Can Life Get Any Better?!

I'm kind of still on a high with the whole Green Card situation and I definitely celebrated over the weekend. On Friday, I went up to Ames for a comedy play entititled, "Wonder Bread Years" and it was hilarious. The premise was really simple - the guy brought the audience back to the wonder bread year where in so many ways, life was so much simpler and toys were non electronic. Granted, the the audience that would relate most to the play would be people 50 years and older, but there were a number of things that I could relate to. I had dinner with Nora, Colleen, Nora's roommate and cousin. It was nice to hang out with the four of them. We had a nice dinner at this Italian restaurant located right next to the Thai restaurant that we had planned on going. The food was good.

On Saturday, I got up to watch the Liverpool game which was really disappointed because Liverpool did not play well at all. Oh, well. It's still early in the season and there are many more games left. However, it would have been nice if they had won. Later that afternoon, I went to Drake's Football game. It was billed as Drake's game of the season because we played the University of Northern Iowa and whoever won go to claim the right to be the "best" football team in the state. Drake was basically ran out of the stadium. The game was a blowout in UNI's favor. The saving grace was that the weather was immaculate. There's not going to be many more sunny days left since it's already fall. Some of the leaves are already changing color. Later that evening, I went to a farewell party for Ashley Templeton who was a RCIA candidate last year. She's going to El Salvador to work for at least a year. My hunch is that she'll be there a number of years. Ashley belongs to the young adults group too. The farewell was held at Drake and it was nice to walk on campus again. One of the former dining halls has been changed in to a social lounge.

After Mass today, I hung around Drake's campus - the library specifically catching up the news and some magazines because at 3PM there was a classical concert. The group that performed was the Borealis Wind Quintet and they were very, very good. Talk about a great way to enjoy a Sunday. Pretty much all the pieces they played I've never heard before. Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever attended a wind quintet performance. It was fun and anything to expose me to more classical music, I'm game. The rest of the evening was spent in the apartment just relaxing and winding.

Can life get any better than the weekend I had? I don't think so! This coming week will be pretty eventful too. Stay tuned to the blog!