Today was my first full day in Minnesota with my dad’s side of the family. It was also my cousin’s birthday. The car ride up here was a nightmare. We started driving at 5:45 and got there at midnight. I watched some old episodes of Mythbusters, Prototype This and Time Warp. I used my MacBook as much as I could before it ran out of power. I didn’t have it fully charged before we left.

Anyway, today we went to a really awesome bowling ally. I did pretty well in bowling. #2 on the kids game, only to my Aunt Jana who played on the kids side ‘cuz she’s one of the youngest. We played some of the arcade games and got a lot of tickets. I used some of my own money to play some extra games and get some extra tickets. I had, like, 167 tickets or something like that. I got a two parachute guys; one for me and one for my cousin, Orion. And I also got this… thing. I really don’t know what it’s called. It’s like this blue tube with some whales in it. I had one a few years ago, but it disappeared.

At the bowling ally, we also played Lazer Tag. It was awesome!!!!! It was all the kids (plus my Uncle Joe) vs. all the adults. IT WAS TOTALLY WICKED!!! I came up with the game plan for the kids time. We all got to the upper levels and had a huge advantage. In the end, I was the 3rd best in the family!!! We all got these cool usernames and mine was Talon. I had 7051 points and 28% accuracy. Uncle Brian came in 2nd and my dad, who’s username was Macro, was the best with a score of over 11,000! He’s really good at lazer tag. Joe had the best accuracy, 50%, but came in 13th place for scoring.

So today was a great first day at my cousin’s house. I’m going to sleep on the couch, so I’ll write more later. Happy almost Christmas!