So today was pretty full and pretty good. Jeremy's sort of been having cabin fever cause we don't often go very many places (I dunno, at one point I thought I was borderline agoraphobic, I just don't go that many places, and almost never anywhere if I'm not with someone.... but it might just be laziness) and suggested a trip to Champaign, which we actually had discussed at one point months ago and never did. I have to say.... I spent way too much money, but I had a lot of fun and it was worth it.

Champaign, for people who don't live in the area, is about the same size as the Bizzle Nizzle. I like to refer to it as "the Pain" whereas Jeremy likes to pronounce it the way Christopher Walken pronounces champagne on the SNL sketch the Continental. Though a smallish size, it usually has a little more going on than Bniz, partially because U of I is there and for whatever reason they attract better stuff than ISU. So we had orig. planned to go to one restaurant Jeremy had been to before, but it was closed. And some of the stuff U of I attracts was a no go, as the students are not quite yet back for the fall. But we still were able to fill it with awesomness.

First off, I got a new toy.... my GPS has been broken for awhile now, so I decided to just go ahead and replace it. They've really evolved... this one has some cool new features, and was about one third cheaper than my old one (and that's considering dad got the orig. on a black friday deal). It was nice to have in a town that I'm only semi-familiar with.

Then we went to Curtis Orchard. It was really cool.... We used to have this really awesome orchard near town, but it closed around when I was in high school because the owners were sick and couldn't maintain it. They sold it, and the new dick owners didn't want to maintain it either. So it was nice to go to another good one. They had some stuff for kids, like a petting zoo with... what seemed to be a very sick turkey. But he made the gobbling noise! Which made me happy! (Frankly, he seemed to have been rescued from a farm. The other turkeys and other animals in general seemed to be in good health). They had a lot of things I missed from the old orchard like apples, peaches, pie, apple donuts, cider, apple butter, honey straws, and a bunch of new things.... such as an apple cider slush, which was quite good.

Then we went to The Great Impasta, a tasty italian restaurant in the area. Not only was the alfredo sauce on my noodles tasty, but they were home made noodles, and you could really tell. Jeremy liked his pesto & linguine too. They also had the bread/parmesan/olive oil situation like at Biaggi's. Oh, and lest I forget--FABULOUS tiramisu. I mean, I usually love tiramisu anyway, but the presentation on this was really beautiful and it was probably one of the better tiramisu's I've had in my life.

Our last stop was going to be the planetarium down there, but they were actually closed. Not because there was no students, but I guess they're doing some remodeling in there or something?

Oh, and in between the dinner and planetarium we were killing time and stopped at Best Buy.... and I ended up buying another computer game I probably don't need. I was pretty excited, though.... it's one of the few adventure games I've seen in a long time, you know, like the old sierra onea, where you try to solve problems and things and it makes a story. I can't remember the name, but the main character IS a sad clown, so you know it's gotta be good.

Then later some of Jeremy's friends were doing some karaoke at a bar. It was nice because we were pretty much the only ones there, so we got to sing all we want. And not hear horrible country songs the way it usually goes in this town. I also got to finally meet one of Jeremy's friends, Luke. The reason it's so funny to finally meet him is I've met his wife, his child, I've been in his house, played his Wii, drank his orange juice, met his brother, and know all his friends at this point. He seems like a cool guy, I believe the reason we never met before is that we have opposite work schedules.

In other news, Jeremy's moved his cat, Kirk, over here, and so far it is slow going. Bunny is getting better, but I can still tell that he's ill at ease with a predator around. But, if I had to introduce him to any cat, Kirk is the one I'd pick. Kirk is a coward too, and so won't go up to 007 and bother him, he's not all hyper like some cats, and is very gentle--he's had experience being around other animals and they really have to push him for him to even begin to try and hurt them back. Oh, and before I get any captain kirk jokes (such as I made when I first learned his name), it's actually similar to the german word for church, which is where Jeremy orig. found the stray little kitten some years ago. So hopefully they get used to each other.

Also, I was worried about my furniture and carpet, as kirk likes to claw a little, but we've gotten these crazy plastic things to put over his claws. So not only does that even further lessen his threat to bunny, it definitely lessens his threat to my property.

I think Kirk moving here makes it pretty much official, even though Jeremy's got some other stuff left to do, Kirk is the most important. And once he and the rabbit are settled, it will be nice--one of our hassles whilst hanging out together was which house to hang at, because if we hung out at his, 007 had to be locked up in his cage all day, and if we spent the day at mine, Kirk is VERY attached to Jeremy and really starts missing him.