Frank's Trip: Brat Kid Day

Wow, hard to believe I've been here and week and a half, as I suspected time is flying by. It's all been gret fun. I thought I'd up date you on what I've been up to. Today we took a walk along the cannals, which run all through the city. They're great, peaceful, picturesque and it's funny to think they're so close to busy streets. Sculptures, parks and bridges run all along the area. Along the way is the Zoo, so we stopped in for a couple of hours. It seemed to Brat Kid day, but it was fun none the less, some pictures below.
Yesterday, we went to Maryann's home coming, which is a yearly college reunion thing. That was good, I met more of her friends and got to see where she went to college, nice campus, nicer than the crap hole I went to anyway! More pics below!
Then we stopped off at this really dodgy looking chinese place, it was in the middle of all these fast food resturaunts, and car sales garages and next door to a strip club. Maryann said it was great, but I had my doubts. But she was right, it turned out to be really nice inside and the food was amazing, and huge portions, we could only mange have, so the rest did us for supper that evening and the whole lot only cost $11!
It was funny because the family who own the resturant we're having their dinner too! We felt like we had interupted them as ten of them milled over food in a large centre table while we sat quietly in the back! It was cool though. A nice experience and again, great food.
The night before we hung out with two friends of Maryann's, Kristi, who she works with at the festival and her boyfriend James, both really nice people and both actors. We went to a Comedy Sportz, which is a sports related comedy improv night. My buddy John Burton in LA works for them too, so it was nice to finally attend one.
It was loads of fun, a bit nerv wrecking at first, when I hear improv I think audience partisipation! The thought sends shivers down my spine. But it was fine. Then we went on to a pub... sorry, Bar! Drank beer, ate nachos and talked. Kristi and James are fun people to be around and James and I hit it off, having movies in common... it's always good to find someone to rant about movies with. Plus, his favourite movie is Back to the Future, so we were instant friends.

This was cool, we were coming home from Bloomington and all these birds were perched on the wires, thousands of them and they stretched on for miles. It was funny too, because every time a bird landed the entire row would shuffle down to make room, like a domino effect.