I bought a bunch of books through Amazon then accidentally sent them to my Mom's house instead of to my apartment. I could have just had her ship them back to me but I decided it would be more fun if I took a trip home. Not to mention that Fergus Falls also has a Target and I received some Target gift cards for my birthday.
My roommates Chris and Jess decided it would be fun to accompany me and Chris graciously offered to drive (remember how Louis isn't planning on running anytime soon). We also invited Suzannah. Josh unfortunately had to work so he couldn't come with us.
We left around nine and it's about a three hour drive (if you speed) so it took just over three hours to get there. We hung out with my mom a little and I give everyone the official tour. (We have a pretty big place). We decided we would have to come back when it's warm and have a party. I made sure to grab my books and we picked up some other stuff before heading out.
Then we went to Fergus Falls to eat and go to Target. (I had realized about halfway to my Mom's house that I forgot my gift cards so that sucked.) We stopped at the Viking Cafe for lunch and it was super cheap and super delicious. I'll definitely be going back there. Then we went to Biffleys and Bookmark which is a board game store that also sells movies and used books. It's awesome. Then we ran across the street to Victor Lundeen's to have a look around there. We then went to The Market to check that out. There was so much stuff there that I wanted. Unfortunately it's all pretty spendy. We finally got to Target and wandered around there.
Then it was time to head home. We got back around eight and it was a very successful trip.
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
Minnesota Renaissance Faire
This last weekend I went to the Minnesota Renaissance Faire. I've been to the Bristol Renaissance Faire in Kenosha, WI so many times that I sort of had that ingrained in my mind. So walking up to the Minnesota one was weird because the front layout is very similar.
I normally go in the summer so it was weird not seeing so many costumes and seeing the workers wearing sweaters over their normal costumes. But then again it seemed that the Minnesota Faire doesn't have as high of standards as the Bristol one. That was kind of disappointing.
Since the Minnesota one is in the cities it seems to draw a lot more tourists than the Brisol one does because it is kind of in the middle of nowhere. There was about 1 costumed person for every 20 normal people. In Bristol it's closer to 1 to 5.
It was also dusty as hell and there were woodchips everywhere. So my thin flip flops were a very poor choice of footwear. I'll keep that one in mind for the future. So I could barely walk by the end of the day. Ouch.
There didn't seem to be as much booth diversity as the Bristol faire has. Everything seemed the same, but that might have been because there were a lot of things I was used to seeing at the Bristol faire so it wasn't interesting.
I did not see any fairy people. I saw a guy dressed as a tree and that was about it. :( I love my fairy people.
The joust to the death was also a huge disappointment. The field was awkward with limited seating. The acting was bad and it ended very quickly. It was more like watching the 3 stooges than a joust to the death.
But it was really fun to show Josh what a renaissance faire is and to get a feel for the place. It was also fun seeing my other friends there. A couple of them had gone before but some of them hadn't. It was a really good time.
I normally go in the summer so it was weird not seeing so many costumes and seeing the workers wearing sweaters over their normal costumes. But then again it seemed that the Minnesota Faire doesn't have as high of standards as the Bristol one. That was kind of disappointing.
Since the Minnesota one is in the cities it seems to draw a lot more tourists than the Brisol one does because it is kind of in the middle of nowhere. There was about 1 costumed person for every 20 normal people. In Bristol it's closer to 1 to 5.
It was also dusty as hell and there were woodchips everywhere. So my thin flip flops were a very poor choice of footwear. I'll keep that one in mind for the future. So I could barely walk by the end of the day. Ouch.
There didn't seem to be as much booth diversity as the Bristol faire has. Everything seemed the same, but that might have been because there were a lot of things I was used to seeing at the Bristol faire so it wasn't interesting.
I did not see any fairy people. I saw a guy dressed as a tree and that was about it. :( I love my fairy people.
The joust to the death was also a huge disappointment. The field was awkward with limited seating. The acting was bad and it ended very quickly. It was more like watching the 3 stooges than a joust to the death.
But it was really fun to show Josh what a renaissance faire is and to get a feel for the place. It was also fun seeing my other friends there. A couple of them had gone before but some of them hadn't. It was a really good time.
