Oh What A Wonderful Weekend

So lets see, Friday after finishing up at work, we headed down to Boston. After a quick stop at the Burlington Mall (the wife needed to go. she misses malls with two floors and more than 15 stores. its almost like she craves malls from time to time) we arrived at the in-laws house around 930 or so. Needless to say, nothing much fun and exciting was done the rest of the night.
Saturday was a big big day for us. Woke up, hit Brueggers for some breakfast (mmm bagels. we have yet to find a good bagel place up here) and hit the road to Ikea, another place the wife craves. Didn't buy much, thankfully, just a duvet cover. Now here's where the action starts. On the way from Ikea to Framingham (where we were meeting some friends) we almost died! Not to be overly dramatic or anything. So we're diving up 128 in the left hand lane going 70-75 mph. The car in front of us is 4 or so car lengths in front of us, and there's a car another 3-4 car lengths in front of them. The first car had a mattress and box spring tied to the roof. Well at least they were tied until they came flying off flipping through the air at us! Both pieces went right over the car in front of us, with the mattress landing in our lane and the box spring landing two lanes over. I slammed on the brakes, but couldn't swerve right as there was an suv in the next lane, which I would have hit, and a guard rail to my left. So without hitting the brakes too hard (thus keeping the car behind us from ramming into us) I swerved to the left slightly and the right side of the car ran right over the mattress, ripping it to shreds. It was awesome. Not a peep or the tiniest of screams came from the wife, just a "holy shi*t, look out!", but that's to be expected. Another car hit the box spring and it(the box spring) basically exploded. We kept on driving, but no one was hurt so it was ok.
After hanging out in Framingham for a bit, Mike, Rob and I headed down to Mohegan Sun to test our luck. Apparently I used up all my luck not dieing earlier though. Every penny I brought with me stayed with our native american friends at the casino. We started out watching Rob clean up at the blackjack table, then moved over to craps for a bit where Mike and I got put through the wringer. After a couple more drinks to boost the optimism, I decided to give blackjack a go, and did pretty well for myself, but then lost it all again at the craps table. I learned an important lesson yesterday,which was never gamble without Phil. Every time I hit a casino with my buddy Phil, I do really well. He couldn't make this trip and I came back penniless. I gotta say though, it was tons of fun just hanging out with Rob and Mike. Since we don't get to see each other all that often (what with the 250 miles seperating me and my friends) it was a blast, even the car ride to and from the casino was fun.
I also wore my new cowboy boots to the casino and received very little ridicule from Mike and Rob. I was honestly expecting to be made fun of a lot more, and frankly a little disappointed that they didn't. They're really really comfortable, look just like regular shoes and make me an inch taller, pretty much a win win win for me.
Today was spent hanging out with Liz and Rick, a quick pit stop at Trader Joe's for various food and alcoholic beverages and then over to Gramma's to celebrate her birthday. We would have liked to have spent more time there, but we had to hit the road to drive on back home.
All in all, a fantastic weekend, that went by way too fast. The worst part was though, as always, I forgot my camera so I have no new pics to post. I'll try to be more on the ball in the future, I promise. A big thanks to Breezy for feeding our cats while we were gone. Can't wait for next weekend as our friends Mike and Kim and their baby Maya are coming up. It'll be great to be able to show off the house and our little city to some more friends. This does however, put more pressure on the rest of our Boston friends to come visit now!