Saturday we went to look at one Open House during the day, and it was NOT a good house. The interior of the house was very "eh" and not too great, but the exterior was TERRIBLE. There was a little square-ish parking area right in front of the house, but then there was a super loooooooong (at least a quarter of a mile) skinny (one-car wide) driveway from the main busy road that lead up to the small parking area. Well, long story short: a bunch of cars (including us) ended up getting kinda stuck there when another car came down the driveway towards the house. McGee managed to maneuver his car in a way that would let them by us, so they could park in our spot, and he even got out of the car to wave them by. Well, this person freaked out and decided to just slowly reverse the whole way down the driveway back out to the street. They had a few close-calls with almost falling off the side of the driveway road, but they eventually pretty much made it back out to the street. And by that time the other parked cars had started to move a bit, so our only choice was to just reverse down the driveway too - Luckily, McGee is AWESOME at driving in reverse! We made it out to the street in no time, away from that nightmare of a parking situation.
Saturday night we went to a Union soccer match, and it was a very exciting game! The score wasn't exciting, but there were lots of shots-on-goal which was very exciting. McGee and his friend Juliff both have season passes to the Union games, and Juliff couldn't make it to this one so I got to use his pass. I had a lot of fun at the game!!
Our excellent seats! That fence wasn't really in my way at all - it just looks like it in the picture.
After the match, we were getting home early enough that we decided to stop at Rita's! Rita's is a chain of dessert shops around here that serves something called "water ice" (like a slushy kinda)... but they also serve frozen custard!! It's AMAZING. It's so rich and delicious. My favorite is the chocolate-vanilla swirl, and you have to get sprinkles (or "jimmies" as they call them here...)!! Who doesn't love sprinkles?? Except maybe Amanda... but only because she likes weird milkshakes instead (inside joke!!). But Rita's shops are all only open during the summer, so we're getting near the time of year when all of the shops will be closing. So, I had to have it one more time this year!!
Rita's frozen custard with sprinkles!! Yumm!!
On Sunday, we went to FIVE Open Houses, and there was one house that we liked a lot out in the middle of nowhere. It was great, but we definitely have to weigh in the fact that we'd be a decent drive from the city which would make fun activities like going to a concert more difficult. And speaking of concerts (look at my segue skills!!), on Sunday evening we went to a Jeff Tweedy show!! He's the lead singer of the band Wilco, and they're the organizing band behind the Solid Sound Festival that we like to go to. He has a new project just called Tweedy, which is a band he's formed with his 18-year-old son. It was really cool!! And Jeff Tweedy also performed some of his own hits towards the end of the show. It was a REALLY fun show, and our seats were in the 2nd row!! Such a cool night.
Here's Jeff, and that's his son Spencer in the background
Here's our view on our walk back to our car after the show! That's City Hall (with William Penn on top of it). It really is a pretty city.
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