Day 1

Today we drove from Cary to Duluth, Georgia. Kind of a boring drive; we drove to pickup my dad's rental car, and he got this ugly looking gold mini-van Later we drove to this place next to our hotel called Gwinett Intl. Farmer's Market; it was a HUGE supermarket with people from all walks of life. I saw all kinds of new fruits and other foods that I had never seen before. In fact, I was able to find this in their meat aisles: [img][/img] It was like a Colombian, a Japanese, an American, and other countries' supermarkets combined into one; I bought many foods that I hadn't had for several years, and whatever else I could carry They even had my favorite Postobon soda Also, all of the food there was really cheap, even though it was from overseas. It started raining, so I had fun loading and unloading the groceries from the car.

Day 2

I tried Nair for Men today; it removed about half of my facial hair, so I had to borrow my Dad's shaving kit. So much for having 'silky smooth skin' :p I visited my old friend Jesus and his family, and he really wants a PDA like mine Now that makess three people who want a PDA like mine. We also had a cookout at their subdivision's pool; BBQ rib pork is really, really good.

Day 3

Well, my Mom was tired all day today, so we couldn't go anywhere, so I played Zelda all day I made it all the way to the final boss When my Dad came home from work, my little brother and I went back to the International Farmer's Market to get some dinner. Apparently there wasn't a UPC on one of the foods that we were buying, so I had to show them where I found it, showed them how much it cost, and then they just disappeared for a few minutes, only to come back and punch in the price of the item Oh, since we're on tthe subject of food, I've already drunken all 10 bottles of Postobon sodas I haad bought a couple of days ago

Day 4

Well, once again I was stuck in my hotel room I was at the final boss of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, and was about to win when my game crashed Then my little brother tried on his record, and won. Also, I *finally* was able to connect to the Internet through the hotel's servers More on that later. Oh, and I found a store better than RadioShack for electronic components that I can just walk into Going to check that out tomorrow.

Day 5

I went to Fry's electronics this evening; simply breathtaking. It was like a walk-in Newegg. That and everything was at a discount. The place had 84 AISLES AND 70 CHECKOUT LANES! I was only able to browse 7 aisles because I was short on time, but I'll be back! I also found an Anime shop, but it was closed due to storm damage or the owners on vacation or something. So I peered into the window and saw row after row of DVD's, Wallscrolls, Posters, etc. When I went back to my hotel room, I started looking at housing in Sunnyvale, California with my mom on my little brother's laptop. A house similar to mine goes for $798,000; our current house was $169,000. Hmm. My Dad and I did the numbers and in order for us to move to Sunnyvale without our standard of living going down, his company would have to double his salary. I'm thinking that we might not be moving Too bad, because I would be 0.47 miles from my high school, a 9 minute drive from Fry's, and a 20 minute drive from Stanford University. Oh, and here's a link to the house I found online: <LINK>

Day 6

Well, today I found a site that sort of teaches reverse engineering, and also a ssection with oscilloscopes: http://www.bripro.com/low/gameking/index.php?page=video1

Day 7

Well, I went to Fry's again today and my mom forced me out again (which was unfair because this morning I went up to her with a plaan, and before I could begin she just said "Don't worry, I'll be there with you" And then she got all mad at me when we were at Fry's and practically called me a liar to my face, then we left and went to the mall for an hour. I had only spent 25 minutes there and half the time I was looking for something for Michael. I don't know why I keep trying to believe that my parents will keep their word I remember talking to my parents when I was 12, and I promised them that I wouldn't be bad when I became a teenager; I should've made them make the same promise.)

Day 8

So, went to Bahama Breeze for dinner with my family and the Bruzual
family, and it was a very nice restaraunt. They had all kinds of foods
there, and the servings were preety big. The place had a very nice
atmosphere.

Day 9

Today my family and I went to the Cola Cola Factory. It was too cool!
They had sodas, commericials, posters, etc. of Coca-Cola and it's
products from all over the world; strangely enough, there was no mention
of the fact that the drinks once contained cocaine I tried every
soda they had there; there was this one from Italy called "Bitter
Aperitif" that was rumored by the staff to be a very "interesting" soda.
I watched other people drink it and then spit it back out, and so I took
a large gulp of it, and nothing happened; my Mom was laughing so hard.
It tasted like some kind of a grapefruit soda; when we left the exhibits
we were dumped right into the middle of the gift shop; go figure
We then went to a place called "The Underground" in Atlanta. Supposedly
it's the old historical Atlanta which was burned during the Civil War,
so it had a lot of shops and exhibits and stuff like that. I did get
this really neat t-shirt that works a lot like those transition lenses
which change color when exposed to UV light.

Day 10

Not much happened today; we just drove back home, everything was smooth,
and I'm just glad to be back. Too bad school starts in five days though
.

yeah, Blockland, Blockland, Blockland

Cool! I've said it before, but I'll say it again here for posterity:

Welcome back!