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September 02, 2008
our BIG weekend!
Okay, so... the fair was amazing. I've never been to a state fair and I was prepared for all sorts of campy over-the-top-ness, but I still could not have possibly expected the amount of fun and craziness (and food prices! Ugh) we saw. Here is a Picasa slideshow, provided it works:
A note about the hypnotist: we saw the show Saturday night, and I encouraged Brian to volunteer but he was hesitant and wanted to watch the show first. It was hilarious - at one point he gathered all the onstage men and had them behave as if they were pregnant, giving birth, and nursing. It was ridiculous! He also had a group of guys 'perform' as *NSYNC, as well as the Lady Marmalade women from the Moulin Rouge soundtrack. You can imagine how much I'd wished Brian had gone onstage!!
The next day Brian decided that he would give it a whirl, and as you can see from the photos he did make it onstage and past the first round (some people just don't relax enough for the show and are sent back to their seats), but soon after that it was clear that he wasn't fully hypnotized and was asked to leave the stage as well. Oh well. Maybe next time!
Some FYI: I've been hypnotized onstage before, roughly 8 years ago during freshman orientation in college. It's probably somewhat different from therapeutic hypnosis, but at no point are you completely unaware of what you're doing. The point is to get you so relaxed and compliant that you don't care how big of a fool you are making of yourself, and you'll let the hypnotist guide your actions because you've relented control of your inhibitions and your mind is loose and pliable. My guess as to why Brian didn't go completely hypnotized is because - you guessed it! - he is unfailingly stubborn and will not let anyone control him no matter what or who they are. He may beg to differ but I know the truth!! Haha.
Our Labor Day was quite nice as well; we slept in and did some housework, then headed out to a nearby nature park to pick blackberries. Oh, they are prickly! I didn't realize how thorny they were, but we came out with two and a half pickle jars (thanks Wendy! hehe) full of blackberries and many little red scratches on our arms and legs from the thorns. It was a great time, though, and very rewarding as last night I baked about a third of them into a pie:
And tonight I made a blackberry glaze to pour over some pan-seared pork chops:
Yummy! They were both extremely delicious.
Well, I've written enough here, I think. Tomorrow is the first day of school! I haven't written about work yet, but that will come later after I've had time to digest it all. Hope you all had a lovely holiday weekend!
(P.S. A year ago tonight was the fateful night that Brian's friend Dennis shoved him into me on the dance floor at Keith and Theresa's wedding. I think we should have a dance in honor of that. You think he'll let me? Hahaha...)
posted by karel at 10:14 PM
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4 Comments:
He better dance with you!! The pie and dinner look yummy! Yes, I could have bet than Brian couldn't be hypnotized easily.
Congratulations on your anniversary and what better way to celebrate then the way you met...on the dance floor. The pictures are great and I am very glad that you both had such a wonderful time. Love to both of you.
Blackberry pie is my favorite! Karel, please send one east for me.
I can't believe that Brian got that far into hypnosis, he is too strong willed.
妳終於回家了！玩得很高興吧！
照片照得也很好，讓我們見識了一些新奇的事情。
黑莓派看起來很好吃的樣子，下次回家做一個讓我們嘗嘗吧？！
告訴妳一件事﹕我和爸爸也是在"舞池"(dance floor)上認識的喔！ ﹕-)
太晚了，不多寫了，保重！
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