Monster update coming up :D
Monday was mainly full of travel. Got up stupidly early, caught a bus to the train station, a train to the airport, a plane to Cinccinati, then a small little hop up to Detroit Metro. We were picked up by John and Amy, then waited around for Tim to arrive about 30 mins after us. Turned out Tims bags had been lost, and may be on the next flight, so we went and got some food, and MOUNTAIN DEW! :D
Tim's bags never turned up, so we went back to Amy's, where we put the tent up and met other people; Jason, Misty, Pamela, Kelly, Josh and Chuck, Amy's husband. The kids were also there; Alex, Sharky (Charlotte) and Charlie... all so cute :D Spent that evening just relaxing and getting to know people. Sheila came over at some point with her two children too, Sarah and Nicholas.
Tuesday was supposed to be zoo day, but it just turned into a lazy day where we didn't do all that much. Birdy and Rana arrived, as did Claire and Craig (Craig went again). So another fun evening of chilling... T'was the taco evening, iirc. Cory also arrived during the evening.
Wednesday was ubercool... we all went to Cedar Point, which is apparantly the biggest themepark thing in the US :D Went on loads of roller coasters, and generally had a LOT of fun hanging out with people and doing funky stuff. Roller coasters were AWESOME, and in the last hour or so, when everything was dark, we managed to get on three coasters. It was all so cool :D Got to know people a bit better too... Managed to occupy Alex for an hour or so by singing and playing catch with Bob's missus (the Duck ;)). It was about a 2-2.5 hour drive away, and Tim, Jennifer and I were all with Cory, and we had a laugh driving about. Was awesome, I cannot say this enough.
Thursday turned out to be the zoo day, and a few of us went off to see the animals. Was quite cool, and again fun to do with people. Saw lots of funky animals, and kept alex entertained again for a little bit :D Alex rocks. That evening, Sheila's John turned up, as did Maddy and Missa. In fact, so many people were turning up by this point, that I won't even try to remember everyone, cos it'll just be really confusing. That evening, we went to this mongolian BBQ place, and met Steff and Dave, her BF. The food was awesome, and the place itself was quite cool... you go along, pick your meat, veggies and sauce, then you watch them cook it. Then you eat it. Was really nice, especially the going out and drinking/chatting afterwards.
Friday was another lazy day, except mid afternoon a few of us decided to go into town to do some shopping. I bought about 6 books (after intending to only get one :P), plus I got a really cool shirt and some patches for my rucksack. Was also amused by arranging the cuddly animals in a charity store into... erm... "positions" ;D
That night was the coolest, with sooo many people there. Beki turned up, as did b00 and Dori, and Joe, and Steffi, and Ryan, and Sue, and Jack, and Sass, and Doug, and, even cooler, Mike, the webmaster of the site. Everyone was awesome, and the whole thing rocked so much.
Saturday was the ren-fest, where a mock medieval village is made up, and everyone dresses up and stuff. There are jousting competetions, archery places, and a whole host of other cool stuff. There were also a whole load of cool shops where you can buy stuff.. I bought a banner, some bracers, a dragon-mug, a necklace for Kim and a leather bookcover. And I could have bought so much else.
The day was over all too quickly, and we headed back to Amy's for a BBQ. The party that night wasn't quite as good, due to several people needing to be up early the next morning, but even though I was one of them, I did an all nighter with Beki, Rod, Tim, SK, Kelly, Rana and Missa. Around 5ish, when we were getting sleepy, we decided to go in search of blueberry pancakes, and the 8 of us piled into Rod's car and drove about. There were 5 of us in the back seats, and it was so funny... was one of the best times ever :D Thanks to all you guys for such a good time :D
Sunday was the travelling home day... slept for all of the flight from DTW to Atlanta, and slept a fair ammmount on the flight from Atlanta to Schiphol. Arrived in Schiphol arround 8am on Monday morning, travelled back to Eindhoven on the train, and then slept for a good 6 hours, got up, ate some food, then went to bed for another 12 or so :D
Tuesday was a lazy day, and I didn't do anything much at all, except finish reading one of the books I bought in the US. Went to bed early, and got woken up at 7am in order to get up, shower, eat some food and go to the airport. Flight back was short and uneventful, got back into the uk at around 0900, then trained it to Liverpool St, tubed it to Victoria, then got on the next train back to Canterbury. After a taxi from Cbury East to my house, it was around 1300... not bad work.
Spent the rest of yesterday doing the unpacking and generally sorting myself out, and then went over to see Kim :x
Today I popped briefly into town to see if Ottakers is open yet (which it isn't), bought a card and pressie for Val whose b'day is tomorrow, and am now in the process of uploading my photos of my holiday. As I have about 500 of these, it may take a while :P
Breathes a sigh. Well, that was an entry and a half :P
