When I read in the paper that Eva Longoria and Adam Rodriguez were going to be speaking at a rally today, I knew that I had to take my mother-in-law. She is CSI Miami’s biggest fan. In fact, she regularly refers to David Caruso as her ‘boyfriend’. We ended up waiting almost two hours IN THE RAIN. Eva and Adam both spoke to the crowd and then rushed off stage to a waiting car. You can tell Eva has a lot of practice with crowds [paparazzi!] because she made it to the vehicle in record time. People crowded around the car, taking pictures and trying to touch her. Scary! The crush of people was too much for Jean and she hovered around the edges of the crowd, trying to catch a glimpse of CSI Miami guy.

Just as he was about to get in the car I got his attention and asked him to come over to where Jean was waiting on the other side of a rock wall. “My mother-in-law loves your show. She wants to meet you but she is too old to fight her way through this crowd.” He was so nice about it. Right away he walked through a group of people and shook her hand, smiling and nodding as she professed her love for him and all things CSI Miami. He made her day! What a gentleman. As soon as she let go of his hand, he hopped in the car and was gone.

On a more serious note: there are only two more days to register in the state of New Mexico. If you haven’t already, please register and exercise your right fulfill your responsibility to vote!

There are two things my kids always talk about: seeing the ocean and riding in a limousine. For the last few years I’ve wanted to take them to the beach and it hasn’t worked out. Renting a fancy car for a few hours is a lot more feasible. Mike and I were sitting there talking about homecoming. “Let’s do it!” he said. “Let’s rent a limo and surprise the kids.”  He took care of the car and I took care of the kids. We invited Justin and his family and told Mia to bring her boyfriend to a ‘pre-game party’.

We were expecting to be picked up at around 6:30 so I put out some snacks. It wasn’t even six when Mikal came running inside. “Mom! Dad! There is a LIMO outside. The man is shining it in front of our house!” I don’t think she had any idea it was there for us. Bleu was outside on the porch, practicing his trumpet and pretending not to care. It took a few minutes and me talking to the driver to convince them that they would actually get to ride in it.

Bleu had to pick up his uniform, so we took the limo to his school. How cool is he? The girls made sure to hang out the windows when we went to the game. The little ones were mesmerized by the fancy glasses! With napkins! And soda! And water bottles! And lights on the ceiling! And tiny flashing lights on the sides! And… And… And… I thought they might die from the excitement.  It was an amazing ride and an amazing night. We won the football game [of course] and the big girls went to the dance on Saturday.

I took a bunch of pictures… check them out!

Homecoming 2008 on flickr: set | slideshow