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The Youth in Asia:
Listening to this short story on This American Life, it took everything in me to keep from laughing out loud. David Sedaris is hilarious. This is a short story from his book, Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his pets thorughout his childhood.
Enjoy!
This past weekend was the start of wedding season for us, and frankly it's going to be hard to beat it. We packed our bags and brought them to work with us, so we were able to leave straight from work. Feeling collectively worn-out and over-worked we made our way to the airport, heading out for a trip we honestly didn't ask many questions about. We knew we were going near Savannah, but that's it! Danny's cousin put us up in Atlanta for the night, but we arrived so late that we were all sort of dillusional.
Eventually the nagging work thoughts drifted away, and we were on vacation. Our rental car in Atlanta was just the beginning of a really fun trip :) Although we had to be extra careful to not speed in a "hot rod" (as my dad says) like this one.
The drive was so pretty from Atlanta to Savannah, that we didn't mind that it took us 4 hours.
Arriving at our destination was very interesting, because all we knew was that we were renting a house with 4 other people. They forgot to mention that the house was in an idyllic town, on the Intercoastal waterway, within a Nature Conservancy! a m a z i n g .
Needless to say, we had such a good time relaxing and hanging out with friends we never get to see any more. The weather was perfect (we all got a little too much sun), and the wedding was beautiful. We honestly could not believe it was real :) I hope I can return to Palmetto Bluff again sometime very soon.
I especially love wood-burning stove pizza parties! Sunday evening was spent with some people from Danny's office at Larry's home in Oak Park, where he is building a (mostly completed) pizza oven in his back yard. He invited us over for a try and it did not disappoint! The first thing we saw, walking up to the backyard was a table FULL of fresh ingredients ready to be used as toppings of a lot of pizzas. The three white tupperware containers at the far end of the table were filled with kneaded, ready to go pizza dough... probably 40 of them!
Danny did a suprisingly good job at making a pizza for us. We ended up trying a little bit of everyone's and frankly, I think it's almost impossible to mess a pizza up in the wood burning oven :) Still, we chose our ingredients carefully and enjoyed every last bite. It's always fun to see people from work outside of the office, especially when they bring their adorable 3, 5 and 8 year olds! We had a lot of fun, and can't wait to try it out again!!
