Last night I watched the first Harry Potter movie with Tina. That was fun to see again, though I had forgotten how much of the book they had to leave out. I'm looking forward to the second movie, coming out next week.

After the movie, Tina was going over to an Opening Committee party in Kimball, so I stopped by too, to pretend to be an Opener again for a little bit. Some people were experimenting with various kinds of lifts and dips for the choreography (or not). I got to try being on the lifted end of a waltz lift with Kari, and that was fun. Then George decided to do a shoulder lift with me, and Brian got an amusing picture of that. (Brian has some other pictures of the party, as well.)

My Stanford yearbook arrived today. It's nice, but I wish I had gotten one from 2001, my original year. A lot of my friends aren't in this one. I was also annoyed that they put the entire sports section in color but not the senior portraits. Oh well. My picture is pretty horrid anyway. I was not happy that day and they wouldn't let me reuse the photo from the year before. And they left out my home town and my major for some reason. At least they spelled my name right. I didn't see much about dancing in there, either. I would have thought Viennese Ball would have made it in at least, especially since it was the 25th anniversary, but no.

I had a very good time with Quena in Davis yesterday and today. It's a wonderful place, and a very Quena-sort of place, so I'm glad she's there. We spent all Saturday afternoon walking around the UC Davis campus, which was a lot of walking but very fun. It's beautiful around there, with all sorts of wonderful trees. Unfortunately, we couldn't find any of the fistulated cows, which I really wanted to see, but I'll try again another time.

On Saturday evening we visited Quena's friend Anna at a local co-op where they were having a Day of the Dead celebration. There were 30 or 40 people there, with lots of costumes, candles, drums, noise-makers and a couple giant, decorated skulls and coffins. After dark, we all marched off in a big parade to the cemetary. Once there, we formed a large circle and made sure everyone had a candle. We had a moment of silence and then some time when everyone could take turns calling out the names of loved ones who had died. Then we resumed the festivities and paraded back to the co-op, where we had a burrito potluck and a drumming circle.

We had a nice, leisurely morning today, and made french toast and fruit compote for a very excellent breakfast. I also got to meet Quena's housemates Kristen and Naomi, and also their cat, dog and some of the snakes. All in all, it was a very nice weekend. Here are a few random photos.

I'm off to Davis to visit Quena! I'll be back sometime Sunday afternoon or evening. I'll have my cell phone along if anyone needs to get a hold of me.

I spent some time out on the front porch last night with housemates Cheryl and Michael, distributing candy to trick-or-treaters, so that was pretty fun. I like snacking on candy and guessing what little kids are dressed up as. I severely offended a Legolas, though, by calling him Robin Hood. I suppose it's always important to remember what movies have come out in the past year when you're guessing costumes :-) I didn't see any Harry Potters, though, strangely enough.

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Friday Night Waltz tonight! Always one of my favorite dances.