Did I Mention…? Plus Weekend Summary

Mini Interior, originally uploaded by tony.eckersley.

I love my new Mini.

That’s right! I am highly impressed with it. Drove over 400 miles this weekend through various trips visiting friends. Needless to say, the seats you see above you got some sitting in!

Dannie and I went to see Kim and Andrew for a surprise visit for Andrew’s 20th Birthday in Fredrickberg on Friday. It was great catch up with them again while we enjoyed pizza, some drinks, and a few games of pool. We also got the chance to properly meet their friends who were nice and accepting to us.

On Saturday morning we headed down to the University of Virginia to see Casey and Dorothy and to see a show that Dor was partaking in (Desdemona). The drive down was quite fun – Route 29 has some great fast sections of road where I was able to unleash a bit of power from my Cooper S, but of course not too much as I am still ‘driving it in.’ We spent the day catching up with Casey (Dorothy was hitting up a matinée showing) with some FIVE GUYS burgers which are always a pleasure to devour. Later we hung out at Dorothy’s place where we met her flat mates (including another Mini owner). I helped prepare some jello shots with Casey headed out to the show which I quite enjoyed. I’m hardly a theatre critique so I will spare you the details, but as the tagline said – “6 girls in corsets, can’t be bad.” Guess that was right. This was their last show too, as tradition has it’s way, following such an event usually comes an after party! This was quite fun, and met some cool people (and some annoying people – “Aweosme” comes to mind for one person). Later the party turned quite wild! Not quite what I was expecting, but quite an insight to the American College party life – not that I was complaining. Unfortunately I have no photographic evidence of any events that happened – sorry!

Unfortunately, Dannie, throughout the night, was deteriorating with the illness that has been doing the rounds. I purposefully didn’t drink as I suspected I may have to take her home at any point as she got worse and worse throughout the night. Basically we went from itchy eyes to full out death! Come 2 am I threw her and a blanket into the Mini and drove 140 miles home. She needed to sleep in her own bed that night. And rightly so – she was still full of death in the morning.

Regardless, we both had a lot of fun and can’t wait to go back!