Spring into spring...

Went out for the first time yesterday to play some disk.   Frisbee is by far one of the highlights of my summer and I was super excited that the time has come for the season to begin anew!

 Whenever I get together with my friends for any reason I can't help but be reminded of how awesome they all are and how lucky I am to be where I am in life and had the opportunities I've had.  We are all excited about exercise and the outdoors and health... (minus the part of the evening where we scientifically tried to stuff twizzlers with pixi-stick sugar.  And we all look out for each other.  I'm proud to be part of such a wonderful group of people.  It constantly makes me happy to think about it!

Anyway, disk was awesome.  I'm sore, but the good kind, and I'm looking forward to start playing actual games.

Bed and Breakfast

A few things from a wonderful weekend... 

I am SOLD on bed and breakfasts!   Definitely the way to go!  Who wants a stale bagel and a cold cup of coffee that comes with standard hotel fare?  I'm telling you.. its nice to roll out of bed and wander down stairs... sit by the fire... stuff yourself with warm fluffy pancakes, hash, hash browns and broccoli and cheese omelets...    If you ever find yourself in the Burlington area and just want to get away from it all for a day, the black bear inn is highly recommended.

I'm also kinda sold on VT...  Granted there's not a lot to do and things are a bit too earthy crunchy sometimes but the people are SOOOO nice!  A fantastic break from Boston,  which I love dearly but would not always use the word "nice" to describe.

Getting to spend time with old friends is awesome.  I love telling old stories and catching up.  Plus, it turns out that nerf makes a chain gun.  This is definitely taking things to the next level.  Just the thought makes me giddy.   Now I have to make an even more serious effort to get back in touch with some other old friends... while the spirit of reconnecting is with me.

Also got to go skiing.  My favorite part of this is riding the chairlift to the top of the mountain and taking in the great views.  Skiing itself is pretty awesome, once I get over my yearly fear of killing myself on a random tree.  Perhaps the most interesting character of the day was the ski-rental guy.  Very friendly, very strange.  Liked to tell stories and change topics without pausing between sentences.  Also observed that all the lift operators and ski-patrol members had the exact same beard and looked like twins on first glance.  The Girl pointed out that if you spent all day every day in the cold wind on the mountain you might benefit from additional facial hair also...  Good point...

All in all..  pretty awesome!  I hope everyone enjoyed the weather and got outside before it started being inclement again!

P.S.  Totally found the hot tub that I was missing here...  One more reason to thank the Black Bear...

Night of the Chicken Dead

For a friends birthday we all went out to Brookline last night for dinner at Zaftigs -the almost Kosher Jewish deli and then to see a midnight screening of the Troma film release of Poultrygeist, Night of the Chicken Dead...

Dinner was awesome. There is not much better than going out with friends of a similar intellect and imagination. Especially when that imagination tends to run along the lines of surviving zombie attacks. On the downside there was SO much good conversation that I didn't really even know where to start paying attention... overload!

Conversation snippets that I caught:
• "I've seen so many zombie movies at this point that a group of zombies could walk by outside right now and I would be like 'oh, zombies' whatever.' Then I would be like 'wait those were zombies!'"
• A great deal of time was spent arguing (good naturedly) about how to save the economy
• Spam (the food) ... as per usual... came up more than once, including a grand plan for a spam focused restaurant and carving boats out of spam, filling them with deviled egg mixture and giving them little sails made of bacon
• A great deal else
Birthday gifts included an entire book filled with zombie haiku.

We expected the movie to be terrible... terrible... terrible...
It was indeed infinitely terrible. Enough said. Check out the preview at the bottom of this page.
Thanks everyone for an awesome evening!