Fab weekend was fab
I haven't had a weekend this long in months, ha! Even though it started out awful, with buckets of rain on Friday, every day after that was perfect (translation: painfully hot). No, really, sun is better than rain, so I guess things weren't so bad. And the heat kept us drinking healthy amounts of water, in fact, being at the office and not having to sip h2o every ten minutes feels strange after four days of it.
Anyway, things started out rough Friday, partly because I was trapped at Sheer Elegance (hair salon) after having my hair cut and styled, for fear of turning it into a frizzy disaster and crashing my car. After about thirty minutes of waiting, I called my dad and he informed me that the rain wasn't going to let up for hours, so I was assisted by salon's only male employee and cashier to my car with an umbrella–and I still was soaked! Then there was the matter of Zach's train being two hours late, because trees had fallen overnight during the storms all over Amtrak's railways. This made my coming into the hair salon thirty minutes before opening to meet him at Union Station on time pointless. He ended up manning it up and was going to take a taxi all by himself instead of having me travel all the way there, but we ended up meeting in the middle when he decided the fifty-dollar cab fare was ridiculous and he took the el to the stop near my home.
Honestly, that day in itself is a story all of its own. I didn't even get to the part where I almost drove into a lake under the neighborhood viaducts, twice. So Saturday, I woke up early, Isaac at the same time strangely, and we decided to buy bogo tickets from Six Flags and spend the day riding coasters. Sure, we got there after one hour of horrendous construction-delayed traffic, and sure, we had to walk from a car parked a desert's lot away from the real park, and sure, we did only ride three roller coasters–but it was insanely fun! Even though we drank near six bottles of water, it was a blast. I haven't been there in ten years! Since Raging Bull opened. Isaac had never been on a coaster before, so I had him try Batman first, in the front as I've never tried it before...and it was awesome. Seeing the sun upside down twice is burned into my mind. Riding without flip-flops is awesome, too. So other than that, we went on Raging Bull, Viper, and a ton of little rides. The log ride actually scared the crap out of me with its seat belt-less design and steep water fall. I seriously felt like I was about to fly out of the plastic log and the ride destroyed my hair, but I guess being scared to death was sorta fun? Isaac was amused.
Sunday we went to Old Orchard to have a delicious lunch at California Pizza Kitchen and return a pair of jeans that didn't fit how I liked. I ended up finding the a skinny style to exchange them for and a dress, and a sort of dress-shirt-coat to buy and spent more money than I expected. Oh, and we discovered a koi pond I didn't know was there, and I named a bunch of koi silly anime names and two after the sword-makers Masamune and Marumasa. I have pictures I should upload of them. That evening we celebrated Fathers Day with hotdogs, m&m brownie cookies, and blueberry pie. Played Left4Dead and Resident Evil 5 with Isaac, and I can't remember what else happened.
Monday we went to the Chicago Botannic Gardens, that aren't actually in Chicago at all and are really up north just a little further than Old Orchard. Again, we drank about four bottles of water and it was blazing hot, but the gardens were a blast. As far as fish go, we only found two carp here, but they were somewhere between the size of a Labrador and a Rottweiler, seriously. In the evening we rented Street Fighter 4 and it was awful.
Tuesday was short and sad, and I almost had a heat stroke driving between Chipotle, Barnes and Noble, and Borders. I rode the el with Isaac and his train was on time, which was sort of lame. Watched Confessions of a Shopaholic and though it was cute, much of the humor was spoiled by the previews. Mom liked it though. Well, I suppose that's it...! Next time I want to take him to a Cubs game, I can't believe I haven't yet.
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