Monday morning was April Fool's Day.  I woke up early again and got Zyla, Lillian and Zion ready to go hiking at the Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument.  Ed was staying behind to edit a video he had shot of Sonia and Ezra for their submission to a reality cooking show for food trucks.  Ezra, Sonia and Ed had filmed the night before a trailer, but they needed a 15-minute show of him cooking a complete dish.  He chose to do a breakfast burrito type thing called a Bib n Bop Burrito, infusing Asian and Mexican traditions.  It was really tasty.  Sonia had to take her son Jamaica to set for more rehearsals and Ezra needed to go do a radio spot for their product Cowboy Up Energy drink.  I drove the kids I had to Trader Joe's for some water and sandwiches, then we headed to the Tent Rocks.  The weather was amazing and I found it easily with the directions I had printed from google maps.  I filmed the kids running through the slot canyons and up the trail to the amazing look out.  We had fun hiding in cool caves, eating snacks, exploring the weird formations and I was really impressed everyone did the 3.1-mile hike with minimal complaints.  Kids Management called with two more jobs for Zyla but we were still out of town, out of state.  We arrived back to the house, so I could shower and get ready for dinner.  The adults were going out to The Shed, an authentic Mexican cuisine in downtown Santa Fe.  But first the three older kids had theater rehearsals, so we dropped them off.  Ezra, Sonia and Kingston then took Ed, Zyla and I into downtown Santa Fe to see The Miracle Staircase in the Loretto Chapel.  The Chapel was so beautiful, such a strong spiritual presence.  We walked around Santa Fe, music in the air, soft breezes, weaving our way through art galleries and different lounges.  We picked the kids up from theater and took them home for pizza.  Zyla and Zion were in charge to baby sit.  Zyla was happy to earn a service hour for her Religion class babysitting her new friends.  The food at The Shed was amazing.  After we went to Cowgirl BBQ for drinks and karaoke.  It was really crowded and some other girl sang the song I wanted to do, Adele's Rumor Has It, so I passed on singing that night, but filmed Ed when he got up to sing Ozzy's War Pigs.  He had the whole bar rocking out!  When we got back to the house, Ed finished uploading Sonia and Ezra's demo piece for the cooking show onto youtube. 

Tuesday morning, I woke up and started packing up our stuff to leave Santa Fe.  Zyla started crying because she did not want to go.  Jamaica had to be at rehearsals for the movie by 11am, so we all drove down to Albuquerque to eat breakfast at the Flying Star.  After breakfast we said our good-byes and headed out of New Mexico.  We drove 6 hours back to Williams, Arizona.  We checked in at our hotel, then took a walk down into historic downtown Williams on Route 66.  On the way, we wandered through the Williams Cemetery, which was very Catholic.  Ed and I found a great shop where we each got something.  He got a leather vest and I got an orange hoodie sweatshirt.  We all had new things to wear for the following day when we would hike into the Grand Canyon.  We ate dinner at the Red Raven before heading back to the hotel for a dip in the Jacuzzi. 

Wednesday morning we got up around 6am for the complimentary breakfast served at our hotel.  It was really nice, waffles, eggs, sausage, bagels.  There was so much food!  Then we prayed our morning Rosary as we headed up the road for about an hour to enter the Grand Canyon.  It was so much bigger than I remembered and although I had been studying the maps of the area, it could get confusing.  The park suggested parking and taking the shuttle buses, like we had done in Yosemite, but after waiting for a shuttle that was full and wouldn't let us on, I decided to move our car to another lot, closer to where we were headed, The Bright Angel Trail.  I had never walked into the Grand Canyon as a child coming here.  Ed had walked all the way to the bottom and back when he was 22 years old.  We all walked into the Grand Canyon on the Bright Angel Trail, bringing with us water and snacks.  It was glorious.  The views were dizzying, but I felt charged with energy as we made our decent.  The trail was very well kept and I felt like running.  The layers of color spanned out before me felt like a dream, almost too perfect to be real.  Zyla was a bit scared of the height and view and took her time walking down the trail.  When we got to the 1.5-mile rest house with bathrooms, we stopped to eat.  Ed and I took turns filming little commercials for Sonia and Ezra's product Cowboy Up Energy Drink.  It took us a little less than an hour to get to this point so we decided to hike back up knowing it would take twice as long going up.  I desperately felt drawn to want to keep going down which was so light and freeing.  I promised myself I would be back again with more supplies to make the hike to the bottom and back safely.  We made it back to the top in an hour and a half.  We explored the shops, Kolb Brothers Studio and Trail of Time Rim of the Grand Canyon before driving to the Watchtower on the eastern end of the park.  The sun was setting and Elk were coming out to feast everywhere!  We took lots of pictures of the surreal sights before heading back to our hotel. 

