Out of my element.

Saturday night I went with my friends Emil, Nick, Jimmy, Emils' bro Josh, Lauren, Brandon & Brandons' girlfriend to a "bonfire." We were meeting up with Emils' friend Tim. It was out past Brimfield and into Suffield.. way out in the boonies. We turned off of 224 and as soon as we drove up a hill we see the bonfire on the left hand side of the road, prolly like 10ish feet away from the road. It was HUGE! Then we look to our right and see all the trucks & SUVs parked along side of the road in the grass on the dudes' property in front of his barn.

We pulled in, opened the doors to get out of Laurens' SUV and the smell of horse shit over-whelmed us. All we did was laugh. Lauren, Nick & myself started walking to the party and realized just how many people were standing around the bonfire then we looked around the barn and saw even more people just standing around, everyone with beer in their hands. People were playing cornhole. There was a beer pong table set up in the garage that was a 3-car garage with all the doors open with the radio inside playing country music.

This dude not only owned his own house, but owned the garage and I think there was 2 barns on his property.. let alone the property ACROSS the street. I was seriously in awe. We just stood there for 5 minutes to take it all in. I had never been to a real "country" like bonfire. Basically every guy had on them tan timberland type boots. Some guys had belt buckles. I even saw a guy in overalls.

I loved pretty much every minute of it. Emils' brother Josh went around the barn to use the bathroom and walks up to me "There's seriously cows just chillen in the pasture." Haha. I never thought I'd ever hear that sentence. We suddenly got the urge to go cow tippin' but they were inside an electric fence. (Smart move on the owners part. Haha.) In the garage was a nice lookin four-wheeler. Nick was like "And that'd be your four-wheelers daddy" because it's so much more bigger than mine. Haha. The owner of the property was riding around in a golf cart, with a beer in one hand, smokes in the other, and some chicks as passengers. Made me chuckle everytime I saw them.

When we were saying our goodbyes to everyone I saw 2 guys wearing the exact same shirt: the front of the shirt said "Duma Meats" and the back was just advertising Duma Meats. They were SO cute, I'm totally going to Duma Meats ASAP. I know who the Duma's are, they are truly an amazing family.. and they're oldest son is such a stud muffin. It's like everyone knew everyone. I only live not even 5-10 minutes away from Brimfield, Mogadore & Suffield but yet it was a whole-nother world. I SO much rather of grown up in the country than in Akron. I can't wait to move out to Brimfield. I'm seriously SO happy I didn't "settle" for a house that I found in Ellet. I woulda made the biggest mistake of my life. The only bad parts of the night was the Summer heat. I was miserably HOT even at 1am.. seriously 80 degrees at 1:00 in the morning is NOT needed in life. And I lost in every corn hole game I played, NOT cool.

Ziggy zoggy oi oi oi.

I learned many new things today. I thought I'd share them with you.

1. It is possible to be drunk before noon on a Sunday.
2. "If you have a dick you're doing a ziggy." I have no clue what a ziggy is but you say this saying three times fast: "ziggy zoggy, ziggy zoggy oi oi oi!" you get to chug your beer.
3. I saw not one, but three huge school bus looking things: one that had a football helment on the front, anothers front end was a dogs face complete with dog whiskers sticking out and the last one had big floppy ears.
4. I actually have awesome cornhole skills.. me & katie were undefeated today!
5. Four tiny bite-size donuts is not enough food to give you energy to walk up 10+ flights of stairs.
6. Even though the Cleveland Browns basically suck they have some amazing, crazy fans!
7. The term "tailgating" doesn't begin to describe what you actually do in a parking lot before a football game.
8. Its the norm to see grown men either half naked in tube tops & beer bellies or dressed in different colored zebra print MC Hammer pants on game day in Cleveland.
9. No one was able to answer my question: "What exactly is a Cleveland 'Brown'?"
10. Football games in person seem to go a looot faster than they do on tv.
11. You can get a citation for walking with a beer can in your hand, but its legal to stand next to a cop drinking beer from a plastic cup.
12. You get a full cardio workout walking from the parking lot to your seats, especially if you sit at the very tippy tip top of the football stadium.
13. Football games don't have vendors walking up & down the sections that sell hot dogs, cotton candy or peanuts. But the beer guy vendor dude never leaves your section.
14. People that dress up their dogs for a football game are viewed as badasses, but if I dressed up my dog on any other day I'm compared to Paris Hilton.

I learned all that at the Cleveland Browns season opener! I've never tailgated before in my life but I highly recommend it. It's definitely an experience & amazing time!