my brain is a bit mushy
not my best effort
This weekend so far has been a whirlwind of fun but it didn’t start out that way. My dad had a health scare early last week and he was out of the hospital by the time I was passing through on my way to Michigan. I stayed with them on Thursday night and by the time I left Friday morning I felt better about the whole situation. Then it was time for me to head up to Ann Arbor for my first ever football game in the Big House.
A snowstorm turned a four and a half hour drive into a little over six. By the time I arrived at my friends house I was in quite a state. Six idiots in the ditch who thought the laws of physics did not apply to them tried to entertain me but that’s a lot of snow drive time. Anyway, I started drinking at an alarming pace. I love this group of people because they never tap out. Just cease interacting mid sentence due to internal systems powering down. The next morning it was an early call because you don’t travel that far for a football game without tailgating no matter how rough you feel or what the temperature outside.
My buddy lost his tent due to a gust of wind so we huddled around his propane heater while I introduced them to the awful wonders of the fireball party bucket. There’s something about drinking in the cold. It kind of gets away from you. I had to ask one of my accomplices to give me some human guide dog help as we entered the stadium. Luckily I know some good people and my view during that frozen contest was climate controlled.
I did make it outside for the awesome introduction video featuring James Earl Jones. When Darth Vader says “We are Michigan” you can’t help but feel something.
The game afforded me a much needed time out. Delicious over priced foot and bottomless Diet Coke. The game was exciting even though I didn’t have a dog in that fight except I felt obligated to be a Wolverine for the day. Absolutely great time. After the game we went out to eat and then back at basecamp where we proceeded to make more poor choices. The drunkest of us decided that it was time for some enhanced gummies. Problem being he was guessing at the milligrams of fun per candy.
We all mistakenly thought that he read the package or at least paid attention when he got them at the dispensary. nope, he was off by half. You don’t need a fancy Michigan math degree to figure out that we all got double what we wanted. shit. got. bumpy.
I woke up at 6:00am so I could get the fliers to the airport before my trail of tears back to Illinois. The ride was one of the worst physical experiences in recent memory. I had to pull over more than once to just stand in the cold. There was also a ten minute hands on knees stop because someone turned on a saliva faucet and snapped off the handle so I had some trouble shutting it down.
Luckily I made it back to my Illinois friends in time to meet this little beauty
There are valid reasons behind my need for vacations from my vacations.