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| Josh spent $5 to lose a game of chess. |
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| Decided to take a group picture before we left for the night. Josh, Chloe, Paul, Vogie, Sam S., Sam D. |
Monday, March 14, 2011
Spring Break (A Recap)
Ok, so I'm sure everyone has been patiently waiting for the details of my spring break trip, well I'm finally going to write about it... which is impressive because I'm lazy. (I even uploaded pictures to facebook yesterday 0.o)
Ok, so we started out Saturday afternoon. We grabbed snacks at wal-mart and I bought a small carrot cake to eat once we got to the ocean. (Something that happened last year. Paul bought a carrot cake while we were still in Minnesota and we didn't get a chance to eat it until we reached the ocean.) So yeah, celebratory carrot cake.
"It takes the same amount of effort to remember your birthday as it takes to eat in the morning." That was Vogie. He says he prefers to remember to eat.
We stopped in Pocohontas, Iowa and took pictures by a huge statue there. That was pretty fun.
"Oh my God I would chop my fingers up and snort them right now. They smell like gummy worms." Yeah, Vogie is a little bit crazy.
"Exit 0A because exit 1A just isn't first enough." Yet another witty Vogie quote. Mainly because I'm not very witty and I was also the one in charge of writing everything down which I then proceeded to slack on about halfway through the trip. It doesn't help that I also get motion sick if I try to write while we're moving.
We made it through Illinois in a few hours and hit Indiana at like 3 in the morning. We slept at a rest area that night. Sleeping in the car wasn't that bad.
Day 2 Made it through Indiana and into Kentucky. We rock climbed at the Natural Bridge State Park near Fort Dodge. The sign said that it was 0.75 miles, they didn't tell us that that was practically climbing straight up. I thought I was going to die. My legs hurt so bad. It was really, really pretty though and totally worth the climb. We got to the top and took a whole bunch of really cool pictures, and we even got to climb on top of the natural bridge. It was really amazing.
We cut through the corners of Virginia and Tennessee. We stopped just short of the North Carolina border to sleep for the night.
Day 3 We made it to North Carolina and stopped at Vogie's brother's house. You know the guy from "How to Train Your Dragon" Well his brother Erik looks just like the dad. He's basically a viking and he's super cool. We watched "Due Date" and got about halfway through "The Big Lebowski" but that's only because their internet got messed up and we were watching it on Netflix instant. We played Killer Bunnies and Vogie and I got to teach them how to play, that was interesting. We went out to lunch at a fast food place called "Cookout" which has amazing food that is amazingly cheap. I wish we could have stopped at another one but we were never hungry when we saw a sign for it.
We left Erik's house and started heading toward the coast. We were supposed to meet up with an air force buddy of his. We intended to stop at this state park that was right by where he was at, but then it was closed and instead of looking for someplace to sleep in the area we decided to just keep moving and we'd meet up with him on our way back.
Day 4 We spent all day trying to find somewhere we could shower at with no luck. We kept trying to find different campgrounds so we could steal a shower and that was hard too. So we figured we would just head back toward Erik's and take him up on the shower that he offered us before we left. We made it to the ocean today. So it turns out that that little peninsula sort of thing of North Carolina is surrounded by a tiny string of islands so you have to get out on the islands to actually see the ocean. Well we finally found a road that would take us out there after we dead ended at a sound (literally the road ended and we were in someone's yard with a view of the sound). So we went to a few different beaches and waded around in the water and collected shells. It was really fun and we found some really pretty ones. Vogie was very happy that he finally got to see the ocean.
Day 5 We went back to Erik's and took a shower, it was so nice to finally be clean. We were also quite happy because we decided we didn't like North Carolina at all and that it didn't like us either. So we were glad to be heading home. We googled the shortest route home and it was pretty much the same as the route we took there, except it took us straight up through Kentucky instead of taking the path that took us through more states. So we wanted to take the scenic route through the smokey mountains but it was getting dark and we figured it wouldn't be any fun in the dark so we stopped real close to there and spent the night in the wal-mart parking lot (we spent a lot of nights at wal-mart parking lots). It was also raining pretty bad so we were also hoping the weather would improve.
