Not much laboring going on here

We had an awesome, but exhausting Labor Day weekend! Thursday night, our friend Sully drove down from Boston. K had Friday off, so the three of us relaxed on the beach. On Friday night, our friends Jay & Ry flew in from NY.

Jay, Ry and Sully are all friends K made while stationed in Louisiana, so it was great to have a little reunion. We spent the evening relaxing and having drinks on our back porch. Ry, who is a more regular wine drinker than I am, poured for the evening, which means while everyone else was sleeping, I was seeing my wine again in the bathroom. Yikes.

Saturday, the plan was to go to Busch Gardens. Everyone else felt great, so off we went.

I love being in control, so roller coasters scare the bejesus out of me. Since I was still feeling a bit shaky, I sat the first roller coaster out. I was grateful to have a solid excuse to skip out on this dropoff (It's 90 degrees at 75 mph)!

Obviously my friends weren't worried (or hungover) as they waited in line for the coaster.

After they finished their ride (They loved it, but they said it was scary. They also said I'd definitely have thrown up again if I'd ridden it!), we all got lunch. I felt much better, so I joined in on the rides. We had a good time walking around the park, and we finished with a nice splash ride. (You can see we're all soaked in the picture as we were leaving.)

That night, we grilled out at our house and watched the Sooner football game. And that's all I have to say about that. (OK, OK. Yes, we lost. Yes, it sucked.)

Sunday, we all slept in (theme parks are exhausting!), then headed to Virginia Beach for the afternoon. We had dinner at a great restaurant on the beach. They had amazing drinks they called Orange Crushes. With the amount of alcohol in each one (and the amount of fresh orange), they were very appropriately named!

The food was also delicious! For an appetizer, we ordered calamari, which was served with some kind of BBQ sauce (turned out to be a great combo!), and buffalo-style fish bites. For dinner, K and I both got crabcake sandwiches. Jay got fish tacos, and Ry's pasta looked amazing too. It was all delicious!

After dinner, we went back down to the beach for a Black Crowes concert.

We had brought my OU quilt to sit on before the show. We managed to get pretty decent spots (in proximity to the stage AND a beer tent), so we had lots of people walking by trying to sneak in on spots around us. I just started having fun with it by doing silly faux karate/yoga/whoknowswhat poses to block people from our blanket. Obviously our blanket still got trampled on the sides, but I kept people from walking on our things in the middle. And it gave us all a good laugh.

The concert ended without a performance of "She Talks to Angels" or "Hard to Handle," which was disappointing. There wasn't even an encore!

Thanks to the city of Virginia Beach, though, our night ended with some a nice fireworks show.