pun intended: adventures of a recent kind

Here's what I've been up to lately. No rest for the wicked, apparently.

Ryan docked in San Diego again, so he visited and we stumbled upon an area where a dozen cats and a handful of skunks live together.

He and Nick also did this.

Nick and I drank this.

My pets were adorable.

There are now more dogs than people at my parents' house when I visit.

This isn't even all of them.

Addie decided she wanted to sleep like a person.

Nick and I were zombies for the first night run for Run For Your Lives. I got shoved to the ground multiple times, head butt, my thumb twisted, and almost got punched.

The living can be so mean sometimes.

Said goodbye to Breaking Bad in style.

Relax, it's candy. WINK.

This is my best friend.

And she bought Wreck This Book.

Went to Catalina for a friend's birthday.

Celebrated Dad's birthday by going to A&V.

This place always scared me as a kid. It still kind of does.

And then Steamers.

She did a good impression of Billy Holiday. Not as good as the one David Sedaris does, but still good.

Visited the Whaley House.

Yankee Jim's grave, who was hung for stealing a boat.

We finally used the free Sea World passes we got for adopting Addie.

This Walrus' eyes looked like death.

One second after this photo was taken, the girl on the right started crying because it scared her how close the Beluga Whale got to her.

Baby dolphin! I got to pet him!

Nick is back in school. Ha.

Another moment where my life flashed before my eyes.

We went to Prohibition, a hidden 1920's themed bar.

These guys asked people to swing dance. Nick and I were the only ones who obliged.

Visited the Ranch Buena Vista Adobe with a ghost hunting group and got a weird photo. (Blue thing in top left corner).

This is the rest of the wall where I got that weird, blue thing.

My favorite story of this place is that while it was being fitted with electric wiring, the workers found a body in the wall. Then instead of reporting it to the police or giving it a decent burial, they apparently decided the best course of action was to just leave it in the wall.

Went to Delusion, where I had to pretend to be a body on a gurney to break into a morgue.

This year, it was set in a church, which did not allow them to serve alcohol. They did, however, allow a Tarot card reader.

The Buchanan side of the family finally remembered I was born and we had a party.

Emily had her engagement party, but I just want to remind everyone that we were engaged first.

Heidi and Erin's birthday! We went to a 1920's themed dance show in LA.

All of us around age 10.

Now age 24!

Green Flash Brewery tour.

My new favorite thing that I learned here is that after brewing, they send the alcoholic plant leftovers to farms for feed. The pigs can't handle how alcoholic it is and just black out, but the cows love it. As soon as they smell it on the property, they refuse to be milked until after they get to eat it.