Thursday morning we packed up, had the complimentary breakfast, then checked out of our hotel and headed home to Burbank.  It was an amazing experience, and we felt truly blessed by God to have such a wonderful Easter Break, Holy Week out in the magical mysteries of the desert.  Ed uploaded all our footage to the computer and we watched our memories that he would edit into Nyahay Road Trip 2013 webisodes for youtube.

Friday, Jessica's called with my call time for Monday on a new pilot, Do It Yourself, I would be standing in on.  Nancy Hass had requested me.  When I looked it up on imdb it said it was a TV movie.  I was to be standing in for Melora Hardin playing Kate.  It was shooting back at my favorite location CBS Radford Stage 10, my old Whitney stages.  I was very excited for the opportunity and seven days of steady work.  The rest of the day I finished getting things back in order, doing laundry, paying bills, getting groceries.  Ed upgraded our computer systems then started editing our road trip.  I sat by his side helping for a while then ended up passing out for the night.

The weekend was mellow, still adjusting to not being on the road.  Sunday we took a trip down to Disneyland for the early morning magic hours arriving at 7am to enjoy the park before general admission.  We road our ten favorite rides between the two parks, had some breakfast and called it a day by 1pm.  I took a nice little afternoon nap when we got home before heading into Mass for Divine Mercy Sunday.

Monday, I was back at CBS Radford Stage 10.  The stage was completely different; a huge Home Depot type set had taken over for the new pilot.  I was happy to see Patti, the same DP from Whitney.  When I checked the crew list, it looked like half our Whitney crew would be on this pilot and the others were working a new Andy Ackerman pilot on stage 20.  Most of the stand ins were from 2 ½ Men which had just wrapped up their tenth season.  Morgan, Dave, Susan, Travis, Maureen and I would be the regulars for the pilot.  The cast for the pilot was huge so most of the little parts were given to the stand ins to run for the run thrus we would be doing every day that week.  We all sat at a big table with the director and other actors to do a read thru of the entire script.  I was given a part to play just for rehearsals and run thrus, which meant having a scene with Cheech Marin.  He was really cool and I of course was a big fan, having watched a lot of his movies back in the day.  Our director James Widdoes was really easy to work with.  It was a fun group and I looked forward to spending the week with them with fingers crossed for the show to be picked up. 

On Tuesday, Joe, the 1^st AD from Whitney, along with Antar, Jane, and Rocky all came to visit me at stage 10.  They were prepping for their pilot on stage 20.  It was so nice to see everyone again as I had missed them.  We table read the script again because of all the changes that had been made the night before.  On the lunch break Melora introduced herself to me.  She seemed very nice.  I went to my car to finish reading New Moon and ran into Ginny from Whitney.  I planned to visit everyone over at stage 20 next week when they would be in full swing and hopefully Alex, Matt and Robert who were scheduled to stand in on that pilot would be there too.  After lunch, we started rehearsing the last scene before the run thru when the lights went out.  It was a black out all over the entire CBS Radford studios.  All the productions came outside their stages, almost like a block party.  In under an hour the power was back on and we finished up inside.  The stand ins were told to go to wardrobe after the run thru.  Production wanted us to play BG on shoot days in the Home Depot set, so they wanted to tell us what to wear.  That night I finished New Moon.  I had been reading it every morning before set and during lunch breaks in my car.  I moved onto Eclipse, falling in love with the characters all over again, as I remembered the visuals I had seen in the past. 

Wednesday, it was more of the same.  New scripts again, but we did not table read them, just jumped into rehearsals.  The run thru was scheduled for 3pm, then Patti wanted us to stay after for lighting.  I had fun hanging out with Cheech, who was playing Perez, whenever it was time to run scene B that I acted with him in.  We talked about the challenges of raising kids going through puberty.  The pilot had a great cast, who were all funny and I thought it had a good chance of being picked up.  The day flew by fairly fast and I was home by 6pm.

