.\u00a0 Mostly they just sat in their seats and listened to their crazy loud music, while we sat up front and talked to the bus driver about the impending Medicare & Social Security changes.\u00a0 When we got to Lawrence we spent several hours at “The Wheel,” which I found to be a quite suitable place for me.\u00a0 After that we piled back on the bus and headed back to KC.\u00a0 I thought we hung in with the children pretty well, I considered the evening something of a success.\u00a0 Then we found out the bus was headed to the Brooksider to continue the party.\u00a0 We waited until it slowed down for a stoplight at Wornall & Gregory and jumped out a window, then walked home.\u00a0 Didn’t want to push our luck.<\/p>\n
Saturday morning I met Munkirs at the Downtown Airport to do some more bike riding.\u00a0 We upped our mileage one extra lap from last weekend, which put us at just under 20 miles.\u00a0 (Well I did just under 20;\u00a0 Munkirs circled the parking lot until his odometer read the full two-zero.)\u00a0 After that little spurt of exercise, I spent the rest of the day at The Well in Waldo, sitting on their deck with Martin & Brice.\u00a0 A fine way to waste a sunny Saturday afternoon.\u00a0 After that I headed home to find that Donette had picked up a couple of nice strip steaks for dinner.\u00a0 After several weeks of trouble-shooting, we finally got our gas grill operational and were ready to give it a try.\u00a0 (Turned out it was out of propane.)\u00a0 We enjoyed a nice steak dinner and that pretty much wrapped up Saturday.<\/p>\n
Sunday we got off to a slow start.\u00a0 Got sucked in by that dang ol’ Internet again, and the next thing we knew it was 1:00 in the afternoon.\u00a0 We didn’t want to waste the entire day, so we headed outside for a few hours of yard work.\u00a0 Got the bushes all trimmed up and cut the stupid lawn for the fourth time already.\u00a0 I kind of felt like I’d earned some leisure time after that, so I spent the rest of the afternoon with “the boys” down at the Brooksider while Donette joined “the girls” down the street at Jalapenos.\u00a0 They had the TV’s going out on the deck so I watched the Royals game and enjoyed the fine weather.\u00a0 For dinner we had hotdogs, which was about as surreal as the bus ride to Lawrence.\u00a0 Seriously, when was the last time anybody had hotdogs for dinner?\u00a0 Must not have bothered me too much, I had three of them.\u00a0 After dinner I “watched” some bad Jean Claude Van Damme flick.\u00a0 (As if there is another kind of Van Damme movie.)\u00a0 I vaguely remember some guy getting killed in the first few minutes, and then I woke up and the credits were rolling.\u00a0 Oh well, probably didn’t miss much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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