Reaching a Catharsis Nine Years in the Making

~~~~ Restless

What an awesome weekend! Friday I drove up to Cleveland and met up with Steph. We ran to Coldstone and bought our obligatory Cookie Dough Delerium Cake and took it to Lindsay babysitting her cousins in Westlake for her birthday. They were seriously the cutest little girls I've seen in a long time. I haven't played with kids like that since my little neighbors were that age. After the kids needed to hit the hay Steph and I said goodbye to Lindsay and went back to Willoughby to see Hairspray. Oh my goodness. It was one of the best movies I've ever seen. I loved it. Steph and I are officially in love with both Link and Seaweed and we want to disown our mothers for John Travolta as Edna. Amaaazing! After the movie we went back to Steph's house and woke up bright and early Saturday for a fantastic roadtrip. The goal of our roadtrip was to visit some of the towns in Ohio that are named after famous cities throughout the world. Our stops included:
Florence
Milan (birthplace of Thomas Edison)
Delphi
Ontario
Dublin
London
Vienna
Alexandria
Lebannon
Medina
and, of course, OXFORD!
That's right, our roadtrip ended at our beloved Oxford, Ohio, home of Miami University. We had calzones and fruit and yougurt parfaits as soon as we got there. I missed it so! Then we wandered around campus just refalling in love with our wonderful campus. It was a long day. A looong car ride. We listened to the Hairspray soundtrack at least 10 times and the High School Musical soundtrack an additional 6 or 7 times but I wouldn't have had it any other way. I stayed in Willoughby again Saturday night but Sunday I had to be out of there bright and early because I had gone the first 24 hours of the Harry Potter book being available and not reading it. When we stopped at a Wal-Mart in London there were a few books by the cash registers and it was so hard not to pick one up and start reading it. But I got home early Sunday and started reading. I'm halfway through the book at the moment and I'm generally pleased. There are a few things that are strange. Like Harry really doesn't go back to Hogwarts but I'm generally pleased at the way the book is evolving. Hopefully it doesn't disappoint me at the climax. I'll soon find out though I'll obviously have it done today.
*nervous laughter*