Where’s the peanut butter?!

those are two symptoms I happily am free of, but I am still recovering from a new entry in the continuing running for Most Fun Day Evar. This weekend was my good friend Nick’s bachellor party and with the winning combination of Ryan’s planning, 9 or so incredibly fun guys, and Nick we had a super fun outing in Wisconsin and Minnesota. The day started with donuts (two dozen contributed!) at Nick’s pad. From there we rolled to Hudson, Wisconsin for paintball. Ryan advised we should wear long sleeves and I seized the opportunity to bust out my old math team sweatshirt. Nick then told me that a bleached white shirt with red embroidery *might* make me an easy target. Whatever - if they don’t want the handicap, that’s their problem. after getting our ref to cover all the ways our surrender could be offered, I was ready to roll! And proceeded to get knocked out early in almost every round. But that’s ok because the dangling berries escaped unscather and Nick had an awesome time, which is what it should be all about.

later we played two hours of dodgeball. This is what left us all hobbling like old men on Sunday (and Monday and Tuesday). This was incredibly fun and again I showed everyone there’s more than one way to lose. I don’t even know what muscle in my leg is causing me problems today but i’m pretty sure it only gets used in dodgeball. one note about dodgeball with adults: early on I came within inches of sacrificing my first thousand unborn children and immediately learned “avoid the stinger, do not try to catch it.”

dinner at Figlio and cards (i lost - again) rounded out the day and by the next night I was on my way back to seattle and Nick was one step closer to another the altar…everybody had a blast and we were all super glad to hang out with him.