Oh, brother...

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Highlights from my trip to Indianapolis to attend my future sister-in-law's wedding shower:

• Got up at 6:00 am after 4 hours of sleep. Ugh. I still insisted on driving, since I am the calmest and most patient in my family, and it will be better for everyone if I'm behind the wheel.
  
• The drive up down there was pretty good: traffic wasn't too bad, and we made it in 4 1/2 hours! And I only gave someone The Finger once! (It was well-deserved.) (Oh, and I promise: I am still the calmest and most patient one in the family!)
  
• We got to my brother's house a little after 12:00 pm and hurriedly dressed for Erin's shower. I wore my new red shoes! Awesome.
  
• The shower itself was incredibly boring, as these sorts of things are. I was near-comatose for most of it, due to the four hours sleep and the four and a half hours of driving. Food was BAD. Cake was delicious. Why is there never booze at wedding showers?
  
• Erin's family is very nice! I like her mom a lot, and her sisters seem very warm and funny. (She has three: two older, one younger.)
  
• After the shower, we checked into our hotel room, and I took a nap. That evening we were going to Conner Prairie Interactive History Park for some kind of Halloween event, and a haunted hayride featuring the Headless Horseman. Erin's whole family goes every year. The plan was we would take a quick nap (it was about 4:30) and Erin and Todd (my brother, did I mention that?) would meet us back at the hotel around 5:15 so we could ride together and get there around 6:00pm when the gates open.
  
• I was woken up from my nap at 5:20, and Todd and his gf didn't get to the hotel until well after 6:00. This is typical of my brother. All the time people were making plans, I kept thinking, "They're not being explicit enough; things aren't going to work out this way!", but my mother gets very nervous and edgy about things concerning my brother, so I didn't say anything. I told her when he was an hour late: "This is what happens when you don't let me boss people around!" (Why yes, I am an annoying control freak: BUT I GET SHIT DONE, DAMMIT!)
  
• The hayride and the park were a lot of fun. Erin's niece and nephews were cute, and I wanted to take her cousin's little girl home with me. She was about 1 1/2 and more than a handful, but just SO adorable! She was sitting on one of the picnic tables enjoying caramel apples and cider, and when she wanted a bite of something she would just stick out her tongue and lean forward: whatever her tongue landed on she ate! It was too funny watching her basically face plant on her dad's caramel apple.
  
• The Headless Horseman was very cool. We all sat in wagons filled with hay and towed behind a tractor. In the middle of the ride a man on horseback dressed in (headless) costume rides out of woods and chases the wagons through a covered bridge. So much fun!
  
• Went back to the hotel, went to bed, woke up and had biscuits and gravy for breakfast. YUM!
  
• The drive back was delayed by an hour long traffic jam after an RV accident, and a side trip to the Cracker Barrel, which is the pit of hell as far as I'm concerned.
  
• Came home to a cat very put-out by the fact that I'd missed her dinner time the night before. She ran into the kitchen right away to stare at her bowl, and bit my calf when I wasn't fast enough. (To clarify, we left out plenty of dry food for her: but her life revolves around the spoonful of canned food she gets every night for dinner.)
  
• Came on LJ and wrote all kinds of nonsense that made very little sense when I came back this afternoon.
  

How was everyone else's weekend?

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Sounds like you had fun overall, right?

Mind, you'd think a group shower would be fun by default, huh? ;)