July 4th Weekend - Monday
Tuesday, July 05, 2005Ahh, the final day of a nice three and a half day weekend.
Got up way to early for a holiday weekend, (8 and then actually 8:30 for the record) had some cereal, packed up and then hit the road and drove the 4 hours back to the Cities.
Called up Conservative Girl since I had told her if I got back and didn't have anything to do we could go to the Taste of Minnesota. We met up at about 2 and headed down to check it out. I wasn't really impressed. Usually, "Taste of" thing have a good variety of local restaurants showing off their foods and then some good live entrainment. This one definitely had the entertainment (headliners for Monday were Boyz II Men and Smokey Robinson) but was lacking in the food dept. Of the say 32 food stands (which is pretty small anyway) at least half of them were just typical Fair foods like corn dogs and such. The others were specialty stuff and restaurants. Nothing all that impressive. By about 5pm we were done exploring and didn't really care that much about any of the music.
We watched Dodgeball, then walked down to watch the "Taste" fireworks from the steps of the Cathedral. It was a nice spot to sit, since it's on a taller hill you could see a couple of the other city's shows and also the plethora of people lighting off illegal stuff. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a bad place to see the "Taste" fireworks. They were semi blocked by trees. :( We could see most of the ones that were up in the air though so it wasn't too bad. Good show for the most part.
Went back to my place, shot off a couple Bottle rockets. It wouldn't be the fourth without lighting off at least SOME illegal fireworks. Usually I blow off about $150 worth of the good stuff like 2" mortars and roman candles, but couldn't afford that this year. It might have only been three bottle rockets, but damn they felt good :O)
Watched I, Robot and then called it a night.
Despite being quite annoyed with CG a few times (I know portable bathrooms are not the nicest, but walking damn near a mile to use real ones is absurd, these were remarkably clean!) it did end up being a nice relaxing end to a good weekend!
I hope all of you had good ones as well!
posted by Chief Slacker @ 12:51 PM,
8 Comments:
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At Tue Jul 05, 03:00:00 PM,
Becki said...
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Wow. That's so unlazy that I'm shocked. A mile is far. That's far too much effort.
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At Tue Jul 05, 08:41:00 PM,
Denise B. said...
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Yep, if ya gotta pee, use what's handy, that's what I say.
I do have to say that I'm a bit curious about how you discovered my site, as you seem to live the complete opposite life of my own....just an observation.
But, that being said, please feel free to visit anytime soon! And it was a white t-shirt, but I had a VERY SEXY (not!) black sports bra underneath that I had bought for cheap, when I bought my replacement underwear....how's that for TMI? -
At Wed Jul 06, 08:55:00 AM,
Chief Slacker said...
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Aurora - the lengths I go for free alcohol...
Redhead Mom - I jsut randomly click links on peoples pages and se where it takes me. Pretty fun! TMI is funny sometimes too :O) -
At Wed Jul 06, 08:55:00 AM,
Chief Slacker said...
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Oh, and the redhead part drew me in too.
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At Wed Jul 06, 11:14:00 AM,
Amber said...
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So did Boyz II Men play "End of the Raod?" Because in my mind, I think that would be a fitting ending to the end of the road that was your weekend. Yeah, I know, I barely tied it together. Anyway, it sounds like you had FUN!! And BEER!!
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At Wed Jul 06, 12:03:00 PM,
Chief Slacker said...
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Amber - They certainly did, of course like half of the people there sang a good chunk of the song. heh.
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At Wed Jul 06, 12:50:00 PM,
HeavensLilDevyl said...
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Dodgeball was funny...but that "milkshake" bit at the end... ugh...disturbing. LOL
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At Wed Jul 06, 01:59:00 PM,
Chief Slacker said...
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L.A. - yeah I hear ya... apparently there's a bunch of easter eggs too, you have to hit enter everytime Ben Stiller snaps his fingers.