So, we're back. Earlier than I had expected, too - we had made preparations to be away until Saturday or Sunday sometime. I also made only one PhonePost to LJ while I was out. I tried actually reading my friends' entries from my phone, too, but this didn't work too well - I had to constantly scroll left and right since the page didn't fit on that little TFT screen. I probably should have borrowed my bro's PDA phone for that...

We ended up spending the entire time up there at my grandparents'. Their little place in what I believe to be a retirement community consists of one main room, a kitchen, and two bedrooms. You can imagine how boring a place like that can get. ^^; Once again, my mom refused to let me drive up on my own, so I couldn't go visit a few places I wanted to go and see some friends I never get to see.

My cousins from Massachusetts drove down. That's a longer trip, she drove down the entire way, and she's like four years younger and hasn't been driving nearly as long as I have. It's safe to assume my cousin that lived a half hour away from my grandparents' also drove over.

Yeah. That was quite annoying. I bet I won't be allowed to drive up next year, either.

Eventually, the other cousins came over, and we all ended up sitting down and playing a game of Risk. Somehow, we always end up playing when we're all together. This was my second or third time, and once again I lost horribly. I never liked war, anyways. =P

One of my cousins had to work on Black Friday (I had narrowly evaded fate this year - but she actually wanted the hours), so that set of family went back home shortly after dinner. We stayed overnight, and left for home this afternoon. On the way, we stopped at the Prime Outlets at Perryville, and I finally got a new pair of running shoes. Didn't have time to run around and look for a jacket like the one we got there years ago, but got stolen while on campus. I really liked that jacket, too. x_x

Got home, and, naturally, we still have no water. One of our neighbors came over, and it looks like either the well dried up (which is very unlikely considering we've had a ton of rain lately) or something's wrong with the well pump. Someone's coming over tomorrow to investigate the pump.

Well, that's about it... since I have the rest of the weekend off, I'll likely actually finish off this batch of work so I can get the invoice in quickly - as I'm going to need a lot of money in a very short period of time. Argh.