Thursday, four additional stand ins were brought in for our huge cast.  I was happy to see Robson, the stand in for Maulik Pancholy from the first season of Whitney and Heather, who was Brian's wife and had done a bunch of BG on the second season of Whitney, now doing stand in.  Pete and Chris were our other two stand ins who looked familiar and I think I had worked with them on random days of Whitney when we had guest star stand ins in.  Thursday was the mellowest day, because we did not do a network run thru.  We came in at 10:30am and were out before six hours.  There was no lunch break, but crafty had food out all day for us.  We just watched rehearsals of all the scenes again, took notes then were done for the day.  Cheech told me he was tired, he had been at L.A. Film School all night with Tommy doing a talk for the students.  When I told Ed about it, he wanted me to ask Cheech if he would come in to talk to his students at Crespi.  Netflix had sent The Perks of Being a Wallflower.  Ed and I enjoyed it very much, I especially loved seeing Emma Watson, whom we love from the Harry Potter series, Nina Dobrev whom we love from Vampire Diaries, Ezra Miller and Logan Lerman.  And they did a tribute to Rocky Horror Picture Show, with a scene of the characters going to see the movie with the live actors and audience participation.  Emma was especially cute playing Janet in the Rocky Horror scenes, Ezra was amazing playing Frank and Logan made an adorable Rocky.

Friday was the most fun I had on Home Team.  The producers had change the name of our pilot because they said they could not copyright Do It Yourself.  I loved the way our director Jamie worked; he was incredibly fast and efficient.  He had 1^st team run four scenes for marks, then all the actors left to go to make-up, while 2^nd team then ran the scenes for camera blocking.  Instead of going one scene at a time, this went much faster.  Stand ins would run the scene slowly with no dialog for the cameras, then run it again one or two times with dialog for cameras.  It was so much fun to act out all of Melora's scenes.  She is the second lead of the show so she was in pretty much every scene.  A lot of her scenes are done while she is driving in a little golf cart type thing through the store.  I had not driven the cart all week, while I watched her practice and did not know if they would have me do it.  But they wanted me to do it exactly like her, so I learned really fast how to drive it and managed to hold the script, run the lines, while driving the cart around the pattern she had created through the store perfectly.  After we finished blocking four of the scenes the cast came back to pre-shoot two scenes.  I was thrown in as BG in one of the scenes walking through with Robson browsing the store.  Afterward, the cast laid down marks for three more scenes then they were wrapped for the day.  Cheech was absent because he had flown to New York to do Saturday Night Live.  Bill Engvail, who was playing Dale, was absent as well, doing a comedy show in four different states and would not be back until Monday either.  Our stand in Dave did Bill's lines really well, they were a good match.  The remainder of the day the stand ins did the same thing, walking through the scenes with camera for blocking then running the scenes with the lines so they could see the timing.  We wrapped out by 6pm and I was home in time for dinner with my family.

Saturday, Zyla had gym, then she would be going to her gymnastic party that evening while Ed and I had a date night to Flapper's Comedy Club.   After dropping Zyla at her party, Ed and I drove up to downtown Burbank, found parking right outside the comedy club and headed in.  It was chilly outside, had been overcast all day, moody weather that called me to want to go hiking in the fog.  Had a hard time getting into our 8pm show at first because they said they could not find our reservation.  I had been told when I made the reservation by phone that I just needed to bring in the free tickets Ed had been mailed by the club in their Christmas card.  The guy checking us in said the show was a special event and wanted the confirmation email, so I had to pull it up on Ed's phone.  After I showed him, he still insisted we needed to pay, but I stood my ground that the guy on the phone had said we could use the free tickets we were mailed at Christmas.  Later, once I got my way and we were seated, I looked online and the show was not listed as a special event, so I don't know why the guy gave us a hard time and he didn't even ask for the spelling of our last name, so I think that is why he could not find our reservation.  We got seats in our favorite section.  A video montage of the late comedian Jonathan Winters was playing on a pull down screen onstage.  Robin Williams was featured in it.  It had some funny moments.  I tried the Lemon Bubbles first, a champagne vodka type drink, while Ed went for his customary scotch.  The Apple Pie Pizza and Little Chocolatier Martini satisfied my sweet tooth.  Then onto more champagne for me and Dr. Brown's Brooklyn Fizz for Ed when Austin, a former student of Ed's, came over to say hi.  The show finally got started with Emcee Joel Bryant who was great.  The first stand up was Arden Myrin, whom we love from the show Suburgatory.  She was really funny, loved her.  Next up was Flip Schultz, he was great too.  The best was Brad Williams.  It was his first weekend Headlining and he was killing it.  Everyone was dieing laughing, he really kept the crowd going surpassing his hour time limit because he was having so much fun with us.  Brad ended the evening dancing to the song Gangnam Style with perfect choreography it was hilarious!  The second he left the stage we had to scoot out and get back to the gym to pick up Zyla.  Ed spent the rest of the evening uploading the second video of our roadtrip to youtube.

