My birthday is tomorrow!

I kind of feel strange about this birthday. I think it's because of the lack of fanfare this year. There's a lot of other stuff happening when I'm home this weekend, so this milestone is going to be more like a milepebble. I don't feel like I'm complaining about this, because everything else that's happening this weekend is pretty exciting.

I really liked being 24, so heading into 25 is sort of scary. Twenty-five sounds old, at least to me, right now. Okay, it doesn't sound old, but it sounds like I should know what the fuck I'm doing with my life.

Then again, I know people many years older than I who still don't have it together. I guess, all said, I'm doing okay.

Okay, you know what I think it is? I wish I could just have a big frickin' hoopla and get right wasted - a big Eff-You to the aging process. Something to make Terry and Dean proud.

Instead, though, I'll be at home with my mother and aunt, probably playing Cribbage. Yikes.

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Anyway, enough whining. I meant to mention my early birthday kidnapping that went down last weekend. Vicks came down Thursday night. She played with Sexy and we otherwise just chilled out. We got up early Friday morning and drove to Aulac where we met up with Lisa. After the obligatory milkshake, I was blindfolded and taken out to the middle of nowhere. It turns out the middle of nowhere was right beside this bad boy.

So, we hopped on the bridge, and made our way over. At this point, we had nowhere to stay, so we stopped at the first place we saw and got a room. Then, it was off to Rainbow Valley! I loooove amusement parks, and I remember loving the Valley when I was little. We got there late, so we only had an hour and a half to squeeze in as much fun as we could.

They have a tilt-a-whirl there now! We rode that a few times, only to cause quite a stir when everyone in the park started looking at us because we were screaming so loudly and profusely. The kids on the ride were way too cool, and kept giving us weird looks, but we had fun, and the ride operator loved us.

Did you know that Rainbow Valley has a Monorail? Despite our safety concerns, the operator allowed the 3 of us adult ladies onto the little cart together, as we rode around the track. As you can see by this picture, the monorail is suspended above water. As you can imagine, being in a children's sized cart, 20 feet above a murky lake, and feeling the cart leaning this way and that was a little unsettling. So, of course, more screams. The operator loved us though.

Next was the maze. We started going through it and the monorail operator, from his perch above the maze, started yelling out directions. I, being rather distrustful of strange men who work in amusement parks (blame Bill Lynch) decided to go the opposite way, only to find out he was being honest. He tried again, and we believe, but the bastard tricked us. Ah well. All in good fun.

After supper (gross) we headed back to our hotel for facials and the Family Guy. The next day was spent driving around trying (unsuccessfully) to find kayaks. It was still a fun day, though. We got back to Moncton around 9-ish. I got dropped off to collect my 2nd half of my birthday gift which was 24 hours of quality time with Mr. Wonderful. He gave me Volume Two of the Family Guy (which I can't help but think was perhaps slightly because of it's ease of sharing/borrowing). Anyway, 24 hours turned into 36 when Lisa and I had to turn back on our way back to SH. However, all's well that ends well, right-o?

Anyway, this will be the last post until Tuesday, probably, though I may get a chance to post tomorrow night from home. Have a great weekend, my dear readers. \m/