05.21.06
8 Open Houses in One Day
Twas quite the crazy day. Jumped in the car and headed for CF from Iowa City. Arrived and immediately left for open houses with Mandy. We ended up listening to Tripod for a portion of the trip, so I’m slowly spreading the word of the amazing Australian band. Their music is quite humerous.
1. First we went to Steve McCrea’s open house/retirement party thing. Lots of good sweet food, and the house as flipping amazing. Mandy left a note saying we were going to hijack the house 
2. Next we went to Aviva’s recital. Sadly we couldn’t stay for much of it. We had to leave after two songs, and I didn’t really get to say much to Aviva or Wade. Nice work on the music Aviva!
At Aviva’s we picked up Ryan and went to his house for a bit of downtime. We left rather quickly, but not after listening/watching some amusing songs/videos on the ‘net.
3. Next we went to Devan’s open house. Twas very nice, and I got cheese cake. It was a little strange seeing the owner of The Core outside of his store.
4. Across the street was Maggie’s and Aditi’s party. That certainly was interesting. Some amazing food, and they both sang which was cool (awesome job!). At this point we really started picking up the pace since a lot of people had their open houses start at 2pm.
5. Next up was the open house for Brendan/Caitlyn (sp?) Rose. I don’t know them very well, this was more of Ryan’s party. Mandy did feed me the (gummy) worm from Ryan’s dirt cup, and they had free Four Queen’s ice cream (which I failed to take advantage of). I also got Ryan in trouble somewhat after I confirmed that he was lying to them about leaving the house open (I did tell him he should close the garage door).
6. Off we went to Andy Fee’s (or is it Fi?) grad. party at Hartman. We parked a ways away from it and Ryan decided he didn’t feel like walking so he drove Mandy’s car up to the place. Mandy and I walked through the wilderness. Its very nice out there. The grad party had some good pictures (and walking taco’s, another good food which I (due to previous eating) failed to take advantage of).
7. Next we went to Megan Rutzmoser (again, sp?) party. Here we found Dwayne, Schaeffer, Wes, and Paul. Twas quite interesting. Again with awesome pictures and amazing food (white chocolate covered strawberries, mini pizzas). Dwayne hit his head on one of the lights which was amusing (happens somewhat frequently with us tall people). Ryan rode halfway in the trunk to this party, and was again in the trunk for the next.
8. Lastly we visited (albeit briefly) Amanda’s. Very nice house! There was some Frisbee going on that I didn’t participate in. Twas pretty tired and relatively stuffed at this point.
Later Mandy and I went to her house to work on a paper. I ended up having dinner there (twas quite good), and I got them to order some parts off New Egg to upgrade their computer a bit (256MB ram and 20 gigs 
now they will have a total of 512MB ram and a brand spankin new 80gig hard drive).
So now I sit here, tired from a busy day of essentially doing nothing but socialize. I think I’ll turn in and sleep for a bit. Hopefully I can work on some papers before school tomorrow (which starts at 1:19pm ).