Sunday was mellow.  Zyla wanted to watch the entire season of M-TV's Awkward because it was disappearing from Netflix Instant by Monday.  She Alter Served for her weekly service hour at the 5pm Mass.  Next weekend we would be going to an orientation meeting at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to volunteer for the Entertainment Industry Foundation Revlon Run/Walk for Women to end women's cancer.  I had found out about it through an email from SAG/AFTRA. 

Monday it was back to CBS Radford, where we refreshed the scenes we had blocked on Friday with all our new BG.  I ran Melora's lines, drove the cart around having fun.  Then all the stand ins were thrown into the scenes to do BG as well.  We were getting a special bump for doing double duty so I didn't mind.  Brandi, the casting director at Central who was casting this pilot, showed up to make sure all the BG showed up on time.  I had never met her and was surprised when she knew me by name!  It was great to put a face to the voice I had heard on the lines all these years.  Brian showed up to do BG, it was fun seeing him again.  A bunch of us were planning to visit Alex at stage 20, but she texted that she wouldn't start work there until Wednesday.  Ed sent me a text about the Boston Marathon bombing.  Everyone on set started talking about the tragedy.  Lunch was catered, then it was back to work until about 9pm.  Maureen and I were paired up together in a lot of our BG scenes wandering around the Home Team set.  We had fun with Efren Ramirez who plays Javier.  He was put with us in one scene to help us shop for nuts and screws.  I got home in time to kiss Zyla good night and pass out from the long day.  She had been texted by Kids Management for a job on the tv show The Fosters for the following day but again we passed because everyone was just too busy.

Tuesday was Show Night!  We had a late morning call of 11am, so I took my time getting ready, read Eclipse for a bit before heading into the stages.  The day flew by pretty quickly refreshing the scenes we would shoot in front of the audience.  Where I normally would have had down time, I spent rehearsing where I would be doing BG in all the scenes.  Cheech came over to talk to Maureen and I at one point during rehearsals.  When she asked him how SNL went, he confessed he did not go to NY, but was needed as part of a panel of judges who pick what new art is collected for LACMA.  2^nd Team ran one rehearsal of the Tag scene when the actors needed to leave to go to make-up, then we broke for a 3-hour lunch.  All of the crew, including the stand ins were given t-shirts as gifts.  I had never gotten a set shirt on a pilot!  I drove home and made dinner for my family.  When I got back to the studios the entire parking structure was full.  I had never run into this problem before when we had show nights at 5pm, but ours wasn't until 7pm, so I had to drive down the whole structure and over to the North structure further away to park.  I still made it to set early and got my one t-shirt change from wardrobe.  Since there were 10 stand ins it was a tight fit for us all to hang out in the AD office, but we put all our stuff in there.  We were really working almost every scene of the show doing BG so it would not be like normal show nights of hanging for hours in the AD office, we were busy.  Fastest show night ever directed by Jamie Widdoes, just under 3 hours!  We had an amazing audience warm up comedian juggler Ron Pearson.  He not only juggled bowling pins, but did it with a director's set chair balance on his chin!  Then to top that, he jumped down to the floor in front of the audience and balanced a 10-step ladder on his chin while juggling the pins!  Our director Jamie joined him and juggled Ron's bowling pins as well!  Outstanding performance!  The show was a hit, the audience was laughing, the cast enjoying the energy, and I looked forward to working with everyone again real soon.

Wednesday, I was exhausted, but had so much to catch up on since I had been so busy with the pilot.  By noon, I crashed out for a nap before getting Zyla from school.  Life of Pi came from Netflix.  I loved the cinematography.  The shots captured were all so beautiful, a fun adventure survival film. 

