Surprise, Grandma!

This last weekend, Mom, Garrett, and I made a trip down to Burbank to surprise my Grandma for her birthday. She was very excited and thanked us for making the trip for her.

Saturday morning, Mom, Grandma, my aunt, and I went "garage saleing" around Burbank. See, this is a tradition. We always go to garage sales with these relatives whenever we're down in Burbank on Saturday. It's just something we always do! We bought some real nifty things, too, at great prices.

After going to garage sales, we returned home and refreshed ourselves. That night we went to the Macaroni Grill with all my Mom's relatives, minus 2 who couldn't make it, for my Grandma's birthday dinner.

Sunday was full of fun stuff! Grandma, Mom, Garrett, my cousin Richard, and I all went to the Americana outdoor mall in Glendale for the first half of the day. We ate at the Cheesecake Factory, and then continued to across the street where we roamed around in the Glendale Galleria. I spent most of my time in Claire's (a jewelry and hair accessory shop for girls and women), where I bought some bracelets and earrings, and Garrett got a pocket knife that's kind of like a switchblade at the sword store. And besides all that, we continued to just enjoy walking around the mall.

When it started getting late, we packed up and left for the Ben & Jerry's shop back in Burbank for our last treat of the day.

The next day my aunt took my Grandma to Knott's Berry Farm for her birthday breakfast, and the three of us headed back home. My Grandma said this was the best birthday she can remember having, and that she was spoiled rotten! We were glad we made the trip for her.

San Diego

Sorry about the long delay of this post! Due to technical difficulties (and they really were difficulties! Windows decided to throw in the towel and quit its job unexpectedly. Garrett was able to install Linux and extract all the necessary files that would've been lost, so I'm glad for that... though I lost a lot of my music mysteriously during the transfer to our external hardrive, which is truly an odd thing. Folders of songs don't just slip away... So I'm a little distraught about that. But I'll hunt for the songs I'm missing when I have the time (yeah right!) ;) ), I haven't been able to get this post up before now... so I hope you'll forgive me! :)

The the first two days in Burbank were full up with Thanksgiving feasts we had with family. We had a great time and probably came back weighing about 10 lbs. heavier =P The following week we spent two days in San Diego, enjoying it's beautiful night cityscape and fun attractions - including the Dead Sea Scrolls (Garrett gave the full review on that one), Point Loma (Garrett also covered that), the Hotel del Coronado, El Indio (Mexican restaurant), TGI Friday's, the Westfield Horton Plaza, and more.

The Foursome - watching a movie and looking very concerned ;)






Westfield Horton Plaza - Garrett and I were dropped off here for 6+ hours to hang out together and we had a great time! We spent the longest time in Nordstrom trying on $700 jackets and such. At first I was hesitant, because I had remembered my mama's motherly caution... "If you break it, we have to pay for it." Well, that caution stuck with me since I was a little tot, so I've always been very cautious and careful around stores :) I wasn't worried when walking into that store, knowing my boundaries well... but the minute I saw Garrett run over to a jacket... I got really scared. Horror-stricken I looked around the store and told Garrett about mama's caution. And knowing that jacket was $700, I was even more scared. If he even did anything to that jacket, we'd have to pay! Oh no... he's putting it on! Looking around me, I made sure there weren't any employees to see. I have to admit, he looked quite stunning in that expensive jacket... but that doesn't justify the wrong we were committing! ;) Then the worst thing happened... Garrett slid the jacket onto the hanger, and as he put it back on the rack, I spotted something fall... "Um, what just fell?" He looked and picked up a button. How did I know something would happen? Oh dear. Now I was frantic. I grabbed the button from him and tried to find a place to put it. We found the little sack where the extra buttons went, and thank goodness we realized that's all that button was! A spare! But it was a lesson I tried to drill into my brother's head. Well, it didn't stick, because off he went to the next jacket.
Long story short, we spent most of our time there. And no, we didn't break or tear anything, thank goodness! We both left the store feeling totally humbled and broke (heh).








TGI Friday's - Garrett and I ate lunch here. We shared a Shirley Temple (yum!), chicken fingers, and french fries.

Beat it, bub. ;)


El Indio