THURSDAY - Friday Eve!  SCREAM IT!  We rolled off the sofa-sleeper early today, stumbled through the beer cans and pizza boxes on the floor and were out the door by 10am,  IT'S A RECORD (and the crowd goes wild!).  You may wonder what could get us conscious so early in the day since we don't even get up before noon for court appearances, bill collectors or our parole officer.  Well, it was the eggroll roadtrip!

YEAH BABY!  We packed up the '86 Buick Skylark and headed for Los Angeles.  We had a date with destiny - our application for Chinese entrance and transit visas was being acted on at the Consulate and we wanted to make sure our side of the story was told correctly.  We made it there in under two hours and only had to stop and add oil twice!  So here's the deal - have any of you ever been to the Embassy of the People's Republic of China? (Heavy on the word "People's").  WHAT A TRIP!  We want whatever those people are smoking, and we don't mean the jasmine incense!

Look, we tried to behave ourselves, but sometimes words just slip out - maybe we have Turret's Syndrome or something.  At one point Kevin jumped up and shouted "TIBET,"  and another time Stacy was heard to mutter, "why can't any of "them" drive?"  The high point however, was when Kevin asked to meet General Tso so he could compliment him on his chicken dish.  Folks, we don't know how this is gonna turn out, but it doesn't look good.  They took our passports (not kidding), gave us a reciept and told us to come back next week for a "final" interview.  Maybe we shouldn't have asked for chopsticks when we were at the water fountain...

      
ROADTRIP!  Los Angeles, California U.S. A.!                                   Downtown L.A., BABY!  Where's Kobe Bryant live?

      
Stacy couldn't believe Kevin told them about...you know!                       When we got this they were helping # A17