Yesterday, we went out for Dorothy's birthday. She wanted to go to the Vortex, so that's where we went. We all had burgers (well, not all of us...Tiff substituted with chicken), and they were good. It was nice to go downtown. I forget how much I like being down there sometimes. I wish I lived closer to the city. Anyways, after dinner, we went to Apres Diem for dessert and coffee. I forgot how much I like that place, too. Sigh...there's nothing to do around here. But it's gonna get super bad next year when I have to move to Lawrenceville. Booo...

It was good getting together with everyone. We always have a good time together. It's just too bad that we don't get to do it often. Life gets in the way of things.

Andrew and I had an interesting conversation about "growing up" on the drive home last night. Basically, we're grateful that we're teachers and we get summer breaks, spring breaks, winter breaks and holidays. All of our friends have to work right through all those things. I think it really hit us when we were talking to everyone about maybe doing a beach trip or something like that, and Tiff said, "We're taking all of our vacation days on our trip to Germany, so we don't have any days left." Apparently in the "real world," you only get 2 weeks of vacation time or something like that. That's crazy compared to what we have. And we get paid through the breaks. Man...I'm really glad that I decided to become a teacher. And for those of you who have "real jobs," I don't know how you can do it. I just hope you really, really like your jobs.