I had one of the best birthdays ever :D Mental note: charlie is the type to get there at least on time, if not early. I told him meet at my house at 8:00AM don't be late :) and when i tell that to tiffany, "me at 8" it means, "get there before 9 please" LoL but i didn't know that so charlie was not late! he and finsen came at 7:40AM...i had at least gotten out of bed since tiffany called asking what she should bring so good thing that, but for about 15-20 more minute finsen and charlie watched tv. After that people started trickling in, kyle came, then chrizzy, and then tiffany who took benny, jeffery, and janice in her car. We didn't make sandwiches until they came since tiffany had the mayo, jeffery was the only one who ate breakfast at my house, as all made sandwiches ....nothing too eventful then....charlie said our toilet had some power, it was one of the most powerful one's he's seen...lol that was a first i've been told LoL. then we took off to livermore to go to Boomers, good thing we checked online since there's a discount for groups of 10 or more that's not advertised outside, it's a great deal it's like 14.95 per person, (min. 10 ppl) and then it's an all day pass, until 11PM you can ride anything (bumper boats, go karts) play laser tag and golf games as many times as you want for the whole day :) we got there, but we only had 9 people, we decided the best thing to do was just to have everyone pay an extra 2 dollars or so and pay for 10 people, we gave all of our money to one person and then said the rest were in the arcade. it worked, we tired giving it away, but no one wanted to take it. oh well, their loss. the first thing we did was go carts, that was great since we were the first out there, it was only us on the track, at first it's hard to get used to it, but once the first lap came around i was taking horrible turns and sliding the car all around LoL great fun :) the only thing is that they're stopped by remote control and so when it was time to stop i was still in the middle of the track which sucked, and i was stuck out there for a while :( i eventually drove in and it was an overall good first experience, Chrissy suggested the bumper boats, i'd never seen them and i didn' t know you could get wet on that...but you can. you can get drenched :lol: youjust go around and spray people, it's a ton of fun when it's just your friends :) so you can spray anyone and not worry about them getting mad...although i'm not sure why they would since they're there in the first place...oh well, we just had great fun with that :) and then to dry off (since we were so soaking wet) we stayed outside to play mini-golf and that was a lot of fun, although it is a bit difficult with 9 people LoL we kind of went in two groups and Kyle was quite a good golfer...some times LoL he got 2 "hole in one" 's but sometimes his ball just would not go in LoL it was lots of fun and we were all cheering each other on :) after that we took a lunch break and ate our hard made sandwiches, the new oreos with mocha weren't bad...but they weren't super great either lol chips were good and we Love Kyle's van :D 1) it fits seven people WHOO! and 2) you can fold down his seats and they make a table with cup holders and all :) so some of us ate in his trunk and some of us ate on the little lawn piece dividing the parking lot...we sat and digested for a while (i had cramps...not so fun so i chilled out for a bit) and then we drove the go-karts again and played laser tag, it's a small place but we still had fun chasing each other down. We also got some tokens since charlie, janice and chrizzy like playing ddr, the did that most of the time, kyle played this roulette type game, you put the token in and if it lands all the way in the slot you get 50 or 150 tickets he landed on the jackpot so in the end we ended up getting 362 tickets so he got a lot of little toys and a couple of army men for 1 ticket each :) LoL it was great! LoL before we left we played on the bumper boats again and laser tag and a last time on the go karts while chrissy, charlie, janice and finsen stayed in the arcade. I didn't feel like driving, but i wanted to go for a ride so i had jeffery drive me, he drives like a psycho. it was timed so that near the last turn we'd always see kyle drive by and it was so hilarious, he looked so funny driving because he's so tall his head stickes out a bit and he had no gel in his hair, but it got wet in the bumper boats and dried while he was driving, so it looked funky and very poofy LoL. after we left Boomers, we headed to the city, and tiffany thought that car pool ended at 6, but it actually ended at 7 so us in kyle's van got to pass all the horrendous traffic at the toll plaza, but tiff could only fit 2 and so her and benny were stuck there for a bit. We had no idea where to eat in san francisco and our budget wasn't so extravagant, so i called my mom, one to let her know i was okay and had fun and 2 to ask her if she had any ideas on where to go for dinner she suggested Mel's but some people didn't really want diner food, so then she said J-town wasn't so far so we went there and had dinner there. The food wasn't bad and it was at a good price :) near the end i was getting a bit tired because i had gotten up at 7:30 and had work the day before etc, and so i thought the guy was bringing the bill back so we could pay and get out but he actually brought a CAKE! it had happy birthday teri written on it and i was so shocked. i'm not sure i could convey in words how shocked i was. i mean i had totally fogotten about a cake, it would have been just fine without it but i was so shocked, no one said anything about it and that was fine i wasn't expecting one. LoL tiffany loved it, my face was so red! i was just shocked! they said the hardest thing was hiding it from me, they put it in the fridge at boomers, which i'm not sure how they did that since i was with them most of the time and then they gave it to the guy at the restaurant, when i did not know...that was so shocking i truly was surprised :) and SO HAPPY!!! so they sang to me and we cut the cake and then we drove down to the beach...at first i wasn't sure if it was legal or if it was that one special day tiff went and saw all the fires, but then my sister did it once too so i didn't think so. We saw some further down the beach and so we decided that it was find and that was a good spot to start it, we didn't have a lot of trouble starting it, finsen had done it before and we had all the materials. so we had it going for a good 25 minutes or so which in between elisa, henry and henry's friend zarate came. henry was like "before we start you guys know this is illegal right?" and we saw other people doing it so we figured the cops were too serious about it or it wasn't illegal. anyways we had that going, and then 25 minutes in, a cop with a flashlight comes by and he's all like hi...and we're all like..oh crap. it turns out the cop was really nice and it isn't illegal, well not techincally, we had to just move down a half a mile down the beach and then we could build it there so there really wasn't a problem and the guy was really nice about it. we moved it down and we started another fire...it was so nice, the sound of the ocean waves behind me, the glow of the fire infront, it was so wonderful. and we roasted 'mallows and just sat and just kinda absorbed the peacful ambiance. it was good. then jeffery has this obession with burning stuff or at least throwing stuff into the fire...so we gave him a bag of ice, and then as we started throwing the ice in, it started sizzling and going out so the fire was already almost dead and since it was late we didn't want to keep fueling it. so we put out the fire...and then we found out that was a no-no. putting out the fire is the last thing you do...the first is clean up and get ready to go so you have the heat and you're not freezing your buns off LoL but it was a good lesson learned :) and then it was really late so and some people's parents were freaking out so we had to go and then when we got back to the cars, tiffany didn't know which car elisa and her friends came in and so she was standing next to one of them and asking really loudly IS THIS YOUR CAR?! and then elisa pulled her to the side and was like NO!!! lol and then she looked at the car and there were two people in it....and the windows were steamed....lol it wasn't our car LoL so that provided a few good jokes (mainly having to do with that scene in titanic) lol and then we just went home...i don't think there were anything big happening there. I got home at about 12:30 and i had work the next day!!! lol but it was still the best birthday ever, i spent the whole day with my friends, i had a great time and nothing went horribly wrong :)