cheers to maria being back in town for a few days! last night maria, ann, josh and myself went and had persian food at this place called darya over by south coast plaza (the mall where marissa stole the watch from in season 1 of the oc for you out-of-towners), and it was much better food than i expected! not that i thought it'd be gross, just different, you know? but it was delicious. our waiter was extremely friendly without sounding completely fake about it, and that weirded me out a little. he almost sounded like that guy on the simpsons who had a stroke...

but it was tasty! then we all walked over to metro point and since we'd obviously not eaten in eons had to get something at jamba juice, much to the dismay of josh and his hatred of all things communist. after blended fruit drinks were procured we hastened back to the automobiles, because one of josh's friends from high school was also in town for the night. so back to huntington beach, we went to the hush hush secret on the down low cop club i can't talk about... but i will say this. what the hell is this sippy cup doing on the counter? man those crooked cops'll give anyone booze.

we left there around midnight or so and drove over to the explorer building to show josh's friend where they meet and stuff. and as we were all getting into our cars and leaving i saw the most amazing thing. better than this sippy cup on the bar. i turned my car around and was passing the gate to the heliport (i guess that's what it's called? where they park the copters?) i thought i saw a stray cat. not too spectacular, blah blah blah. but then i looked again as my headlights passed over it, and it was A HUMONGOUS RACCOON!!! it was insane! i've never seen a raccoon this close before, and being in my car made it feel like i was on safari watching crazy wild beasts in their natural habitat. it was so freaking cool.

but what was it doing in suburbia? 25 points for your theories!