The Entertainment Issue

Saturday Mike and I accompanied Lauren, Mike W, and some friends to Niagara Falls. At night. After some ingenious maneuvering by our driver to bypass the highway construction, we were off. It's not too long of a drive, only about 45 minutes. Lots of bright lights and loud music. We started off in a maze, which everyone was able to complete quickly. With the seven of us running around, though, we kept bumping into each other and of course, we all acted like we were about 5 years old. Nothing like a little immaturity to start off the night!!!

Next stop was the arcade, where we wasted some money playing carnie games, and wound up winning some prizes. We all had wooden pink mice hanging from ourselves by the end of the night. If you pull on their strings they do jumping jacks. We wandered down to the actual falls from there, and watched the lights changing colours. They were pretty loud, but rather impressive too. Our last stop was the casino, where everyone wound up ahead, which was awesome. Mike put his winnings into his so-called "piano fund", sweetheart that he is. We eventually made it home around 3am, but not before the kids had their McDonald's. I guess at that time of the morning you don't have much choice of where to get food... But still!

We were up far too early Sunday morning to enjoy breakfast with Mike's family. It was delicious. We went to Apple Annie's, where Mike and I had taken Eryn previously. The rest of Sunday was a bust, Mike and I just watched movies and relaxed. And napped. Monday night Mike and I went to look at a piano, and found that it would suit both of us just fine, and so we got it!

Mike arranged a bunch of his friends to help move it Tuesday night, and so I cooked them all supper and cookies, and Mike gave them beer. Mike brought home a gigantic truck to move it, and between four of them they managed to get it into the truck and drive it here. Apparently it was very questionably tied down, but they managed to make it, and now I have a 1947 Mason & Risch piano sitting in our dining room! It plays like an old piano, needs a bit of tuning, but perfect for our price range and expectations. I really wasn't expecting amazing things out of it, and it plays to my satisfaction. It's really dusty inside and Mike is convinced he's going to clean it all out! I told him to have fun with that...

It's snowing a lot today, it makes me happy! One of the hills is opening today, so Mike and I might go check it out tomorrow. They've been having a lot of snow up there, so I'm hoping it will be ok. It's small... really really small... But better than nothing!!! So hopefully we can try it out tomorrow!! I have to get my tuberculosis test 'read' for work tomorrow though, I figure maybe we can go on the way. I know I don't have it, but I need the doctor to say so for work, so I can actually start working soon. Mike and I are going out for a nice supper tonight, it will be nice to dress up and go out somewhere fancy. He's taking me to an old mill, which is old in every sense of the word, and is supposed to be quite nice.