Dec. 22- arrive in SD. Dinner with the fam plus the awesome Gillingham's after some shopping
Dec. 23- more shopping & Tamale Party
Dec. 24- went walking in the AM with long-time friend Dilenna and then got a text from jumper boy @ 11am asking me why I'm not in LA yet because the champagne is already flowing... drive up there and spend Christmas Eve with his family
Dec. 25- Christmas morning with the boy's family, Dug out huge plumeria trees in the front yard for his sister to bring back to San Diego for their new home. Drive down to SD spend Christmas evening with my family
Dec. 26- help Jumper boy's sister & brother-in-law plant huge plumeria trees in the new backyard, load a U-haul trailer with stuff to bring to the dump. We decide to hang with them the rest of the night eating Thai food and drinking champagne.
Dec. 27- Jumper boy's sister makes an awesome egg chorizo breakfast on Sunday's... we stay there and enjoy the company longer... it was nice spending time with them. We try to go see Sherlock Holmes but it was sold out, so we hit the Banana Republic sale instead. Then the boy and I headed out to see his Aunt who lives near Patrick Henry High for an hour or so before we got a surprise visit from my half brothers Tony & Kenny from up in Northern California which resulted with a dinner and a bonfire with them
Dec. 28- back up to LA to spend some more time with the boy's family. We arrived in the late afternoon so we didn't do much, but his mom made enchilada's and we watched a movie.
Dec. 29th- we worked in the front yard some more. It was a beautiful day. Nice and sunny. Then we went to a fish restaurant for lunch. Too much traffic to head up to Laura's as planned, so we stayed home, watched a movie and got a little bit of food poisoning from In-and-Out. :(
Dec. 30- Drove up to Simi Valley from La Mirada. TONS of traffic... took over twice as long as it should have to get there. Spent the afternoon in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi. It was pretty cool. We got to tour his Air Force One and see a piece of the Berlin Wall that he had a hand in taking down. Laura and her husband made us dinner that night and we were entertained by their 6-month old daughter Kiersten and puppy Greta. Josh then made us the best kettle corn ever for dessert. nice.
December 31- drove to Fresno with the boy to meet his friend Gary. After a couple hours hanging out, we loaded up Gary's car and headed to Big Sur (a 3 hour drive) so the boys could base jump off some bridge they were totally obsessed with :) It was a pretty cool bridge though.
Jan.1- They jumped at midnight, climbed back up, we popped some champagne and we headed back another 3 hours to Fresno to sleep for 2 hours before waking up to drive back to LA and SD so that I could make it to the Riel family party in time. Jumper boy was now at home with his family and me at home with mine. I went to bed at 7:30 pm that night
Jan. 2- Got a haircut from my aunt Francie and then met some long-time friends that I hadn't seen since 6th grade. Did some gift returns/exchanges from Christmas. followed by dinner @ the Panton's house.
Jan. 3- Back for more hair work with Aunt Francie bright and early! then to a bridal shower for a long-time family friend Audrey. Went home, packed my bags, realized I had forgotten my gloves in Dilenna's stroller on the 24th so headed back there and chatted with her and her husband for a bit.
Jan.4- going home. jumper boy's cousin is picking me up from Logan airport at 8pm
Jan.5- picking up jumper boy from the airport t 5am after his red-eye flight
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