...About How My Family Can't Be Seen in Public

Today I spent the day with my family.

After waking up and preparing for a garage sale that we will be having tomorrow, my mother, lil bro and I went on our way to Heart Lake Conservation Park to meet with the rest of the familia. We got there a little late, around 5 pm (the park closes at 8). Now, normally this would be fine. However, to get into this park you have to pay a fee per PERSON (it used to be per car...but I guess since Indians came along and packed 15 people in a 5 seater car they changed the rules). So of course, the negotiator in my mother comes out (sometimes this negotiator is embarressing...but if you ask Daniela I do the same thing...from computers to cars, I try to get some sort of discount). My mother tries to convince the guy to let us in for half price since the park would be closing in 3 hours, and although he said so, my mom takes out the money and holds it in front of him, as if to taunt him, and continues to try to convince him to let us in for a cheaper price before finally handing him over the money. I later find out that ALL my aunts did the same thing....oh immigrants....

So after getting in, settling down, eating some snacks, blaring the arabic music and dancing (my mom and aunts, not me) playing musical chairs (again, mom and aunts), time ran out and we had to leave. So we dediced to go downtown for Taste of the Danforth. There was about 30 of us that went...ummm....30 loud arabs in public...not good...

All in all we had a good time...but along the way we lost my older cousin (dont ask me how), we started traffic by stopping every 5 minutes to do a head count and look at food (LOOK...not buy), we reunited with an old friend of my uncles and actually ate greek food this time while he went in and helped them in the kitchen because they were really busy (lol...oh my uncle..he's a chef, so he loves the kitchen), saw santa clause! who was sitting on a picnic chair with a sign that read "santa's sleigh broke down...yet santa wore nice Aldo shoes and has a razor cell phone, and then finally on the way home while I was in my car with 2 of my cousins a car beside us with some guys in it started to talk to us and when I gave them the finger they started to talk louder...my goodness...

Anyway, we finally got home after such a long day. Nice time with the familia...I could totally use some coffee right now but its 2:06 am....but you all should know that I have been cutting back on my coffee intake! Oh yes! I am not drinking a cup or two everyday now. It's more like every other day. Yeah for me!

Unfortunately I don't have any pics of tonights event, so I can not entertain you with pictures. But if you know me well enough, you'll understand what my family can be like and what exactly happned.