busy fun weekend

well well well it's been a fun weekend. friday nite we had dinner at mr. j's with the normal crew and then went and had some cosmic bowlin fun! the place was kind of weird tho - it was almost a club with 3 long bars along the wall opposite the lanes and everyone looked trendy and like i said it was cosmic bowling so the lights are going etc. then when we started to play, the balls weren't marked by poundage, but ranged from x-small to x-large and even the x-large was too light (but the finger holes were nice and big) and i felt like i was just slingin it down the lane. and speaking of the lanes, they seemed a little narrower (to get more lanes in?) and were very fast (greasy?) so if you barely angled the ball it swept right off into the gutter. however in the end, mrs. McCollins had her best game ever and the rest of us were sub-par since the experience was so much different than normal (no excuses no excuses!).
well, saturday we finally got to sleep in and then we headed south with some friends to an interesting little restaurant called red robin that we don't have back in tn. it's like a normal bar and grill, but they have like 19 types of burgers and refillable fries (!!). after that one of our friends had to pick something up for a friend at ikea and it was a madhouse!! then we got back to our place and we spent the rest of the afternoon with an old high school friend who just moved into town!! she ventured to red robin as well and we had a fun time just hangin out at her new pad in dc. after that, me and mrs. McCollins went on a date in dc (yes you can still do that after you get married!!) at espnzone (i promise i didn't pick it! what a wife!) it was an absolute blast for a sports fan. i wish i could've stayed longer and watched the dunk contest on the 3rd floor on the huge screen surrounded by 12 different sports feeds. speaking of the dunk contest, i thought it was really great, but they should've reverted to 3 dunks for the score at least in the finals. church was good this morning and mrs. McCollins and i helped lead the music and i assisted in Holy Communion (hey i gotta do somethin for them to call me the associate pastor ;-) ). well, i hope you had an eventful weekend, we're off to play some games with church friends (yep the same group from friday and saturday but it's ok cause they're cool kids haha).