Vacation Diary: Days 2, 3, 4 and 5

Phew, Monday and Tuesday are over, spent all day working on my master's thesis. Woke up Monday, headed over to St. Kate's, spent all day on the thesis. Didn't get it done, they kicked me off campus because they closed at six pm. Went over to Kinko's to try to finish it and print, only to find out that Kinko's charges .49 cents per page to print, which, at 80 pages times two copies of the paper that I needed to print, would have cost me $75 dollars just to print! So I gave up, left Kinko's, went home, trie again on Tuesday. Went to St. Kate's and worked some more, but found out that St. Kate's now charges to print as well, even though they never used to. However, they only charge .10 cents per page which is a HUGE drop from .50 cents. Sadly, printing at St. Kate's was not going to be as easy as I thought, since I was not a student, they would not let me print. I was going to have to actually drive over to Hamline to print. But alas! One of my students at St. Kate's offered to let me print my paper on her print account! Since the semester was over, she let me know that she had a huge print balance on her account and let me use it! Thanks so much for that Becky!!!!

So, the moral of the story is, I got the paper done at 5:30 Tuesday night. Went off to Benihaha to have dinner with my beautiful friend Ania. Here we are:



Ania was a fellow student at St. Kate's and we graduated together.

Wednesday was a lazy day for me and the boys. I was supposed to go visit my pal Yobe, but I was too tired, and the snow was on the weather radar to be heading our way. So I laid around all day with my little buddies.

Today is Christmas Eve and we are relaxing together. My mom is here with Lacey. Pa Chia is home and my dad just ran off to get some McDonald's. We're hanging out today again. I went out and shoveled the walk for my brother, who went to work for a little bit today. Ooops, my car is running outside. I had Lacey go out and stick my cell phone in there, it was out of juice. I better have Lacey run back out and get it!!!!

Here's a video of my little buddy Manny giving me a full body massage. These boys are just so adorable, Sam better be HAPPY that he stole me away from them!!!



Today was the day that the boys got their hair cuts. Here is Manny, he's got the old man haircut:



And here is Gabe, he's got a mowhawk and he's really mad about posing for the camera. This picture seriously CRACKS me up:




Stay tuned. It's Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas! We'll have more action for you tomorrow!! .