13 days until Harry Potter!!!!

So Miguel made it here safely and is settled (more or less) into the Baikie Household. He's a fun kid. Just your typical freckle-faced braces happy go lucky tennis playing Spaniard. It was funny the first night when our family ate dinner, our aunt's family eats dinner with us about 3 times a week or so and we were just being our typical selves (i.e. loud) and Miguel was just sitting there wide eyed at the whole thing. I think perhaps we may have overwhelmed him a bit, but we've explained (multiple times) that regular Americans aren't like us, that we were crazy, but later he said "It's ok, I like crazy better." So there you have it. We've taken him around to different places and went to a family friend's party so he's met alot of people. So far so good! Oh, and the good thing, is that I have found a kindred spirit as far as Harry Potter goes. So on July 15th around 10pm or so, Miguel, my cousin Danny and I will be at our local Barnes and Noble for the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince book release. Nerdy? To a T, but It'll be fun I'm sure.

Tomorrow is our Annual Fourth of July day bash. We all go up to my Uncle's apartment in a town called Golden. The city of Golden does their big fireworks display and the park where they shoot them off is about 4 blocks from my uncle's apartment where we have roof access. So we get a little mini grill and get all the food and go up to the roof and sit around and tell the same funny stories over and over (See my Thanksgiving day post for the typical order of the festivities) and then at 9 o'clock when the fireworks are supposed to start, but don't, everyone gets all flustered wondering whether or not they will actually shoot off the fireworks. And the conversation typically goes like this: "Did anyone check to make sure?" "Alex, I thought you knew!" "How am I supposed to know?" "Well, Dangit, you live here!" "Yeah, but I was getting everything else ready! Why didn't YOU check?" "Well someone get a paper and check" "Alex, where are the papers!?" "Check in the back by the-" And then when the fireworks start about 9:04, everyone at the same time says "OH!!!!!!" and then we watch the fireworks from our front row seats and give the typical "Oooh's and Aaah's" It's all very American...with the little Hispanic touch. I'm obviously completely looking forward to it.

Well, that's about it for now, hopefully I'll post some funny stories if some should arise (if? HA) and then I'll tell you all about the latest Cordova misunderstanding (which most likely will this time involve Miguel....poor kid will never see it coming) Well, I'm out for now, gonna go reserve my copy of Harry Potter. Happy Fourth of July Everyone!