Summer, I hardly knew you...

Summer's come and gone and I feel like I hardly experienced it... Was it even summer? At all? The weather was so mild, it hardly felt it... This summer, though, in some ways, has been ridiculously exciting... Like at the end of June, when Autumn and Kamil (and all of their friends and family) welcomed little Evan Grey into the world...


and then, at the end of August, when little Lukas Jameson made his arrival (weeks early... guess he was excited to meet his mom and dad)...



But, besides those 2 highlights, the summer was extremely low-key for me... at times, I was so broke I couldn't drive my car and took to walking to the nearby coffeeshop to drink free iced coffee (hurrah for THAT promotion). I had classes all summer, so that kept me busy some, but not so busy that it justifies the utter lack of excitement. I wanted to go to Put In Bay with Robert. We didn't go. The Ann Arbor Art Fair? Nope, missed that too... Art and Apples in Rochester Park? Hmm, that slipped by us too. Cedar Point? Nope...

oh, wait! Autumn e-mailed today and said that a thoughtful family member was springing for tickets for her family to hit up Cedar Point and would anyone like to come along... umm, YES! I went last year with Autumn... twice, because it was THAT fun (and, between you and me, pregnant women are NOT supposed to ride all those rides, but Autumn totally did... until she took a pregnancy test RIGHT BEFORE we went to Cedar Point the 2nd time, confirmed she was preggers with her doctor's office (IN THE CAR ON THE WAY TO CEDAR POINT and couldn't ride any stupid rides. Lame. Evan had already been on ALL of those rides by then.

Anyway, the idea of going to cedar point again is so freaking exciting to me, I'm not sure I can properly express it. I'm so excited for my favorite ride (MaxAir) that I was youtubing videos of it... it might not look that great, but believe me... it IS that fun. It's not scary terrifying like all the other rides that I ride even though they make me want to cry, this one is actually fun... check it out:



And this weekend Lucero is playing a free show in Ferndale, so that should be fun... and next month Chuck Ragan is coming back to town... so I guess Fall is lining up to be pretty good, even if the summer was relatively low-key... I guess summer was the rest-up period for the fun that will be Fall 09. Yeeeehaw!