The B-day Weekend Recap

It was a great weekend. It was a tiring weekend. Thank God, tomorrow's July 4th, so I can stay in bed a few extra hours!

Saturday
Saturday's excursions started late, because I had a hair appointment at 12:30. My stylist is wonderful, but she's notoriously slow and likes to fiddle. I didn't get out of the salon until almost 1:30, but I have cute shorter hair again. I have yet to figure out why I try to grow my hair out, it never lasts.

After that, we headed down to Oglebay Park to the Good Zoo, which is really a good zoo. I didn't even get lost on the way, so I think I get brownie points for the weekend there.

The zoo has some really lovely animals from meercats and kangaroos to river otters, deer and ocelots. I was really excited about seeing the little ocelot. All the animals were just adorable, but I did learn one thing. Taking photos at zoos is not a fun thing. Why? Because most of the photos have to be taken through cages or through glass. It makes getting a good shot very difficult.

After the zoo we went to the lake near Wilson Lodge, had some fries and a slushie and took photos of the fountain on the lake and all the water fowl, of which their were many. A short walk from the lake was a butterfly garden and wilderness walkway. More photos were taken there and then we headed back to Wheeling for dinner at Perkins. I actually ate dinner there and not breakfast which was a first.

When we finished eating I drove to the island so Michael could see the suspension bridge that his mom and I are always on about. After a few more pictures, and Michael whining about not being able to go into the casino we headed home.

Sunday
Ah, yes, my b-day. It started off with me reading at 8 a.m. mass. Blech! I hate having to be up at my work time on the weekend.

Before leaving, my boss called to inform me I had to go into work a half hour early on Monday. Grrr.

At 11 a.m. Deb and I started out for The Mountaineer, which is located between Weirton and Chester, WV. Now The Mountaineer is really the prettier casino of the two located in the northern panhandle of WV, but it's also the biggest pain to get to. The route to 22 from my home takes you to Post Gazette Pavillion, aka the concert venue from hell. That route is the longest, and most winding road about. By the time we made it home the ride had made me nauseaous, and I was the driver!!

As always, I won nothing at the casino, but dinner was braised beef with asparagus and linguini. Yum! Dessert was death by chocolate. Double Yum. It was well worth the nausea.

After gaming and eating we went in search of The World's Largest Teapot, which is located near..nay, almost ontop of the ramp to route 30. We had to pull into a gas station so that we could take pictures.

After that we headed home. More nausea. Blech. Damn winding roads of Wild Wonderful Winding West Virginia!

Our town celebrated the 4th yesterday, because we're freaks, so I got fireworks on my b-day as well. The only problem is, Oogie is deathly afraid of them. As always the neighbors shoot of more fireworks than the town and the poor little cat was either under the tub or my dresser most of the night.

Another good day, but I'm glad it's over, because I'm very tired.