Also

Forgot to mention: at the tug-o-war, the rope snapped in about 1 second from when we started pulling. It was hilarious.

Also, last night Heather, Carolina, Angeloh and I all got takeout from Castro's and ate dinner on my balcony with the very appropriate decoration of pepper lights on the floor.

Then we watched Palin's speech at the RNC, she made me physically ill.