June 20, 2009

• dropped the bro off at soccer camp
• headed to justin and brandi’s new place and helped them move in

• picked up the bro six hours later
• headed to Escondido to stone brewery where brandi works to try to catch Justin and brandi’s mom and dad to say hello before they went to their dinner plans
• missed the correct exit because of construction plus california interstate craziness and ended up on our way to san bernadino
• turned around and caught the parents in the parking lot!
• went in the brewery (gor-gus) and had a delightful beer, compliments of Justin
• went back to san diego to hang for a bit
• picked up some frozen pizza on the way back to the hotel since we had a room with a kitchenette, including an oven
• only the broiler worked, though, so we broiled the top half and the pan-fried the bottom

• picked Justin up and went back to escondido to meet brandi and her friends for a late showing of the hangover
• the best line of the movie is: “i keep forgetting about the fucking tiger!”
• i also must confess that i laughed a lot – like a lot a lot – at the movie, despite the usual guy-bonding-movie inclusions of the “weak” friend with a controlling, unbelievably bitchy girlfriend, the only other female roles being that of a sex worker with a heart of gold (sigh) and the wedding-obsessed future bride and bridesmaids back home, the “oh I hate being domestically bound to my wife and child” guy, obvious objectification (though not as much as I expected), ageism, and geez oh man, the racial stereotyping
• yes, despite all that, i laughed and laughed