so a little while ago, i wrote that i wanted to take a break and get away from it all...(picture my hand to my forehead, a long-suffering look on my face). anyways, instead of fiji or some quiet mountain/beach getaway, our family decided to take a little trip to...laughlin, nevada - a ghetto, vegas wannabe off the colorado river. in all fairness, the trip was supposed to go to sedona, arizona, which i hear is nicer, but we ended up just staying in laughlin for two days 'cuz art got car sick from the 5-hour bus ride over there. he had it pretty bad. so we decided to just rent a car and leave for home from laughlin. thankfully, we didn't spend too much money on the trip, and since i had asked for vacation time, we still had a full day to hang out before i had to go back to work. so instead, our family just spent some quality time together. it was really, really nice. my dad and i got to hang out a little, too, while my mom was nursing arthur back to health...back in laughlin, we heartless folk (he was sleeping the whole time! when he wasn't throwing up...) went bowling. when art was able to get downstairs and outside of the hotel (the smell of which was also making him sick), i tried distract art from how miserable he was feeling with annoying prattle (art must really hate my annoying prattle...i'm pretty good at it, if i do say so myself), and we had fun feeding the ducks the saltines we had gotten for art but he was too sick to eat.
when we got back to la, we spent all of wednesday hanging out - ate lunch and dinner together, caught a movie, ran some errands. a really nice time...i like my family.