Blueberries, crackers & snacks.
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Here I be in Vancouvey, hanging with the bestie Podgey Pie & having a grande olde tyme!
I know there's no way to do this trip recap in a sensible order and I've already skipped so many days and things but I have a few spare minutes here so I might as well throw a few items out there and make my job less tedious for when I get back.
First of all my coffee with THE MAYOR went better than I could ever have imagined, and made my last day in the home town the best day ever! He was so lovely! He was so delightful! He was so sweet! He loved me! There was a mutual admiration fest that will go down in history as being the bestest fest of M.A. on record. I love him even more than ever!
Then we took off for KC, caravaning up with The Mominator and arrived at the hospital, as that morning, Gramps had a stroke and was rushed to ICU where we went to see him. He had pneumonia too, so LJJ couldn't go into his room but me & the Mominator went in and he was lucid and somewhat coherent but clearly only hanging on by a thread.
It was only a fleeting visit, but he knew I was there and said "Hi" to me. The fleeting visit was because we had to get to TOM PETTY downtown, which will be described in another post because the awesomeness is too much to incorporate into this brief flirt with trip recap. I don't think KC can handle that much awesomeness ever again, put it that way. So it was BBQ first, beers 2nd, and then TP. ahhhh.
Arrived back at granny's house to find cousins Scott & Tina from Omaha waiting for us, who'd come in just to hang for a couple days with us before we flew out. We were late getting back from the concert but had a wee pow-wow with them before we went to bed. Then woke up the next morning and hung out with them for the whole day, including a brief "family reunion" that my mom had to literally bitchslap my grandma into attending, because she was so bound and determined not to leave the gramps' side at the hospital. So needless to say it was brief, which is just fine with me.
So the rest of that night S&T and me & The Mr. had a BLAST and during said Blast, Gramps took a turn for the worst and we all went to see him and he didn't look good at all (even worse than before) and we kind of all 4 gave each other "the look" and left him there and then went back and tried to finish up having the blast but there was kinda a cloud of something hanging over us. But nonetheless it was full of hi-larry times and ben & jerry's and a strange trip to Barnes & Noble where we combed the aisles looking for a "Scrubs" version of "Scene It" (the game) which didn't materialize but more hi-larryousness did. The night cumulated with us watching Night Swim on Cartoon Network and the Tim & Eric Awesome Show which was SO Hi-Larry that I almost burst my britches (had never seen it before) and the highest of the larry was clearly a sketch that resonated with me & The Mr. more than any of them because it was about "crackers & snacks" which smacked of Adelly & Brandone overtones (they'll understand that). Anyhoo, it was a blast and I LOVVVVE my cousin S. He is well and truly one of those people who you can have an unbelievably amazing time with SANS alcohol (he's been through rehab and doesn't do anything worse than Ben & Jerry's these days) and still feel like you're higher than a kite because everything is so fricking funny around him/them. And his Taiwanese fiancee Tina is just as big a hoot in her own way. I love them!
Anyhoo, the next day we said our goodbyes and The MOminator took us out for coffee with a couple of her mates who wanted to see LJJ, and then off to the airport. We flew off (leaving a very tearful Mominator in our wake) and The Gramps died sometime during our flight to Vancouver so it was kind of sad but hey, the timing couldn't have been more appropriate when all is said and done. I'll always be able to remember his last day as one that included us getting to see him as well as spending it with our favorite cousin (and his favorite grandson) and having a barrel full of belly laughs, which he would have appreciated. He's in a much better place (after we left him at the hospital his lungs had started filling with fluid and we all knew it was over) and my gran has well and truly now been "released", which is important for her to be able to have a good quality of life in her golden years.
So anyway, now we're up in the great white north and DAMN it's kinda chilly! For summer anyway, but I'm not complaining - I like the mountain air and the pine trees and it reminds me a lot of Wyoming, my old home which i still adore (but wouldn't want to live in).
OK Now I need to go because the guys want to use my computor to play episodes of Scrubs that Brandon so kindly donated to my cause. That cause being BELLY LAUGHS!!! so I'll check in later with more awesomeness.
Oh yeah, P.S. the "blueberries" part of this title was meant to be the part where I talk about how AWESOME it is to have unlimited blueberries in Canadia. I love them. We don't get them in BW and they are abundant here 24/7. Niiiiiiiiiiice!!! Hello yummy antioxidants.
