You Say It's Your Birthday? We're Gonna Have A Good Time!

I didn't get Miss Mox anything for her birthday. She was happy anyway- we took a trip to her alma mater for a football game, and had a nice long weekend away.  Plus the weather I asked for arrived, so we had perfect fall days...

Friday we checked into our hotel, actually a small inn in IN.  Brookville, Indiana, to be exact, which turned out to be a quaint small town.  One weird thing about it, as we discovered later, was the newpaper.  The Brookville Democrat was on the rack; right below it was the Brookville American, with the same font, same pictures, same stories.  I guess some people don't want to hold a Democrat in their hands, or maybe don't consider Democrats Americans?

Regardless, the inn was just right, a beautifully remodeled old house.  Not quite a B&B, but it had a full communal kitchen.  Who wants to get up early for breakfast, anyway?  It was a great place to relax, almost like being at home.  We poked around town some but spent more time in Oxford, where Miss Mox went to college.  We revisited favorite haunts, and went to a few new places like an old covered bridge.  She introduced me to toasted rolls, which are a thing at Miami.  I'd heard about them, and assumed they were just nice dinner rolls.  No- take a really big, good roll or bun, split it in half, butter and toast it on a griddle, then spread frosting on each half and add cinnamon sugar and powdered sugar.  Supergood sugarcoma.

Dessert?  Breakfast?  Entree?  You make the call.

The next day, her birthday, we slept in, then went to the game.  Miami won- guess they got my request too.  We picked up a flyer for a haunted forest-night zipline place, and since we'd been thinking about ziplining, we thought "why not?"  Pretty soon she was thinking "why?" The haunted forest was goofy and fun.  The ziplining was pretty cool, at least for me.  However, Miss Mox thought we were done after the first zipline.   She had been nervous but eager; now she was ready to go.   Unfortunately we were twenty feet up on a platform, with one way down. I think they'll remember her a long time...

This is just the training line, so we really went on three...

On the way home we went back through Oxford, stopping at the school's airport on the way for me to geek out a bit.  It was a perfect weekend, and a great trip, with the best companion I could wish for.

This is the end.