How did this all begin? Well, my birthday was coming up. Tom needed an excuse to visit me again. Hm...August is AG Mixer and my 19th birthday. However, my 19th birthday fell during the weekend before finals. (needed to brush up on Japanese!) So we decided to do it after the two of us were done with summer school. Convieniently, our available weekend fell during the AG Mixer weekend.

Japanese class ended on Thursday. I headed straight home to take a nice long nap. To get myself in the napping process, I read some manga. Finnished Paradise Kiss vol 3 (lovely way to set the mood), some Lupin III vol 6, and started reading Harry Potter book 3. It was about 3: 30PM and Harry Potter just picked up an article about an escaped convict. My cell phone rang! It had to be Tom. "Can you open the door? It's hot in the car." He showed up earlier than I thought. I opened the front door, and he was standing in the driveway. First instinct lead me to pull my kissu glomp on him. ^_^; It was a delightful reunion.

Got settled in the house. Looked through some Battle Royale manga and through his scrapbook of cosplay pictures. We rested at the house for a while due to the fact it was too hot to go out anywhere.

When it finally cooled down, we went to Temple City. Since my dad works in Pasadena, I navigated him to take 110N to the I5. Um...wrong way. So we overshot that one. Guess we also had too much fun beating traffic while in the carpool lane. So we turned over to 91E to 605.

I met Tom's aunt. Nice person she is. Later on, I met Christine (aka Osaka) and Chris. They took us out to dinner at Claim Jumper. Those buffalo wings were good! Osaka ordered a huge parfait thing, that all of us ended up sharing it. It was nice to meet some of Tom's family. His aunt and I had a conversation about theatre. Christine and Chris remind me of my younger self. hehe ^^

Afterwards, we contacted Jarod for karaoke goodness the following day.