the many adventures of being back home

so, I've been home a full week now and fully recovered from the all-nighter i pulled the day i moved out.
Thursday was all of our last night's there, so we decided it would be fun to go out and see iron man 2, plus we had two cars available (my mom's and Barrett's parents') so we were able to get back that late, seeing as the shuttle doesn't run. the movie was pretty good...i fell asleep for a bit (it was late haha). when we arrived back to campus, i loaded some stuff in the car. yes, at 2:30 am. after that, i turn to Amy and Barrett and say, "well, i think I'm going to go to bed". they immediately broke into protest, saying "it's our last night together" and "that's so lame!". so, they convinced me to stay up for a while...till 5:30, in fact. i then said "alright i really need to get to bed". "but what's the point now? you've almost stayed up all night. come on lets go to our favorite spots on campus and watch the sun rise". well, i do enjoy sunrises :)
so, off we went into the early morning cold. we climbed the giant bolder and watched as the sky lightened, we climbed the roof of the post office as sat under the trees (totally breaking the rules), we climbed the rock by the library and laid on top of it, watching a bunch of bats fly over us (they have a nest in the library roof as we discovered),we went down to the track and the observatory and the stairs where we have had many long and good conversations. quite a sentimental evening :) around 6:45 we were getting quite sleepy and hungry and decided maybe we would go to the D.C at 7 when it opened, but ihop sounded more appealing than cafeteria food. so we went and got in Barrett's car and drove down to state street, getting quite lost along the way because Barrett just had to drive through the hills. eventually we made it and enjoyed a lovely early-morning breakfast. our return trip to campus was quite smooth and when we arrived we found the dorm waking up and people out packing up their cars. they were all shocked to hear we had stayed up all night.
saying goodbye was much harder than i expected and though i was really excited to come home, tears weren't optional. i know it's only for four months, but that seems like a long time when you all have been living together and see people everyday.
but, home-life is great. I've been enjoying spending time with my family and have seen August and my other Amy since I've been back.
i enjoyed a great trip to the tide-pools with August on Wednesday and an adventure to old-town Pasadena with Amy on Thursday.
the tide pools were great. we found lots of little creatures and neat shells and it was so fun to get to spend some time with her...i hope this summer will hold a lot of that. after, my parents called to see if we wanted to meet them at the farmers market, so we did and then ate dinner.
Wednesday with Amy was good as well and we enjoyed exploring part of southern California neither of us had really been to before. we found a cool Indian restaurant and had some amazing food. oh, and we got stuck in a parking garage thanks to me. Amy drove, so i said i would pay for the parking. there was no guy in the ticket booth and the machine said if you were there for under 90 mins to just put your ticket in, if not (like we were) go to the pay station machine. Amy pulled over and i hopped out to go to the machine. i paid and then got a receipt, thinking i wouldn't need a receipt, i threw in in the trash on the way back to the car. so, now how do we get the arm to go up? oh, you must need the receipt. brilliant. i got out of the car and went to dig in the trash to get it, found it all crumpled up and then Amy proceeded to try and put it in the ticket machine. it wouldn't take it. we pushed the "help" button and begin explaining our problem to some guy, who goes "the machine should have given you your ticket back". i said i didn't think it did, but ran to go check anyway. oh, yes there it was in the machine. another brilliant move by me. it took us a good 10 mins to get out of a parking structure...never again.
there is another embarrassing moment you can borrow, august. :)
oh summer...so delightful