Thanksgiving

Well, I havent posted in awhile, i took a holiday from that and i didnt have a computer at my house that i could use. I had a great time at home and it was alot of fun. Friday, Tara and i hung out all day and didnt do much, packing and we went to the basketball game, it was pretty good. Then on Saturday I flew home and went to my little brother's orchestra concert, then dinner at El Fenix mexican resturaunt- best fajitas ever. Then i went to see Harry Potter which was really good, i liked it alot even though i havent read the books. Sunday I went to the college class at sunday school and i hung out with my dad and we went shopping. Then i went to the mall with James. Monday i had to have surgery in the morning and it went well but my eye was partially open during the surgery for 2hrs and i got a corneal abrasion- hurt like hell. My sinus didnt really hurt, i didnt take any pain medicine, just tylenol, and i was fine. My eye was the worst part and i had to have a patch and by tuesday night my eye was alot better, and wednesday it was almost healed. I slept pretty much all day monday and tuesday, and then i ate freeb!rds with james daniels on wednesday. Thursday we went to my grandparents house for dinner and we had some great food. My grandpa has alzheimers and he didnt know who i was, it was really sad I had to tell him about 10 times. Then we drove back and saw Prime which i thought was really funny. Tara saw it at the same time but in birmingham, so that was pretty cool. I got a new phone on thursday and it works pretty well, coolest thing is that it gets my vanderbilt email and has windows mobile. I went to the football game on friday and had a blast, i saw a bunch of people i hadn't seen in forever and that was the best part. Our team won and the quarterback is incredible. He's going to Georgia next semester to play football. Next saturday we play the semi-finals, then the state championship. We beat Ennis who was the defending state champions from last year. Then i went to see walk the line with my dad and it was really well done, i learned alot about Johnny Cash that i didnt know and it was cool. Saturday was my last day and I went with James to freebirds and then BestBuy and CompUSA. My grandma hurt her back so my parents were in Kaufman at the hospital, she's ok though. I was looking at the 12" powerbook by Apple, and my little brother wants the 15" one. They're really cool. Then i met up with dax and we watched tales from the crypt. Then we went and picked up David and went to a party where i saw a bunch of people i hadn't seen in a really long time, since graduation for most of them and that was pretty fun, but they were all drunk so it was kinda awkward. Then i packed, woke up early and flew back. Tara picked me up at the airport and the bag people took my aerosol can for the airsoft gun, punks. Then Tara nad I drove back then we saw a sign for the zoo. We thought it would be fun, so we did and it was incredible. There was one area where the birds flew around and landed on your head! (pic to follow), then we met Dan. Dan is insane! He was there with his wife and his son Tanner, and he's like 14months. Dan is from Denver and VERY eager to help out. I was looking at the map of the zoo and he ran over and said, "HEY! What are you looking for? (i told him the cheetahs) he's like GREAT, Let's go this way, I'll show ya!" (tara and i exchanged awkward glances) then we followed. He and his wife were wearing matching denver broncos jerseys. Then we came upon the meerkats, he was very excited to tell us all about them and he took a picture for us. I wish i had gotten a picture of him. Then we went onward, after introducing ourselves. He was incredibly friendly and helpful, but almost overly so and we tried to avoid him. He's kinda overwhelming for the average person, but he's really cool. We went to the reptile house and it was cool, they were feeding an Anaconda and then we were at a brigde. We didnt know which way to go and soon enough Dan shows up again and yells from about 100 yds away, "Richard! Are ya'll lost?!" He saw my map, it's like a homing beacon for this guy, I swear whenever I pull it out its like he had an alarm attached and would pop out and help me out! Then we walked over to the cheetahs and then Tara got a call so we hung back, and also to avoid Dan. Then we walked more and came to the tigers, Dan found us again and said "Long time no see! " and asked if we had seen the cloudy leopard and the red panda, when we said no he exploded! He was like, honey, can i take Richard and Tara to see the Red Panda and Cloudy Leopard?! Please!? Then he said he would be back soon and went to show us the leopard. He said that he likes taking pictures with the leopard and he said it was his favorite at the zoo. Then he told us about the denver zoo and how he took a pictuer with his nephew and a polar bear. He was really excited! Then he showed us the red pandas that walked around their habitat and marked their territory by sitting on sticks and rubbing their butts on them, it was really odd, he seemed to get a kick out of it. Then he said that we missed the exhibits because we were too busy having "googly eyes" on each other, but Tara was just on the phone. Then I killed Dan. j/k but he left and we didnt see him again- which was a blessing, but it was alot of fun when he was around just because how ridiculous it was. I'm sure he's the type of guy to search for my blog or something and he'll probably end up reading this, just because he's that interesting... So Tara and I went back and went to Quiznos, then I gave her some birthday presents and we went to Peabody. I realized i had to do journals so she went upstairs and talked with christine. I went up and talked to them, then i came down wrote Tara's card, she really liked it and then took her over to the vandy van. She's so awesomeeeee. I'm really tired now but I felt like i had to document that crazy experience with Dan and the fun times over break, and just how amazing Tara is! Night.