Busy & Easy Weekend
Sometimes we have a busy weekend. That's often the case when we choose to travel, which we do fairly often. Other times we have an easy weekend. Those are stay-around-home, catch-up-on-errands, hang-out-with-friends type weekends. They're a tonic to the busyness of busy weekends. This past weekend was equal parts busy and easy.
The busy part, I've written about already. We flew to San Diego on Saturday morning to finish buying a car, had some unexpected delays picking it up, and then had a long, grueling, hot drive home with the new car.
Before and during that trip we considered splitting the drive home across two days. That would've given us time to take a longer, more scenic drive in the convertible... as well as split the drive into two less-demanding halves. While that would have been nice we decided we wanted more just to get home Saturday night to keep Sunday clear for other stuff. Indeed, though we only got home after midnight- thus technically not Saturday anymore night but early, early Sunday morning- it did leave our Sunday schedule open for relaxation.
A Day at the Pool
Sunday morning we slept in a bit and took it easy. We didn't have anywhere else to be until noon. And even then we didn't have to go far; we had friends coming here to visit us. We went as far as our townhouse complex's pool, where the five of us splashed around and enjoyed the sun for a few hours.
It was great seeing these friends again. It was the first time in more than 17 months! Probably it's closer to 24 months as we tend to have them over on nice, warm days when their energetic son can swim in the pool.
Online Game, Tabletop Game
In the afternoon we said goodbye to them, changed into dry clothes, and got ready for a roleplaying game we're both players in. The RPG is still remote. While we could get together f2f with local friends for games- we had friends over to play cards last weekend- this particular group was formed during the lockdown with two of the players living far away from the rest of us so it's going to have to remain online.
After the RPG Hawk and I made dinner for ourselves then sat down to play Wingspan a couple times. Wingspan really is an interesting game. Our first experience with it was very shaky. Despite some misgivings we decided to order a copy for ourselves (our first play was with friends who own a copy). It quickly grew on us. Now we've played it so much that Hawk is trying to detox. Though obviously she still gets sucked back in occasionally.
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The busy part, I've written about already. We flew to San Diego on Saturday morning to finish buying a car, had some unexpected delays picking it up, and then had a long, grueling, hot drive home with the new car.
Before and during that trip we considered splitting the drive home across two days. That would've given us time to take a longer, more scenic drive in the convertible... as well as split the drive into two less-demanding halves. While that would have been nice we decided we wanted more just to get home Saturday night to keep Sunday clear for other stuff. Indeed, though we only got home after midnight- thus technically not Saturday anymore night but early, early Sunday morning- it did leave our Sunday schedule open for relaxation.
A Day at the Pool
Sunday morning we slept in a bit and took it easy. We didn't have anywhere else to be until noon. And even then we didn't have to go far; we had friends coming here to visit us. We went as far as our townhouse complex's pool, where the five of us splashed around and enjoyed the sun for a few hours.
It was great seeing these friends again. It was the first time in more than 17 months! Probably it's closer to 24 months as we tend to have them over on nice, warm days when their energetic son can swim in the pool.
Online Game, Tabletop Game
In the afternoon we said goodbye to them, changed into dry clothes, and got ready for a roleplaying game we're both players in. The RPG is still remote. While we could get together f2f with local friends for games- we had friends over to play cards last weekend- this particular group was formed during the lockdown with two of the players living far away from the rest of us so it's going to have to remain online.
After the RPG Hawk and I made dinner for ourselves then sat down to play Wingspan a couple times. Wingspan really is an interesting game. Our first experience with it was very shaky. Despite some misgivings we decided to order a copy for ourselves (our first play was with friends who own a copy). It quickly grew on us. Now we've played it so much that Hawk is trying to detox. Though obviously she still gets sucked back in occasionally.
[This entry was cross-posted from https://canyonwalker.dreamwidth.org/87642.html. Please comment there using OpenID. That's where most of the action is!]