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Turkey Weekend 12/02/2008 at 4:22:34 PM by Jason T. Stiles |  0 Comments
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I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving weekend! I know I did! Here's how it all went down:
Thanksgiving Eve
I decided I didn't want Ringo to stay by himself for 4 days and took him with me on the trip home. He did surprisingly well for nearly the whole ride! There was one incident where he jumped up on my dashboard and almost made me crap myself, but the rest of the time he was fairly mellow and just laid down in the passenger seat. I made sure that I gave him some attention every now and then to make him feel more comfortable.
I met up with Christy at the mall in Battle Creek. She offered to let Ringo stay at her place for the weekend. We ate at Applebees: I had the three cheese chicken penne pasta, and Christy had a chicken wrap with rice. Gross! The chicken wrap had some weird sauce on it because Christy kissed me and I almost threw up! Thankfully our lips unlocked before anything far worse happened! Mental note: don't kiss Christy after she eats gross stuff!!
Thanksgiving Day
We ate around 2:30 in the afternoon. As is the family tradition we had lots of food at the table: scalloped potatoes, stuffing, juicy ham, corn, deviled eggs (my fav!!), and of course - Turkey! There was some other stuff too that I can't remember because it was stuff I wouldn't dare eat! After eating we did the typical thing...talk, make jokes, and remember the good times. There's nothing quite like being around family that can make you feel right at home.
At night, I met up with Christy, Eddie and Jeanie to see Transporter 3 at the Celebration Cinema in Kalamazoo. The movie was good! If you haven't seen the first two Transporter movies, you should see them and then go watch Transporter 3. Lots of action. I give it a healthy 9/10.
Black Friday
So I stayed over at Christy's Thanksgiving Day night only to wake up at the buttcrack of dawn... 2am, to drive an hour to Holland and go shopping with my Mom, Sister and Jessica. The first place we went to was Best Buy where they had some good deals going on. I got a second 19" Samsung monitor for $130 - excellent deal, originally $200. They had other LCD monitors for $100 but they weren't Samsungs so I didn't want them. The worst thing about Black Friday is all the people, but it's also kind of exciting. The store was literally packed... people everywhere, you had to push and shove to get anywhere! We stayed in one line for, I swear, almost 1.5 hours... it was terrible. The line only had one person ringing people up and he was really slow... when we got up there we rushed the guy lol. We were like... "no" to this, "no" to that and shoved stuff under his scanner gun to get things scanned quickly 'cuz the dood was seriously slow. We pretty much rung up the transaction ourselves.
We finally got out of Best Buy and did some shopping at some other stores... Younkers, JC Penney's, Michael's, Sams Club, and Hobby Lobby to name a few. It wasn't a typical Black Friday though because we got our shopping done before noon! That was a pleasant
surprise. I spent a lot of monies too...
Don Pablo's
That same night Christy and I met up with Eddie, Jeanie, Max (a long-time friend of Eddie's), and Eddie's Mom (Sue) and Grandmom. I had only been to Don Pablo's one other time and the only thing I had ate were the chips because I didn't like anything else on the menu. But this time I ordered something good... a few plain chicken quesadilla's. Christy got to meet everyone which was important to me, and we all had a great time. We even got the place to do something special for Eddie since his birthday was the following Monday. They brought out a nice treat with a candle and a big ol' sombrero to embarrass himself with. The bad thing is... Eddie doesn't really get embarrassed, or at least he hardly shows it!
Monaco Bay
Later that night Eddie and Jeanie, Max, and Christy and I went out to Monaco Bay in Kalamazoo before heading to the Wild Bull to get our groove on. Monaco Bay is a pretty unique place featuring dueling pianos, food and drink, and a good time. Again we embarrassed Eddie by requesting a birthday song from one of the pianists. It backfired though because instead of just him going up on stage... the pianist made Max and myself get up on stage too. We had to show off our moves to the YMCA song... we have some pictures, but we were dancing too crazy-like so they are all blurred, here's one below:
Return to the Wild Bull
Argh, so... we traveled back to Kalamazoo to the Wild Bull hoping this time they'd have some good music playing. Unfortunately, it was Country Music again... oh em gee, I'm losing my respect for the bull. So again we called it a night after making some other pit stops on the way home.
Sunday at Hairmasters
So I had an appointment with Katheleen to get a trim and get my eyebrows waxed! Yep, I got 'em waxed, and I'm secure enough in my manhood to say that!
