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This is not a group I'm real eager to share a room with, ESPECIALLY since there are only two beds in Gammie's guest room. That means some of us have to double up and the rest have to sleep on the floor. Uncle John used to be one of the Bachelors, but he got married last spring. I'm starting to wonder if maybe he got married just so he wouldn't have to

sleep in there with the rest of us. It was hard falling asleep with all those people snoring away in the same room with me, so eventually I picked up my stuff and looked for somewhere else to spend the night. The only place I could find was the bathroom next to Gammie's room, so I put my blanket and pillow in the tub and made myself a bed. It wasn't comfortable, but at least I had some privacy.

Luckily, when Gammie came in this morning for her bath, I woke up in the nick of time. I'M IN HERE! I'M IN HERE!!! After that near disaster, I was up for the day. And it was a really long day, too, because the rehearsal dinner wasn't until 7:00 at night. But at least I knew I had the party with the groomsmen to look forward to after that. The problem with these family gatherings is that they're not really geared toward kids. So if you don't like to drink tea and gossip with the ladies, you're sort of out of luck.

And everything in Gammie's house is old-person stuff, so there's nothing for a kid to entertain himself with. I complained to Mom a few years ago, and she bought some Legos to keep at Gammie's house. But Gammie glued them together in one big block because she didn't like the little pieces all over the place. Besides that, there's not a whole lot for a kid to enjoy at Gammie's. She DOES have some hard candy in a jar on her mantel, and last year I had a few pieces. But the candy tasted AWFUL. It was really

chewy, like bubble gum. I ended up getting really sick and had to lie down on the couch for a few hours. It turns out the candy in that jar is REALLY old. In fact, Dad said that same candy was there when HE was a little kid. And he even found a picture in Gammie's photo album to prove it.

Speaking of pictures, Gammie really needs to update the ones she's got on her mantel. She has a photo of every single person in the family, and the one of me and Rodrick is from when we went to Santa's Village about eight years ago. I keep meaning to throw that picture away when no one's looking, because that's just the kind of thing that'll crop up when they do my celebrity biography later on.