May 27, 2012

Kate and I decided to go on a South Jersey wine tour for the afternoon and we started out at Heritage in Glassboro. We tried a few good wines there and then moved on to Wagonhouse down the road. They had some amazing wines. I like almost all of them. The Fallen Quaker was probably my favorite of the day though, with chocolate and coffee flavors. So good.

We went to four others somehow. Some were definitely better than others. Coda Rossa was great as we were the only ones there and the guy pouring for us was really friendly and he basically let us sample all of their wine. And they had a lot! Belleview also had great hosts that were very nice to let us stay and try wine even though we got there just before they were going to close. All in all a really fun time.

We stopped at Buffalo Wild Wings for dinner and then went to Christie's brother's house for a bonfire. We got a nice fire started using some of the neighbors' wood (shhh) and then had some beers sitting outside on a beautiful night. Eventually we got the iHome working so we had music too!

Tracy, Mike, and Tina showed up eventually as well and, after we sat around talking for an hour or so we finally got in the pool!

I love night swimming. Even though it was an above ground pool it was still fun. We didn't stay in for too long, but the water was really nice and we went to stand around the fire again for a bit after that.

Quite a fun day and nice getting to see people for a while. Gotta go to more wineries soon.

Aug 29, 2009

After being up really late last night, I got up early this morning to go to Rowan to get Demetri Martin tickets. I came home after that and went back to sleep for a few hours. My grandmom wanted to take my sister, Devin, Aiden and myself out to eat so we went where every vegetarian loves to go: Outback Steak House. I got a lettuce wedge and some really good pasta while I played with Aiden. He almost got two whole orders of chicken fingers! He has a system where he eats a piece, then throws one on the floor and then eats another piece and so on.. it seems to work for him..

I had several choices of things to do at night but those choices started narrowing and I'm glad I chose to go to Carissa's house for her gathering. We went swimming and played volleyball with beach balls. It was a lot of fun. It was Ryan and me versus the five girls that were there and we won! Rematch? Oh yeah, we won that too... re-rematch??

After we all eventually got out of the pool, we changed and came inside for games. We played Apples to Apples first, where there is a judge and everyone chooses one of the cards in their hand to match the adjective card the judge puts out. The judge then decides which person's card is best described by that adjective... there were some questionable calls... Jamie... but the game was a lot of fun.

Next, we played a game called Smart Ass where a person, place or thing is slowly described generally to more specifically and you have to guess what it is. During this game, I ate some pizza and far too many brownies.. Katie showed up as well and joined in the game. We decided to call it a night after that game and go home.

Katie caught me up on her trip to Ukraine before she went home and I stayed up watching Psych before actually going to sleep.