Last night I drove home to my parents' for some good yummy dinner (surprisingly! Because it seems that every time I go home to my parents', they don't have any food, but my mom is actually a very excellent cook.) and fun + games with my sisters. Somehow, my dad dug up an old combination lock that nobody knew what the combination was. All 4 of us girls tried different methods, namely relying on one's faulty memory, listening to the lock, and finally resorting to Google and youtube. I just can't imagine life without internet. All that knowledge just out there and within reach in milliseconds. Amazing.

Anyway, we managed to find a couple of sites and videos. But alas, by midnight, we weren't any closer. Oh, I forgot to mention that while we were all trying different combos for that one lock, one of my sisters remembered that she has a Dudley lock. She was bragging about how she didn't have to know the code; her fingers would just know it when she opens the lock. Guess what, she couldn't open her combo lock, which she had just stopped using since school was out -- a month ago!

By midnight, we decided to call it quits. We were all so frustrated, trying to understand the directions from the forum we found online, and listing down numbers. This morning, sis #1 decided to use the listen method and lo and behold! It actually worked! She cracked one of the locks open. After that, sis #4 and I got a boost of energy to try with her lock. So we tried a different method that somebody offered and we ended up with 10 different numbers. As you know, a Dudley requires 3 numbers. That meant there were possibly 1000 combinations. We were determined. Sis#1 started listing the combos on Excel while I dictated the combos. Sis #4 tried the combos as we went along. I noted down the time we started: 10:47 am. Sis #1 had to leave so it was just sis #4 and me. I had to leave for a few minutes as well. I came back, she was still plugging along. Gotta give her persistence, that girl. We traded spots; she started typing and I started trying the combos. On our 155th try, we got it. You can just imagine the huge smiles on our faces. Finally! The time? 11:33am. Almost an hour. Not counting the hours we spent on it last night. Needless to say, she wrote down the combo and kept it somewhere safe with the lock.

On a different note, I am getting ready to submit my entries into Cocoa Daisy's Design Team call. Got my layouts in and all I need to do right now is take pictures of an album I made and submit it for the project requirement.

Tomorrow, I'm watching HP with sis #1 and 4. It should be fun. Looking forward to it! I am definitely enjoying summer and the longer days. Even with the extended hours, it seems that time just flies by! K, should get going now.