The Fifth Week

And so we've made it through the first month. Thankfully I've been able to get into the habit of doing these blogs every Saturday night (and quite often extremely early Sunday morning), but sadly it could only take one week of a missed blog to ruin my whole system entirely. Let's just hope that never happens. Unless of course you haven't liked my blog. Moving on though. This week has been quite interesting. I've realized that being at home has actually given me the chance to take pictures at a lot of different locations, as opposed to being limited by the walls of Pepperdine. Let the adventure begin (or continue since this blog has been going for four prior weeks up to this already).

SUNDAY: The first Sunday back home is always nice. For the most part it's the first chance I have to see my friends from church that I haven't seen in months. But church was surprisingly not the highlight of the day. I have this friend, Ashley, who's family decided to randomly celebrate the 28th of February, 2010. I figured since it only comes around once in a lifetime I may as well celebrate it too. In celebration we took a journey to the Birch Aquarium with some other people, once again, because the day only comes around once in a lifetime. It was fun. Hung out in the mouth of a shark for a while, stared into the dead eyes of an eel, and just admired the scenery. Wasn't a bad day to celebrate.

MONDAY: This was my brother's birthday. In honor of this I went shoe shopping with my friend Riley while my bro and pop were off snowboarding on some mountain somewhere without me. But shoe shopping was fun for me. It also gave me the opportunity to try on hats as well, which is quite the thrill for a hat-lover like myself. Hanging out with Riley had been long overdue as well. He's definitely one of my much better friends. You know someone's a good friend when you can be absolutely, completely, brutally honest with them, they punch you in the face, and then you sing a duet (He didn't punch me in the face, but theoretically I'm sure we would still be friends if he did. Plus there could be the added bonus of the punch magically straightening my nose).

TUESDAY: And then it was Riley's birthday. Not just any birthday either. He turned 18, which means he is finally an adult. I wisely informed him of the much greater crime consequences that come with this adulthood. We celebrated this newfound adulthood by taking random pictures outside of a Pat and Oscars, and by going to the place that all adults love to visit... Nickel City. Sadly enough, Nickel City just happened to be closed for this one day this decade, so we just stared inside, drooled a little bit, then left...

WEDNESDAY:...and came back the very next day!!! I must say that Nickel City is much more enjoyable when it's actually open. The name Nickel city can be very deceiving though. It makes you think that everything is just a nickel, which in a small way is kind of true. But not at all really. You pay with Nickels. But some games cost like twenty nickels, which totally defeats the purpose. There were only a couple games that were legitimately only one nickel. It was still really fun though. Nothing quite like risking everything on a game of virtual Deal or no Deal with four hundred tickets on the line. We lost. But I came to the conclusion that there's no shame in crawling under machines to try and find lost nickels.

THURSDAY: This was a very sad day for a friend of mine. My friend Sarah MacLean's father, John MacLean, passed away. I had the opportunity to meet him a few times and really enjoyed the time that I was around him. He raised a very amazing daughter, that is for certain. There is a video that they had of a road trip they took together and it had a part where he was referencing Sarah's friends and said something along the lines of, "Hello to all of Sarah's friends... and Mitchell." I always got a kick out of that.

FRIDAY: This was quite a busy day for me, and a day that definitely made me feel like an old man. First of all I helped my church set up a thing called the Bible Bowl, but I'll talk about that for tomorrow briefly. After helping set that up I went to my former high school, which I loved so dearly (sarcasm sign) and ate lunch with some teachers who I loved so dearly (no sarcasm sign). It was a great time. Also just happened to have the amazing coincidence of running into another friend of mine who just happened to be on spring break and was visiting the school on the same day and at the same time as me. Quite the coincidence indeed.

SATURDAY: No better way to finish off spring break than to be running around keeping score for a hundred kids doing a Bible competition. This year did involve much less running around though, which made it a much nicer day. Being around all the younger kids definitely made me feel a lot older though, especially since my knees were sore most of the day. Maybe I'm growing. My bro's birthday party happened as well, but I kind of slept through most of it because I was tired from the Bible Bowl. I doubt he took it personally though. Sleep trumps ice cream cake. Overall this was just a really good week of being busy at home, but all good things must come to an end. Here's to the future that seems like it will never come.