Birthday Pictures!

Updates (cont'd)

Saturday, May 8th:
Saturday morning we went over to the Leyton's house for a pancake breakfast :) I brought them some chocolates from the shop and The Lightening Thief because I'm a nerd and give out books for presents, lol. Breakfast was super yummy, and it was great to see my little family :) The boys are so cute, they can't get enough of Kyle! But poor Kyle, he didn't get that much time to catch up/talk with the adults, lol. We did strawberry/blackberry pancakes (yum!) and ate out on the patio (it was a gorgeous day!). Kyle spent most of the time with the boys, at one point, for some reason or another, the boys were playing in the recycling bin. Alena and I were just talking about stuff, and all of a sudden she starts laughing, I turn around, and from the living room window we see Kyle with the recycling bin in tow. The boys are on a psuedo-roller coaster ride inside the bin! haha...Kyle brings them back around and says he never knew recycling bins could be so fun, and that he apparently really missed out as a kid! lol. It was so great to see them! :) The boys are getting so big! Drew had a mohawk! lol well, a fauxhawk, to be technical, but he looks so cute! James got into gate, and was only 2 points away from seminar, so they're trying to get him into seminar. Which, really, is where he belongs, he's so intelligent. For my presents, I got a bottle of Merlot, and some freshwater pearl earrings from the Philippines :) They really spoil me, haha

After some sad goodbyes, we went back to my house and puttered around for a bit because Sahar still wasn't ready (ugh, lol). We decided to go swimming at Kyle's old complex, so we (Omied and Fenris too) all got into the Minivan and made our way. Diego and Sean went swimming with us, and overall it was pretty fun. Poor Fenris really wanted to go swimming with us, but we tied him to the bench and he sat and watched. The water felt amazing, it was a really hot day! And I even got a bit of a tan (woo!). We went into the jacuzzi once we were done swimming, and we were just sitting there. All of a sudden, Kyle is freaking out and telling me to look at Sahar, I turn and blue boogers are coming out of her nose! We tell her, and of course she doesn't believe us, then when she can tell we're being serious, she refuses to show Sean, Diego, and Omied...so they probably don't believe us, but it's true! Afterwards, we all went our separate ways until dinner time. I went home and got ready, I had the cutest outfit you've ever seen, lol. I don't have my memory card with me, but I'll post an entire entry devoted photos from the weekend :) Claire came over, and after a bunch of girly screams and present opening we all got in the car (minus Fenris) and went over to Sipz for dinner.

Our table was kind of ridiculous, lol. Everyone came to dinner (well, almost everyone) and it was so much fun :) Diego, Jenny, Martin, Anders, Claire, Chrissy, Chris, Ben, Joaquin, his quiet girlfriend who's name escapes me, Chris I. and his girlfriend Nicole, and of course, Me, Kyle, Omied, and Sahar. After we finished eating, they brought out a piece of chocolate cake, candle included, and of course singing. lol After we finished eating, we made our way over to Ben's place. On our way, we stopped by my parent's house to pick up a blender, the vegan cake my mommy made me, and to drop off Sahar. The boys went to pick up alcohol, we went to the party. It was kinda slow at first (really, I should've made time to buy the drinks prior to the party, but we didn't have anytime, and I was gonna go with Claire right before Sipz, but she came over late). But soon, we had drinks going, and then we started making margaritas when we realized we didn't have ice. Ben and Kyle went to go get Ice (so nice of them). Honestly, I thought someone would help with the birthday party planning *cough*Claire*cough* lol, I didn't technically ask her, but she did say she'd bring something, and I did post on the event for people to bring something. But, of course, no one did, lol. I really shouldn't rely on assumptions, lol. Anyway, the drinks were flowing, I played a game of beer pong against Omied and Mike, with Chris G. as my partner...and we totally kicked their asses! hahaha. After some mingling and such, we started up a game of King's Cup. It was super fun, we were playing by Claire's silly English rules :) We somehow didn't notice that the last King already went into play, and played through the entire deck, I think Joaquin ended up losing, but Ben, being the nicest person in the world, drank it for him, lol. At this point, Claire is far more drunk than I am, lol. I only got a bit tipsy, which was just want I wanted. I played another game of beer pong, this time with Claire as my partner, against Mike and Omied again. Claire is surprisingly amazing when she's drunk, lol. We, again, kicked their asses. In case Mike's reading this for some reason, despite your claims that you were just letting me win, Omied was CARRYING you the entire night. hahaha :)

Cake was eaten, more drinks were consumed. Overall, it was good fun :) Claire and I did shots with Chrissy (well, she wasn't drinking, but she's still in our picture). Nicole, Richard, and Michael were also there. Michael's so funny, he originally wasn't going to come to my bday celebrations, but instead ended up coming because he saw The Lovely Bones and it somehow changed his life, lol :) Overall, I'd say the party was quite the success!

