Weekend stuff
Nov. 7th, 2005 04:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moonwiseI think this is the only meaningful post I make all week. :P
Week 3 of Let's Travel All Over the US landed us in Buffalo to visit our friends P&L, whom we haven't visited in roughly two years, largely because it's a twelve-hour drive total for about 24 hours of visit. Neither husband nor I were terribly interested in going because it's such a long trip, but I wasn't feeling sick enough to stay home (allergy season) and we had no other excuse.
It was a pleasant enough visit, but still - twelve hour drive, 24-hour activity time. Their three-year-old is very well-behaved and a nice little boy. We visited Whirlpool State Park and the Niagara Butterfly Conservatory, where you walk through an indoor conservatory and the butterflies fly all around you. I kept hoping one of the black butterflies with shocking-pink highlights would land on me for a photo op (hee hee, hell butterfly) but I had to settle for an orange one. Will try to post photos later.
We had dinner at home with P&L, where P was very excited to show off his steak-cooking prowess. It was... fair. We had some heated discussions over dinner, mostly concerning religion (P has Found God and has taken to it with the same fervor with which he embraces any dogma he favors at the time) and then we watched Revenge of the Sith. I was hoping it would be better than the other offerings in the series, but alas, the dialogue was cringe-inducing and the bombastic finish left me completely unaffected. (I will have to write a rant on that some other time.)
Home again on Sunday, in time to watch the second half of the Giants game. Tonight I have a pile of laundry to tackle and hopefully an earlier bedtime.
Oh, and I started reading Death Note. Woo.
Week 3 of Let's Travel All Over the US landed us in Buffalo to visit our friends P&L, whom we haven't visited in roughly two years, largely because it's a twelve-hour drive total for about 24 hours of visit. Neither husband nor I were terribly interested in going because it's such a long trip, but I wasn't feeling sick enough to stay home (allergy season) and we had no other excuse.
It was a pleasant enough visit, but still - twelve hour drive, 24-hour activity time. Their three-year-old is very well-behaved and a nice little boy. We visited Whirlpool State Park and the Niagara Butterfly Conservatory, where you walk through an indoor conservatory and the butterflies fly all around you. I kept hoping one of the black butterflies with shocking-pink highlights would land on me for a photo op (hee hee, hell butterfly) but I had to settle for an orange one. Will try to post photos later.
We had dinner at home with P&L, where P was very excited to show off his steak-cooking prowess. It was... fair. We had some heated discussions over dinner, mostly concerning religion (P has Found God and has taken to it with the same fervor with which he embraces any dogma he favors at the time) and then we watched Revenge of the Sith. I was hoping it would be better than the other offerings in the series, but alas, the dialogue was cringe-inducing and the bombastic finish left me completely unaffected. (I will have to write a rant on that some other time.)
Home again on Sunday, in time to watch the second half of the Giants game. Tonight I have a pile of laundry to tackle and hopefully an earlier bedtime.
Oh, and I started reading Death Note. Woo.
