this weekend.

So, this past weekend was my one of my brother's birthdays. My mom wanted to get a Great American Cookie for my brother. He goes to college away from home. We called the Great American Cookie Company near my brother and asked if they delivered. They said no. My little brother then said "we should go up there and deliver it ourselves." And that's exactly what we did.

We left around 9:30pm on Friday night. My brother's college is a 6 hour drive from here. Friday night we drove 4 hours and then crashed at a hotel. A crappy hotel but it was a bed and we were tired so it didn't much matter. We woke up Saturday and called the birthday boy to tell him we wanted to take him out to lunch. He was surprised and appreciative. We went to lunch and then took him to his work. We picked up the Great American Cookie and took it to the birthday boy at work. He was surprised again and appreciated it. He worked for a few hours while my brother and I took my dog to the dog park. Nora was not at all friendly. We used to go to dog parks and she would automatically play and run around and make the other dogs chase her cause she's super fast. She'd jump in the water and get absolutely filthy. She loved it. But not this time. She was scratching and standing up on my legs for me to pick her up. A little Boston terrier tried to come play with her and she lunged at him growling. He ran away and sat down and put his front paws over his eyes. It was the cutest thing. I had to go over and apologize to him just because I felt bad. We stayed at the park for a while hoping that Nora would come around. She didn't. She just wasn't in the mood. I think she was still not happy about the fact that she'd spent hours stuck in the car and she doesn't like road trips.

We ran some other errands and then decided to take Nora to a friend's house and go to the movies. As we were headed to the friend's house, the birthday boy called and told us he was out of work early so we headed to pick him up. Hung out with some of his friends that night and then went and crashed at a friend of the family's house.

The nest day we visited a friend of mine from college who lived in a city on the way home. It was good to see him. Good to see any friends seeing as I've been living at home near no friends for a while now. We all wen to lunch and then walked around a high class mall. I saw a Charles David store and a Kate Spade store which is not normal fare for the city I live in now. Beautiful shoes and beautiful bags. Too bad saving up for law school doesn't allow for such expenditures.

Overall, it was a good visit. Good to see my brother for his birthday and getting out of town for a bit. We got back around 8:30 pm on Sunday night. Chatted about our trip and went to bed. My body was so sore from the driving.

Good times though. It's nice to be near by to family to be able to do such things.