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My birthday was so much fun! First, we all went rollerskating. None of us had been rollerskating in about a decade so it was quite an adventure but we all survived. That's my step-mom, me, my mom, my step-dad, my brother, my baby brother, and my dad. I declared a 70's theme so my step-mom, mom, and dad were all wearing my dad's high school T-shirts and my step-dad shaved his beard retro style (not just for my birthday, but for a retro NYE party tonight, too). Oh, what a blast. And I think I've never laughed harder than when my mom tried to spin with me in the middle. I am NOT that good of a rollerskater! Afterwards we went to Local Burger for dinner and got salad! I wrote about them before here . Yes, my ideal birthday dinner is salad. Then we came home for cake. My mom found one slice of vegan carrot cake at the store, and that was it. So carrot cake it was! I opened presents. I'll show you some later, maybe next Fashion Friday. ;) Then we finished the nigh...

I made it to Kansas! My trip was super easy - my roommate was nice enough to drive me to the Burbank Airport, and then I used self check-in and was through security in ten minutes. I took a picture of my travel food. I had two potatoes, celery, an apple, and that little garlic jar was full of nutritional yeast. I brought a plastic fork and used the top of that Tupperware as my plate. I took a couple pictures from the plane of the Arizona mountains (our plane had a pit-stop in Phoenix). My dad had a day off yesterday so we all hung out together. We went to a restaurant called Local Burger here in Lawrence. I wouldn't have picked out this restaurant based on its name, but it turns out that it's really vegan friendly! They have a home-made veggie burger made mostly of millet and quinoa, lots of salads, vegan chocolate chip cookies, and all of their salad dressings are vegan. Even the creamy ones are made with Vegenaise. They have a little booklet you can ask to see that h...