Labor Day weekend

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On Saturday, we went bowling:

I didn’t bring the camera, so all I had was my cell. I really need to take a camera bowling sometime. Zoe does all her own bowling (without one of those guides for kids) and won or nearly won some games. At this place, apparently you pay for time and if you’re in the middle of a game you want to finish, you go pay for more time. Lame. This is the bowling alley that you can never get in to b/c every night is league night. Well it was pretty dead on a Saturday afternoon.

The reason we went bowling is that Hawk’s BFF (Motorcycle Man) came to finish the electrical stuff from Friday and said, “Yinz wanna go bowling?” which is actually considered a greeting in Altoona (and sometimes a proposal). So we went bowling and got in two and a half games.

Then we went to a buffet place which was a little warm and noisy for our taste and the food was so-so. It was pretty evident that the place is trying to compete with Hoss’s. The kids didn’t eat except for maybe a dinner roll and some of their milk. They eat up at Hoss’s. So I don’t think we’ll run back to this place. The cheesecake dessert was pretty good though.

So Sunday we went to the county fair:

We didn’t go to the fair last year but we went two years ago and I blogged about the “mouse game.” It’s an odd creature they use in this game. It looks like a chipmunk w/ a mouse tail. This year, I won. I bet on red (”for my hair”) and I won. Zoe bet on “purple dots.” We won a pink fabric rose. I also won the above fish in a ping pong ball game. We had to go to Wal-Mart and buy a min-tank. I’d thought of getting the kids a fish for a while and this $0.25 cent fish only cost me $2 in ping pong balls! Also we played a dart game and the kids each got a cheap stuffed animal. Zoe got a pink teddy and Holden got a cow jumping over the moon.

For food, I got a caramel apple (and ate it last night so I wouldn’t have to try & share it) and we got a bag of tri-color cotton candy. We also got a $2 bottle of Aquafina (”the end of water as we know it”).

I got a ball of naturally black alpaca yarn. Not sure what I’m making et but I think I want to cast something on right away. It’s luverly.

On Monday afternoon we went to Beta’s place. This is the view from her backyard:

The golf cart is one of the many ways one might get around in the greater rural Bumblefuck area.

All of the four-wheelers are out being used but Beta said I should photograph the “redneck vehicle display.”

There was a lot of food (good food too). The kids liked jumping on the trampoline. I had to yell at one kid who was basically a mouth with an attitude attached to it. I even called him “Kid.” Like, “If you can’t follow the rules, kid, you’re gonna have to go find something else to do.” Oh yeah, I’m becoming that mom.

Beta said that it would be a Beta’s Family Party unless someone went to the emergency room. I hurt my foot jumping off her deck but I didn’t go to the ER (yet). It’s getting better though. I’m not sure if anyone went after we left but Nina has some story about the four-wheeler trip she & her friends went on. We had gone by the time they came back. She & her friend took Holden & Zoe out on one of the golf carts:

Beta also told her sister that anything said can and would show up in the blog. So her sister gave me a banana rum and Pepsi; it may have been a bribe, I’m not sure. Nothing that unusual happened really. But damn was that drink good. I need to go back if just for another of those. It was fun to be around a new family and feel so much a part of it right away.

This was the Bumblefuckiest weekend I have ever spent and I tell ya, it was a hell of a lot of fun. Bowling! County Fair! Mixed drinks out of a plastic cup! If you’re not in Bumblefuck, you’re missing out (I make exceptions for my friends in Erie b/c I know that’s a party waiting to happen as well). So come on down (or up or over) to central Pennsylvania.

Oh btw: we were “down the mountain” Tuesday evening. It was 95-97 degrees. When we got home, the thermometer read 77 degrees. That’s right — a drop of 20 degrees and a rise of about 850 feet. It was a lovely day… here.

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