Family and Birthdays

It’s been an exciting week. Mark and Mom have been visiting us for the first time and we’ve been celebrating “family birthday month.” Mark’s on July 3, Rachel’s on July 8, and mine on July 10. This has been their first time visiting us since we moved, so we’ve been trying to show them as much as possible: The Drayson Center water slide, Redlands and Market Night, LA, and Santa Monica. We’ve seen fireworks, gone shopping, avoided sunburn, and installed UV lights in my car, among other things.

We’ve taken a lot of great pictures (or rather, Mark has taken a lot of great pictures) but I haven’t been able to process them since Mark’s been sleeping in the office, and keeps using my desktop computer to play Runescape during our down times. A large number of my local friends have been going out of town: If they aren’t currently away, they’ve either recently returned from a trip or are getting ready to leave soon. While Rachel and I aren’t going to exotic places we’re still having a great time hanging out and avoiding work. So there…or something like that.

As part of Rachel’s birthday present we took a romantic ride on the Santa Monica ferris wheel as the sun set. We also both got excellent haircuts. This is a good thing because I was about to start wearing a paper bag on my head.