Sailor Soldier of Love and Justice

One of ben's coworkers drove him home. He had too much to drink and it was clear he wasn't going to sober up within any reasonable hour.

Ben is a very sweet but very annoying drunk, so he kept me up all night telling me how much he loves me and anything else that popped into his mind...like how he wants me to have his baby if I go to mars so that we'd have a martian baby. Also, he kept having revelations on how pretty I am, and would hug me really tight. So any time I did start to drift off to sleep I'd wake up again. So yes, very sweet and loving, but very annoying too.

I am very very tired today. Everyone keeps commenting how tired I look. I am in zombie mode. I hope that we can leave early today. We sometimes get permission to do that right before a long weekend.

Housekeeping came at 8:30 this morning. Too early!!! I shouted at her to go away, but then I was awake and could hear her knocking on every door on our floor.

Once we got up, we went to pick up ben's mom because we were going to go to the planetarium with her and tara. Unfortunately ben's mom asked us to come in. As soon as we walked into the house, my mother started screaming at me.

Ben was amazingly wonderful and argued with her for me so I could focus on not crying. I seriously love this man.

Among the things she screamed about:
- I need to learn to respect her
- She will always be my mother
- I upset her guests so bad they don't want to go to the wedding
- I need to start appreciating all the things she does for me
- My marriage to ben probably won't last
- My friendships definitely won't last
- I have no soul and don't care about others

Ben's mom seemed to not realize this thing would happen if I came into the house and looked really sad and awkward the whole time. It wasn't until tara came to pick us up that it got a little less awkward. She was able to laugh at how insane my mother is.

Together we went to the vanderbilt planetarium where we saw a show about the planets. I thought it was decent, but ben fell asleep. It rained in the theater.

Our admission to the show included admission to the vanderbilt museum. There was a big hall of fish with dead fish from all over the world. Then there was a safari room full of artifacts from the vanderbilt's world travels. It included things like ceremonial sticks and shrunken heads. We also saw a lot of stuffed birds, mounted butterflies, and preserved shrimp, crabs, and cephalopods. In another room, there was a real mummy. The tour person told us it was thought to be a man when the guy bought it, but after x-raying it they learned the mummy was a woman. It's a good thing vanderbilt is dead, or he'd be annoyed that the mummy salesman ripped him off.

From there we went to the re-scheduled food tasting. I feel a lot more confident about the location because the food was quite tasty. I wish they had been able to prepare all the samples we wanted to try, but the ones we had today were pretty good.

After eating we learned to my delight that our location installed speakers all through the room we are renting. That means we don't have to rent them! Yay! Extra money!

My parents went and we all pretended not to hate each other. My mother made a few inappropriate comments, but nothing that caused me to cry.

We hung out with ben's mom for a bit more - I showed her my veil and wedding shoes - then took her back to my parents house. When we took her back to my parents house, we were asked to come back in again. I didn't want to. I really didn't want to. But I did and thankfully was not yelled at again. We all sat around awkwardly and talked about dogs and birds.

I was getting hungry, so we left after an hour. I took ben to dave and busters because he deserved to have a little fun on the trip. He was tremendously clever and suggested we share a dinner and dessert. It was the perfect amount of food. We also shared a strawberry red bull smoothie drink which ben said made me sassy.

Then we played lots of fun games. I showed off my awesome arcade shooting skills and embarrassed myself with rhythm games. Ben found a sniper game he really liked. And I screamed a lot.

We ran out of money a little bit before the place was closing, so we made our way back to the hotel room where I am waiting for my red bull drink to wear off so I can sleep. I think I'm on the edge of crashing, so it won't be much longer.

Tomorrow we flee the island. I will return home and cuddle my dog. It will be glorious.