It looks good, too. I had got my eyebrows waxed by Katheleen like 7 years ago or something, and this time was MUCH better than then. The last time, her friend dropped hot wax on my eye and my eyelid was shut tight for hours... Thankfully that didn't happen this time, lol. If it did, I don't know what I would've done...
Build-a-Bear
Eddie reminds Jeanie of a Teddy Bear so we went to Build-A-Bear in the Crossroads mall. They put in a voice box with Eddie saying something, and got the bear some clothes too. Here's a picture:
Putters
We took the kids to Putters for some much needed arcade time. Eddie, Jeanie and Max came along too. I won over 1000 tickets on the Wheel of Fortune game they have there. I love that game... Dave & Buster's has one too. If you time the light you can win a lot of tickets! By the time we were done there we had over 1700 ticket easily. The DDR was better for me this time around. I played more singles and doubles and got better scores than last time. I also played Eddie in air hockey and to my dismay he won by one point... unacceptable! The two of us go back and forth winning against each other, but I'm usually in the lead... if we had time for a rematch I'm sure I could've evened the score. I will get him next time. You better be ready Eddie!!
The Drive Home
WAS TERRIBLE! The roads were awful! Slush and snow mix made for dangerous conditions. It wasn't so bad on the highway, had to go much slower than normal though. I was taking Max home to Milford and that's where the roads were really bad. I think it took me almost 4 hours to ge home instead of the usual 2.5. But I made home safe and sound.
Sick with a Cold or Flu or somethin'!
The next day I went to work and was sick! And I'm still sick today... feelin' a little better. Last night I had a fever of 101.6. I don't have the fever anymore, but I still have a sore throat and some sinus and head congestion. Argh, I hate being sick.
That's all for now, surf in next week to find out what happens this weekend at my company's annual holiday party!
Thanksgiving Eve
I decided I didn't want Ringo to stay by himself for 4 days and took him with me on the trip home. He did surprisingly well for nearly the whole ride! There was one incident where he jumped up on my dashboard and almost made me crap myself, but the rest of the time he was fairly mellow and just laid down in the passenger seat. I made sure that I gave him some attention every now and then to make him feel more comfortable.
I met up with Christy at the mall in Battle Creek. She offered to let Ringo stay at her place for the weekend. We ate at Applebees: I had the three cheese chicken penne pasta, and Christy had a chicken wrap with rice. Gross! The chicken wrap had some weird sauce on it because Christy kissed me and I almost threw up! Thankfully our lips unlocked before anything far worse happened! Mental note: don't kiss Christy after she eats gross stuff!!
Thanksgiving Day
We ate around 2:30 in the afternoon. As is the family tradition we had lots of food at the table: scalloped potatoes, stuffing, juicy ham, corn, deviled eggs (my fav!!), and of course - Turkey! There was some other stuff too that I can't remember because it was stuff I wouldn't dare eat! After eating we did the typical thing...talk, make jokes, and remember the good times. There's nothing quite like being around family that can make you feel right at home.
At night, I met up with Christy, Eddie and Jeanie to see Transporter 3 at the Celebration Cinema in Kalamazoo. The movie was good! If you haven't seen the first two Transporter movies, you should see them and then go watch Transporter 3. Lots of action. I give it a healthy 9/10.
Black Friday
So I stayed over at Christy's Thanksgiving Day night only to wake up at the buttcrack of dawn... 2am, to drive an hour to Holland and go shopping with my Mom, Sister and Jessica. The first place we went to was Best Buy where they had some good deals going on. I got a second 19" Samsung monitor for $130 - excellent deal, originally $200. They had other LCD monitors for $100 but they weren't Samsungs so I didn't want them. The worst thing about Black Friday is all the people, but it's also kind of exciting. The store was literally packed... people everywhere, you had to push and shove to get anywhere! We stayed in one line for, I swear, almost 1.5 hours... it was terrible. The line only had one person ringing people up and he was really slow... when we got up there we rushed the guy lol. We were like... "no" to this, "no" to that and shoved stuff under his scanner gun to get things scanned quickly 'cuz the dood was seriously slow. We pretty much rung up the transaction ourselves.
We finally got out of Best Buy and did some shopping at some other stores... Younkers, JC Penney's, Michael's, Sams Club, and Hobby Lobby to name a few. It wasn't a typical Black Friday though because we got our shopping done before noon! That was a pleasant
surprise. I spent a lot of monies too...
