Well okay, technically it wasn’t the “weekend” by the traditional definition. But my weekends are Sunday-Tuesday, so it was for me. Last week my friend from Michigan known as Mariah (a girl that up until that point I pretty much only knew from social media and mutual friends) came out to see me and my sis! It was her first plane ride and first major adventure, and I’m super honored to be a part of that. On Sunday morning we packed our bags with a bunch of thrown-together, mismatched outfits (that’s what I packed, at least), books to read on the beach (which we never actually did), all the CDs we could find and lots of vegan junk food and took off in my beloved Saabi to cross the state line into California. We stopped in Cabazon to see the giant dinosaurs, had energy drinks and chips for lunch, and…