Surprise Trip to Pomona

Hey everybody. Had a fairly normal week but an exciting weekend. On Friday we went and ate at Black Angus with our cashback bonus money from our credit card. We had enough bonus money that it paid for the meal for two, which was a ton of food. Yogurl had the filet mignon and I had the ribeye. I thought mine was better than hers, though significantly more fatty. Yummm. Anyway, we were so full that we took the dessert to go. I could have handled it right then, but Yogurl wouldn't have enjoyed it. We ate it at home while watching Seven Samurai. Great flick, by the way.

The most exciting thing this weekend, though, was my surprise trip. Yogurl and I got to bed just after midnight Saturday night. Then, at 1:15 I got a call from my gunny asking me to call him back. I was about to call him when he called on my cell phone, too. He said that a Marine from my unit had gotten arrested for being drunk in public. He wouldn't be available for pickup until around 7:30, and Gunny was catching a flight to Norfolk in the morning, so he couldn't go get him. He gave me a number to the police department where he was being held, which was in Pomona. For people not from So Cal, Pomona is about 85 miles from our place. I called the jail where he was and they said that he could be picked up right away. So off I went. I got there at like 3:30 and the police officer there told me that the group of Marines they had arrested were more then drunk in public, they were using and distributing ecstasy. After talking to them for a while, it turned out that the Marine I was there to pick up was not part of the ecstasy group, thank goodness. They let him out early so that I could take him home. I didn't end up getting home til about 7. I went to Sacrament meeting at 11, but then I went home and slept some more. So that was my first really unpleasant senior Marine moment. I'm sure there will be plenty more in the future.

Here is a picture of Yogurl with her new water bottle. I think I mentioned it last week. It's aluminum with resin so it is supposed to be safer, because it won't put plastic toxins into her water. Oh speaking of stuff like that, while we were at Costco, there was a sample of organic chocolate milk. I said something about it being organic and the lady who was giving out the samples said she'd grown up without organic stuff and was perfectly healthy. I was a little taken aback that she seemed to be bashing the food she was giving samples of, so I said something about people just liked having peace of mind when they buy their foods. Then she waved her arms around like a kinda crazy lady and said, "Well go ahead and waste your money buying overpriced organic foods then." I'd say that she probably doesn't work on commission.