However, my day started off with...
Stripes the Cat
Stripes is one of Suraph's two cats (the other being Gracie). Stripes doesn't like people much. This shouldn't come as a surprise given who his owner is, but I digress. It takes a bit for Stripes to warm up to you. Combine that with the fact that Stripes had never been to this particular environment before and you have a recipe for one scared cat.
So Friday morning rolls around and I stumble into the bathroom after waking up to be greeted by this:
Yes, Stripes the Cat, despite my door being shut, had managed to come into the room and hide out in the bathroom sink.
Obviously, my presence didn't scare him off.
He even stayed in the sink long enough for me to go find my phone to take pictures of him.
This apparent "fraidy cat" isn't too scared of cameras.
As you can see, he likes to pose.
Suraph says this is Stripes' way of showing he's warming up to you. It was also a game he seemed to like to play called "Let's see if those idiots can find me now".
At one point a couple hours after finding him in the sink, Suraph went to look for him since he didn't come up for food. We couldn't find him anywhere and started thinking a door had been left open and Stripes got out. We gave up after a bit hoping he'd just turn up once it got a little more quiet around the house.
About an hour after the search, Eri comes up exclaiming she had found Stripes.
You see...Stripes apparently found a small opening in the mattress Eri was taking a nap on. Upon laying down on said mattress, Stripes started moving around giving Eri the feeling she had just somehow landed herself in a Japanese anime. After a short bit of searching, she discovered said opening and Stripes the Cat's head peeking out of it.
Throughout the rest of the trip, we found Stripes the Cat in places like:
Laundry Hamper.
Luggage.
Bathtubs.
Trash Can.
Inside various cabinets.
Drakus' Beard.
(Ok, I'm kidding about that one...)
My personal favorite...
This would be Stripes the Cat figuring out how to enter the TV stand from the backend. The last day Suraph, Drakus and I were up there, we're eating dinner and playing Southpark's Tower Defense game when we see Stripes' head peek up over the TV. Mind you, this is a 40"ish LCD TV, so he had to do some work to peek up over that thing. Before we knew it, he was down in the stand crawling around before coming to rest next to the satellite box and the DVD player.
Needless to say, Stripes the Cat stole the show on many occasions.
Japanese Steakhouse
Dinner Friday night was provided by a Japanese Hibachi Steakhouse that Suraph was fond of. This, in and of itself, is surprising given everything at this place had flavor in it, but that's beside the point.
During dinner, I kept trying to figure out how to convince our chef to tilt the onion volcano in Kreo's direction to burn off his goatee.
The primary things of note during the dinner though were:
This restaurant has disco balls that light up when they sing Happy Birthday to someone...
This restaurant also buries little flashing fake ice cubes in bowls of ice that sushi is served over. This cube fascinated me to the point I basically unburied it and wondered just how water-proof it was. One toss into Kay's water later and I concluded it was indeed completely waterproof.
Once finished, we retreated back to Chateau de Cranky and lazed around some more.
4-Player-Palooza and Late Night Castle Crashing
Just reading this title makes it sound like we filmed our own version of "Harold and Kumar". So I probably need to say, no, we did not make "Kaelis and Kreo Go To White Castle" (although we did try to make "Kreoss Does Mountain Critters"). This title refers to a rather fun game called Castle Crashers.
http://www.castlecrashers.com/
I had been told about this game by Inbred before. I didn't bother downloading it at the time cause I already had enough on my plate to play. He professed how great this game was time and time again. While we were on a 4-Player, button mashing game kick playing games like TMNT: Arcade and TMNT: Turtles In Time, Suraph suggested we give Castle Crashers a try and that he had it stored on his USB drive.
So we pop it in and holy shit is that a fun game. Personally, I can't imagine trying to play this game solo, but if you got some buddies over and you got 4 controllers, hook that sumbitch up and play it. The humor is right up a group of guy's alley for the most part. For example:
Rocket-Shit Deer.
Trailer:
We generally traded off who was playing. Before we knew it, the women had gone to bed and it was 3 AM...
Looking back on it, I'm half surprised we didn't wake them up laughing at the Owl that shit itself to death.
On top of that, the music for this game is goddamn outstanding. If I ever find the soundtrack for this game, I'm buying it. I'm probably buying a copy for random people too since it's that goddamn outstanding.
Main theme for example:
I mean, how does that not get you pumped up to kick some ass? That's seriously a piece of music you put on while driving down the interstate challenging a Hurricane to come try to knock you off the road.
Anyway, as stated before...nothing much happened the 2nd day we were there. Just a whole lot of lazing around. More to come soon. :)
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