Ohhh, I love the nightlife, I've got to boogie...

Total.rockstar.weekend.

What a great fun visit with my girlfriend Jen. Started off with Friday night. The boys and I got in around 10pm and started feasting on munchies. Jen popped open a bottle of red - Mad Dogs & Englishmen - a nice shiraz cab from Spain. Well, once the wine started flowing, Jen and I realized we had a lot of catching up to do. I think there are SEVERAL conversations we didn't finish. I still don't know the complete plan for the redecoration that's happening to the basement...and we started that conversation at least 4 times. It was about 12:45 in the morning when I realized I hadn't told the boys to go to bed. oops. Jen and I proceeded to carry on until 4. That's 4AM kids. WHAT? Hilarious...the highlight of the evening was me kicking it old school to some Montell Jordan. I thought Jen was going to pee her pants. Ask her about it sometime...we're funny. Red wine does that to ya. Ask Julie...we've had evenings, turned into mornings where we've chatted in every room of my house. Good times...

We slept in on Saturday and went to the BBQ fest in the afternoon. It did not disappoint. Mutton sandwiches, burgoo, fried green tomatoes, roasted corn on the cob...more burgoo...bloomin' onion...sliced bbq pork off the grill...BRILLIANT!

The most fantastical part of the day...the discovery of the inflatable obstacle course. You've all see the moonwalks, right? Well this is a jumpy-jump obstacle course. I paid for the boys to have 6 races while Jen and I shopped for sunglasses. Well, when we got back there to get them...we bought a round ourselves. Yeah, that's right, me and Jen duking it out on the obstacle course. I'm sure the people running it thought we had been drinking, but surprisingly enough, we HADN'T HAD A DROP. (Unlike the famed carousel ride of Julie&Rebecca in St. Charles...now THAT was a sight.) Was it carry over from the wine the night before? OMG. So you had to climb through this hole, go up and over a wall, shimmy under these tubes, climb through another hole, wrestle your way through an inflatable wall and then PULL YOURSELF UP WITH A ROPE to climb to the top of the slide and slide down. Well...being in peak physical condition like I am...you can imagine that I looked graceful as a gazelle navigating this course. YEAH RIGHT. I didn't climb the first wall, I flopped myself over it...and the rope thing? Did you guys see "An Officer and a Gentleman" or "Full Metal Jacket" - get them. Watch any scenes involving fat people unable to climb a rope wall. That was me. Not pretty. Jen won, the bitch. I came down the slide on my head. Not kidding...gravity took over at the top. BUT...sliding through stuff she somehow managed to get vinyl burns on her elbows. She's still in pain today. This is why cameras should be following me at all times.

We went out in the evening and caught a so-so alternative band that people love, a super bad country band, found ourselves in the American Legion. I think I got hit on by the commander...seriously...and he talked just like the guy from "King of the Hill" - and wore his baseball hat alarmingly high on his head. We befriended Marine Corps recruiters in the jazz club we went to, and they were getting free drinks, so then, SO WERE WE! BRILLIANT! We danced to bad (which means GREAT) disco, I sang with the band, we stayed out WAAAAAAAY too late.

Unfortunately I left my cable for my camera at home, so I can't share any of the pics of the boys on the mechanical bull or Jen and I being silly...and no, there are no pictures of us on the obstacle course. Thank the Lord.