That's right, we got locked out of our house yesterday. My parents just walked right out the door without checking for keys. That's the price you pay for wanting to spend time at the park, I guess .

How did we get back in? Well, our neighbor still had a key to our house from the time she looked over our cat while we were gone over Thanksgiving. Yeah, I have some thanksgiving for that right now . Actually, there was one problem -- she was at work and we weren't even exactly sure when she would be back.

We left a note for her to call my mom's cell, and then we just went off to kill time. We went ahead to the park for a few hours, then we got in touch with some friends. We went over there for dinner, and it turned out to be a pretty nice evening. They have a Wii .

Conclusion: neighbor called us, left key under our mat, we went home.