Easter Basket

This weekend I am taking off to Lima to spend the weekend with my parents for Easter. My youngest brother Wade is speaking at his church on Friday so I will be home the whole weekend since the family Easter dinner is on Sunday at 2, and I don't want to miss either. One of the things that Derrick always loved about going to my parents house for Easter was that my mom always made him a little Easter Basket, it just cracked him up. I will have to make sure to get him a basket together and send it out on Monday. It is little things like this that I miss about Derrick, how he is such a kid at heart and how much he loves it when someone embraces it.

I know, I know ... it's been forever.

So, I am way worse at posting than I thought I would be.

To get anyone who cares up to speed, I have been out of town a few times visiting friends. I went to San Francisco to visit Julie and Ramji with Adrian a few weeks back, we had a really great time, just drinking and eating "white trash food" (pretty much anything with potatoes or cheese or the combination of the two). Ramji took us on a tour of Berkly that nearly killed me, the twists and turns and up the hill down the hill ... we literally had to stop the car so I could get out, I am really surprised that I didn't puke. Other than that it was a really fun trip and I can't wait to go back when Derrick gets home. I have been out to visit twice and still have yet to see the Golden Gate Bridge, Derrick thinks that this is completely ridicules, but I keep telling him that I want to wait and see it for the first time with him.

Then this past weekend I went to Ft. Laturdale with my brother Jake to hang out with Matt down at his condo time share. What a drunken blunder that was. Pretty much from the time we woke up until the time we crashed into bed I had a drink in my hand. Unexpectedly, it was SPRING BREAK 08 down there and all I can really say is wow .. it was a running joke between Matt, Jake, and I ... at any given moment one of would just yell out SPRING BREAK! it was a really fun time, I will defiantly be talking to Derrick about buying into that time share. Today is the first day that I actually feel recovered from the trip.

I purchased my plane ticket to go visit Derrick in Germany, I will be taking off May 8 and returning May 24, I am looking forward to the trip. I have come to terms with missing Derrick and I think that this is going to rip that wound wide open but I would never miss the opportunity to see him, the trip is so close that it is what mostly consumes my thoughts.