10:09 p.m. - January 10, 2006
Because sarah says she'll like me more if i blog
So it's been awhile and break is over so I guess it's time to recap the break.
After leaving arizona early in the moring the cab comes and gets me. She takes an odd way to the airport she mised the turn and had to make a U but that took forever so my bill was alot larger than it should have been. She took 10 bucks off the total but it still sucked next time i'm calling one of those vans.I get home and look around. It all seems so diffrent. It felt weird... So i played with charlie for awhile then Katie came over so we could go to the black cat and see army of me. I got directions from map quest and we left. But since it's me and it's map quest it was wrong and we ended up getting lost and asking directions many times untill i recalled a convo with dad about how you just go down this one strret and there you are. So we did that but we miseed the show. The next band was this bed Ska band so we left and had dinner. We hung out at my place for a bit and set up this huge cat tree.
The next day i hug out with my mom and we went to dinner. Then i saw Memoirs of a Geisha with Monica. From what i remember of the book the movie followed it pretty well.
Tues i got up ealy and took the metro to the train station to go to NY.. The first day of the New York City MTA (subway and bus) strike. NYC's subway runs 24/7 and most people don't drive they take the subway and walk. So wtih the main trasportation taking out there were cabs, which i found out when i got there , were a 10 flat fee. I should have walked it wasn't that cold. Also there was a rule that no one with less than 4 people in the Car could drive in to the city before 11am. I got to Amanda's mom's work to meet Amanda alittle afte 11am so she called her dad who picked us up in his brand new mustang. wow it was awsome.. awsome isn't even the half of it. So we got to her house which was really nice and so was the neighbor typical suburabn home outside the city. We watched anime until dinner then watched more anime though out the night. We slept late the next day then when to the mall which is the 3rd biggest mall in the US. Crazy they had every store you could think of. I left wed morning in the cold and got back to maryland and I get to Dc and take the metro to one station where my mom assures me there will be cabs... no such luck. So i hop back on and go to another stop which is next door to a hotel where i get a cab.
Thus my grandfather comes and i drive him and matt to the snowbord store so he can buy matt a snowbord and stuff. He argues with the sales guy about the boots and the sales guy is def a snowborder and my grandfather skis. So really it was just stupid and anoying. So after that we go to dinner with dad at rio grande, yummy.
Friday morning we leave for LA haev dinner with the family and margritas, yummy. Then we all drove to long beach the next afternoon to get on the ship.
Getting on the ship I realized there was alot of food and not much to do. It was cold out and colder at sea so fot the 1st 3 days including the day we left it was cold and there wasn;t much to do. I shared a small room with Matt we had two smaller than twin beds and a small sofa. We did have a balcony which was nice but matt was a pain in the ass the entire time.
After our cold days we got closer to mexico and it was warm so we sat outside by the pools which i sware were kiddy pools both of them. There was around the clock pizza and soft surve ice cream. The main food wasn't so great and there wasn;t much to do excpt swim in the small pools and eat bad food and gamble. I didn't really want to gamble and really how much can you do before you run out of money. This was supposed to be the "fun ship". As we got closer to land i started to get sick and when we docked. I felt like shit. My grandmother and the rest of the family wanted to do this 5 hour day trip. I told my grandmother flat out i wasn't going and she accepted it. My dad stayed behind and my grandfather wasn't gonna do that either. Dad and i took a cab downtown and wondered around. I soon realized everyone had the same shit. We had lunch and went back to the boat and i took a nap.
Thankfully the next day i was better so we all took a hired van to see clif divers and go to this beach at this hotel which lets anyone use the beach and it's restaunt and bar area. So we hung out at the beach and ate and drank at the bar. i played bingo and had a pina coloda. My little cousens who are 13, 11, and 6 orderd sodas with my grandmother my youngste cousnen Preston order a Roy Rogers which is like a Shurly Temple made with coke insted of sprite. But the bartender gave him a white russian. Thankfully my grandmother looked and tasted it and was like um no.
The last port day dad and i went snokling which was ok not great but it was fun. The water was cold and there were fish but not so many diffret kinds or coral reefs. But fun none the less.
Most of the days except two we ate in the main dining room but two of the days we ate at the steak house like place called david's it was more costly but the food was much better. My grandmother apporved which is sayign something. The ship had a renaissance theem. So there was a naked woman on every wall expet for the staute of David in all his naked glory.
The last day on the ship was rough and the decks were slipperly. I ended up in the game room trying to waisted the 20 bucks worth of tokens i had gotten earlyer in the week. It wasn;t much better in there because it smelled of puke and was not a fun place to be. That night was new years. Matt had met a girl who was 18 she got drunk that night and he brought her to the room to lay down. She was drunk matt was not. Though he pretended to be. He kept crashing into walls and randomly dropping and falling to the floor... I was like i've seen drunk you are not drunk.
We got in the next day. Waited forever to get off the ship and drove back to LA. I got an early flight from LAX that day insted of the next and got to the airport only to find out cabs wouldn't pick me up there so i took a van back which wasn't bad.
I was happy to be back and descided break wasn;t long enough. I did find a bummp on my head that kept growing larger i went to campus helth and they detrmanded it was a syst not fun. So i took some meds and soked my bump with a hot cloth 3 times a day. It seems to have worked but i'll see hopefully it will stay down and not hurt.
Nancy came for a few days and i took her around campus and mexio we had a good time and i hope she comes again. Next time i'll be able to drink
Tomorrow school starts and i have my 1st class accross campus from my parking. I'm looking into taking the campus shutel which is called the cat tran but it costs 25 bucks for a pass for the smester and there isn't a direct rout to where my class is. so i'm not too sure. So if i do descide it looks like i'll have to ride my bike to the libary to get the cat tran to my class. I might just end up riding there on my bike. I'll see.
i saw Danielle today. I haven't seen her since our last not going to spinning class. We had dinner on campus and talked about life and the stuff we did over break and Dillan who she says she's over but we know she's not lol. It was good to see her again
I think i'll get up a 9 i'm too parnoid about being late for now. I wonder how long it will take me to bike there. Wish me luck
