Columbus day in Columbus!

Well, I GOT IT!!! Oh my God, Jane, you can't use that, that was a crazy person.
-Valerie Cherish (Lisa Kudrow) from the Comeback - GREAT series! If you've never seen it, stop reading this right now and go add it to your netflix queue. I'll be here when you get back.

Nothing like a random quote to start a blog entry I say. I thought of that because I really wanted to start the blog this way: Well, I DID IT! I spent Columbus day in Columbus, Ohio. Or, really, I drove within 10 minutes of it on one of those beltways that circle alot of bigger cities, like 495 in Boston or Washington, you know? Close enough though - and I'm definitely checking it off my list.

Even though my weekend wasn't QUITE as ridiculous as that, it was pretty bizarre in that Rick and I drove 11 hours each way to Cincinnati and back to visit our friends Joe and Michelle. You can see a picture of us here:
Michelle was Rick's best woman at his wedding and is probably his best friend ever, and they are a very fun couple. It was a weekend of firsts for me: My first time to Cincinnati, my first time to Kentucky, my first time playing guitar hero, and my first time to a carpeted gay club!

Traffic leaving NYC was horrendous, and after several arguments, an exploded 18 wheeler, and many hours of CNN on the radio, we rolled up into Cincinasty at 6:30 in the morning. They live in a nice, suburban part of town and live upstairs in a cute duplex, but they are moving across the river to Kentucky next week so all their shit was everywhere. Everyone is our group likes to play games, so thats pretty much all we did, all weekend, which was pretty awesome. Pass the Pigs (I dominated), Hearts, Guitar Hero, Aquadukt, Tripoley, Mario Kart (pwned), Super Smash Bros. and Pitch were the order of the day. As usual tempers flared and moods were altered depending on who was winning what, and several total meltdowns were narrowly avoided - one by me having to go up to my room to cool down for half an hour after watching Rick win hearts - AGAIN. I will have to dedicate an entire entry regarding Guitar Hero but suffice to say, I enjoy and I regret any negative thing I've ever said about it.





















Rick and and Kippy went and played tennis in this beautiful park that overlooked Cincinnati and the Ohio River during the day. There were three spectacularly bad pictures of Rick and I taken, and one amazing one of Rick and Kipper. As you can tell - Kipper had a GREAT time and it really made me want to move somewhere where we can have a bigger space and easier access to parks because he loves running around and exploring so much.
At night, Rick and I declared we wanted to check out the Ohio/Kentucky nightlife and Joe and Michelle obliged. Shockingly, they hadn't been out to any gay bars in the area, but we got on good advice that Adonis was the place to go for all things Gey. As the drive to get there went on and on and the neighborhood became increasingly sketchy, my sense of nervousness and giddiness rose in equal measures. We literally drove for 15 minutes outside the city and finally happened upon what looked like a converted motel. Behold, Adonis, the nightclub:
If you can see Rick's face in the picture, thats pretty much how the rest of the night went. The place was actually very nice, unusually large, and clean, and showed entertaining music videos on lots of screens. They had a pool room and an actual pool that made me think the place would probably be a shit load of fun to come during a summer afternoon and get shitfaced at the pool. After a couple drinks and a couple rounds of pool we went home early because we were still kinda out of whack from driving through the night. The place did seem to be filling up and there were a few cuties there so overall, I was actually impressed with the Cincinnati scene.

We got up at 6:30 this morning to head back to NYC and the drive today was much more pleasant than the way. For one, we hadn't both worked that day and two we got to see some beautiful foliage and rolling hills in the sun. Kippy didn't like the ride back very much though; he got car sick and threw up all over himself. Poor Kippy! He had a good weekend overall though. On a final note, I find it amusing and random that I was in West Virginia today so I took a pic of the welcome sign:
It actually was really pretty during the half hour we were in the state. WV always gets a bad rap as being super hill-billy-ish but then I always remember it separated from Virginia because they didn't want slave anymore so, right on West Virginia, you rock. I'm out.