-My Aunt, day 3 of our family reunion.
That pretty much sums up the past few days of my life.
Sunday morning I departed from West Richland and traveled down highway 12 for a few hours until we arrived at Lake Mayfield for our family reunion.
It was a relatively small get together, featuring about 20 members of the Wise family (my Dad's Mom's side) getting together to... reunite, or something.
I'm a bit too tired to want to recap the events of the trip, and all I'm really focused on right now is spending as much time as possible with the Tri Town gang before I leave.
I leave in two effing weeks.
Blake and I rolled out of bed this morning at 8, and departed from the Lake by 8:45. I drove the entire way in Blake's '94 Suzuki Sidekick.
Worst. Drive. Ever.
Driving 194 miles in an extremely slow, loud, and uncomfortable car ranks up there in my least favorite experience list. Passing people was especially scary, as I foolishly assumed that dropping down to 4th gear, hitting about 4500rpm would increase my speed at a high enough rate to easily get around all the semis. Reality kicked in, very slowly, as the car struggled to accelerate past 40mph up a hill. Combine this with the fact that there was no air conditioning, meaning the windows were down most of the trip, toss in a loud low quality stereo, and you have one exhausted tired slightly displeased Sean extremely happy to drive his own car again.
So I get home. I try to leave immediately, but some people are just sort of dumb. Instead, I head to CBRC to have a brief chat with my manager, and then see the people who I haven't seen in what feels like forever. Tyrell (Tyson) and Josh are pleased to see me, and Drew (who was swimming with the kids at the time) was so excited that he delivered his happiness by sending a group of kids to hug me.
A group of unclean dripping wet kids.
They latch on to me and I immediately want to drop kick them back into the pool.
As usual, I somehow find the patience to resist the impulse, and instead just shake them off and grunt.
I talk with Alden for a bit and come to the sad realization that I was at work, without working. I was at the one place that I never wanted to be when I actually had a reason to be there.
But then I realized work is a lot more fun when you aren't actually working.
Prime example: You all remember Isaac, right? The wild swearing streaker kid from an earlier blog?
Well, after swim time, Isaac enters the main room, gets his clothes, and goes into a bathroom to change. Seconds later, he reenters, absolutely unclothed, and announces
"I forgot a sock."
He walks over to his bag, picks up a sock, and walks out like nothing strange was happening.
That was pretty much my que to leave. As soon as I stopped laughing, I peaced out for home where I lazed around until Pete and Tyson came over.
We sit in my room until Tyson and I grow weary of hearing Pete whine about how hungry he is. We give in to him by heading to Tyson's to make some pasta roni, or whatever, and it was all very un good. Kalli and Sydney met up with us, and pretty soon we were on our way to My Fro Yo, which is pretty much my new favorite place.
We met up with quite a few people at the wonderful establishment of sub freezing dairy products, and had a jolly old time. Gareth, Connie, and Brenna met up with us at this point, and finally all the chill people head to the spinny park.
Dani, Amber, Mick, Josh, and Josh all met up with us at the park and a jolly time was had by all, other people flowed in and out and it was just another dandy night in the Tri Cities.
It's nights like tonight I'm really going to miss.
not ALL the chill people went to the spinny park. but that was really cool to see everyone last night.
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