25th Class Reunion

Today was my 25th class reunion.  I didn't take any pictures really.  Only a few of my friends were there.  I graduated with over 1000 people  I couldn't believe how many people I didn't recognize at all!  

 

Me & Chris Coghill. We were in homeroom together, but didn't really know each other. We came the farthest for the reunion.  Me from Abu Dhabi, and he from Moscow.

Took a drive down to the old Mentor Beach Park.  The beach was eroded away long ago, but still a nice place to relax.  There was a horrible rainstorm recently which explains all of the brown water near to the shore.

The is the sled riding hill in the old neighborhood I grew up in in Mentor.

My old high school.

The Melvins 30th Anniversary Tour

My brother asked me to go to The Melvins concert at the Grog Shop in Cleveland Heights.

If you have never seen The Melvins.  Their lead singer looks like a cross between Uncle Fester and Krusty the Clown.  I especially enjoyed their song "Evil New War God."

Lead singer, Buzz Osborne, or King Buzzo, favors cowl necked mu mus. 

 

 

Ah, there was plenty of moshing to be had along with some PBR tall boys.

Their opening act was a band called Honky.  Yes, just Honky.

Latoya!

I was super excited to fly to Washington DC direct from Dubai to see my friend Latoya for the first time in almost 10 years!  I love the Dubai flight because all of the good-looking military dudes are on that flight, never mind that it is 15 hours, but for some reason the only food they serve is beef curry or vegetable curry.  I really hate curry, and it doesn't seem like the best choice for such and enclosed space!  I had a 10 hour layover that I thought would be more than enough time for us to hang out and catch up!

Navigating the D.C. metro.

Great catching up with Latoya!

The pulled pork lunch was delicious; as was the dessert!

Our awesome waiter!

Our time went by so quickly as we hung out at the awesome Charley's Restaurant.  It was actually later than I thought.  I jumped on the metro, but then missed the bus to the airport.  I was panicked that I'd miss my flight, so I paid $50.00 for a taxi to get me there.  I made it just in time - to see my flight was delayed for 30 minutes!  Then an hour- which became 2 hours -then 3 -then cancelled completely.  Nice.  We could have had more time! ugh

I asked that my bags be removed so that I could shower and change my clothes.  First they told me I would have to wait an hour.  No problem.  After an hour, I was told 2 more hours.  After 3 hours of waiting, along with a dozen other people,  I found out that my bags had already been flown to Cleveland.  Great. 

There was another group of guys that had been waiting 3 hours for their bags as well.  They had a meeting in Pittsburgh, which is 5 hours away, and they decided it would be quicker to drive there, than to wait for a plane in the morning.  But, unfortunately, since their bags were flown to Pittsburgh, they would have no way to retrieve them until the airport opened the next morning anyway.  Ugh.

I went to my hotel, which I had to pay for, starving, only to find that room service had already stopped, so I would have to go to bed hungry, and my morning flight was too early to get any breakfast.  Oh well.  Good thing I had bought some chocolate chip cookies at the duty-free in Dubai airport!  A bit melted, but yumm.