And we can dress real neat from our hats to our feet

I had my formal invite last night. I HATE finding dates to invites though. I always wait until the last second to ask people and then no one can come. This year was no exception because I ended up asking 6 people to go before finding someone and by the end I was so frustrated that I almost didnt go. My dad offered to take me out to dinner that night if I decided I didn't want to go, but at that point I was ready to just curl up under my covers and eat an entire bag of chocolate. But these things usually have a way of working themselves out and I found a date to come with me. Dinner was at this beautiful restaurant called Cafe Pinot, which was right next to the Los Angeles Public Library. We ate out on the patio which thankfully had heaters because I didn't have a jacket and would've frozen to death in the chilly 65 degree calfornia weather.



I met up with my date at the house and we ended up waiting for the bus for like 20 minutes, which was alright because we were entertained by this extremely drunk guy standing behind us in line. He was wearing a blue tux jacket, white girls pants that were about 3 inches too short, and these rubbery pale blue shoes. He was loud and coined such lines as "no I swear, I'm as sober as a sparrow." And then he said he was gonna make out with my date. In this picture, he's the insane looking guy in the back.



My mom came and did my hair and two other girls, but it was funny because she only knew how to do the one hairstyle that we had practiced the weekend before so she did it for all of us. It worked out well though because we all got compliments all night long.





The dance was at the Omni hotel in downtown LA which was such a nice change because our last invite was held at Fu's Palace, some chinese restaurant where not even half the people could fit on the dancefloor at one time. So, for not knowing my date and not even planning on going 24 hours before, everything came together and I ended up having a really nice time.