May 28, 2008

I slept through most of the day since we got home after five, then I got ready and went to work for two hours.

After work, Ryan and I played a round of disc golf at the park.

Being extremely hungry, I met Chuck at the nation's number one salad franchise.. I didn't know there were other ones.

We met everyone over at Loyle Lanes for Nathan's birthday. We bowled our asses off.

On our team was Chuck "Dusk," Nathan "Dawn," Don "The Nuts Tain" and Carissa "Carissa."

The other team had Ryan "Rylilpony," Jennell "Neon," Jamie "The Boot," and Allie "Bowling Ally."

Nathan's dynamite bowling prompted us to change some names on our team to "Terry Nathan Terry" and "The Naughty Tits" to create unity of TNT. We are dorks.

Nathan celebrated his skills with a power slide.

Then we all grabbed our balls for a photo.

That wasn't enough, so a few of us went back to Jimmy's to play Rummy.

I'm tired after such a long day and I doubt I'll feel like getting up if I get called for work.

May 27, 2008

I had a pretty easy, late-starting day at Memorial with a technology class. I just gave them their assignments and finished the second half of A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs.

After work, Jeff and Jess came to my house and we picked up Chuck and headed down the road to New York for Take Two. Jeff drove this time.

When we got to the bar, the bartender told us there was one ticket left. We were somewhat discouraged, but she told us to come back and check later in case there were any cancellations. So we went and got Jamba Juice because it's the best.

We went to a pita restaurant and got some veggie food before heading back over.

The bartender had no tickets for us, but we were told by someone having a drink that we should wait by the door until they collect the tickets and we might get in. So we stood in line, where it was extremely hot, for about forty five minutes. We saw Demetri Martin walk by and go in to do his soundcheck and all. Everyone with tickets went in and then the lady came back out and told us we could just pay her and go in to stand in the back. We were ecstatic!

Demetri came on and was hilarious. He told almost all new jokes. Only a few old ones peppered here or there. The new stuff was great.

Of course he played some music while he told jokes, as well as eating a cookie to make himself feel better each time a joke didn't work out. He took two intermissions where other comics came out to do a set, they were both pretty funny too.

We posed in front of Club Rififi after the show and headed off, extremely happy that we got in and jolly from all the great things we heard.

We promised our bartender Mike from last week that we'd stop in after this show, so we kept our word. We only had time for one beer, but after Mike realized who we were and we told him a bit about the show he poured us each a shot because after all.....

"It's Whiskey River!"

We barely made the last train, running through Penn Station while I played "The Final Countdown" on my phone. Once we got back down the highway, we stopped at Dunkin' Donuts for breakfast sandwiches and drinks to keep us awake for the rest of the way.

We made it home alive again, but extremely tired and much more satisfied this time.

May 26, 2008

It was a beautiful day that Ryan and I had off work, so we met up and decided to try out Frisbee golf.

It was windy, which made it challenging, but it was fun.

We played through the course once and realized we really liked it.

So we went and got real Disc golf discs to try out.

We needed some pretzels after that first strenuous game.

There was a noticeable difference between the new discs and the regular Frisbees. We have found a new game that we will play often.

When we got back to Ryan's house we relaxed over a little Goldeneye.

I went to my dad's for a while and hung out post-bbq for a while. We had some beers and I helped get the fire going before I left.

I planned on going out again but I ended up staying in on the computer the rest of the night.

May 25, 2008

Ryan and I met up in the early afternoon and started driving north to Warren County, NJ to find Mount Tammany. It took a while to get there, but once we did we got out and headed for the trail.

The walk up was rocky and very steep. It was a climb at most parts.

This was our first lookout/resting point. The views only got better from here.

It was somewhat dangerous on some areas that were just filled with rocks.

It felt good once we got to the tops of the rock hills though.

We got to another lookout that we though was the end because someone congratulated us on making it up. There were falcons or eagles or some kind of birds flying below us, so we were pretty high.

This is us thinking we're heading back down.

After we realized we weren't done yet, it wasn't a long hike to the actual summit where other people were resting and enjoying their accomplishment.

We are officially at the summit, 1527 feet high.

The way down was rocky, but also had some nice views of the stream.

It was a nice change of pace from a constant vertical climb.

We still did some climbing though.

It was a beautiful area to just sit and enjoy the view.

And it wouldn't be a hike if Ryan and I didn't have to balance our way across a fallen tree.

I had to stop in the middle and look back to show him up. We finished the trail and headed back home slowly.

Once I got back, I went to Sam's to join in the bonfire. We made s'mores, ate leftovers and drank beer. Some of my favorite things. And I got to build a fire, also favorite.

We all hung out around the fire until about 3am. Me, Allie, Jordan, Jeff, Blake (Timmy) and Sam. We cleaned up and then hung around inside for a while talking before it was time to call it a night.

I've had an awesome few days, just keeps getting better.