This past weekend was pretty fun. It started off with a bang on Friday ~ Sins of Lust at 9 Lives. They, of course, rocked. Somehow they did not place first in the contest…odd since they by far had the most audience participation. Since the winning band seemed to have won by ballots alone popular consensus is the ballot box was stuffed. Feh. Soon after SOL left the stage we left the place. We tried sitting in the other room with the bar but the noise was beginning to get to us. We blew off the circus at the Chamber and headed to R’s party @ Convent. I love that place. Friday night was full of lots of familiar faces and much fun.

Saturday’s original plans were a wash out. We picked up Kary and headed south to the Rennie to meet up with gothkitten001. While we were traveling the sky opened up and rain fell by the barrel full. Lightning, thunder, high winds ~ the works. Not exactly prime conditions for wandering around an outdoor festival. Kitten was running a little late so we waited in the parking lot for her. I spied a car pulling into the lot that looked like hers ~ but it was soon dismissed when we saw a girl in a hoodie and khaki pants get out. So we sat. We waited. About 20 minutes later Kitten calls us from inside the fair. It turns out she was the khaki clad figure dashing through the mud. Who knew? The three of us climbed out of the Jeep and sloshed through the mud to meet her inside…only to get ‘rain checks’ and leave within minutes of walking through the gates. The weather was awful and it did not seem like it would clear up any time soon ~ as a matter of fact it was beginning to rain even harder.

After much procrastination we headed further south towards Newnan (the closest theater) to watch X2 and grab a bite to eat. The weather completely cleared up and it was absolutely gorgeous by the time we reached the theater located in the middle of nowhere. Hee hee…now that was an experience. To say we stood out from the crowd would be an understatement ~ even though we were donning ‘everyday’ garb. We grabbed a late lunch at a sports bar / bowling alley next to the theater ~ Beef O’Bradys (how’s that for a name ;-p) Over-cooked burgers and a gazillion televisions running simultaneously does not make for the most pleasant dining experiences but the company was thoroughly enjoyable. Kitten has a couple of pics of the group on her dig cam.

X2 was freaking great. Night Crawler was beautiful…I think I want to dye my boy blue and carve angelic runes in his skin ;-p I left the theater wanting to see the movie again…soon. Heheh ~ I have to agree with Chris about large Russian men in boxers…

Sunday Scarecrow and I attempted the Rennie again. The two of us had a nice time wandering around eating and shopping. Fried turkey legs *yum* greasy goodness at it’s finest (or is it worst?) As far as shopping goes ~ Scarecrow is getting the leather ‘claws’ he has been wanting for a while now…as soon as they are dyed black. I picked up a parasol to match my HG Chinese style dress and to ward off the evil sun (still managed to get a slight burn even with spf 50 slathered on every bit of exposed skin.) We ran into a number of friends enjoying the fair ~ tbrents was the first to approach us (I was blinded by the sun for the first hour until my eyes adjusted ;-p) It was a pleasant surprise to run into gumboot and her handsome son. Candi was sweet enough to take a picture of Scarecrow and me (covered in powdered sugar from our funnel cake ;-p) Scarecrow snapped a couple of pics while we were out…mostly of the poor captive condor on display in one of the shows.

After we left the fair we stopped by Scarecrow’s Aunt and Uncle’s house since they were on the way home (just in time for delish grilled burgers *yum*) His cousins heard that he was stopping by the house so they showed as well. Such a nice group of people =) I felt like a giantess…I was head and shoulders over the next tallest person in the house (aside from Scarecrow though.) I think it was because my excessive height was pointed out several times (and I was wearing relatively low heeled boots ;-p)

Then it was back to the house to take care of the menagerie and get ready for the work week.

Speaking of which I really should get started on the whole ‘work’ thing…blah. At least Cinco de Mayo (perfect excuse to fill up on greasy Mexican food and margaritas ;-p) and the Covenant show will break up the work week monotony *grin*

edit: With thanks to gothkitten001 here’s a pic of the four of us cowering under the Bud banners in the skeery sportsbar/bowling alley

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