T came up for a visit on Saturday and we spent much of the afternoon loafing around the house. Chinese food was ordered, and consumed, in large quantities. And when The Hubbs and Hambone came back from fishing, an impressive dent was made in the leftovers.
Neighbor Man came over in the early evening, and the fun commenced. We all started acting like 21-year-olds, swilling booze in our own unique ways. The Princess was running around the house being as cute as ever, and the grown-ups were engrossed in good conversations and good food.
Good times.
After I put The Princess to bed, I headed out on the town with T and Neighbor Man.
First stop: Horizontals. I love this bar because it's small and for some reason it smells like a roller rink to me. It was completely dead...odd for a Saturday night, but what do I know? Last time I was out at this bar was six months ago when we stopped over for a drink after The Princess's birthday party. We each had two drinks before deciding to move on.
The place to be: Lizzard Lounge. The entire town was there...apparently this is the new place to hang out since they've redone some things in the old China Girl building. Continuing the "smell" theme, this place had an odor of Play-Doh and olives...think dirty martini gone terribly wrong.
And from there it got worse. Grelvis, I kid you not, was singing in the restaurant side of the place. If the name doesn't spell it out for you, he's an Elvis impersonator. Who can't sing. And uses a karaoke prompter because he can't be bothered to learn the lyrics. Oh, and who couldn't swivel his hips to save his life.
Naturally, the Tucky Trash was all over this shit. The place was packed. I'm talking sardine-style. And there was this creepy middle-aged broad running around and grinding on people. I am sad to report that I am one of the many casualties of this particular evening. I'm not sure I'll ever be the same after having that saggy old butt ground into my hip.
Eeeewwww...I feel so violated!
Each of us a little more emotionally scarred than when we went in, we chugged the dregs of our current drinks and decided to get the hell out of Dodge. Walking out to Troy's truck, we were giggling like schoolgirls about the whole Grelvis situation.
Wait a minute...
Apparently Grelvis is such a must-see around here that the whole parking lot was full. So what better idea could a Tuckian have than to start blocking other people in? Morons. Fortunately we were parked by the curb, right next to a grassy area that butted up to the road. Troy popped us up over the curb and we off-roaded slightly on our way out of there. We'd be damned if we were going to go back inside and be subjected to that again!
Back across town to Horizontals, where we played pool for a couple of hours and generally had a great time.
When we'd had enough of pool we all headed back this way and stopped off at Troy's (did I mention he lives across the street?) to let the doggies out. I got a tour too...have lived here for four and a half years and this is the first time I've been inside a neighbor's house. Weird. But Troy's place is pretty. And his dogs seem sweet, especially Elsie the border collie mix. Fifi, the pit bull, can be a little scary at times, but that's her job after all.
When I finally looked at the clock on the stove after we'd been back in my kitchen for a few minutes, I saw it was 1:30. No wonder I was fading. Sleepytime!
T took off on Sunday, and we were left with a little chill time before The Hubbs' folks and grandparents got here. It's been a few weeks since they've seen The Princess and they wanted to take us out to lunch for our anniversary.
For those of you who weren't there, our wedding reception was at the Warsaw Inn in McHenry. That's right - the Polish buffet. So that's where we decided to go for our little lunch gathering, not knowing there was a wedding coming in and a rotary club luncheon going on. And we had a party of seven.
After waiting for what seemed like forever, The Hubbs did his patented get-up-and-march-out move, and we all followed suit. We rolled across town to the Village Squire where we were seated immediately. It was a very nice meal. I love hanging out with smaller groups - The Hubbs' family is so big that when you get them all together it feels like a revolving door of hello-how-ya-doin's, rather than actual visiting. So it's really nice when it's just his folks and grandparents. Thanks, guys!
Back home after lunch, Nana and I decided to dress The Princess up in her Halloween costume and push her into the living room to show everyone. Here she is trying to rid herself of the velcro-hoodie part:
Our little piggy pranced around the room for everyone, at least for a little while...
...before it got too hot and she had to get into her jammies:
So, all in all it was a wonderful weekend. We ended up going to bed early on Sunday night, all of us starting our recovery from the last few busy days in a row.
I love long weekends.
Sounds like a lot of fun except for the booty grind - totally disgusting! Kaitie & I will be in town this weekend. Will you guys be around? Miss ya's!
ReplyDeleteYep, as far as I know we'll be around. Would love to see you if you have time! Just let us know.
ReplyDeleteAnd you forgot to say .......we almost kicked Troy's butt at pool. I think he cheated by getting us drunk:)
ReplyDeleteThat was fun. Grelvis and all:) Another highlight for me was Chloe asking for me to pick her up Sunday am. That was precious.
That was absolutely priceless. Apparently, you are in the club. :)
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