so Saturday we went to the beach for brunch then had to rush back to Chuck E. Cheese for his best friend's kids' birthday party

Because of his 26-hour shift and his "black cloud" dispatcher, he had several back-to-back calls and wasn't able to sleep enough/at all. So, he took a 4 hour nap before meeting up with me and HENCE, all we had time for at the beach was brunch (even though we planned to walk the pier and along the shore and to dig a giant hole in the sand).

It was truly adorable when he asked me,
"Is it okay if I check you in here?" I said, "yes."
He says, "Good, because I already had it ready."

Jalapeño mushroom soup du jour

I paid for brunch even though I know he doesn't like when I pay for us because he's "old-fashioned" (we're meeting up today and I'm gonna let him pay; we take turns because I have this weird thing about 'if this doesn't work out, then he won't have that problem of monetary investment because we will have put in the same dough).
We walked 20 feet until the Pacific. It was windy and I'm sure the water was freezing cold. On the way back to the car, we came upon Olive Ave. so I had to have him take a picture of it for Jaimee and Jon.

We stood in the middle of the street 

just to take this picture. It was kinda scary; no lie.

At Chuck E. Cheese, I met his friends' families and his brother—that's probably about 20 names and I remember 2 -____- His best friend, Sean, and his wife, Brenda, have 2 beautiful kids, Aubrey and Maeve, and are a young godly family. Robert and I will have Bible Study with them soon; we like to call it SSD (a Scripture Study Date).

After Chuck E. Cheese, we went to their house for the girls to open presents. I kind of was a tad uncomfortable being around people i didn't know but oh well. ALSO, there was a slight "hiccup" when I found out he took 2 pictures of me playing Mario Cart hahahha—I was kind of furious. I stared him down until he deleted them and after that, I was happy again. :) Jaimee called me after an hourish, and long story short, I had to go home to be with her.

On the way home, i thought about the beautiful day i had getting to know this amazing man which made me kind of sad to be leaving him. Then I started thinking of when I'd be able to see him again. When I got home, I gave him a real hug 'goodbye' for the first time and when I let go I missed him already. after I got in the house, Jaimee got a call from Jon minutes after and started talking to him—she didn't need me anymore b/c she wasn't lonely anymore. I could've called Robert to come back, and after I told him I almost did, he said he WANTED to come back.. but because of our hug I had to exercise self-control and what he calls 'temperance.'

And then, the night was over.. until I talked with him into the night on Facebook chat.

The End.