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It’s Alive!, originally uploaded by emilyrems.

Spent the weekend goofing around with my most bestest and very preggo friend Johanna at her mom’s new digs in Connecticut. We were in Middlebury, which is somewhere near Southbury, kind of near Danbury, and of course, in the general vicinity of the dreaded tropical disease island Berrybury, but somehow, I remain unscathed. Han is all beautiful and a-glow these days, and every time we got to spend some time alone together, we couldn’t stop laughing (as evidenced by this photo of me cracking up while groping her baby-belly). As part of our hijinx, we hung out at a ye olde amusemente parke that was built in 1908 called Quassy, which I quickly determined was a compound word created to emphasize the fact that as far as family fun goes, the place is quasi-classy. Much to my delight, they had an obstacle course-type-thing called SATURATION STATION (awes right?) that would periodically dump 300 gallons of water from a giant bucket many stories above the ground onto the heads of unsuspecting kidlings below with the brute force of a fire hose. Another highlight was when I bullied a listless teen running a carnival game in the rain to help me cheat my way to victory in the frog pond in order to win Han’s future bebe a stuffed seal. Apparently, the winning frog was somewhat malfunctional (which would explain why nobody ever won the good prizes) so I had to physically knock the lil’ sucker over with my fishing pole to claim my ill-begotten prize. We also had a super-fancy Italiano chow down with Han’s mom, and spent a long time curled up on the guest bed chatting on the phone with our mysterious and wayward friend Alex, who has recently returned from an itinerant stint in Paris. I haven’t lived anywhere near Han since I was 15, but that has never changed anything between us. Now, 20 years after we met at the sixth-grade picnic, We’re still BFF 4evs. 2 cool + 2b = 4 gotten.

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