Thursday I was back in Zyla's school library even though I was done earning my service hours.  The other mom couldn't make it and I said I would come in.  I had to send some 3^rd grade boys back to class for doing front flips over the couches.  I gave a warning to another boy who consistently comes into the library then drops to his knees to pretend he is a dog.  I went home, had some lunch then fell asleep until it was time to get Zyla.  Zero Dark Thirty had come from Netflix.  This was a long 2-½ hour movie that Ed and I only got through the first hour of before heading to bed.  It was similar to Homeland, but not as fast paced.  It was also really depressing because there are a lot of bombings going on in the movie.  In light of the recent events with the Boston Marathon bombing, then the explosion at the fertilizer plant in Texas I could only watch so much.

I was able to finish Zero Dark Thirty Friday evening.  What an amazing movie.  I had no idea the details to how Osama bin Laden had finally been captured.  The decade long hunt process was insane to believe it all came together like that.  And that the U.S. has secret strongholds on foreign lands, to fly secret planes into someone's compound was all so surreal.  It made me question who else had things like that in place.  Were other countries doing the same here?  The weekend was mellow.  Saturday we spent at the Los Angeles Coliseum for the volunteer orientation meeting.  We met under the Olympic torch.  It brought back memories of my childhood, I remember when the Olympics came in 1984, I was in 4^th grade.  It all looked so small from my adult perspective now.  I knew the EIF Revlon Run/Walk would be a big event and it was fun to be part of it all with Zyla and Ed.  After working all week on perfecting the third installment of our web series Nyahay RoadTrip 2013 Into the Desert, Edward uploaded it to youtube.  Now he only had one more episode left, the Grand Canyon.

With the pilot over, not much other work was presenting itself as pilot season ended.  I spent my week off, going hiking at Stough, and reading Breaking Dawn.  The Hobbit came from Netflix.  We gathered as a family to enjoy the latest in the Tolkien series, prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy.  I did not realize it would be another trilogy and did not like how it just ended before he reached his goal he was talking about the entire movie, but it was a visually beautiful movie with fun and adventure.  Maureen, the stand in I had met on the pilot invited me for a hike at a new place.  It was located behind the Brand Library in Glendale.  A steep accent up the Verdugo Mountain, with fun little trails branching off and around.  Sometimes the path would be wide, sometimes just a single track, we wove our way all the way to the top on a cool misty morning.  I felt like I had climbed a mountain and wasn't at all sure I would make it, but with Maureen's encouragement, I did.  The walk down was much easier and we explored the old cemetery as well.  Anna Karanina came from Netflix and I had high expectations for the popular Russian novel by Tolstoy that had been converted to film.  Sadly, I was disappointed by the British accents that prevailed.  The film ended up feeling like a British stage production of the book, instead of an epic film.  The costumes and direction were great, but I would rather they had cast Russians or actors who could use authentic Russian accents for the parts.  The week ended with Zyla's school Festival in full swing, but before we could go, Zyla and I headed down to Redondo to visit my sister and niece and celebrate their birthdays' as well as get Zyla some service hours caring for the bunnies at the Rabbit Rescue Sanctuary again.

Saturday, I spent earning service hours in the nice air-conditioned Silent Auction held in the Social Center of the Church, while Zyla ran around with her friends outside at the festival.  When I was done, I joined up with her for some lunch then relaxed listening to the jazz musicians while enjoying Sangria.  Ed was off chaperoning his school class field trip to Magic Mountain.  We all met up in the evening to watch People Like Us.  Zyla and I had both worked on the movie as BG two years prior when it was originally titled Welcome To People.  I found myself, playing the flight attendant in the airport scene.  I was a blur in the background, but I was there.  Zyla had to wait through the entire movie for the flashback scene she shot at the outdoor playground.  Then she was upset because she could not find herself.  The kids in the background were all a blur; I assured her she was there somewhere.

