Catching Up

It's been a while. So how abouts a run-down of the last week and a half or so.

Aaron came to visit! He arrived Sunday afternoon and we went to see Wicked that evening. Wicked was awesome! I totally recommend seeing it if you get the chance. The only bad thing was that the fire alarms in the theater went off four times in the second act. :(

I had to work several days last week. If I remember right I was stuck in the office by myself for the most of them. Although there was one extremely pointless day I had. I drove an hour (one way) to pick up a load of wooden stakes. Then that afternoon I basically sat around doing nothing because the computer program I was trying to use was soooo slow (I'm sure you've figured out by now that I don't like this program).

Tuesday Aaron and I went to Niagara Falls, Ca. We rode the Maid of the Mist - I enjoy that. We spent most of the day walking around the town, using our coupons so we could get free samples at Hershey's, had lunch at Hardrock Cafe. We walked some more trying to find the car so we could move it closer to the imax theater that we were going to go to, instead we got lost farther away from the car. So we had to turn around and go back to where we had been, get on a bus and go get the car. We ended up going to two casinos that night instead of the imax. Unfortunately neither of us did very well at the casinos.

I took off Wednesday morning. I was able to sleep in after having a late night out. It was also nice that when I did get into the office my boss was gone so I basically stared at a computer screen for four hours and left. For dinner and a little fun Aaron and I went to Dave and Busters. I hadn't been to one in two years.

Thursday and Friday nights we went to a couple baseball games. The Buffalo Bisons were on Thursday night - our seats were on the first baseline in foul ball territory. I had a blast with Aaron trying to teach me how to keep score. Perhaps someday I'll be able to do it. Buffalo kicked butt by the way. Friday night's game we went to Rochester to see the Red Wings. I was a little more bored at this game. Some reason I just didn't find it as interesting and it didn't help that to me the guys behind us were basically being jerks, although it turned out that one of them had spent quite a bit of time in Iowa. I guess Aaron talked to them for a bit so I couldn't be rude to them.

Saturday was beach day. It was so nice to lay out in the sun and play in the water and splash Aaron. The bad part of the day is that Aaron and I both fried. I can still feel the burn.

Last night I went back up to Niagara Falls, this time I didn't even have to show my license to get into Canada. I met up with my friend emily and the PhD student in her lab for dinner and some time on the town. It's so good to see people I know. I'm ready to come home.