Don Pablo's
That same night Christy and I met up with Eddie, Jeanie, Max (a long-time friend of Eddie's), and Eddie's Mom (Sue) and Grandmom. I had only been to Don Pablo's one other time and the only thing I had ate were the chips because I didn't like anything else on the menu. But this time I ordered something good... a few plain chicken quesadilla's. Christy got to meet everyone which was important to me, and we all had a great time. We even got the place to do something special for Eddie since his birthday was the following Monday. They brought out a nice treat with a candle and a big ol' sombrero to embarrass himself with. The bad thing is... Eddie doesn't really get embarrassed, or at least he hardly shows it!
Monaco Bay
Later that night Eddie and Jeanie, Max, and Christy and I went out to Monaco Bay in Kalamazoo before heading to the Wild Bull to get our groove on. Monaco Bay is a pretty unique place featuring dueling pianos, food and drink, and a good time. Again we embarrassed Eddie by requesting a birthday song from one of the pianists. It backfired though because instead of just him going up on stage... the pianist made Max and myself get up on stage too. We had to show off our moves to the YMCA song... we have some pictures, but we were dancing too crazy-like so they are all blurred, here's one below:
The Wild Bull
Argh, so unfortunately the Wild Bull was playing Country Music again... Eddie and Jeanie didn't want to dance to that which I completely understand, so we pretty much called it a night. Christy and I stayed at the bull for a while though with Brooke so she could ogle over the bartender she fantasizes about. lol. I don't think I could give an accurate depiction of what is going on between Brooke and that bartender... Brooke is hot, why that bartender doesn't scoop her up is beyond me.
Saturday Morning - bright and early!
Unfortunately, Saturday morning came all too soon with Christy's son, 2 year-old Nathan, shouting "up" next to the bed at 6am. I shook my head at him, but that didn't stop him from wanting up. So I grabbed him and pulled him on the bed. The rest is history since Alaina got up and her and Nathan climbed all over me for the next hour or so... there was no way I would get back to sleep. Everytime I tried I got a suckerpunch to the groin or a bop to the head. Ahh kids... gotta love 'em right? I think I may have to invest in some light body armor. Maybe a child-repellent? Those probably don't exist. Don't get me wrong, I love kids! But not at 6am in the morning!
Bilbo's Pizza
We met up with Eddie and Jeanie for lunch at Bilbo's pizza on Westnedge. It's a nice restaurant, the pizza was really good, I'll have to remember to go there again for sure. We gave Eddie his presents in a big bag of ruffled papers that Christy just had to have in there. I would've been fine just handing him some Meijer bags containing his presents, but Christy had to go all out of course. We got him a super-kewl bathrobe (black and gray, I should've took a picture), a bottle of fine scotch - I already forget the name of it, and a thing to hold the scotch in - there is a name for that too, but I'm sick today and can't remember squat.
Fredrick Meijer Gardens
Yeah so one of the places we wanted to take the girls on Turkey weekend was Fredrick Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids. It's a pretty kewl place, I HEAR! That's right, I only hear because we got there right when they closed!
Yeah that sucked, but we at least got to take a couple pictures in a sleigh. I'll put those pictures up whenever Christy sends 'em to me.
San Chez
That night we ate at a unique restaraunt in downtown Grand Rapids. I only found ONE thing I would try on the menu, but ended up liking two things: I had... some weird food that sounds like poncho de gallo? It was meat on a stick basically. I sampled some of the dishes that the others had... some fish (literally almost threw up), some salad stuff (the lettuce actually wasn't that bad), some potato things (they were extraordinarily good, ate a lot of those), and I tried some other stuff too that I didn't care for. Here's a few pictures from the restaurant:
Argh, so unfortunately the Wild Bull was playing Country Music again... Eddie and Jeanie didn't want to dance to that which I completely understand, so we pretty much called it a night. Christy and I stayed at the bull for a while though with Brooke so she could ogle over the bartender she fantasizes about. lol. I don't think I could give an accurate depiction of what is going on between Brooke and that bartender... Brooke is hot, why that bartender doesn't scoop her up is beyond me.
Saturday Morning - bright and early!
