A recap of this trip home

Visiting home is always entertaining because some things never change. We get older and leave, but when you come home everything is exactly the same as you left it. Highlights of this weekend:

• Realizing again that you can't go anywhere in this town without running into someone you know....... or their cousin.
• What's a land line?
• More importantly, what's a busy signal?
• The ever so popular - "Did you hear that so&so is dating what's-her-face? I can't believe they did that to what's-her-butt!"
• The Santa Rosalina Festival brings out every Italian, which means we see ever aunt and cousin I didn't know I had.
• Realized that every kid in our family has worked at the Old Fisherman's Grotto and the same people that worked there 4 years ago with me, still work their now with Big Tor, and yes, Carol still puts on red lipstick that gets all over her teeth.
• We ate at two of the million restaurants owned by the Shakes (all of the kids' boss at some point) and managed to run into and speak with half their family at said restaurants.
• I am officially a tourist of this town: I drive through Pebble Beach so I can check out the scenery on the way to Sparky's house. Mind you Sparky and I both live in Pacific Grove, no need to enter Pebble Beach.
• My 10th grade bio teacher, Mr. Olsen, is still gorgeous.
• My parents took me seriously when I told them I would never come home again unless they changed the cardboard sheets in my room.
• Lesson of the weekend: Drinking 3 kinds of wine in mulitple servings in one sitting is a bad choice. My head still aches.

Stinky....signing out