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Dan and I went to see the movie “Garden State.” It was written & produced by Zach Braff, oh, he starred in it too. He is the guy with the dark hair from “Scrubs” on NBC. Natalie Portman was also in it. She was great! We enjoyed it a lot. There were some real “laugh out loud” moments- they were even somewhat realistic!
We saw the movie at “Arc —” in LA. It was a very cool theatre. It had a “gift shop” with t-shirts, post cards and movie stuff and a real restaurant. The bathrooms were state of the art- gorgeous. It even had assigned seating, with A LOT of leg room and wide seats- the theatre that is.
It was expensive though- $11 per person! YIKES!
It was definatly a different experience than going to Century or Edwards!

I am inputing Kendall’s Mailing List into a database and man there are some weird names out there. By weird, I mean different- not necessarily in a bad way! Please don’t take offense if you know anyone with these names!
Bridgit Dies (hope not!)
Katie Hoare (I wonder if the family got this name when last names were your job…)
Krichele (first name)
Terah & Terrah (as opposed to Tara)
Brielle (first name-sounds like blind laundry soap)
Golightly (last name)
Funderblunk (last name- do I need to comment?)
Sisters; Candy & Neslie Fudge (what were their parents thinking?)
I am sure I will come across more names soon!
ENJOY!

The last day before school starts! The boys got it in their heads that they wanted to go to the water park at Lake Casitas or Hurricane Harbor. H.H. was out of the question- even their mom said so! I told them I thought that the Lake Casitas park was mostly for younger kids but, they still wanted to go. We bought our tickets early and headed over to Libbey Park to waster time. That was fun, but it got HOT!
I didn’t think that we would stay all day at the water park, but we did! We had to leave at 3 because of soccer practice at 4! They even found some friends froms school later in the afternoon.
After all that I met Dan at VC to workout- in the pool!

Today the kids wanted to see a movie, so I checked out the listings in the paper. There are no movies out that boys would want to see- except for “Yu Gi Oh!” Yes, we went and saw this movie. It was absolutly horrible. Sadly, I only slept for a short time- too bad. Even the boys got a fidgity by the end! I never really knew much about Yu Gi Oh but I have decided that it is Dungeons & Dragons for kids! YUCK! We’ll see what were up to tomorrow!!

Since I don’t have a job, today I began the project of “building” a new closet. Should be fairly easy, rite? The picture on the box has a middle aged woman putting it together. Yeah rite! Today all I got done was clearing the closet out, taking out the old shelf and bar and cleaning it all up. Tomorrow I have to putty the holes up, primer and paint it all! Maybe by the end of the week there will actually be a new closet! We’ll see!

Tonight I went to the fair with a few friends. we actually went to see Brad Paisley! It was awesome! I had a great time. The food ws good to… corn!!!
No, Dan was not there- he had to work on computer geek stuff!

San Franciscans do not listen- a few times we were in a situation that proved this point. We were ordering lunch;
Dan: Can I replace the french fries for mashed potatoes?
Woman: OK, extra order of mashed potatoes. (She is punching into the machine)
Dan: No, no can I REPLACE the fries for the mashed potatoes?
Woman: Ahhh, yes, OK!
Dan: Thank you!
We were in a Chachki Store;
Dan: How much is a bottle of water?
Man: Which one? (reaching into cooler)
Dan: The large one…
Man: Ok, two bottles of water- $2.50 each…
Dan: Actually we only want one…
Man: Oh, I see…
I am not sure if the people we ran into did not speak English very well, or if they were is just a big hurry! Who knows- but we made them slow down & LISTEN!

There are A LOT of homeless people in San Francisco…
We were surprised as to how many homeless people there were. San Francisco is SO large that you would think there would be places for them to go, get help and so on- but I guess you need to want the help the actually receive it!
* We saw only one grocery store! Where do these people shop?
* Public transportation rocks! It was a bit expensive but it was clean, there were people to ask which way to go, it was laid out well, there were maps everywhere…
* The streets were clean. There were trash cans at just about every corner! There was hardly any trash at all!
* The stop lights were fast. When the light turned from yellow to red, the walk sign turned to tell pedestrians to walk. There was no lapse time.
* Drivers LOVE to honk. The honkers, we decided, were all locals, and the people being honked at were tourists! The tourists like to watch what’s going on and look at the stores and stuff, while the locals have a place to go- so get out of there way! The locals have NO patience and love to honk at the tourists who aren’t paying attention- just like in the stores- the tourists want to waste time and look at everything while the locals want to buy there stuff and get out!

We slept in a bit! We were still SO SO SOAR, maybe even worse than yesterday! We drove away from San Francisco at about 11:00…

We decided to take the 101 all the way home. We only stopped once- in Salinas, since it is the last place to stop for miles and miles! We stopped for dinner in Santa Barbara. We had to walk to the restaurant and it was PAINFUL! I look like a handicapped old woman who needs a hip replacement, Dan just wobbles a little bit, but he is definitely faster than me!
Now we have to unpack our car, wash clothes- all the fun stuff you get to do at the end of a vacation! Not too fun!