The weekend - upstate stylee
Took a trip "Upstate" this weekend (actually only just over an hour out of Manhattan on a bus - but it still counts as "upstate" in my book!) with the boy (no it doesn't count as a mini-break (cf Bridget Jones 2003) - we were going to see friends). Got off in a little village (by US standards not ours :-) and then walked down a dirt-track until we were surrounded by trees and "nature" (not too keen on this bit as the boy had already teased me greatly about the dangers of ticks:- "sometimes when you pull them their heads get stuck in you and then you have to burn them off you" and then John chimed in:- "I've had one stuck in my balls before" Gross).Anyway, we rounded the corner onto his drive and there was a huge deer! Antlers and everything - that's what I call nature :-) Turned out to be a great evening - we ate BBQ sausages and watched Space Balls (highly recommended - v funny). Then the next day (after ensuring there were no ticks in the bed and the Boy had diligently killed all winged items I could see on the walls) we got the canoe out on the lake (yes they have a lake in their 2 acre garden!), played some table-tennis, prodded the huge frogs with pieces of grass and helped reuse shingle from bits of wall they'd removed - was great manual labour and made me feel very manly! Got back in town just in time to get a late mani-pedi, have a shower, don the war-paint, small shoes and smaller skirt and join my more urban friends' house party in Alphabet City. What more could a gal want from a weekend?!
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