A Picture's Worth

My parents and my little sisters are visiting. The girls are loving the parks, and what's really good: They can take Pukamon around with them and it's a bit less weird looking than an almost 20-year-old guy bringing a stuffed toy to the parks, so Pukamon gets to have a good time as well.

We're all staying in the Polynesian Resort, which we're finding a bit A) hilarious seeing as we're from the South Pacific, and B) ironic, because we're staying in the Aotearoa longhouse. I'm mostly just grateful for the bed. Going back to Chatham is gonna be murder...

Some of my friends are dragging me to downtown Orlando for a Halloween party. And we've been kicking around the idea of stealthily drinking around the world for my birthday tomorrow. I like the idea, but underaged drinking seems risky in our own workplace. It's been done before, but still.

I'm still pretty taken aback by how big Halloween is here. Anyone else doing anything for it? What did you go as, Hikari-san?

Unlike some people, I didn't forget my own birthday. :P Especially as Katia and Tegan rang me to tell me this at six-thirty in the morning. They claimed to have forgotten the time difference. Personally I think they just wanted to make me suffer. I don't know how Tsubasa-kun found out it was my birthday (my money's on Meg-neesan) but he brought me a tiramisu from his family's cake shop and oh my god it was made of awesome, never mind the eggs and the coffee and everything.

This laptop was my birthday present really early, so I wasn't expecting anything from my family, but I just checked the mail and they sent me a care package and it's making me all homesick for Melbourne. There's the Wallabies jersey I'd had my eye on for ages, and a pavlova recipe, and a jar of Vegemite. :D I have no idea how it got through security, I thought one of the ingredients made it banned or something.

And then there was my old stuff that Mum or Kenzie or someone must have decided would be helpful, like my school scarf (well, it is getting kind of cold), and my old Pokemon cards (I think I might try and teach Pukamon how to play, or try to play with Tsubasa-kun), and my restricted licence which apparently arrived in the mail the day after I left. Which is, you know, great, because the Terayamas don't have a car...

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Anyway, I'm being dragged off to a party dressed as Syaoran Li from Card Captors Captor Sakura, so see you.