Updates, Updates!

It has been forever since I've actually updated! My apologies, I've just been so crazy busy! So, let's go through the interesting stuff first...

Friday, May 7th:
After getting everything mostly packed, I left Kyle to finish everything up because I had to go to work. He tidied up the apartment, took out the trash and washed the dishes (mostly so stuff didn't sit around rotting all weekend, lol) and finished packing all the things I forgot to/didn't have time to...I had a really good day at work, cleaned the store top to bottom, made a bunch of sales, put up our big sign, reorganized the stock room...yes, I count that as a good day, lol. Our flight that my mom bought us left at 6:35pm...I don't get off work until 7pm...and it takes about 30mins to get to the airport, and considering you have to be at the airport at least an hr before your flight to go through security, I was about 90% sure we'd miss our flight. But that was mostly okay, because the next flight was at 7:15...so I know you're wondering why that's okay. It would've been fine because my boss' husband could come sit with her mom and help customers at least for the very end of the day, which would've happened naturally because he gets off of work and usually comes over here. So I told Kyle to come here around 6pm so that when he got there we could leave right away and maybe catch the flight (if there was NO line at security).

I was starting to realize how impossible that would be, so I sent Kyle a message telling him to start looking into flights Saturday morning, because unless the planets aligned, we were going to miss both of our flights. Just as I sent him that message, I get a text from Southwest that our flight had been delayed. I got really excited and checked, and the flight after ours was delayed too! The last flight was now at 8pm! Which was something we could definitely make! Brandon (Sadaf's husband) was really late compared to the time he normally gets to the shop...but I hadn't asked him to show up early, I was just assuming it would work out. So at around 6:45pm Sadaf's mom tells us we can go (she's such a sweetheart). We bolt over to the airport, instead of taking the 5 which would be crammed with traffic, Kyle found a faster side route. It was a bit risky considering we'd never taken it before, but it would get us there so much quicker, so we decided to take it.

We get over to the parking lot where we're leaving our car for the weekend, and they are taking FOREVER. Frustrated with their pure incompetency, Kyle reverses out of the parking lot and we decide to park in the airport parking lot, not caring it'll cost a bunch, just trying to make it on the flight. We speed walk over to the front desk, explain our situation, and the Southwest representative says there's a lot of openings for the flight and is totally confident we'll make the flight. We head over to security, and there's NO line!!! We're the only ones there, so the security guard is talking to Kyle about his hat and where he got it (lol?). Our gate is not super close by, but not crazy far away, we quickly walk over there, talk to the representative at the front desk, and he puts us on the flight. We're not in the same boarding group, but because we're flying Southwest, there aren't any assigned seats, so thanks to our apparent luck, we even get to sit next to each other. I don't think we've ever had that much good luck when it comes to airports, but I guess we were due for some, lol.

We stop in Oakland, and then continue onto Sacramento. We're playing Peggle on Kyle's computer and the guy in the seat next to Kyle is watching us play. It was kinda fun :) the flight attendants were super funny, and we even got extra peanuts. We land in San Diego, and I'm starving, I haven't eaten since about 12pm. Diego and Scott pick us up, we go pick up Sean, then we head over to Lucha Libre. I'd never been there before, but the guys always talk about it, and it was one of the few places open. We were just eating our food, I got the veggie burrito (super yummy) and then these total Cougars (straight out of Sex & The City) come into the restaurant. They somehow manage to get more alcohol from the guy behind the counter, but he says it's the last beers they'll give out that night. A few minutes pass by when all of a sudden, one of them walks over and asks us if we want 2 of their beers because they're so wasted and can't drink anymore (lol). They didn't look like they'd been drunk out of, so Kyle said sure, thanks. Seriously, they were pretty gross looking! They were in their late 40's early 50's, were dressed like they were 20, and had that kind of saggy really orange tan look. Ugh, only in SoCal! lol.