Roller Coaster Redux

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lediva and I went back out to Hershey this weekend, to make up for the visit that was cut short due to Omaha's passing.

Overall, it was a really excellent trip. We got some desperately needed connection time, and lots of time to talk, between the 3-4 hour drive each way, and the hours and hours standing on lines to get on to rides that took at most 2 minutes. It was okay, though -- waiting on a line with a grownup whose company you truly enjoy isn't really a big deal at all. And for any of you who aren't aware of this, due to perhaps not actually having had a chance to hang out with my girlfriend, she's very, very funny, even if I made her pout by not laughing at every single joke. I got to hear more about some of her projects, especially Second Shift, than I had gotten to in a while. I probably said some stuff, too, that I hope was interesting. We said "I love you" a lot.

We took a pretty relaxed pace, and still managed to go on all of the coasters we wanted, except for the Great Bear which had a mechanical issue before we got to the front, which may or may not have been related to the ping of something metal we'd heard falling out of/off of the track while we were waiting. We got very wet on some of the rides that get you very wet.

We also did a little pilgrimage to Nail Polish Etc., a shop run by a very active member of the BPAL fandom (Shelldoo) who is now doing monthly East Coast Will Call nights, and is also as far as I know the only place in the country currently where you can just walk in pretty much any day and buy yourself some BPAL. She's got the whole General Catalog on display/available for testing, and she also pulled out a box of prototypes for sniffing, including some of the not yet released Gaiman stuff and the infamous Ded Moroz and Gráinne Ni Mháille. lediva indulged me in this for probably more than an hour, mostly amusing herself with the three very cute cats wandering around the shop.

This was kind of an anniversary trip for me and lediva, six years of being in each other's lives. It was a good, solid, enjoyable sort of a thing, and I think it marks a good place in what's been a pretty complicated relationship, especially over the last year or so.

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[eunice-branca.livejournal.com]

That sounds like such a fab weekend! Minus the rollercoaster though. *shudder*