quick catch up

man i have some catching up to do. the rest of my weekend home last week was fantastic! like i said, sunday morning i went to breakfast with august, grace and amy. it was so good to see them!!! when i returned home from breakfast, justin still wasn't up, so i got katie to run in his room and jump on him. he then requested i make him breakfast, so my mom and i made some french toast. later that afternoon justin and i decided to go to the beach. it was definitely super relaxing. it did get a bit chilly, especially when jus tried to make me go in the water. it was freezing! i did get in a good nap on the beach though. we then met my parents and katie at Ruby's for lunch. man, my family and ordering...they just cant seem to decide. after asking the waiter a million questions about the best shakes of the season, we decided on three and devoured them amongst the five of us. great times :)
after lunch, my mom and gary were going to take katie to the pumpkin patch and gary convinced justin and i to go along for a while. we watched katie go down the slide a couple of times and then headed back to the house to go in the hot tub, which turned into a process, as i accidentally began heating the pool for 45 mins before i realized i didn't turn the spa heater on. oops. needless to say, i was punished by being thrown into the freezing pool. love my family haha.
that evening we decided we wanted to rent a movie and after two hours, i'm not kidding, it was two hours in blockbuster, justin and i had three options that we called gary with. he didn't want to watch any of them and ended up requesting the Godfather, since neither justin, nor i had ever seen it. i'd just like to say that i still haven't seen it. i fell asleep like 15 mins in and only woke up when justin hit me, or for a nice gory part like the horse's head (which is gary's favorite part) or someone getting shot. what can i say, i was tired :)
anyway, here is a pic from that party at my house, taken by the creepy photo guy. look how ridiculously long justin's hair is! i (and everyone else) keep suggesting he cut it. he actually asked me to straighten it for him...sometimes he worries me. haha just kidding. monday was pretty relaxing, as i woke up around 9:30 from justin banging on my door, telling me i had to get up and take him back to school. i dropped him off at whittier and then picked up coffee/tea for my mom and i. i hung out with my family the rest of the weekend and then met up with grace at Union station on tuesday to head back to Santa Barbara. okay, funniest train ride of my life! there were these two girls (like your typical southern california rich ditzy girls) who were talking in naseley voices the whole time about how one of them worked in a massage place, where she learned that if you have a sore leg, you can like massage some one's back and like their pain will like totally be gone from like their leg. and there is an oh so special treatment for when your like what are they called again, oh your "pectorials". did you mean pectorals maybe? it was hilarious! i won't even tell you on here about what happened next, but basically it involved beer, two guys and me and grace thinking we were in an episode of the OC or something. haha so entertaining!
this last week was pretty relaxed, with only three days of classes, but somehow i seemed to be dead tired. i got enough sleep, but i was just tired from the weekend i think and needed to catch up.
wednesday night i had another adventure with barrett, clara, amy and kathryn. we were going to climb the giant bolder near the library, but since it was dark we didn't realize there was some guy sitting in the shadows until we got close enough to touch him. he never said anything and we ran the other direction, hiding our faces. it was great. haha
we ended up taking a trail that runs under the bridge down by Van Kampen hall. we somehow lost the trail and ended up at the bottom of this giant embankment, that we decided to climb up. after making our way up this massively steep incline through the mud (since it had been raining the day before) we somehow wound up in some one's backyard. it was awful! we felt really bad and afraid they were going to set a dog on us or something. eventually we made it back to campus, only to take another dark trail back up to our dorm, during which i achieved a battle scar by slipping down a hill and cutting my leg on a stick. yes! haha great adventures.
well, i'm off to do homework :)