I am currently sitting right in between Keira and Kyla watching Cupcakes Wars after a long day of hiking with my grandparents, Menchies for lunch, and then new bikes for the girls. I'm exhausted, but I'm happy because its just like the old days. I was nervous about coming back because a) I hate flying, b) I don't like being away from Zach and my family for so long and c) I didn't know how I would feel being back. Not that I thought I would be unhappy.. but maybe I would miss living here? Who knows what I was thinking. I now know that I am very happy seeing the girls and Mitchell and Donna, because the #1 thing I miss about living here is being able to go over to their house for dinner, or spending weekends finding things to do with the little girls. I love having them around. I also missed the weather and the access to endless things to do. It is just so beautiful here, so walking/hiking anywhere is incredible. What don't I miss? Prices and traffic, and being so far away from home. Gas is already about $4.50 here, and today we went to Griffith Park, which used to be right next to where Zach and I lived, and it took probably an hour because one lane was closed on the 5 lane road. Awful.
Anyways, we've taken a few walks to enjoy the scenery. We also went to a nursery to pick out flowers for Donna's house which made me want to have a garden of my own. It's a dangerous place because I could sink a whole lot of money into that hobby. Saturday (today is Tuesday) was the auction for the girls school, which Donna and Carin organized together. They have been working on it like crazy for months; it was more than a full time job. I told her when I still lived out here that I would volunteer during the event, so that was one of the reasons we flew out here now as opposed to another time. First stop was loading up the cars with the gift bags, and we got to her country club, where the event was being held, at about 9 am. We worked solidly until 1:30, which consisted of putting the baskets people could bid on out on the table. They had SO many items, so it was a ton of work. At 1:30 we rushed home, I packed bags of clothes for the event and Donna showered as fast as she could because we had to be at her hair/make up at 2:00. It was a mad dash. After hair and make up we went back to finish setting up. It looked amazing by the end of the whole thing. Mitchell surprised her with a beautiful Tiffany's bracelet and she was very emotional the whole time. It was the culmination of so much hard work. The event went really well, but was very stressful at the end when we had to give people the things they won. But they had great items, so it was fun seeing everything. They had an autographed Twilight poster, a lunch with Jerry for $1000, trips to the Caribbean, Cancun, San Diego and New England, Oscar de la Hoya boxing gloves, so many yoga/workout packages, Disneyland packages... and about 30000000 other things. The benefits of living in Hollywood..... But it was nice seeing so many of Donna's friends (especially Amanda and Susan who volunteered to help Donna even though they don't have children in this school, great friends) and we left the club at 1:30 am... 30 minutes earlier than we thought we would. It was a longggggggggggg day.
Another big event so far this trip has been going to the hair salon with my grandma. It was nice, until the end. The people ripped her off and charged her $145 for something that should have been far less, despite the fact that I told them to make sure she knew the price of what she was doing before they did anything. They didn't. There was just a bit of a confrontation, and they ended up lowering the price to $125, then $90, and then they called after we left to offer her a Keratin treatment. I was so livid. I haven't been that angry very many times in my life, I almost didn't want to drive right after because I knew I couldn't focus. But, my grandparents were impressed with how I handled the situation, so that's good at least.. I guess.
Also, I read the book "The Help" over the past few days, which was great. It's based on the issues in the South during the 60's, which is one of the topics I studied during school and really fascinates me. It was so good, and made me kind of excited to live in the South, especially now that those troubles are (mostly) over. Except I did read a stat about how many people in the GOP is Mississippi (where the book is set) think interracial marriage should be illegal. On second thought, maybe things aren't that much better down there....
Anyways, Ira comes over tonight for dinner. Tomorrow we go to Joshua Tree and then back to Jerry and Susie's house in Palm Desert for the night. They wont be there so we'll have the place to ourselves. If you want to see how AWESOME the house is, you can watch "His Way" on HBO, which is about Jerry and a lot of it is filmed from the house. That's about it for now :)
Also, I nearly died on the plane ride here. I was on the verge of puking for at least 20 minutes. I still am not sure how I got off that plane vomit-free. Also, I'm not sure how I'm ever going to fly across an ocean, because I was convincing myself not to panic the whole flight. Worst part of the trip.
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