Ethan:
Our hotel didn’t have any public areas
suitable for a Tai Chi workout, so we skipped that this morning; got ready for
the day; and checked out of our hotel before heading to a nearby pancake house
for breakfast. We were there for nearly
an hour thanks to me and the other guys needing to eat a lot after all of the
exercise we had yesterday; and then we went shopping at the girls’ favorite
mall for a couple of hours. That
trade-off might not seem fair for the guys, but that wasn’t for long-enough to
have boredom set in; and we were able to keep entertained at the fun stores
while the girls mostly played dress-up with Christmas spending money that went
further thanks to big, after-Christmas sales.
I definitely don’t want to get into a
shopping commentary; so I won’t. We had
fun; picked up fast food to go for lunch – and for Aunt Leanne, Zack, and
Brianna; and then hit the road for home.
We got back by one-ish; had a few chores to do – including unloading the
van and getting our bags back to our rooms; and we had a break near the start
of that work for a chat with Mom, Aunt Leanne, Zack, and Brianna while three of
them enjoyed their warmed-up fast food.
We made some decisions about what to do for the rest o the day then too;
which is why this update is being written at Aiden’s house. I’m doing a sleepover here because Ehlana and
Naomi decided that they needed to spend some time with Naomi’s parents; they’re
having a sleepover there; and Cassie invited Brianna to have a sleepover with
her while Eli’s spending the night at Zack’s house.
Once that was decided, we got our chores
done; some of us went out to play with our friends for the afternoon; and then
Ehlana went home with Naomi; Aiden and I stayed to have supper with Mom, Dad,
Cassie, Michael, May, and Brianna; and then we went home with Aiden’s parents
after they closed the baker for the night.
We didn’t do a family and friends dinner and a movie night this week,
but that was because the parents didn’t want to book another family night after
two busy holiday weekends.
Aiden and I hare hanging out on our own
now, but we spent some time with his family first; and now we’re the last two
standing – or sitting – because his Dad always needs to go to bed early when he
has to start work at the bakery so early each morning they’re open. As long as we’re quiet, they don’t mind when
we stay up later and play video games, but we won’t be doing that for much
longer because Aiden and I are tired after two long play days.
This has been another good day – if not
quite as exciting as yesterday, and while we don’t have any major fun plans for
the weekend; I’ll be okay with it if we get to spend a lot of time with Cassie
and Michael before we have to get back to school on Monday. I’ll let you know how that goes for us, but
that’s all for now; and I have some gaming to get back to before Aiden and I
crash for the night – and I’m not talking about in our video games! ;^)
Ethan – out!
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Ehlana:
Sleepovers at Naomi’s are always fun – when
Zack and Eli aren’t here too. Liz had a
very long day at the salon, so we didn’t not sit up and have mini-makeovers, but
we did watch a movie before we all came up to bed for the night – and Naomi’s
parents likely fell asleep soon-after.
We’ve been having some girl chat time while watching music videos and
alternate entertainment on YouTube; and now I’m getting this out of the way
before we get some sleep. I skipped over
pizzeria dinner with Naomi’s Dad that included dropping off a pizza for Liz and
Vicky; and we had fun hanging out with him too while we waited for Liz to get
home, but Philip is a teacher; so we can’t go around admitting that we had fun –
at least around our friends!
As for the rest of the day; Ethan pretty
much covered the highlights. Naomi,
Sophia, and I didn’t find many shopping bargains, but we did pick up a few
things each; breakfast with the boys was a bit scary – even when none of them
were playing any food games but were just ravenously-hungry. Yes, we all burned a lot of energy yesterday,
but they guys also ate a lot too – including major snacks while at the movie
theater last night. Lunch on the road
wasn’t quite as scary, but the guys still ate a fair bit; and Cassie pretended
to hide the food we brought home for Aunt Leanne, Zack, and Brianna so that it
didn’t get devoured too.
Okay – it didn’t get devoured until Zack
got his hands on the bags of food; but you know what I mean.
The afternoon play time with our friends
was fun too; Naomi, Sophia, and I spent some of that time telling the other
girls about our trip; and the rest of the story for our day has pretty much
been covered. I’m with Ethan and hope
that we’ll get to spend as much time with Cassie, Michael, and May as we can
this weekend, but we’ll see how that goes; since Michael may need to spend
extra time at the Inn after two days off; and Cassie might help there too –
especially if they try to give his parents, Jake, and Stephanie a chance for
shorter work days while they can help out with that. I will keep you posted, but that’s all for
now; and I expect that Naomi and I will be napping very soon.
This is Ehlana Proctor; coming to you live
from what is now my past!