I know there's no way to do this trip recap in a sensible order and I've already skipped so many days and things but I have a few spare minutes here so I might as well throw a few items out there and make my job less tedious for when I get back.
First of all my coffee with THE MAYOR went better than I could ever have imagined, and made my last day in the home town the best day ever! He was so lovely! He was so delightful! He was so sweet! He loved me! There was a mutual admiration fest that will go down in history as being the bestest fest of M.A. on record. I love him even more than ever!
Then we took off for KC, caravaning up with The Mominator and arrived at the hospital, as that morning, Gramps had a stroke and was rushed to ICU where we went to see him. He had pneumonia too, so LJJ couldn't go into his room but me & the Mominator went in and he was lucid and somewhat coherent but clearly only hanging on by a thread.
It was only a fleeting visit, but he knew I was there and said "Hi" to me. The fleeting visit was because we had to get to TOM PETTY downtown, which will be described in another post because the awesomeness is too much to incorporate into this brief flirt with trip recap. I don't think KC can handle that much awesomeness ever again, put it that way. So it was BBQ first, beers 2nd, and then TP. ahhhh.
Arrived back at granny's house to find cousins Scott & Tina from Omaha waiting for us, who'd come in just to hang for a couple days with us before we flew out. We were late getting back from the concert but had a wee pow-wow with them before we went to bed. Then woke up the next morning and hung out with them for the whole day, including a brief "family reunion" that my mom had to literally bitchslap my grandma into attending, because she was so bound and determined not to leave the gramps' side at the hospital. So needless to say it was brief, which is just fine with me.
So the rest of that night S&T and me & The Mr. had a BLAST and during said Blast, Gramps took a turn for the worst and we all went to see him and he didn't look good at all (even worse than before) and we kind of all 4 gave each other "the look" and left him there and then went back and tried to finish up having the blast but there was kinda a cloud of something hanging over us. But nonetheless it was full of hi-larry times and ben & jerry's and a strange trip to Barnes & Noble where we combed the aisles looking for a "Scrubs" version of "Scene It" (the game) which didn't materialize but more hi-larryousness did. The night cumulated with us watching Night Swim on Cartoon Network and the Tim & Eric Awesome Show which was SO Hi-Larry that I almost burst my britches (had never seen it before) and the highest of the larry was clearly a sketch that resonated with me & The Mr. more than any of them because it was about "crackers & snacks" which smacked of Adelly & Brandone overtones (they'll understand that). Anyhoo, it was a blast and I LOVVVVE my cousin S. He is well and truly one of those people who you can have an unbelievably amazing time with SANS alcohol (he's been through rehab and doesn't do anything worse than Ben & Jerry's these days) and still feel like you're higher than a kite because everything is so fricking funny around him/them. And his Taiwanese fiancee Tina is just as big a hoot in her own way. I love them!
Anyhoo, the next day we said our goodbyes and The MOminator took us out for coffee with a couple of her mates who wanted to see LJJ, and then off to the airport. We flew off (leaving a very tearful Mominator in our wake) and The Gramps died sometime during our flight to Vancouver so it was kind of sad but hey, the timing couldn't have been more appropriate when all is said and done. I'll always be able to remember his last day as one that included us getting to see him as well as spending it with our favorite cousin (and his favorite grandson) and having a barrel full of belly laughs, which he would have appreciated. He's in a much better place (after we left him at the hospital his lungs had started filling with fluid and we all knew it was over) and my gran has well and truly now been "released", which is important for her to be able to have a good quality of life in her golden years.
So anyway, now we're up in the great white north and DAMN it's kinda chilly! For summer anyway, but I'm not complaining - I like the mountain air and the pine trees and it reminds me a lot of Wyoming, my old home which i still adore (but wouldn't want to live in).
OK Now I need to go because the guys want to use my computor to play episodes of Scrubs that Brandon so kindly donated to my cause. That cause being BELLY LAUGHS!!! so I'll check in later with more awesomeness.
Oh yeah, P.S. the "blueberries" part of this title was meant to be the part where I talk about how AWESOME it is to have unlimited blueberries in Canadia. I love them. We don't get them in BW and they are abundant here 24/7. Niiiiiiiiiiice!!! Hello yummy antioxidants.
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