Parties (Team Us vs. Team Them)

What would the beginning of summer be without parties? Not quite the same of course. After the fantastic kick-off at a friends house (note the previous entry), it could really only get better. A few days later I had some friends over to celebrate my very-belated birthday. Due to unforeseen circumstances of outrageous busyness, it was impossible to have a party in the same month as my birthday. But that doesn't mean we are not gonna party!!! So I chose a random day and was all like "you guys should be here on this day" and actually a lot of people came! We started off by hanging out for a bit while put on some tunes and amused myself with the Xbox (its complicated). Once we got everyone mostly in the same place, mom busted out the game of Things. The game of Things is a pretty hella tight game in which a card is chosen with a "Thing" on it, and everybody writes their response down on a small strip of paper. Theses "Things" can range from "Things you shouldn't doodle on" to "Things to do in a blackout". Whatever the card, responses are hilarious and memorable. Of course we then had some food. And what would a party be without Ultimate Sport Disk? NOTHING! Because Ultimate Sport Disk is the bomb!!! One of the most fun parts of playing the game is getting to the field, in this case by cramming into the party bus for the short trip to Robertson. Once the second Ian arrived, we naturally split up into teams and started running around, ultimating it up, and having a great time. Initially, Team Us was doing very well against Team Them with our power players John, Ian, and Claire, and in fact everyone was doing quite excellently under the scheming direction of Coach Zanie. But, tragically, both teams lost some of their players and after some negotiation we were forced to give up the massively tall Ian to Team Them. Although the new Team Us was still an excellent group, Team Them won over in the second half despite valiant efforts by Kevin and Claire to score and inspired attempts by John and myself to overcome Ian's tallness. Finally, Team Us made an agreement with Team Them to unify into one team and get in the party bus to return home and play Rock Band. All of you should know that there are few wins more epic than playing Rock Band. I would say that the most significant sign of progress that day was how we moved out of playing the original Rock Band in to Rock Band 2. This brought a whole new realm of fun that occupied the remaining party goers much longer than I expected. But whatever, it was a wonderful time and quite a success.

Whew!!!! I finally have some time to talk about yesterday (Wed. the 5th)

The Biggest part of Wednesday was probably what I ate. So I will put those parts in bold ;)
I got up on the morning and had a bagel, a bowl of cereal and six pancakes. This set me up for a full day of calorie consumption. When I was picked up by my grandfather the first thing we did was go to the automobile museum. There where a lot of cool old cars, an original model T, a few of those long Cadillacs, and an old Buick California cop car. There where many others, too. But my all-time favorite was certainly the Buggati Veyron. Being a Motor Trend enthusiast, I know a few things about this great vehicle. It cost about 1.5 Million Dollars (the sound system is 30 grand), its the fastest production car on the market, It has a horsepower gauge (this thing gets to 1,001 HP) and a wing in the back that telescopes out when it gets going real fast. Another interesting fact is that the Veyron has two keys. One you put in to start the car, and the second to allow it to get up to its top speed of 253 miles per hour. WOW. Anyway, I shall continue. After that we went to Beverly Hills. We looked around there for a little while, then decided to eat at the Cheesecake Factory. I ordered BBQ ribs, which where incredibly huge. I then proceeded to consume the entire thing, along with many fries and a few lucky onion rings. Unfortunately, I was then to full to actually get any cheesecake. Oh well. Then we looked at some TVs with fluffy coverings, decorative coverings, and PC screens that where meant to appeal to fans of specific NBA basketball teams. Then we watched some Monty Python* at the Museum of Radio and television. We then went back to my Grandparents' house, where I rested for a little while before going to a grocery store nearby in Westwood. I then ate an Ice cream sandwich at a place called Diddy Riese. It was very good. I then barely made it home through my fatigue and proceeded to take a long nap. It was not like I had much else better to do. Then we all went out to dinner. The place was called Frankie & Johnny's, and there was quite a bit of pizza involved, including plain cheese, Margarita, BBQ chicken, Hawaiian, and of course, Pasta Pizza. There where seriously pasta pieces on the pizza. Then we had a jolly little ride over to the College apartment of one of my cousins who majors in fashion there. There, we observed some of the projects she was doing, along with many other fashionable things that may have been going on. I shan't go into detail, I am running out of time. Finally we sat at the table there and had various types of brownies, ice cream, and the remaining pizza while talking about the fashion business**. So that was my day, food and all. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did, but did not get a stomach ache from it as I did. Thank You.

* for those who care, it was the Flying Circus episodes How to recognize different types of trees from quite a long way away and how to not be seen, Respectively. Video examples coming soon.

**That was not REALLY what we talked about, I just thought it would sound good.