The weekend

Sometimes a little change of scenery is all that's needed to get you through to the next round- if you know what I mean.

We decided to head up to Saugatuck Michigan for the weekend; it's a quick three hour trip up there to what has been called The Cape Cod of the Mid-West. I'm not so quick in calling it that, in fact I wouldn't call it that at all, but for descriptive purposes we will allow it. Anyway, I took the day off on Friday and we ended up getting out of the house by 10:00 A.M.- not bad and then to our destination by around three o'clock (time change) After dealing with some major construction leaving Chicago, it was a pretty smooth trip the rest of the way. We've been to Saugatuck a couple of times before and we always end up saying the same thing: it's too small, there's not enough women, the bar (there's actually only like one) sucks, there's no good restaurants and there's too many families walking around, but we keep going back and back... go figure. We seem to be drawn to this place, but I'm not too sure why.

In order to keep things short and sweet here's a re-cap:
Things we bought: gas for the car, a sandwich on the way up, coffee when we arrived, a bottle of wine for the room, dinner, almost a really cool pair of shoes for C. Love, a panini sandwich and a new thumb ring for me- I've been looking for one with a thicker band. I found one and it's nice...
Not much purchased as you can see.

Things we did: Ate, drank, shopped, walked, sat on the beach, held hands, kissed a lot... cried, (long story) watched some TV., ate breakfast with strangers, talked a lot.
Not too much as you can see.

Things we discussed: Moving there, moving to California, the beauty of Race Point Beach, the lack of gay people in the most gay area of the Mid-West, our future, our past, our relationship and the fact that our room was overpriced, bad coffee, why there is only one coffee joint in the area, how much the Mid-West is just so Midwestern and how we keep getting stuck next to playgrounds-
Again, doesn't sound like much but way more than what I can describe- believe me.

We had a great weekend, we got in touch with some things that were lost and learned about some things in the process. We decided we need to seriously consider moving to California, how important good restaurants, bars, beautiful surroundings and cool clothing stores are to us and how we need to go away more- in other words we didn't really do, see or experience anything out of the ordinary but we didn't have to do it in the comfort of our own home for a change.

Things look better when things look different.