New boat, Chinchilla babies, Dyson vacuums

Last week was such a crazy and insane time. With the passing of my grandma I must have felt every emotion in the world. I was sad, stressed, frustrated, overwhelmed, grateful, all at once. We had so many preparations to make but in the end it was all ok. I will get into all the details at a later date because I'm at work right now and don't want to make myself all upset. Instead, I will talk about the awesome weekend I had.

Saturday morning I had to work but afterwards Brian and I went to hang out with my mom. We went to Five Guys for lunch (mom had never experienced the amazingness that is Five Guys). Then, on the way, we got a call from my dad who was 20 minutes away. He had left Annapolis, MD with the boat that morning and made ridiculous time. We met him down at the club, checked out the boat (so did everyone else that was there) and hung around for awhile:


Then Sunday morning my dad took us out for a ride. It was apparently "River Day," because it is the Hudson River's quadricentennial so all the old ships were out. We saw the Half Moon, which is a replica of Henry Hudson's ship that originally discovered the Hudson River. It was fun just very crowded. This boat goes FAST, so it was annoying to navigate through all the other boats. We were going like 48 knots which was fun/scary. I do miss the slow, leisurely pace of a sailboat. After the boat we met up with Brian's parents for dinner. We went to one of our favorite places, Il Fresco. They have the best authentic Northern Italian food and the best drinks! I passed on the drinks, though, because for me sun+drinking=no. After dinner we got dessert and hung out a little bit in the backyard, then I got a call from a friend of mine from work.

She has two chinchillas who she had thought were both male. One morning she wakes up to find little chinchilla babies running around her house (they slipped through the bars). Oops. She found out I had Sammy and asked if I wanted a baby. They do live best in pairs, and I'd been thinking about getting him a friend for awhile now, so I said yes. We met up and she had brought both of them so I could choose. Seeing them both snuggled up together was the cutest thing ever, I couldn't break them up. So, I took both. Their names are Davis and Junior (get it, Sammy Davis Jr.?) and they are little monsters. Adorable monsters, but monsters nonetheless. When I go to leave the house in the morning, this is what Junior looks like:

He stands at the cage because he wants to play. It's so hard to leave when I have this little dude begging me to hang out. This is them sleeping together and being cute:

My mom accurately observed that my living room is beginning to look like a zoo. I have to keep Sammy in his cage and these guys in another right next to each other so they can check each other out for awhile. I have no idea if they're going to get along but we'll see how it goes.

Because of these new additions to my family I had to invest in a new vacuum. I had been borrowing my parents' for the winter but now that they're back and I have these little monsters it was definitely time for my own. I haven't actually owned my own vacuum since I lived in NJ and my roommate broke it within a week. Brian and I went to the store, we had an awesome sales kid who showed us all the different models and features. Honestly I felt like I was buying a new car with all the information he was giving us. We left with a Dyson DC25Animal, which is almost as good as a new car. I'm in love with it.

After using it my house looked seriously CLEAN. It hadn't ever looked that good with my parents' vacuum! I'm sold.