trinityvixen | Westward Bound, Eastward Returned

I am back.

That's as much as I have energy to say about my vacation at this point, thanks to the sheer exhaustion of the last few days of it. It's not like it was a particularly packed vacation--I wasn't doing something every minute of every day--but the travelling itself, the activities that were planned, they have taken a toll.

Plus, coming home to Kingdom Hearts II doesn't hurt, neither. Actually, I take that back. It hurts lots. I stayed up 'till 2 am this morning beating Beast's Castle and the Olympic Colliseum levels (sheesh, it took two levels to get a frickin' new key!?!).

Our trip out was well-planned, if I do say so myself. Leaving in the evening (hey, that rhymes!) from New York means we were dead tired when we arrived in San Francisco, but it also meant it was night time there and we could go right to bed.

But instead we stayed up talking to my sister and brother-in-law. Until 5:30 am NY time. D'oh.

We went to the nice place on the corner from their house for late brunch, walked through the parks and took a tour of the Sutro Heights' baths, or what was left of them. That was good fun. I love ruins. You can climb over or under anything. Plus I totally scare the pants off of Devin when she was standing on a protruding ruin of concrete blocks so that she almost felt like she was going to fall (she didn't, relax, relax, I would have caught if she'd been in any real peril).

We also celebrated my birthday with them, and I vexed Dana and Jotham by saying

feiran already owned Shadow of the Colossus, but reassured them that they'd chosen well, and good on them. Then it was off to the good old pizza place, and after that, a trip to Best Buy for Jotham to tell my Dad which alternate power supply to buy to replace the fraying one on his laptop.

Jotham got an XBOX 360 for his birthday, and he's got a projector set up, so let's just say Perfect Dark Zero and Project Gotham Racing 3 look so huge and good you don't care that you can't play them worth a damn and can't work the controller at all. Well, I mean, you don't if you're me. Devin and Jotham and I had fun alternating games for good stretches of time. Devin and I also watched Titus for most of Sunday while Jotham and his parents chatted with Dana and my parents about house renovations. I should probably have been more mature and stayed with the grownups, but the subject had been more or less exhausted the day before, thanks. Plus, XBOX.

We flew Delta Song to SF, which was great because I kicked ass twice at the trivia game, but our United flight to Honolulu was on a huge 777 where I finally got to see The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, which was entertaining enough to make the time skip merrily by.

Upon landing in HI, we picked up our rental car and I was left to the task of navigating. That's just stupid stupid, you ask me. I can't navigate my home town, and I lived there eighteen years (ask

feiran--I am hopeless). Nevertheless, I successfully got us to the hotel where it was too early to check in, so we went to a mall for food (yeah, airplanes not giving food any more sucks balls). Devin and I got pedicures to pass the time, and we rushed back to the hotel to get what beach/pool/hot tub time we could in.

Slept like logs in our seperate room, and thank Buddha for that. My Dad snores to saw lumber, and the nights before at Dana and Jotham's were brutal for being cold (no heat in their house while the gas is off during kitchen repairs) and uncomfortable (a deflating air mattress woke me up in a timely fashion when my elbows were leaning against the ground such that the nerves were pinched and my fingers fell asleep--funny how something falling asleep woke me up...).

Good thing, too, we had an early morning the next day...

That takes me to about Tuesday, the start of the most me-excited parts of my trip. They deserve more time and effort, and, hopefully, if I get my computer fixed (working on it) and my picture CDs from my mother (have to call her), I can do that.

Glad to be back in the Big Apple in springtime. Especially since theKathy's gonna take me to Dallas BBQ for my birthday gift. Heeee.