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so i'm back. it's good to be back.
i was in vegas. it was cool; vegas is a good place. lost of things to do, especially when you're with your best girlfriends in the world. so laur and colleen and missi and i (and missi's boyf mike, who is a sweetie) drank big drinks and saw shows and played the slot machines and walked around a lot and had a good time. i'm getting the pics back tonight, so maybe eventually i'll wander over to the library and scan 'em.
after i got back from vegas, my parents and i went on our family vacation. basically, we drove from philly to greensboro to take me home, but we took a week to do it and stopped at all the random roadside attractions along route 81 that we wanted to see. mostly, the roadside attractions were civil war battlefields or caverns. we went to the civil war museum in harrisburg, which was really really well done, and went to Harpers Ferry, where John Brown made his anti-slavery raid in 1859 and got hung for it (now his body lies a-molderin' in the grave, but... well, you know). to mix things up a bit, we also went to the D-Day Memorial and Guilford County Courthouse, which marks a revolutionary war battlefield.
we also went to four different caverns and a natural bridge, so we fulfilled our geological vacation requirements as well. the caverns we saw were: Luray Caverns, Shenandoah Caverns, Endless Caverns, and the Caverns at Natural Bridge. the latter was really disappointing: their claim to fame is that they're the deepest caverns on the east coast, so i was 347 feet underground. but it wasn't really pretty at all. Luray was a lot more commercial than the rest, so it was harder to enjoy the natural cave beauty. Shenandoah was really cool, and Endless was great--we had a private tour because we got there early. i'll definitely post some cave pics if they turn out.
the neat thing about these caves is that all of them (except for the Natural Bridge ones, at least) have one really spectacularly pretty room. and in these really pretty rooms, they hold weddings. at Luray, they have a pipe organ that is made of stalactites, and that's really cool, but i'm not so interested in that. the one at Shenandoah was pretty, with a great big crystal waterfall, but the best one was the Cathedral Hall at Endless Caverns--just covered with stalactites and neat formations. it really did look like a cave version of a gothic cathedral. and it would be really, really inconvenient to get married in a cave in virginia. it would. but it's in the back of my mind now for future reference.
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and on the previously posted car adapter/discman ish, the ish was with the adapter, not the discman. i know because when i plugged in the headphones instead, i near blew out my eardrums because the volume was up to 11. so it's the piece-of-crap adapter.
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and today, i get to spend time with jorn! we're going to go shopping for a bedframe for him (since there's no sales tax on stuff for the next two days--thanks, NC! and preferably a bedframe with some sort of bar that handcuffs can attach to), and i'm going to stay over there tonight, and there will be sex. and nintendo. i am a happy woman. welcome home, me.
i was in vegas. it was cool; vegas is a good place. lost of things to do, especially when you're with your best girlfriends in the world. so laur and colleen and missi and i (and missi's boyf mike, who is a sweetie) drank big drinks and saw shows and played the slot machines and walked around a lot and had a good time. i'm getting the pics back tonight, so maybe eventually i'll wander over to the library and scan 'em.
after i got back from vegas, my parents and i went on our family vacation. basically, we drove from philly to greensboro to take me home, but we took a week to do it and stopped at all the random roadside attractions along route 81 that we wanted to see. mostly, the roadside attractions were civil war battlefields or caverns. we went to the civil war museum in harrisburg, which was really really well done, and went to Harpers Ferry, where John Brown made his anti-slavery raid in 1859 and got hung for it (now his body lies a-molderin' in the grave, but... well, you know). to mix things up a bit, we also went to the D-Day Memorial and Guilford County Courthouse, which marks a revolutionary war battlefield.
we also went to four different caverns and a natural bridge, so we fulfilled our geological vacation requirements as well. the caverns we saw were: Luray Caverns, Shenandoah Caverns, Endless Caverns, and the Caverns at Natural Bridge. the latter was really disappointing: their claim to fame is that they're the deepest caverns on the east coast, so i was 347 feet underground. but it wasn't really pretty at all. Luray was a lot more commercial than the rest, so it was harder to enjoy the natural cave beauty. Shenandoah was really cool, and Endless was great--we had a private tour because we got there early. i'll definitely post some cave pics if they turn out.
the neat thing about these caves is that all of them (except for the Natural Bridge ones, at least) have one really spectacularly pretty room. and in these really pretty rooms, they hold weddings. at Luray, they have a pipe organ that is made of stalactites, and that's really cool, but i'm not so interested in that. the one at Shenandoah was pretty, with a great big crystal waterfall, but the best one was the Cathedral Hall at Endless Caverns--just covered with stalactites and neat formations. it really did look like a cave version of a gothic cathedral. and it would be really, really inconvenient to get married in a cave in virginia. it would. but it's in the back of my mind now for future reference.
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and on the previously posted car adapter/discman ish, the ish was with the adapter, not the discman. i know because when i plugged in the headphones instead, i near blew out my eardrums because the volume was up to 11. so it's the piece-of-crap adapter.
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and today, i get to spend time with jorn! we're going to go shopping for a bedframe for him (since there's no sales tax on stuff for the next two days--thanks, NC! and preferably a bedframe with some sort of bar that handcuffs can attach to), and i'm going to stay over there tonight, and there will be sex. and nintendo. i am a happy woman. welcome home, me.
