Chill Winston! It's me, Charlie knows it's me, so what's the problem?

J&M rolled through for an extended weekend which was AWESOME. Was so nice to have (some of) the fam finally see this place. What was not awesome was the weather, which consisted of every type of precipitation know to man, including those little round hail balls that look like foam packaging stuffing. Except they hurt when they hit you. Anyway, Noah's Ark 2008 was a bit of a downer, but we did survive...mostly on chocolate eggs since this country feels about Easter the way that I feel about cheesy techno (loooove it). Thankfully, not in any "We Love Jesus" sort of way, just in the eggs/chickens/chocolate kind of way. Not a lot of bunnies though -- I think that's an Americano adaptation.

Fun new activities included the zoo (and a crappy Plane-arium), a brewery under a windmill and a cute Belgian beer bar. Despite my beer-hating tendencies, the brewery beer was sick-tasty and uber alcoholic...had a very Brooklyn Brewery feel to it (read: sparse with shared tables and lots of 30-something drunk people. jam!).

The bro also brought out some long-missed DVDs, including a pair of key Guy Ritchie flicks. Sigh. Is he ever going to do another one? I don't care if they are all similar, I like them. And since it was/is still raining/snowing, I definitely did not feel like a waste of space watching them both in a row (though to be fair, if it was sunny and in the 20s I probably still would have had a futondoublefeature). This place shuts down like suburban DC when there is slush -- a colleague worked from home today because there was FORTY ONE KILOMETERS of traffic. I mean, that's almost half the width of the country...