Day 6 (This is the point where I stopped writing things down.) We woke up in the morning and the weather was still pretty bad. We just kind of hung out and it cleared up a little bit. We went to go take the scenic route only to find that it was closed and we had to take the normal interstate anyway. Ugh. We decided to see if there was anything worth seeing in Knoxville and Vogie found a small art gallery that we decided to go to. It was pretty cool. It was really small but it had some interesting things. It was a nice detour. I decided to take us through Cincinnati because it wouldn't really take us any longer. Vogie wanted to go to an art museum that was there so we decided to spend the night and see it in the morning. The wal-mart we choose happened to be right next to a discount movie theater. So we went and saw a movie called "The Eagle" We had no idea what it was about so it seemed a good choice for 3 bucks. So we get our tickets and we wait in the theater because we're early. It's the last show of the night and we're the only ones in that particular theater. It's like five minutes after it's supposed to start so we decide to go tell someone. We go out to the concession stand and tell the guy the movie hasn't started. Then another guy comes around the corner and says that the movie is playing. They both apologize to us and we go back to the theater. The movie isn't playing so we turn back around to go tell him again. We tell the concession stand guy that it's still not playing and he's all like "He is suck a liar" and apologizes to us again and it was pretty funny. We go back to the theater and the movie starts. I think the guy realized he had forgotten it and ran to go get it started.
Day 7 We drove around forever trying to find the Cincinnati art gallery and we finally found it. It was huge... So we went around the first floor and it's your typical huge art gallery, each room leading to more rooms until we had no idea where we were. We were getting bored of seeing the same thing over and over again and decided to go upstairs to see the contemporary art. It was pretty cool. They also had a huge section on circus posters and that type of art. It was really neat. After that we figured we should probably head out and try to get home. It's Friday by this point and we're tired of being on the road. So we drive all night until we got to Vogie's house at like 3 in the morning.
Day 8 We hung out at Vogie's house because his mom said she would make us pizza and it was delicious. We watched "Megamind" and "Fight Club" so now I've finally seen it and everyone can stop telling me I need to watch it. It was pretty good though, even though I knew what was going on because it had been spoiled for me. Still really good though. We had dinner and hung out and finally decided we should get back to campus. Because at this point I was starting to be really sick of Vogie and really missing Josh. We finally got back and it was all good. Yay roadtrip.
Ok, so we started out Saturday afternoon. We grabbed snacks at wal-mart and I bought a small carrot cake to eat once we got to the ocean. (Something that happened last year. Paul bought a carrot cake while we were still in Minnesota and we didn't get a chance to eat it until we reached the ocean.) So yeah, celebratory carrot cake.
"It takes the same amount of effort to remember your birthday as it takes to eat in the morning." That was Vogie. He says he prefers to remember to eat.
We stopped in Pocohontas, Iowa and took pictures by a huge statue there. That was pretty fun.
"Oh my God I would chop my fingers up and snort them right now. They smell like gummy worms." Yeah, Vogie is a little bit crazy.
"Exit 0A because exit 1A just isn't first enough." Yet another witty Vogie quote. Mainly because I'm not very witty and I was also the one in charge of writing everything down which I then proceeded to slack on about halfway through the trip. It doesn't help that I also get motion sick if I try to write while we're moving.
We made it through Illinois in a few hours and hit Indiana at like 3 in the morning. We slept at a rest area that night. Sleeping in the car wasn't that bad.
Day 2 Made it through Indiana and into Kentucky. We rock climbed at the Natural Bridge State Park near Fort Dodge. The sign said that it was 0.75 miles, they didn't tell us that that was practically climbing straight up. I thought I was going to die. My legs hurt so bad. It was really, really pretty though and totally worth the climb. We got to the top and took a whole bunch of really cool pictures, and we even got to climb on top of the natural bridge. It was really amazing.
We cut through the corners of Virginia and Tennessee. We stopped just short of the North Carolina border to sleep for the night.
Day 3 We made it to North Carolina and stopped at Vogie's brother's house. You know the guy from "How to Train Your Dragon" Well his brother Erik looks just like the dad. He's basically a viking and he's super cool. We watched "Due Date" and got about halfway through "The Big Lebowski" but that's only because their internet got messed up and we were watching it on Netflix instant. We played Killer Bunnies and Vogie and I got to teach them how to play, that was interesting. We went out to lunch at a fast food place called "Cookout" which has amazing food that is amazingly cheap. I wish we could have stopped at another one but we were never hungry when we saw a sign for it.
