Woke up this morning after Megan had already left for work. I went to breakfast at the Golden Nugget (basically the best breakfast place in Dayton or maybe ever) and then went off on my day. I went to Target to pick up a wedding gift for the wedding I am going to tomorrow. It is now my belief that wedding registries are a very neat thing but also take the fun and surprise out of gift giving. I guess the wedding party gets what they want and that is nice, but it seems a little...weird that I am giving something so random. Will the Matts remember for the rest of time that I gave them some wall hanger/electronics charger? Probably not. And what's the point, then, of giving a gift receipt with the gift? They asked for this thing specifically, and they already know how much it costs, so they would likely not return it and have to be shielded from (gasp, the horror!) knowing how much I spent on them. Such a silly process. But I digress...
After that. went to Meijer and CVS. Then I headed to the University of Dayton! Went first to the bookstore (obviously - and I get a 10% discount as alumni). I randomly ran into Jim Pera there - small world! Jim is a Campus Minister at UD and is one of my good friends, so it was fun to catch up quickly and we made plans to hang out later this weekend. I then marveled at some of the construction going on around campus and somehow found my way to Kennedy Union and said hi to Gwyn, a friend from grad school who works at the Union, and a bunch of other people there. Then I walked up to Rebecca Schaller's office and chatted with her.
I then made my way quickly to the movie theater to see Toy Story 3 with Jenna and Megan. Holy crap, that movie is good. It was surprisingly emotional, especially at the end (won't give anything away). There were actually a good amount of people in their 20s in the theater, which isn't that shocking considering the first movie came out 15 years ago.
After the movie, we got some dinner at Potbelly and then went to Jenna's apt and ate some of her homemade key lime pie - delicious! Jenna lives at The Greene (the joint housing/commercial space use, aka a fake city) which is pretty cool, and her apt has all the new and fancy features. An apartment from the future!
THEN (sorry, a lot of then's) we met up with Chelsey, Andrew, and Liza (Jenna's friend) and went to listen to Kenny Loggins in concert. How random is that last sentence? Kenny was playing at the Fraze Pavilion, which is an outdoor concert venue only a few blocks from Megan's apartment. There is a park right in front of the Fraze where you can sit and listen to concerts for free! Which is good, because I don't know if I would have paid to see Kenny Loggins in concert. He played all of his hits, except for my personal favorite, "Playing with the Boys". Oh well, still a good time!
And the lightning bugs are out here - so freakin' cool. I had only seen them for the summers I was in Dayton but they sure do put a nice "classic summer" feel onto a hot summer night. So yea, a random day but pretty good!
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