We headed out for Maryland to see Sharon’s family. But on the way we made a stop over in Charleston to see Kevin and Jason. It was only for a day but we did have fun. During the day Sharon and I headed downtown for lunch and just by pure happenstance, or luck depending how you look at it, we ended up in T-Bonz brewpub!
The beer I had of course was a Nut Brown Ale, pretty good. 3 out of 5 I would rate it. Fairly light, almost a little watered down perhaps. The same goes for the Winter Wheat Ale. The food was good and the atmosphere and location were excellent. And we found a really cool birthday gift for Alice next door, it was…nope Alice, you are just going to have wait until it arrives in the mail, if it fits in your mailbox ;)
That night we all went out to Gene’s Hofbrau for beer and food, again :) I indulged with a Holzar Bier Dunkel and a Flensburger Dunkel. They both were awesome, but the Holzar was a 4.5, where the Flens was a 4.0 on my scale of 1 to 5. Sharon and I ended up losing to Jason and Kevin four straight games of shuffle puck which was not particularly fun, but it was fun just to hang out with them.
Overall the best beer I have had I a while was from Kevin’s home brewing kit. He made a Nut Brown ale that was the bomb, a 4 out of 5 in my book, but it gets the nod over the Dunkels since it was brewed in Kevin’s kitchen! Can’t wait to try his “Big Jack Stout”!
During the drive up to Maryland I started to think about Noah and all that has happened. I thought back to when we hung out with some people, who are friends of us, but one in particular we never really talked with, she never seemed to give us the time of day. But it seemed when she found out what happened she became very sweet to us, which was nice but why did it take a tragedy to have her be nice to us? Its like when a stranger would do something mean to us, and then if they found out we just lost our son they would suddenly be nice to us because of what we went through. Just makes you think that the next time you want to get upset at someone for doing something you deem as inconsiderate or stupid, step back from it, what if they are going through something awful, maybe you should be nice to them. And then why not just be nice to everyone because yo never know what is going on in their life, there is so much hardship in the world that most likely they are dealing with something tough and just need a break or an act of kindness to maybe help them out. So how hard is it, to just swallow anger and be nice, treat everyone as though they were a friend possibly going through a rough time and need someone to be a friend, even if you are a stranger to them. I hope that all made sense, because it really did in my head when I was thinking about it :) :) :)