Weekend in Rhode Island

Oct 12, 2006

I had an awesome time this most recent weekend. Everything began Thursday night with Heather, a player in GemStone, coming into town for an interview. My friend Oliver drove in and we met up with her and Brad, we had dinner and a couple drinks, then Oliver and I hung out in Heather’s hotel room for a while before heading back to my place, finally getting there at like 5 AM.

The following day, we went and got a dozen cupcakes from Crumbs before heading up to Jenny’s for the weekend. Oliver and I had previously attempted to bring cupcakes from Magnolia’s to Jenny’s but failed miserably. I won’t say whose fault it was, but Oliver left them on the table. Unlike Magnolia’s cupcakes, which have delicious frosting but are slightly dry on the cake end and somewhat small, Crumbs cupcakes are very moist when fresh with equally delicious frosting. They’re also as big as your fist. Literally.

Jenny’s kids are ridiculously cute, so it’s always a joyous time at her house. Dan and Holly were there, too, and we managed to convince them both to reopen their World of Warcraft accounts. I don’t get to be a bad influence too often, so it was a nice change of pace.

We went to a relatively small (in my estimation) zoo in Massachusetts, which was an interesting experience. The only zoos I’ve ever really spent real time at are the Oakland Zoo (which isn’t huge, but has a fairly wide variety of animals, along with an excellent elephant exhibit) and the San Diego Zoo (one of the largest in the country), so my perspective is probably skewed, but it was a little weird to go to a zoo that had a somewhat limited range of animals. It was still a good time, though. I got to carry Jenny’s youngest around so she could see over the railings.

Aside from that, we pretty much just hung out. Which was good.

I took the train home, which was my first time doing that from Rhode Island. You have to take Amtrak to get across the RI/CT border, since apparently the commuter train systems centered around Boston and New York City each think the other has the cooties, so I transferred at New Haven and took Metro North back into the City.

I was totally going to work on a presentation I had to give Monday over the weekend and totally didn’t, so I ended up finishing it at 3 AM Monday morning, but it was completely worth it.