The Long Weekend

We opted to take advantage of [yet another of] Jeff's three-day weekend[s], and on a whim, drove down south to see friends and family this weekend. We arose on Saturday morning and drove away. There was some light snow, followed by rain, over the Grapevine, and then there was heavy rain and then an accident on the 210. We finally arrived to have lunch and then spend the afternoon with our fun friends Sam and Melissa. We had pizza, talked and laughed, went to Starbucks, read Bill Handle-isms, and watched Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (as many laughs as in a standard Family Guy episode, but spread thinner over 4 times as many minutes). We ate supper at Wild Noodles (food was no good; don't ever go there), and then Jeff and I had to head up to LA to see the fam: Mom and Dad, of course, and Mia and Reverend Dan. Mike wasn't there, though. I spent more than an hour talking with my kakak, and it was very good. Jeff and I spent the night in the guest room, and I slept like a log, I was so tired.

The next morning, we ate breakfast at the Starbucks on San Antonio, went to church at Grace, and then hung out at the Starbucks at Long Beach Town Center, because we couldn't think of another place that would let us just sit around and talk for a while. Jeff and I had to head over to La Habra after that, as we were having lunch with Elizabeth, Sara, and Jeremy. Yay! I had a great time with them. After eating at Rubio's, we went over to (believe it or not) Starbucks, so that Jeff could sit and do homework. However, he just ended up chatting the whole time. Ah, well.

We zoomed to have dinner with the Winters in Buena Park, then went to their house to spend the night. Amanda made cake, and we watched Legally Blonde (because I was in a silly brain-dead moode) and some of the Olympics (How about all those painful-looking falls in the ice dancing, huh?). Then we crashed, and I slept like a log again. We got up and zoomed back up north.

Deb's Search for Gainful Employment begins again tomorrow, in earnest. More on that to come.