Best. Weekend. Ever

Mama,

Alex has this book program in her class that's a contest. I just found out she's been getting awards and stuff for her reading. Alex wants to be a "professional reader" when she grows up. Anyway, she's won gift certificates to movie theatres but just told me that on Friday. So she gave three to us and we went to see The Namesake - it was really good. I think if we were Indian (dot, not feather) we'd have understood and liked it that much more. Then we walked around for a while because we didn't feel like going home.

Today I went out to Long Island with the gay kid, Sebastian. We dumped Alex and Danielle at a library nearby and drove around for a few hours and hit the beach. Which was freezing. But it was a lot of fun anyway. I liked having so much space around and not feeling so closed in. It was great.

Then we kind of lost track of time and were late getting back so Sebastian was driving really fast. We got home just in time to wash our hands and be ready for our fire family dinner.

They have a study in the back of the house and two entire walls are covered floor to ceiling with books. I came home with four. The husband is REALLY into movies and film-making and he has a lot of books that are the screenplays of movies. The wife let me go through all her makeup and pick out a nail-polish and she did my nails. I chose this dark blood red. Alex said it looks angry. I like it.

Love,
Sam