Locked out

Last week I went for a run with friends and when I came back, the cleaning lady had locked all the doors in the building and gone home for the day. She didn't realize I had come home and that I had left my keys inside. For the record, the apt. is behind a gate, so I tie the gate key to my shoe when I run and leave my door unlocked...that way I don't have to take two keys. So, ALL of my belongings and my friend's house keys were inside. We then proceeded to break into my friends house (we thought about breaking into mine but the windows you see below are the only ones...that place is a fortress). So my two friends fed me, gave me clothes to wear to work the next day, and let me crash with them. The plan was to wait for the cleaning lady in the am and then be late to work (Plan B: They gave me money to take a taxi in case she didn't show)Well the cleaning lady was late, but Alex and another friend (who comes over every morning to tutor ALex in Spanish) were assessing the situation with me in the morning. The only window that will even open at all is the little tiny window in the bottom right corner of the window on the left. My friend Carlos says "Let me just try to fit through." So we unscrewed the screen and slid the window open. The next thing I know, his butt and legs are sticking out from the window and he's saying "Cupe!! Cupe!!" which means, "I fit!! I fit!!" and then his legs disappear inside the apt. Sure enough he fit, but he lost his pants in the process. Door unlocked. Erin is an hour late to school...but in her own car.

To come...I maybe had the best birthday party ever last night...friends, food, rock band, pinata, power outage, dancing in the street, Mexican Dancing, Bull City dancing, and Costco cake.