Weekend Adventure (wrap-up)

Shea is the wife of Kj's old college room-mate, Rance, and I believe that they're the couple that holds the record for having known/done things with us "as a couple" for the longest. Kj and I hung out with Rance and Shea when we were just dating (first time around). I went to Shea's wedding when I didn't even really know her, unaware that she'd be a constant presence in my life. hehehe And during the time when Kj and I had broke up, it was Shea who proclaimed, "I'm so glad you're back!" when we started dating again.I'm not hesitant to say that with Kj, no one else compared when it came to being his better half. She confirmed it for me. ;-)

Anywho, we decided we needed a "Ladies Day" so we headed up to Montgomery in search of an adventure... and that's exactly what we had.
We had plans to eat at the Montgomery Brewery Co, ride the lunch trolley to see the downtown sites, then head over to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival to catch a play. Perfect plan... until we got to Montgomery. We get to the restaurant and it's closed (what?!?!), apparently it doesn't open til 4 on Sat. Then we go to catch the lunch trolley to just go to another restaurant, but low and behold we can't seem to catch the trolley for the life of us (we waited at the Biscuits {the Mont. baseball team...don't ask...) ticket office...taking refuge in their shade... for about an hour when finally a trolly comes around), apparently, the lunch trolley only runs during the week b/c all the restaurants downtown are closed on the weekends, but our "trolley man" kindly suggested a local hotdog place. (You all know I love my hotdogs!). So we get to the hotdog place and when we walk in the man says, "You all want to eat here??? Ummmm, we should have turned around then, but we were starving so we braved it past the front door. Hole in the wall does not begin to describe our little eatery. I told Shea that it reminded me of being in the back of someone's great-grandmother's house, where everything smells old, and it looks old, and there's a thin layer of dust over most things, and a thick layer over a few things, but you feel like it would be insulting to just leave, so you sit... and order... and act-like you're eating (Shea pinched off pieces of her hamburger to create the illusion of eating, but I scarfed down my hotdog...an 85 rating has never scared me away... SHAME...). ;-) Yep, 15 minutes later we were back on our trolley and my stomach was gurgling (no worries, a few watermelon gummies set it straight). We seriously could only laugh, so far the day was not going as planned, but we were having fun. We got to the theater about 45 minutes before our play Menopause the Musical started. Just enough time to converse with the crowd of 60 -80 year old women in the restroom, get to our seats, and count the 23 men whose wives had dragged them to see a play about The Change. hehehe

We had a good time. By the time we got home we were exhausted, but we learned that 1) with or without our husbands, Shea and I can have a great time 2)downtown Montgomery dies around 5:00 Friday, only to come back to life on Monday and 3) a crowd of around 125, 50 -80 year old women may think it's unladylike to show bare leg and not wear pantyhose, but will laugh hysterically and hoot and holler if a microphone is uses as a prop when singing "good vibrations". really.





Hope you all had a great weekend.