Visitors & Victories!

     It's official, we had our first visitors!  The state of Delaware and all it's glory welcomed Mark and Lana Gintert on this Thanksgiving weekend.  My wonderful parents arrived Friday evening and stayed until Sunday afternoon.  Sarah and I spent Thanksgiving day at our coworker Holly's house with her family.  It was so nice of Holly to adopt us and we couldn't have asked for a better group of people to enjoy the holidays with.  I believe I ate my body weight in desserts (there was pecan pie, cranberry pie, dutch apple pie made by yours truly, and pumpkin cake).  Holly's dog, Dakota, also enjoyed the pumpkin cake since she ate about half of the cake when it was left outside due to lack of frig storage room.  She was a trooper though and kept the cake down, while also cleaning up any scraps that fell on the floor.  We topped the evening off by going to bed before 9 o'clock, yep we are crazy.  Instead of spending cash we don't have on black friday, Dr. Poling and I saved lives all day at the hospital.  I'm starting to realize that being an adult means you can't just go on vacation whenever you want and for some reason you don't get multiple week breaks between quarters.... on the positive side though, we did receive our second paycheck, which later got spent outlet shopping with my parents.  It's tax free shopping here in the big del so certain items just scream "buy me." Friday night we ate with my parents at FINS and I lost my crab cake virginity!  I feel cheated because I have went 25 years without these delicious morsels.  Sidenote-a few other random things I've noticed about Delaware:  1.  It's always windy, Chicago has nothing on this place.  2.  There are no targets here and I love target.   3. Ohio should have more crab cakes.  4. Everyone here says hello, good morning, or some other greeting, more people should embrace that.  5. Windsurfing sounds fun.  6. One day I wanna be able to say "I live in.... and I have a beach house in..." 
     Guess what?  For the 6th or 7th year in a row, OHIO STATE BEAT MICHIGAN (I lost track, but who cares because we just keep dominating).  Nice work bucks! We went to the Green Turtle Saturday to watch the game and luckily we had our own booth and tv so my dad's swearing didn't disturb others at the bar.  On Saturday night I made another big step in my life and paid for dinner!  Now, I don't think I would like to make this a frequent occurence, but after all the money I have cost them over the years, I think it's the least I could do.  Oh and in other news, someone egged my car in the parking lot.  Yeah apparently people still throw cars at eggs and think it's funny.  I haven't even lived here long enough to piss someone off and not to mention that I have yet to see another person under the age of 25 around.  It was probably someone from Michigan....

      We are NYC bound on Friday!  Two country girls hitting the big city.... should be a blast :)

FALL FUN: Football, Gay Bars, & Punkin Ale!

I am slacking on the blog so we will combine the last 2 weekends into 1. This weekend’s blog may be a little short due to me not recalling details of last night.  I will blame it on my good friend, Mr.  Jagermeister! A special shout out to you and the pounding headache you left me with this morning.

Back tracking to Friday, November 12, 2010… a day to mark down in the record book.  Kara and I finally received our first ever real paychecks.  I think our parents are just as excited as we are.   We felt rich for about 2 seconds and then realized we have school loans and taxes, which are a bitch…Mr. Obama if you follow our blog and happen to be reading this, would you be so kind to lower them? Thank you!  Friday night we met with friends ( yes, we found a few) for dinner at the Summer House. The evening ended with a trip to the Purple Parrot; a classy, romantic bar in Delaware ideal for people watching.   A big crowd was in attendance for karaoke night complete with a few drag queens and a lot of flaming homosexuals singing Celine Dion and Cher.  Picture standing up, waving your hands in the air, shouting out Cher’s lyrics to Believe. Nothing to brag about, but that was us and we stole the show. We looked a bit out of place as we were the only straight people there, but we made a few gay friends that night.  We were told Sunday nights are the best to attend with entertainment consisting of a full out drag show.  It is on our “to do list” while in Delaware.  Saturday was complete with a big win from our Buckeyes. O-H!  I wish we could say the same about our Browns on Sunday, but we won’t even go there!

This past Friday we were dorks and were in bed by 10:00. Kara and I watched a chick flick and went through an entire box of tissues.  I guess when you get a real job you turn lame on Friday nights. Saturday was once again complete with a victory from the Buckeyes.  It was not pretty, but a win is a win.  Our neighbors probably think I was beating Kara from all of our screaming at the TV. Last night we went to Dogfish Brewery and sampled a few beers.  It’s putting Delaware on the map as the Discovery channel is filming a series about it called Brew Master, which is airing tonight.  We then went down the street to Summer House. You know it’s a successful night when I had to ice my knee this morning from all my stellar dance moves.  Welp it’s now almost noon, it took me a lot longer to write this entry due to killing too many brain cells last night. Time to hit up the outlets and do some Christmas shopping…my favorite time of the year! Kara is starting to see the true side of me and my obsession with Christmas. I have been rocking out to Christmas music the past 3 weeks.  Side note, I would dominate all of you at Christmas music trivia, so if anyone is up for the challenge please let me know! “There is no singing in the north pole”  For any of you wanting to make a trip to the big Del, we are hosting a Christmas party on December 17^th. We bought 20 invitations, so we are hoping to find enough friends to make this party rockin! Christmas attire is a must for entry!

It's Punkin Chunkin time!

For as long as I can remember I have loved chocolate, basketball, men with good teeth, sarcasm, traveling, and redneck events.  There is nothing better than people getting together, sipping on some brewdogs, and just enjoying life: hence why I jumped at the chance to attend the 25th annual Pumpkin Chunkin event in Bridgeville, Delaware.  The big cheese of the hospital that I work out told me I needed to experience it and warned me that I should get a DD, so naturally I have been planning to attend for the past 2 weeks.  The discovery channel brings a camera crew and captures this wonderful event that is held every year the weekend after halloween, where people come from all over the country and build machines to launch pumpkins.  Categories include: catapult, cannons, slingshots, and of course man power.  There is also a miss punkin chunkin pageant, and we got their too late, but I would have loved a shot at that crown.  Words can't describe this beautiful festival and please just check out the pictures.  I felt connected to my portage county Ohio roots and for a brief second, missed the smell of the pigs across from Southeast High School.  You enter the festival by driving through a cornfield, there are no rules to how much booze you can bring in, and their is fair food everywhere.  More than 100,000 people attend and 75% of them are wearing camo.  Nasa engineers help design the cannons (yeah I thought they would have something better to do but I guess not) and they shoot these pumpkins over 4400 feet!  Someone yells out "fire in the hole" and when the pumpkin is launched you loose it in the sky like its a golf ball.  Definitely a site to see and it's not too early to make your hotel reservations for next year.  Sarah was back in Ohio this weekend for a wedding and she was not happy that she missed Punkin Chunkin.  In case you also didn't know....THE BROWNS BEAT THE PATRIOTS TODAY!  Not just beat, but dominated.  I was at a bar by our condo and I was getting some weird looks as I kept chanting 'here we go brownies' and continued to bark!  Another great weekend in the Big Del, oh and we made a couple of new friends, expanding our friend circle to about 10 haha, watch out!  Goal is to have enough friends to throw a Bon Voyage party in January when we peace out :)