Last night is a bit of a blur. I remember It was a great party with family and friends. I remember fireworks and great food and drink. Too much drink.
I imagine I will be reminded of the smaller details when I review the video.. Oh yes. There's lots of video.
Good things are happening to great friends. We wish them luck as they journey to their next life chapter to Denver, Colorado to pursue Kim's dream career. We have less than a month before they drive off into the horizon. To celebrate, we went to Bucci's Brick Oven in Middleburg Hts for a nice healthy serving of italian goodness, drinks at Tony K's Bar & Grille in Berea, and back at Murphys for more drinks and Rock Band.
I can't say it enough but we will totally miss you guys!!
Leider gibt's nur ein Bild aus der Schweiz, der Rest ist leider nicht Jugendfrei. Aber das Bild ist doch hoffentlich Klischeebehaftet genug, oder? Schweiz = Berge!
Also ich kann nur sagen die Halloweenparty dort war riesig, es wurde richtig heftig gefeiert.
Leider habe ich auch eine Erkältung mitgebracht, was wohl daran lag, das ich Nachts sehr leicht bekleidet unbedingt draußen noch eine Rauchen musste. Aber da kenne ich nichts!
Aber am härtesten hatte es mich auf der Rückfahrt getroffen, ich hatte einen riesigen Kater (eher schon in Richtung Tiger), den gepaart mit meiner Erkältung und einer 7-Stündigen Autofahrt, es war der Horror! Aber zum Abschluss sei gesagt, ich muss wieder dorthin und zwar so schnell wie möglich.
I was in this strange large house. Two of my housemates were these socially scared people so they didn't interact much with us. I was in this large floral bed that could easily fit three people. On one end, I lay, at the other end, @futuresandwich.
We were throwing some kind of party. The socially scared housemates hid. @futuresandwich left with a friend in a really cool classic car.
They eventually came back and I told him off for leaving me. One of the socially scared housemates traipsed the backyard and kept muttering under his breath.
So we had a great time at the party and some of the costumes even made the front page of 20minutos.es, a large online Spanish newspaper. The Cocentaina Medieval fair was pretty great as well, the inside of the palace hosted several exhibitions for different tastes. And they even had a cyber-café thing organized at the youth center. Great stuff from our town hall. Pics illustrating all this attached.
Our street, Villa, has never needed much of an excuse to get together and have a good time. Most of the parents are around the same age, and the kids all go to the same schools.
This year's Halloween falling on a Saturday, the weather being a beautiful Michigan Fall day, and the bonus hour afforded by daylight savings made for a perfect storm. It was a parade of costumed kids running down the street, while the dad's followed behind — beer in hand. After the trick-or-treating, we gathered at neighbor's houses, and stood around the fire pit late into the night. Halloween was great when I was a kid, but I don't remember it being THAT great.
I was going to be clever and weave this anecdote back into some digital story about communities and their parallels in Social Networking, but I decided not to. Nancy and I have done some cool things with the kids and we try to keep them inspired, but I really felt that I could "see" the memories forming as they ran from house to house filling their bags. I don't want to cheapen that.
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