Unfortunately, Saturday morning came all too soon with Christy's son, 2 year-old Nathan, shouting "up" next to the bed at 6am. I shook my head at him, but that didn't stop him from wanting up. So I grabbed him and pulled him on the bed. The rest is history since Alaina got up and her and Nathan climbed all over me for the next hour or so... there was no way I would get back to sleep. Everytime I tried I got a suckerpunch to the groin or a bop to the head. Ahh kids... gotta love 'em right? I think I may have to invest in some light body armor. Maybe a child-repellent? Those probably don't exist. Don't get me wrong, I love kids! But not at 6am in the morning!
Bilbo's Pizza
We met up with Eddie and Jeanie for lunch at Bilbo's pizza on Westnedge. It's a nice restaurant, the pizza was really good, I'll have to remember to go there again for sure. We gave Eddie his presents in a big bag of ruffled papers that Christy just had to have in there. I would've been fine just handing him some Meijer bags containing his presents, but Christy had to go all out of course. We got him a super-kewl bathrobe (black and gray, I should've took a picture), a bottle of fine scotch - I already forget the name of it, and a thing to hold the scotch in - there is a name for that too, but I'm sick today and can't remember squat.
Fredrick Meijer Gardens
Yeah so one of the places we wanted to take the girls on Turkey weekend was Fredrick Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids. It's a pretty kewl place, I HEAR! That's right, I only hear because we got there right when they closed!
Yeah that sucked, but we at least got to take a couple pictures in a sleigh. I'll put those pictures up whenever Christy sends 'em to me.San Chez
That night we ate at a unique restaraunt in downtown Grand Rapids. I only found ONE thing I would try on the menu, but ended up liking two things: I had... some weird food that sounds like poncho de gallo? It was meat on a stick basically. I sampled some of the dishes that the others had... some fish (literally almost threw up), some salad stuff (the lettuce actually wasn't that bad), some potato things (they were extraordinarily good, ate a lot of those), and I tried some other stuff too that I didn't care for. Here's a few pictures from the restaurant:
This food has squid in it!!
That's Jeanie eating some of that disgusting squid!!!
That's Eddie drinking Squid ink, I forget what it was actually called.
That's Eddie and Jeanie lookin' cute together.
Christy enjoying the night, beautiful as ever.
Return to the Wild Bull
Argh, so... we traveled back to Kalamazoo to the Wild Bull hoping this time they'd have some good music playing. Unfortunately, it was Country Music again... oh em gee, I'm losing my respect for the bull. So again we called it a night after making some other pit stops on the way home.
Sunday at Hairmasters
So I had an appointment with Katheleen to get a trim and get my eyebrows waxed! Yep, I got 'em waxed, and I'm secure enough in my manhood to say that!
It looks good, too. I had got my eyebrows waxed by Katheleen like 7 years ago or something, and this time was MUCH better than then. The last time, her friend dropped hot wax on my eye and my eyelid was shut tight for hours... Thankfully that didn't happen this time, lol. If it did, I don't know what I would've done... Build-a-Bear
Eddie reminds Jeanie of a Teddy Bear so we went to Build-A-Bear in the Crossroads mall. They put in a voice box with Eddie saying something, and got the bear some clothes too. Here's a picture:
Putters
We took the kids to Putters for some much needed arcade time. Eddie, Jeanie and Max came along too. I won over 1000 tickets on the Wheel of Fortune game they have there. I love that game... Dave & Buster's has one too. If you time the light you can win a lot of tickets! By the time we were done there we had over 1700 ticket easily. The DDR was better for me this time around. I played more singles and doubles and got better scores than last time. I also played Eddie in air hockey and to my dismay he won by one point... unacceptable! The two of us go back and forth winning against each other, but I'm usually in the lead... if we had time for a rematch I'm sure I could've evened the score. I will get him next time. You better be ready Eddie!!
The Drive Home
WAS TERRIBLE! The roads were awful! Slush and snow mix made for dangerous conditions. It wasn't so bad on the highway, had to go much slower than normal though. I was taking Max home to Milford and that's where the roads were really bad. I think it took me almost 4 hours to ge home instead of the usual 2.5. But I made home safe and sound.
Sick with a Cold or Flu or somethin'!
The next day I went to work and was sick! And I'm still sick today... feelin' a little better. Last night I had a fever of 101.6. I don't have the fever anymore, but I still have a sore throat and some sinus and head congestion. Argh, I hate being sick.
That's all for now, surf in next week to find out what happens this weekend at my company's annual holiday party!
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