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November 18, 2002

We are back from our trip. It was short but sweet. We arrived down there about 10 or so on Thursday night. We slept in my old room, which really wasn't that weird at all. We watched a few movies... Pay It Forward on Thursday night. It was a sad movie! I had no idea it was so sad. I think Kevin Spacey is hot, even with burns all over his body. My mom and dad gave me my birthday present on Thursday. They gave me one of those paraffin hand dipper things (for my dry hands). Very cool. I opened it up to check it out to find that my mom had been sold an empty box. It was pretty funny. On Friday, I went Christmas shopping with my mom. We returned the empty box and got a full one. I got a lot of shopping done and got to go to all my favorite stores that I miss so much. We had Japanese food for lunch, then went to Fidel's (the coolest Mexican Restaurant ever) with my whole family for dinner. We ran to a few stores and bought the new 20th Anniversary Trivial Pursuit game, which was pretty bad. The questions were lame. We thought it would be easier than the original one, considering we had been alive for the last twenty years, but it wasn't. It went on and on and on. I think Andrew won. It was nice to hang out though.

Saturday, we went to breakfast with Shane's mom, which was very nice, then we went out with Ryan and Mandy Yingst. She is due to have her baby on Thursday. We went to Feliccia's for dinner and then watched Joe Dirt, which they claimed was "so funny" and that we "had to see it." It wasn't that funny. Not really funny at all. Sunday, we had my grandparent's 60th Anniversary party. The deck stood strong and the party was a success. It was nice and everyone had such a good time. My mom and dad did a great job. It was very nice and I think ZiZi and Bob Bob loved it. Shane played video games with Ryan in the afternoon and then we went to dinner with Natalie, Clay, and his friend that's a girl at a Mexican Restaurant downtown. It was nice to see them. We hadn't seen Clay in like, a year and a half and it's always nice to spend time with Shane's mom. Then, we went to Andrew and Pamela's house (which was *our* old house...) and played Beyond Balderdash. Now that's a fun game! It was a good time and their house is really nice. We started to watch Spy Game last night, but we started falling asleep, so we *borrowed* it from my mom and dad.

We left this morning for the long drive home. We stopped at Ikea, where we bought some wine glasses and a toilet scrubber. I like Ikea. We then went to Newbury Park (which is right past Moorpark in LA. And as Shane pointed out, Moorpark is Kraproom backwards.) We spent a little time at Jake and Penny's house after returning their checkbook which was left at my parent's house. Busy weekend. Home again. It will be nice to sleep in our own bed, but I'm always a little bummed when we have to return to real life.

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