This past weekend I took Thursday and Friday off and drove to my grandparents in York for a vacation. We had a great time which (unfortunately) mostly consisted of working on my Jeep...I feel quite selfish about this fact, almost as if I was more there for what they could offer me than to fellowship with them.
My grandpa is a jack of all trades, and more...there's pretty much nothing he doesn't know something or everything about. I knew he would be the man to help me replace my brakes since I hadn't done it before. Usually when I do a car repair I read the manual section about 6 times and then about 50 online articles...usually following that I end up posting on a forum to ask questions. However, I'm learning from the best, my grandpa didn't even look at the manual. We ran into a lot of problems which ended up in purchasing a lot of new parts...but the cool thing is that Advanced Auto takes back your old parts to reuse reusable elements of it and hence they don't charge you quite as much for the new part. How great! It took us from Thursday 3 till Friday evening to finish...granted we had food breaks and when it was time to watch for him to watch the news I would sneak back into the garage and do other things, mainly painting and ripping out the interior dashboard. At any rate, enough about that.
Friday evening we played ping-pong...one of my favorite sports. I'm not too bad, I'm very familiar with throwing some "english" on the ball. My grandma doesn't do anymore than hit the ball over the net and she beat me with this simple strategy...meanwhile I'm flying around the room trying to throw fancy curveballs across the table and with 200% focus she calmly hit everyone back (just about everyone...well enough to beat me!). Grandpa was different, he's mainly the same as I am in the fact he likes spins and the like, he still beat me...then grandma beat him...we had some good laughs though and we took some videos of the actual games. At any rate, it's one of the best weekends so far this year and I sure did enjoy myself!
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