paso robles, ca

look people! i'm driving wheeee!!
if you look at the windows, it was pouring on the way home.

we went to paso robles, ca this weekend. one of william's roommates from UCLA turned 40, so his wife threw him a big, surprise birthday party. she did a really good job... he was completely deer-in-the-headlights when we all yelled surprise. i overheard him saying that he hadn't seen a lot of his dental school classmates since his wedding 6 years ago, so it was a reunion of sorts too. we were bad and took no pics. ops... of course, i got lots of thomas :)
here he is enjoying the big hotel bed. he discovered a hole in the bedsheet... and promptly made it a little bigger for them. for future reference, it was a La Quinta Inn. after seeing this youtube video of hotel cleaning people and what they do to clean the glassware, we used disposable cups. i actually don't mind them cleaning the cups in the sink, but the way they were cleaning them was soooo gross.


it was nice on saturday, actually sunny for the morning and early afternoon, but it was overcast and rainy the rest of the time, so we headed back home a day early. bummer. well, at least we got a couple great deals at the gilroy outlets!

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tonight, thomas was cranky b/c he had only napped for 20 minutes on the drive home from paso. he was doing everything possible to stall bedtime. asked for milk. asked for water, wanted a different color cup. he turned on the CD player in his room and started dancing. i saw him and started dancing too. but william got stern. he asked thomas to bring the monitor over so he could plug it back in. thomas picked it up and threw it on him. william said "thomas! WHY DID YOU DO THAT?!" thomas immediately turned around to me and started to dance again fast. he had the most awesome look "oh hi lovely mommy - please dance with me right noW!" on his face. awesome. that little rascal. he definitely knew he had done something bad and wanted to "change the subject."