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- having time with Aunt Gaye and Uncle Kermitt, some of my favs -

- showing Aunt Gaye T9 (which makes texting SO much easier and faster!)and seeing how excited she was about it -

- a night out on the town with GD and Pat, we went out for dinner and then went to the old movie theater downtown, the Paramont (one of the coolest theaters there is! it has an arabian style to it, stars in the sky, blue sky and arabian houses around the stage! I wanted to take a picture, but my battery died!!) and watched Cassablanca -

- sleeping in and then a brief nap in the late afternoon -

- being able to help GD with his computer and set him up with gmail -

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