The begining of fun, as I know it

A few weeks after meeting Ari I called him and asked him if he was interested in going fishing with Celeste and Kendra and me. Here is how the conversation that Friday went...

"Are you coming fishing with us tomorrow?"
"No, I can't I have to work."
"Oh come on, you bum! What time do you get off?"
"Six O'clock"
"Oh... well, that's no good. Can't you get out of it?"
"No, I can't but I'm not working Sunday or Monday; can we go then?" (Monday was Labor Day)
"Shoot! I'm going up to Michigan tomorrow night and not coming home until Monday."
"Oh...."
(akward silence)
"I mean, you can come if you want, but..."
"Okay."
"Are you serious?"
"Yeah, sure, I'll come"
"Okay. Well, I'll be visiting my old school, so it may not be that interesting for you"
"That's cool. Unless you don't want me to come."
"No, you can come! It would be fun"

I immediately got off the phone and told Celeste she had to come with because if she didn't it would be the weird and incredibly akward. She agreed to come - thank goodness.

Well... that trip ended up being one of the most fun trips I have taken up to Michigan. The ride up felt completely normal. The first day was a bit akward--we hadn't arrived at Calvin until 4am, so the three of us were really tired. And I wanted to spend the day catching up with friends I hadn't seen since May. The next day, however, we went to the beach with a bunch of my Calvin friends. We had so much fun swimming in the freezing water, burying Ari in the sand. Then we left to drive home. On the way home we stopped in Holland, MI for some hotdogs (that we ended up not getting--long story). Then we stopped at a Dutch Farmer's Market and got some peaches and some green beans. Then we stopped at the Warren Dunes and climbed the dunes and went swimming again. While we were swimming we talked about making a list of all of the fun things we wanted to do:

Rent a boat at Lake Geneva and go skiing and tubing, go kayaking, go camping, go on a picnic, have a BBQ, go to millenium park, go to the shedd aquarium, go dancing/clubbing, take a ski trip,... the list goes on.

When we got home we actually wrote down a huge list of things we wanted to do. We agreed we would do one fun thing a weekend together. And we stuck to it through all of September and all of October. Then November came and Ari and Celeste and I have not done anything fun together on a weekend... unless you count Celeste's birthday party. Come to think of it, Ari and I haven't actually dont anything fun together since November hit. We did go see a play - but that was required for my acting class.

This weekend Ari and I actually did have fun together. A LOT of fun actually. Unfortunately, Celeste was not with us... even though she should have been!! I will write more about my awesome weekend tomorrow - I've had enough typing for one day.