We left Erik's house and started heading toward the coast. We were supposed to meet up with an air force buddy of his. We intended to stop at this state park that was right by where he was at, but then it was closed and instead of looking for someplace to sleep in the area we decided to just keep moving and we'd meet up with him on our way back.
Day 4 We spent all day trying to find somewhere we could shower at with no luck. We kept trying to find different campgrounds so we could steal a shower and that was hard too. So we figured we would just head back toward Erik's and take him up on the shower that he offered us before we left. We made it to the ocean today. So it turns out that that little peninsula sort of thing of North Carolina is surrounded by a tiny string of islands so you have to get out on the islands to actually see the ocean. Well we finally found a road that would take us out there after we dead ended at a sound (literally the road ended and we were in someone's yard with a view of the sound). So we went to a few different beaches and waded around in the water and collected shells. It was really fun and we found some really pretty ones. Vogie was very happy that he finally got to see the ocean.
Day 5 We went back to Erik's and took a shower, it was so nice to finally be clean. We were also quite happy because we decided we didn't like North Carolina at all and that it didn't like us either. So we were glad to be heading home. We googled the shortest route home and it was pretty much the same as the route we took there, except it took us straight up through Kentucky instead of taking the path that took us through more states. So we wanted to take the scenic route through the smokey mountains but it was getting dark and we figured it wouldn't be any fun in the dark so we stopped real close to there and spent the night in the wal-mart parking lot (we spent a lot of nights at wal-mart parking lots). It was also raining pretty bad so we were also hoping the weather would improve.
Day 6 (This is the point where I stopped writing things down.) We woke up in the morning and the weather was still pretty bad. We just kind of hung out and it cleared up a little bit. We went to go take the scenic route only to find that it was closed and we had to take the normal interstate anyway. Ugh. We decided to see if there was anything worth seeing in Knoxville and Vogie found a small art gallery that we decided to go to. It was pretty cool. It was really small but it had some interesting things. It was a nice detour. I decided to take us through Cincinnati because it wouldn't really take us any longer. Vogie wanted to go to an art museum that was there so we decided to spend the night and see it in the morning. The wal-mart we choose happened to be right next to a discount movie theater. So we went and saw a movie called "The Eagle" We had no idea what it was about so it seemed a good choice for 3 bucks. So we get our tickets and we wait in the theater because we're early. It's the last show of the night and we're the only ones in that particular theater. It's like five minutes after it's supposed to start so we decide to go tell someone. We go out to the concession stand and tell the guy the movie hasn't started. Then another guy comes around the corner and says that the movie is playing. They both apologize to us and we go back to the theater. The movie isn't playing so we turn back around to go tell him again. We tell the concession stand guy that it's still not playing and he's all like "He is suck a liar" and apologizes to us again and it was pretty funny. We go back to the theater and the movie starts. I think the guy realized he had forgotten it and ran to go get it started.
Day 7 We drove around forever trying to find the Cincinnati art gallery and we finally found it. It was huge... So we went around the first floor and it's your typical huge art gallery, each room leading to more rooms until we had no idea where we were. We were getting bored of seeing the same thing over and over again and decided to go upstairs to see the contemporary art. It was pretty cool. They also had a huge section on circus posters and that type of art. It was really neat. After that we figured we should probably head out and try to get home. It's Friday by this point and we're tired of being on the road. So we drive all night until we got to Vogie's house at like 3 in the morning.
Day 8 We hung out at Vogie's house because his mom said she would make us pizza and it was delicious. We watched "Megamind" and "Fight Club" so now I've finally seen it and everyone can stop telling me I need to watch it. It was pretty good though, even though I knew what was going on because it had been spoiled for me. Still really good though. We had dinner and hung out and finally decided we should get back to campus. Because at this point I was starting to be really sick of Vogie and really missing Josh. We finally got back and it was all good. Yay roadtrip.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
North Carolina
So I'm at a McDonalds in North Carolina right now. We're just hanging out because we want to go through the Smokey Mountains during the daytime. We've been having quite the adventure so far. We've slept in the car every night and that's been fun. We've been sleeping at rest areas and in Wal-mart parking lots.
We did some cliff climbing at Fort Dodge in Kentucky. There will be pictures of that when I get back. We made it out to see the ocean, that was fun and I got some really pretty shells. Vogie was glad that we got to see the ocean, even though we keep getting lost. We got to visit his brother Erik who is basically a modern day viking. He looks just like the dad in "How to Train Your Dragon" it's crazy. He's really awesome though.
