This past weekend was really good. On Friday I flew out to visit Kathryn! I was pretty exhausted but her Mom had an amazing dinner prepared and then afterward we rented and watched "The History Boys." It was an interesting movie - most of it was dialogue, but tossed around some concepts I hadn't really considered before.
I then proceeded to pass out for the next 10-11 hours. I keep doing that - not sleeping much over a week, and then binging on sleep when the weekend comes.
Saturday we headed out to a water park near Dayton. It was a smallish place, but I was actually kind of taken by how well kept it was and how many people were there. I couldn't help noticing, actually, for the whole weekend how NICE Dayton actually is. It made me think back to when we moved away and how I thought I was so above it, etc. but being a few years older now and having lived in some TRULY sketchy areas - I can actually appreciate the place for what it was. I can see myself (scary as this is, kind of) happily raising a family there.
Saturday evening Kathryn had a handful of the group from high school over, and we spent the evening playing Munchkin and catching up on life. I hadn't seen a couple of the girls since Senior year...so, it was a good visit. I really didn't feel like many of us had actually changed that much, which was a bit of a surprise - although again, I'm not sure what I was really expecting. I took a couple group photos and made the usual plans to do better about keeping in touch, etc.
On Sunday we slept in again, got up, and went to Mass. I like Kathryn's church, it has a really comfy atmosphere. The closing song was "Anthem" which is one of my favorites from childhood. I realized that the way I was hearing it in my head was half of what the people around me were singing, and half of what I remembered from being in grade school and belting my heart out with a bunch of other enthusiastic little 8 year olds. It reminded me of a conversation I had with a friend of mine a couple weeks ago when we were debating about various types of religious music. He was making the (really valid) point that a lot of contemporary music goes a lot further in terms of making the audience really enthusiastic about faith. I'm a lot more comfortable with the traditional music I grew up with, but I realized that to an 8 year old (maybe JUST that 8 year old; I was a pretty strange kid) that traditional music packed the same punch as the contemporary stuff does for people now. It sounded completely different to my older ears, of course...this summer I've really started questioning how strongly I hold onto tradition (see previous entry...)
Anyway, Mass was good. We came home and Kathryn's mom cooked this delicious Sunday dinner (ham and potatoes and green beans and other veggies from the garden) - and then Kathryn and I just chilled out for a few more hours until it was time to go to the airport.
My flight home was delayed, of course, but it was okay since I picked up the new Harry Potter book at the airport. I finally got home about 3 hours after I was originally supposed to - it could have been much worse, I suppose.
Today I stayed home from work and finished reading Harry Potter. I'm still digesting it, but overall it was a pretty solid work, methinks...
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