spoon fights, meteor showers and more!

well, here we are in mid November already! i can't believe how quickly time has flown. i'm already registering for my next semester classes and i'm still trying to process first semester.
anyway, i was able to take a quick trip home last weekend so i could get a quick visit with my family.
the adventure started here in good ol' Santa Barbara, as i waited for the train. let me tell you, you see some pretty interesting people riding the train. every time i'm at the train station i think how cool it would be to make a photography project out of it, but i don't want to offend anyone by taking pictures of them. hmmm...we'll see.
when i arrived at Union Station, my entire family was there to pick me up; Gary, my mom, Betsy, Katie and Justin. it was great. that was the first time i've seen Betsy since August. we all went out to dinner in L.A. at a pretty nice seafood restaurant. though the food was good, the desert had to be my favorite part. we accidentally ended up ordering five deserts (yes there were five of us eating them, but we were just going to get three and share them, since they were pretty large). we initially ordered a chocolate multan cake, peach cobbler and a slice of cheesecake. Katie then kept telling the waitress she wanted a cup-cake and the waitress felt bad and brought Katie the largest cup-cake i've ever seen. so, naturally, we all had to help her on that. then, none of us realized that a crem brule came with Betsy's meal and so that was added to the plethora of sugar piling up on our table. the mass quantity didn't stop my family from finishing them all though and we actually all got into a spoon fight over who would get the multan part of the chocolate cake. it got pretty messy with all of us knocking pieces of cake off each other's spoons. man, i love my family...only we would do that in an upscale LA restaurant.
after dinner we took Betsy back to USC and then went on home, where we had to set up more Christmas decorations. our addition this year? a giant 5ft nutcracker that lights up and plays music from an ipod. Gary want to have it play rap...
the rest of my weekend with the family was good. i got to spend some time with katie and with my grandma, who i had dinner with on saturday night. i went back to Westmont sunday afternoon and spent the rest of the evening doing homework.
monday night, as some of you may know, there was a meteor shower. a few friends and myself went down to the field, laid out some blankets and watched it. it was a blast! and apparently we were really loud. haha
this week has been lots of homework, but still lots of fun and i get to go home again tomorrow. since some of my classes were canceled for the monday and tuesday of next week, i decided to simply skip the others so that i could be home for Katie's family birthday get together on sunday and get an entire week off for Thanksgiving. i'm looking forward to being home for a long period of time.
anyway, gotta get to class.
hope you all have a fantastic day!