ONWARD!

so 2 mondays ago, i flew to americatown to be in brother cami's wedding. 1 monday ago i flew away from the dreadful americatown back to the land of sushi and aforementioned heated toilet seats. this monday (today, in case you were wondering) i'm flying out to thailand. 3 mondays in a row! that's gotta be some kind of record!

I'll be in thailand until saturday (hopefully only until saturday- the flights out look horrible) with no overtly altruistic motives- just having fun and hanging out with some people- all very cool and one very cute. maybe when i get back, and have a normal week without any international air travel i'll post my thoughts and experiences from cam's wedding, which were multiplicitous, as well as some stories and photos from the JAM middle school retreat, which was now almost a month ago. but i think i'm excused in the meantime.

















and speaking of heated toilet seats, here's cami's reaction when he got one from me!

You guys don't even know how much i should be working right now instead of doing this. so this'll be real short. i'm putting a pic of me and the ladyfriend on here, so you guys (and parents) stop whining at me. you know who you are!

Here's the breakdown of Ryan's whirlwind west coast tour:
Monday: I'll be arriving (assuming flights, etc. work out) in seatac
Tuesday i'll be up in canada getting brent,
Wednesday i'll be going to portland with him,
Thursday i'll be in charge of cami's bachelor party,
Friday is the wedding rehearsal,
Saturday is the wedding,
Sunday i'm going back up to tacoma, and
Monday i'm leaving back for japan, and arriving back here tuesday.

All i can say is that if it's this crazy just to get to a wedding and be a best man, actually getting married (NOTE: not that i'm planning to any time soon!) must really suck. props to cami for being willing to put himself through this for deidre.

Aaaaaand, one more thing- a cry for help. in a stunning political maneuver, me and brent are both best men for cami, and as such are both in charge of the bachelor party. i need some ideas (at least moderately clean) for bachelor partying. if it was me, i'd say we just rent out a sento and sit around chatting. and maybe watching movies or something. but, in a nation of homophobes, that doesn't really seem to fly. so any other ideas would be great.