We're really glad to be heading back though, we're both getting tired of North Carolina and sleeping in the car. So now we're just going to mosey back.
Sorry I haven't been posting as much as I intended to but that's because when we do check the internet it's to figure out where we are and Vogie checks facebook to let everyone know that we aren't dead. And the only places we can even get internet are McDonalds. So yeah, it's been really good and I'll put up a more detailed account and pictures when we get back.
We did some cliff climbing at Fort Dodge in Kentucky. There will be pictures of that when I get back. We made it out to see the ocean, that was fun and I got some really pretty shells. Vogie was glad that we got to see the ocean, even though we keep getting lost. We got to visit his brother Erik who is basically a modern day viking. He looks just like the dad in "How to Train Your Dragon" it's crazy. He's really awesome though.
We're really glad to be heading back though, we're both getting tired of North Carolina and sleeping in the car. So now we're just going to mosey back.
Sorry I haven't been posting as much as I intended to but that's because when we do check the internet it's to figure out where we are and Vogie checks facebook to let everyone know that we aren't dead. And the only places we can even get internet are McDonalds. So yeah, it's been really good and I'll put up a more detailed account and pictures when we get back.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Spring Break
Spring Break starts today and I'm super excited about it. I'm going to North Carolina with Vogie to visit his brother and see the ocean. It's going to be a super fun time. I've got everything packed up and I super cleaned my room last night so it will be all nice when I get back. My roommate will probably be pretty surprised when she sees that I cleaned both of our fridges. Yeah, I made coffee at like 10:30 last night, which probably wasn't a good idea and made sticky buns (like caramel rolls). They were delicious and really bad for me to be eating that late at night. I couldn't get to sleep for like forever and then this morning I woke up really early. I did manage to force myself to go back to sleep. I have to be awake enough to drive today.
So, once again I find myself spending a week in a car. This time it should be slightly more tolerable because there are only two people instead of five. I'm wondering if I should buy some carrot cake to eat in a celebratory manner once we reach the ocean like we did last year... maybe if they have some at walmart. I wonder if Vogie likes carrot cake. We'll find out, if anything I'll eat it myself. Yum.
So, once again I find myself spending a week in a car. This time it should be slightly more tolerable because there are only two people instead of five. I'm wondering if I should buy some carrot cake to eat in a celebratory manner once we reach the ocean like we did last year... maybe if they have some at walmart. I wonder if Vogie likes carrot cake. We'll find out, if anything I'll eat it myself. Yum.
Saturday, July 3, 2010
I Let Myself Fall in Love
I broke one of my
rules and let myself fall in love. It's only been two months and I promised
myself I’d wait six before I said anything, just to make sure. I spent the night
at Josh’s before the road trip and after waking up in his arms I knew I was in
love with him. I decided I was going to wait for him to say it first and
surprisingly he chose that morning to tell me he loved me. It was perfect.
The roadtrip to
Chicago ended up being one giant double date. It was cute and it kept Vogie
from being all rage-y for awhile. There was just so much love this weekend.
Monica told Vogie she loved him and he returned the sentiment. It was a really
good time.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Anime Detour 2010
Anime Detour is an anime convention in the Twin Cities. It's
really, really cool. I went with the my anime club and dressed up as Winry
Rockbell from “Full Metal Alchemist.” I had a pretty good costume, or at least I
think so. It was better than most of the other people who dressed up as the
same character. There were all sorts of really cool costumes there and it was
totally fun.
Most of the people in our group decided to volunteer so I
did too. I stood in a hallway for four hours checking badges. Once you
volunteer for four hours you get a button that gets you into the volunteer
con-suite and they have free food there. So it was totally worth the hours of
boredom.
We stuffed 10 people into the hotel room and Jason snored
really loud and kept a bunch of the other people awake. I didn't notice at all
and slept soundly. In the morning they beat him with pillows and he didn't
notice. Jason is also the anti-social one of the group so when we got there we
pinned a sign on his back "Glomp me. I'm anti-social." He was then
tackled by everyone at the con. It was pretty funny, but by the end of the
weekend he was hugging the free hugs people.
I went to a lot of panels about costume making and cosplay.
I learned a lot.
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