intro to wsbg 101: parents edition

My parents and cousin Liz came for a visit last Monday through Friday. They came with no real plans or timeline, but Megan and I had a few things we needed them to do...

First (and most important!): Eat some Chik-Fil-A. And they can only order a #1.

Dad approves.

Second: Go to Food for Thought. Have dad drink a Yuengling beer.

Again, he approves.

Mom tried a mojito for the first time. I had some sort of martini named after Poe.


Third: Go through Williamsburg and W&M's campus, eat at Retro's, try the samples at the peanut shop, take senior pictures for Lizzie and make all of them take polaroids (not scanned) with Thomas Jefferson's statue in Merchant's Square and more pictures with TJ on the campus.



And thus, it becomes a tradition as we now have eight people doing this. If you come to visit, I will make you do the same.

My dad bought new shoes just for this trip and lots of walking around. Look at how new and clean they are!

Fourth: Go to Va Beach, swim in the ocean (Liz's first time!), go to Macarthur and shop, and see Pet Sounds (it was amazing! and Liz's first non-school live production)

Ocean! I now love it.

Tritan is a giant

and he has a huge turtle!

I think they all had a good time. It was nice having them here. We ate lots of good food, swam in their pool just about every night, sweat it out during the two amazingly hot days we had, and played Apples to Apples (Liz is now hooked). I took a picture of one of the rounds, because I laughed so hard:

The green card says "Quiet". I won with Helen Keller. What can I say? I have a twisted sense of humor during that game.

Today is super hot. I was planning on taking a walk up to CVS to pick up the pictures I took of Liz and having lunch, then wandering on to parts of W&M's campus, but Meg took my earbuds to my iPod. It turned out to be a good thing cause it feels about 100 degrees outside. I went up to CVS, no photos yet. Went to Plan 9 and bought two first-time pressings of Belle & Sebatian's If You're Feeling Sinister and The Boy With the Arab Strap. I wasn't sure if I wanted them at first, but then I saw the little sticker that said "Free Download of Album". What? Free download? Yes, please! So, I finally have the two albums of Belle & Sebatian's I've always wanted, on vinyl and in mp3 form. Sweeeeeet. I also bought The Road, the book it seems everyone's been talking about since Oprah got the guy to do an interview and talked up his book for about 30 minutes straight. I read the first few pages and it seemed worth it, especially since Books a Million is amazing and it was something like 40% off. I had lunch at Padow's and started reading The Golden Compass. I'm about 35 or 40 pages into it, it is really, really good. If you like Harry Potter, you'd probably like this series, as well. I stopped back into CVS since the dude working there said that the photos should be delivered any second, but they still weren't there. I really want to see what they look like!