on Saturday and going to a graduation party on Sunday. The party is being held at this really cool old(ish) "mansion" at a local park right on Lake Erie...I'm excited to celebrate the grad (my bff's niece--the one whose graduation I attended a few weekends ago*) but I'm also excited about the locale, as I've never been to this place before. I've been to the park but the building is for private events so I've never been inside it.
* Bff and I were talking...the tradition around here is to have a graduation party for your high school grad but to just take your college grad out to dinner somewhere after the graduation ceremony. But bff's niece's high school graduation party was, of course, cancelled due to COVID and her parents really wanted to have a party to celebrate at least ONE graduation, so I'm all for it.
In other news...I went out to dinner last night with a former co-worker and good friend and afterwards, we went out for ice cream (8 times out of 10, when I suggest meeting, my friend asks to make the long drive out to my town to have dinner at My Thai and ice cream at DQ. The other two times we usually have lunch somewhere near the mall in Mentor so we can spend the afternoon at the freestanding Barnes and Noble; my friend is a big reader and lives in the middle of nowhere so he doesn't get to B&N as often as he'd like to). We'd just finished our ice cream when the skies lit up with the most amazing display of heat lightning* I've ever seen. It was constant and wild and beautiful...and a little scary. I kept thinking of the scene in the last Harry Potter movie when all those spells were hitting the shield over Hogwarts. Clearly I watch too much sci-fi and fantasy shows and movies <g>. I got some nice video on my phone...tried to get a picture of the lightning but my phone camera wasn't quite good enough for that.
* apparently "heat lightning" isn't a thing. I guess it's just a term we old folks always used for lightning way off in the distance that doesn't produce any thunder or rain? Eh, whatever...I'm still calling it heat lightning <g>.
