Rapid... or not!

Did you ever notice how it doesn't matter WHAT you have planned, that your kids whine and moan and bitch about it?

Alright, so here's how the weekend went. Friday night, no kiddies. First, met Patrick for a lite dinner. He is 45 and French and his accent is beautiful. He is beautiful. And loaded. For some reason, I am not attracted 'like that'. It's a shame, I should be! After, I went out with a boatload of friends. Literally. We went out on the river and we had fun and it was very peaceful. I was not. I was in the mood to parrrr-tay! We hung out there for a bit and then decided time to go. Kelly, the other boat owner had been a bitch all night. First telling my friend Ben that he wasn't invited. Then telling Sandy and Don (a very cool older couple, prob around 55ish) that she didn't like them anyway. WTF? Then letting me know that she 'will have' my friend Nate (a very adorable 28 yr old friend of mine from Ohio, who is MARRIED and works here through the week) but she can't let her fiance find out. What an asshole. I didn't want to be around her anymore, especially trapped out in the middle of a mile wide riverand me all fired up and fiesty anyway. No fighting, not into that kind of drama so, time to go! We went back to shore (left her and the 2 other people that wanted to stay) out there. We went to the Alpine, my dive, and grabbed a drink. Then we decided to go to a place I've never been to before. I had heard a lot about it.... it was more of a dive than my dive. They said that I, being all of 5'1" could touch the ceiling. I gotta see this! All of us in our swimsuits with flouncy coverings. Nice. Away we went! I bought the first round and am still astounded. Get this. 4 mix drinks, 3 drafts and a pepsi for $9.80. I KNOW! No cover plus there was a dj who played anything we wanted. So, this cop I met there, he is a cutie. He bought my drinks for the rest of the night. Cops are so funny. They will get you completely loaded and then offer to take you home so you 'don't have to drink and drive'. Not this time, Copper! We left there and went back to the 'pine for last call. All night, I had this dude text messaging me. I met him on an internet dating site and we're becoming great friends and I kid you not, if he didn't live 8 hours away, it'd be on. Serious, ON! I'm totally infatuated with him! Oh yeah, my ex bf (a cop too, no I'm not 'into' cops) wanted to come back to my place. Nah. Wanted to follow me home to make sure I got there okay. Sure! You're not stepping one foot inside but you can be sure I get home okay you dipshit EX boyfriend. (He's got issues and I have issues with his issues.)

Saturday, I woke up at 7:15 am!!!!! Went and picked up my friend Tracy, went to the pet store for crickets (for the frogger:) then to my place to change into swimmies so we could go out on the boat and get a tan. Stopped for lunch at Dukes Riverside (yummy crab pretzel mmm!) and then to the boat. Tom, my best friend, met us there and drove around while we lazed. I know I was supposed to leave for WV then but my kids grandma bought them something and they wanted to go up to see her (about an hour away) with their dad so I let them. I'd pick them up early in the morning and then we'd go rafting. So, that guy from yonder, he called. Actually, he has his friend call and say something about me being hot or sexy or some crap but I couldn't hear him so them 'mah boi' got on the phone and we joked for the 20 seconds his nextel piece of junk held a signal. Around 8 pm, we came off the river and I took Trace home and then Tom and I went for dinner at JoJo's my favorite pizza joint. The building used to be a firehouse and I love it! I came home and watched Timeline on Sci Fi by myself and went to sleep.

In the morning, I picked up los banditos and we headed to the Shenandoah River in WV. Whine moan complain we don't wanna go why do you make us you're so mean......... Whatever. You're going. It is absolutely beautiful there! Absolutely! We stopped at the rafting place and they said the river was very low and it was class 1 to maybe 2 in areas. Well, I'm not paying that kind of dough to drift along on glass. And probably get out and pull the freaking boat a bunch of times due to rocks. What to do? Well..... the boogie boards are in the trunk of my car so we grabbed them and went and played on our own along the C&O canal. We had a BUHLAST! We kind of swam and the fun part for me is when we explore. We look for different forms of life. We notice the leaves and the clouds and the rocks and slope of the bank. We look for tracks and holes for 'what lives in there?'. We dig and turn over stuff and it's good fun. Some tubers come down through and one guy with his daughter stopped and played with us for a bit. It was fun! So, there we are skipping rocks into this little pool where the stream spills into the river and I say, okay gang, it's time to head. What do I hear? Whine moan complain we don't wanna go why do you make us you're so mean. Whatever. You're going.

Yeah.