hey everybody, i’m back safe and sound. the bay bridge didn’t collapse while we crossed it, the spicy chicken wings didn’t kill me, and the drive wasn’t in any way catastrophic. it was a lot of fun, too! i’ll give a quick summary for the fans.

friday we left around two and the six and a half hour drive wasn’t awful but i was sore and glad when it ended. when i saw my roommate once we pulled up to his house i was shocked at his massive amount of hair. when i last saw him he had blue-dyed slightly puffy hair, but now he has the most excellent head of black rock hair. i’m a bit jealous. picture carrot top, only black hair, a little less curly, a little more puffy, and maybe a little bit less hair volume. add hip black thick framed glasses and you have my buddy mike, who has some major style going. it was really good to spend the weekend with him, he’s great.

so we went to the chicken place and i knocked down an order of nuclear chicken wings (nuclear is step four on the seven step spiciness scale) as did the rest of our crew (mike, me, roommate dustin, roommate dominic, his schoolyear roommate kay, and mike’s friend ali). sadly, dom and kay got traditional wings, a lowly two on the spicy scale, and we made fun of dominic for not being a man the whole rest of the weekend. we even started calling him “traddy”, short for traditional. that’s extra funny if you go to USC but it’s not worth explaining why.

we went mini-golfing afterward which was big fun and hilarious since we didn’t keep score, and mike lost his ball in a bush after a crazy shot and had to borrow for the back nine (can you say that about mini-golf?). after the sporting we went and saw a 1am show of planet of the apes which was very very cool even if it wasn’t as amazing as i hoped. estella warren is hot, charleton heston’s cameo (as thade’s father) was pretty great, and tim burton makes rad movies. it was obviously one of his movies too judging by the ending. you’ll see.

saturday we got some burgers, watched the meet the parents dvd at mike’s house, which wasn’t great but which ben stiller saves to some extent, i think. later we drove to berkely to pick someone up, then drove into san francisco. berkely was nice and made me envious cause they’re in a really nice area and usc is not. san francisco seems a lot nicer than LA too. we walked around in the city, then went to the pier to get ice cream, and see some seals chillin’. that was weird but we had a good time there too.

today it was grab food and drive home, basically. this time it only took five and a half hours. score.

it was a weekend full of laughs and goodness, and i’m super glad i went. i’m sure there are plenty of funny things that happened that wouldn’t be as funny written out so i’ll spare this from being any longer and probably hit the blog machine again tomorrow at work. nighty night.