November 9, 2006

Oh yeah, go donkeys! Dave and I are going to have a blue party this weekend. Pretty much a good excuse to make a batch of cupcakes...but with blue frosting. YAY! I was soo not expecting that. After the huge dissapointment from the last election. Oh man! I almost want to move back now! And Rumsfeld! Holy cow! There's reason to smile today..that's for sure. I'm not even really into the democrats, I'm just so happy there's a balance. I'm all about the balance. Enough of that.

We're having a good week back. We had a free afternoon on Tuesday so we took a trip to Bangkok. Dropped off our stupid broken video camera..I hate JVC, saw "The Wicker Man"....ummm hi? Totally lame. Had a great dinner and saw the Bangkok Symphony perform. "An Inconvienent Truth" is coming out here this weekend. That is on our to-do list.

So our trip home rocked. Going anywhere usually rocks. But this trip especially. The wedding reception was a blast. The food and wine were sooooooo good. It was a whirlwind weekend, with family and friends flying in and out. Man, I was saying this the whole time but I'm so glad we didn't have a weekend wedding! Crazy. I was exhausted and there was no wedding involved! Anyway, it was awesome to see everyone and it was fun to re-celebrate our wedding. We've totally already planned our 1st anniversary trip...well, really we've planned our first 5 anniversaries. hahaha..we're going to use all our sweet new camping gear and break it in for anniversary #1!

We also took a trip to L.A. I haden't been there since 2002! Crazy. We stayed with family and saw "Doubt," a must-see play. Had some amazing new food and our favorites like DeeDee Ries (sp?). Dave showed me around UCLA and I showed him around USC. We tried to count all the events that we were both at during our undergrads. I think we counted up to 5 concerts/events that we were both at, at the sametime. Nuts! We took the scenic route on the way down, saw the ridiculous Hearst Castle, did some wine tasting and stayed in a little coastal town. So fun. The whole time we were both experiencing moments of glaring culture shock. It's weird..being in the U.S. on vacation, I feel like a foreigner. I move slower and find myself talking more to strangers...mostly excited that I can communicate without using bad English, but weird nonetheless. It's so weird. People are loud, and eat a lot. haha.

What else happened...man, feels like we were busy every second but I can't remember doing what. There's always loads of errands to do. OK..I'm running on low. My jet lag hits me around 8pm. Last night I fell asleep at 8:30pm and slept until 6:30am. Sweet. Oh, we got sonicare toothbrushes...they pretty much are my new favorite invention. YAY!