"Hi guys!" Pollyanna definitely seemed to be having a good time as she gave her brother a big hug."How's it going?"

"Great. What's up with Dennis?" Howie was just as lively."Well," she said, " it seems that Dennis hates clowns and peas and some clown bumped into him when he wasn't looking and then insisted on making sure Dennis was okay.Dennis was saying he was okay but it took almost 10 minutes to get rid of him. Then while we were eating a little kid at the next table boinged his peas on his spoon and got him a good one in the eye."

By the time she finished the story we were all staring open mouthed and Dennis was standing with his hands in his pockets and an annoyed look on his face.When they left we all had a good laugh about it and Mindi told me about Dennis' hangups about peas and clowns.

AJ was more serious about it though, because although he didn't mind peas, he hated clowns too. In fact, Jacinth told me that he said he'd fire Ronald McDonald if he had the slightest chance.

We managed to find a table and after ordering ,we went to wash our hands. When Jacinth, Mindi and me were coming back from the bathroom I saw Nick give something, a notebook I think to a girl and she ran off squealing to her friends who all crowded around her to see something in it. Jacinth looked at me and shrugged and we went to eat.

Lunch was fun. The guys told us all kinds of horror stories about sharing rooms, although if half the things Nick and Aaron said were true, their mom's head would be gray, but they both assured me that their Mom had a full head of dark hair with not a gray hair in sight.I didn't believe it especially since they had 4 sisters one of whom was Aaron's twin.

Howie told us about his sister Caroline who died recently of lupus. You could tell he really missed her but he didn't dwell on it or make her seem like someone to be pitied or anything. He talked about all the good times they had and the fun stuff they did and she definitely sounded like a sister I'd love to have, lupus or no.