Ok, so maybe I was a bit over-the-top. First there was breakfast at Waid’s. For someone who had only been awake fifteen minutes, he put away an impressive amount of food (his mouth is full). Then, there was dinner at Guadalajara’s next door, where we all put away an impressive – and delicious – amount of food. (Nothing wrong with staying in the neighborhood!) Dad arrived “strategerally” in time for dessert.
In between I was treated to my first heart-stopping, breathtaking experience of teenage driving: oh, is that a red light? “What’s hydroplaning?” “How do you turn on the wipers?”
We cruised out to Game Stop for birthday gift selection. Score! :-) Then decided to take in Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At the World’s End. Our opinion doesn’t vary from the mass of reviewers: great special effects and a mashup of fifteen or so storylines with no coherent narrative. (Hmmm, just like real life?!) My favorite scene is the return from Davey Jones’ Locker: where up is down and down is up.
Most of our time was spent in conversation, and the evening ended with a few bouts of gut-splitting laughter. The jokes won’t translate into text, but there were my multiple trips to bathroom, flying pig intestines, and dad’s three layers at the office where all his co-workers are in short sleeves.
cooool to finally see pictures of your family! Hope it's going well, thinking of you.
Ruth - it's cooool my family lets me put 'em up here, too. :-) They all make me proud, y'know? Cutie-pies.