Yesterday, Esther and I woke up in our normal lazy fashion and decided to get some delicious donuts for breakfast. After I made my run to what America runs on, we ate and did some cleaning up around the house before our friends came by.
After I put the laundry away and made the bed and a few phone calls later, our friends Casey and Kristi arrived. Casey, with bike in tow, and I started on a pretty intense bike ride out to Yorktown and back. We were averaging a really quick pace, probably 17.5, the whole time … Needless to say, I’m exhausted. While out on the bike, Esther went and did a little shopping while Kristi got her hair cut.
When Casey and I got back, Esther was finishing up a plum tart/cake and Kristi showed up a little while after that. Trader Joe’s is apparently a destination now. Esther had been talking to Kristi about it and this weekend was finally the time that all the cosmic forces aligned and the four of us were able to go. It’s interesting to learn that our friends are a ecologically/sociologically similar to us. While we were getting in to their car, I noticed they had the first issue of Good magazine, which I had just heard about on the Amanda Across America videocast. Very interesting.
After fighting the crowds at Trader Joe’s, we came back to our house to put away some of the more perishable items and then proceeded to have some of Esther’s plum tart/cake. It was great! On the way home we had kind of decided that we were going to go out for sushi and as it got closer and closer to dinner time, I started to get really hungry. Maybe it was the thought of sushi, or maybe it was the crazy fast bike ride, who know.
We went to Mr. Li’s which is really kind of a homecoming for Esther and me. We had a difference of opinions about the bill with a certain waitress. Several months ago, we questioned an 8 dollars of additional “taxes” on our check and hadn’t been back since. The problem is that Mr. Li’s really has the best sushi we have found in Hampton Roads. Luckily the evil waitress was not there and we had a great dinner.
During dinner we were joined by Adele, a member of Esther’s cohort (cohort just is a weird word) and she came back with all of us to our house. We watched the movie “What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?” which was fascinating, but while watching it, I almost drifted off to sleep, probably the bike ride. I think that either I was to exhausted to understand the incredibly complex subjects being talked about or that they weren’t being presented in a completely coherant fashion. I expected there to be more research to back of the claims and information that was presented and while quantum mechanics, granted, doesn’t have a lot of concrete research, I did expect a little more. Maybe I’m should not have the impetus to go and research it myself. Ehh.
After the movie and alot of talking, everyone headed home and I fell into bed …