Sunday we all headed down to the Brewery Art Walk off the I-5 in Los Angeles.  Ed and I had last been exactly 15 years ago when our friends James and Kim Young used to live there and invited us to attend.  The last time we went I had bought a beautiful metal works necklace with a cross that I wore a few weeks later when filming the Mystique movie The Key To Sex in the Jacuzzi scene.  I still had the necklace and wore it back to the Art Walk.  Now neither of my friends lived there anymore, but I wanted to share the experience with Zyla.  So many amazing artists all packed into one place, opening their loft doors, homes, to the public to come in and enjoy their creations was mind blowing and all free!  While there was so much to look at and absorb, my favorites were these little shadow boxes made from sardine cans with a religious shrine type feel, hung with beaded jewels over images of nude 1920's type artsy women or skeletal Mary and Jesus pictures inside.  Unfortunately I don't remember where or what artist made them, it all went by in such a blur.  Another piece of art I enjoyed were the technology mixed media art using motherboards from computers as the base and adding flourishes, flowers etc.  I have to go back again, but the artists names I do remember striking a chord with me were Sean Sobczak whose sculptures of glowing creative genius turning dragons and seahorses into surreal dreamlike creatures, Daniel Blimes, loved the use of gold leaf on his art, Denice Bartel, loved the mix of outer space moons with sea creatures, Sarah Jane Hardt's Lillith series, Christina Ramos, Black Umbrella girl drew me in, Susan Berkowitz was just cool and trippy, Shannon Hourigan, her Light Theory Series was awesome as well as The Dead Inside trailer they were playing of their supernatural zombie musical movie, Leslie Barrett had beautiful jewelry made from recycled drum cymbals very inventive and fun, and of course last but not least the Brazen Booties Burlesque troop was a favorite, we watched one show in which the dancer spun a hula hoop very talentedly around her scantily clad body. 

Monday was mellow, since Zyla was still out of school while the festival was cleaned up.  We went out to breakfast at Mimi's then watched Flowers in the Attic.  I had been hooked on all things V.C. Andrews around her age and wanted to share the movie version of one of her more popular books.  The movie was not nearly as good as the novel, but gave Zyla an idea of the author's subject matter.  Zyla thought it was too sad and probably not something she would be into reading.  Jessica's called with a gig for me to stand in on True Blood the following day.  I was excited to be back to their set.  I found out I would be working the splinter unit on The Lot while the main unit would be going on location.  Sookie/Anna was part of main unit so I wouldn't get to watch her acting this time.  I finished Breaking Dawn and loved the Twilight saga even more.  So much detail and explanations that I never got from the movie.  I understood why Hollywood added a whole fight scene into the movie that was never in the book.  The book just added more depth and understanding to everything in a way you sometimes cannot visualize through cinema.  I also had fun imagining that I was Bella and Edward was well my husband Edward. 

My call time to set was noon, so I had plenty of time to get Zyla off to school, then come home to get ready.  I drove over to The Lot and checked in.  Things were running a little behind schedule, my scene would not be up until after lunch.  I was standing in for Lisa Hoyle who was playing a Petite Female Scientist.  Around 1:30pm, they did a rehearsal of the scene then we started to light it before breaking for lunch at 2pm.  Steak and Portobello mushroom raviolis in an amazing cream sauce awaited me.  I was pleasantly surprised to see Ann, my stand in friend I always periodically run into throughout the years.  Last time had been two years ago on Jane by Design.  We spent a lot of the down time catching up.  Ann was standing in for Lucy Griffith who plays Eric's sister Nora.  Trevor who stands in for Eric/Alex was there, I remembered him from the last time I worked the show.  Cody was standing in for a Smarmy Guard, I remembered him from other sets.  Heather was standing in for Willa.  I had never met her before, she usually worked NCIS but they were just wrapping up their tenth season.  She was really cool and friendly to me.  Everyone was mellow cool on the set and it was nice to see Sunday the 1^st AD from the last time I had worked here, as well as she used to AD on Dexter when I worked that show.  I felt comfortable, at home on the set and hoped they would bring me back again before they wrapped up early July.  The scenes we shot all took place in the Vamp Camp, an underground fortress where the production of Hepatitis-V was being produced and distributed.  Eric is chained in a metal cage in a solitary cell while watching as his sister strapped to a table is injected with the disease, then his baby vamp Willa comes in to save the day.  My girl is checking on Nora when the Smarmy Guard punches her out and she lands on the floor where Willa feasts on her.  So my day was easy, I stand for a few minutes then play dead on the floor.  Ann took Cody and I on a tour of Vamp Camp to see the human size hamster wheel, as well as the center to the matrix.  It was a really cool set and I felt dizzy with the way it spiraled around on itself.  I wrapped out by 6:30pm and got home in time to have dinner with my family.  Ed got back to work editing our last episode of the road trip while I supervised the progress giving some of my own art direction.