The Weekend

Oct. 9th, 2006 02:12 pm
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Well, first...

Last Call! Dinner with my mom and I! If you're not parent shy! At Longhorn Steakhouse! 8PM! Call me for a ride! Or someone else, if you'd prefer! 812-327-5880. :)


On Saturday, we woke up bright and early, got breakfast at the Runcible, then headed over to the Wiley House for their fall festival thing. It was really nice. My step teacher was there playing flute in the band they had, and a fairly knowledgeable lady gave us and a few other people a tour. It's one of the cultural things I've been meaning to visit for a while, so it was nice to get the chance. The tour was surprisingly interesting, though I was sort of amazed at how long it could take to go through so small a house. I want to see the garden there in the summer, though, cause it was sort of...bedraggled right now.

After that, we headed over to the Third Street park to get some free Lotus. We liked it enough that we made our decision to head over to Lotus in the evening to. We left the park and went home to take a bit of a break before going to La Dulce Vita for dinner.

Lotus was totally awesome. Mom had heard of Golem and like Klezmer a lot, so that was our first stop. They were really awesome but no one was dancing, which made me very sad. I danced anyway for a while, but it was tough, the atmosphere was surprisingly refressive, like I was getting, "what a weirdo" vibes off the other members of the audience, even those who were sort of bopping along to the music. If [livejournal.com profile] fallenrose hadn't shown up and started dancing with me, I probably would have stopped, having managed to resist the banality for almost 45 minutes...After a bunch of klezmer, we went over to hear Swap, which was one of the ones I'd really wanted to hear...they were really awesome, and they had a band member who acted just like [livejournal.com profile] josef_grey, which made me laugh.

Jonie needed care, so after Swap we went back to Fenbrook Lane, took a bit of a break, cared for the pup, and tried to decide if we were too tired to go back to Lotus. After much debate, we decided to go back on the condition I could find a parking spot closer than 2nd street. We succeeded, finding one seconds from the Methodist Church, the venue where the next stuff we wanted to see was - and saw the Tuvan throat singers (I missed the band name) who were totally amazing and by far the most pleasant surprise of the night, since we hadn't even come to see them, but Fingal, who was on next, and was also excellent. All in all, it was much fun and totally cool.


Woke up, grabbed [livejournal.com profile] buzzermccain and went for breakfast. While there, we decided to go out to Musgrove Orchard and pick apples. As it turns out, you can't pick apples at Musgrove Orchard. But they had lots of nice gourds and apples and cider and stuff, and we picked up all kinds of goodies, like homemade apple butter and fresh clover honey, you know, yummy stuff. I set up a nice fall thing on the kitchen table with cute gourds that make me laugh, and I got two really nice pumpkins suitable for carving, decoration, etc.

After that, we headed over to Oliver Winery, because the two are fairly close together, and looked at their beautiful-even-in-the-fall gardens. We decided to hang out and try some wine, but there were a zillion people there, so instead of doing a wine tasting we each bought a glass of what we were most interested in (I had the hard cider), a baguette and some cheese and sat and enjoyed the fall sun. It was pretty nice. We headed back to town, made a cameo at Aberrant to drop off [livejournal.com profile] buzzermccain and to allow me to pick up my secret Santa. We relaxed for a bit after that, got some dinner, then headed back to the hotel. We had planned to watch some movies, but we discovered that the "pay per view" movies are TEN DOLLARS!!! GAH!! We decided it wasn't worth it, and watched adult swim instead. Stupid Venture Brothers To Be Continued BS! At least I got to see some second season VB and Robot Chicken, though...[livejournal.com profile] saracariad and I don't have cable, so I'm way behind, waiting for DVD's to come out so I can catch up...and we played Scrabble. :)


Anyway, I'm off. Today we're going to do some stuff around campus, before the weather goes sour later in the week...I have to find some time to write my paper, though, due Wednesday...urgh...

Date: 2006-10-09 02:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] buzzermccain.livejournal.com
Hey there- sorry I won't make it. I am stuck working a closer, alas.

-K

Date: 2006-10-10 02:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unforth.livejournal.com
Bah, that sucks. :( Good luck, and I'll see ya.

Date: 2006-10-09 02:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mistress-sin.livejournal.com
tell your mom i said hello and that i should have an email for her later today or tomorrow.

hugs hon and hope you are having fun, cause if not, i'm sending the fun fairy over to smack you upside the head until you do! =)

Date: 2006-10-10 02:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unforth.livejournal.com
She says hi back :) And I'd say we are having fun, so please don't send the fun fairy, she's scary.........

Date: 2006-10-09 03:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kniedzw.livejournal.com
It looks as if [livejournal.com profile] swan_tower and I will be showing up this evening. Enjoy the day. :)

Date: 2006-10-09 05:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] akashiver.livejournal.com
Could I perhaps catch a ride over to the restarant from you and Bryn?

Date: 2006-10-10 02:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unforth.livejournal.com
I'm so glad you guys could come! :)

Date: 2006-10-10 03:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kniedzw.livejournal.com
Likewise! ...though I must admit that I was sad I wasn't able to chat with your mom more. She seems pretty nifty.

Date: 2006-10-11 12:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unforth.livejournal.com
Amusingly, she said pretty much the same thing about you. ;)

Date: 2006-10-09 05:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] morbon-tg.livejournal.com
Yep. It was good to see you. The throat singing was totally amazing, and we had seen Fingal the night before and liked them a lot. I hope you both had a good time. Kasi got really tired around 10:30 or we would have stayed for the Cajun music and much more dancing. In all, she had a long two days of much dancing, and had you gone to see Balkan Beat Box, I'm sure you would have seen a much different atmosphere, as that seemed to be one where everyone couldn't help but dance and feel their energy.

Date: 2006-10-10 02:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unforth.livejournal.com
I'm sort of sorry I missed Balkan Beat Box...but I was soooo tired at that point, I probably wouldn't have enjoyed it anyway...Glad you guys had fun, too!

Date: 2006-10-09 07:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lightwhispers.livejournal.com
I will attempt to make it there tonight.

Date: 2006-10-10 02:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unforth.livejournal.com
Glad you could join us!

Date: 2006-10-09 08:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nekomata.livejournal.com
I wanted to come but I have plague and don't feel like sharing it.

Date: 2006-10-10 02:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unforth.livejournal.com
I'm sorry you guys couldn't be there; I hope you feel better!

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