Theres some good left in this world, Mr. Frodo
Given the immense sadness that the past week has brought me, I did not
believe that I could forget about everything going on and actually have
fun on our little mini trip. My mom, Jill and I went to Boston to see
the LOTR exhibit. We drove up to Newport RI on Friday and had dinner
with Emily and her fiance John. That was fun, mom and Jill terribly
embarrassed me but it was okay because Em knows they are just kidding.
I am going to be a bridesmaid in her wedding, but it is 2 YEARS away!
so far into the future, but no worries. The leaves were changing
colors, it was so beautiful! We went on this ghost tour in a mansion in
Newport and it was really creepy. The mansion was built back in the
1900's by oliver hazard perry something and then a new family bought it
in the 50's, and the tour guide was actually a tour guide when she was
19, fell in love with the owners son, got married to him and now a
quadrillionaire! That is some luck! I have to look up the Tinney family
because that house was massive and I cannot imagine how rich you would
have to be to keep it operating, even the furniture was all hand carved
antiques. There was one bed that took 5 years and 6 carvers to make for
some asian king. One of the mirrors was definitely haunted, because
there were 2 mirror exactly the same, but when you looked into one the
image started moving side to side and it was wicked scary b/c it
stopped when everyone left the room, and I went back to check it out
again and it was still until I got within 10 feet and it started
wavering really slowly again... hmm... The main ballroom was the
creepiest, they had 2 "salt chairs" that english/french royalty had
used in the 10th century with seats that lifted up and locked, used to
store the kings salt b/c salt was more valuable than money back then.
The ghost guide said that the chair had passed through so many
generations and picked up a lot of energy, and if people sat in them
they were thrown across the room and that is why they were roped off.
She asked for volunteers to see if they could feel the energy, and I
was skeptical at first because nobody felt anything, but when I went I
could definitelyfeel something, the closer my hand got the more
tingling I felt, and that was really strange. She also had a story
about how she went to this castle in Ireland and the lady had a
trapdoor in her bathtub that led to the ocean so if she pulled the cord
you were swept out to sea and never found again... creepy... It made me
recall when I wanted to be a parapsychologist, I read every single book
the L-town library had on ghosts and parapsychology... that would be a
very cool and scary job but hard to make a living and also there are so
many skeptics that people would think you are crazy... but it would
still be cool.
The next day we woke up "early" to get to Boston to see SAM!!! The actor Sean Astin was signing books from 10-12, then 1-5... so we thought if we got there at 10 then we could get our book signed by 12 in time to go see the exhibit... boy were we WRONG! We had not woken up early enough b/c at 10 the line went out the door, into the street, and was wound around 3 or 4 times inside! We found out from a worker that the first 800 people had gotten pink tickets and that they would get their books signed, but anyone else wasnt guaranteed. We spied in shifts, me and em then my mom and jill and found out the pink tickets didnt even go halfway through the line :-( plus if we waited then we would miss our time to the exhibit and not get to see it and possibly not even get our stuff signed. We decided to go see the exhibit because that was the primary reason we went all that way... but the Sean Astin sightings were fun. We snuck past the security guards and saw him from the side, then when we went upstairs to see the exhibit you could see him from the balcony. He was a cutie, he gained weight to play sam so at normal size he was cute, and he dyed his hair a dark brown color. Jill was going crazy taking pics, and at one point she and mom were SO close to sneaking on the line because nobody would have noticed but then they didnt have a pink ticket so they would have been busted :-( Oh well... the exhibit was awesome. It had all of the costumes from the movie, which in person looked very dingy, but they were so detailed and Galadriels dress was AMAZING! We got to hold Gandalfs sword (they made you put on gloves), take pics like Gandalf and Frodo in the hobbit hole where one person is smaller, and there was even a thing where you could move around and they changed you to look like an orc, elf, and soldier in the computer and had it do the same moves as you.
The Sauron costume was one of the scariest things I had ever seen! I wish we could have taken pictures, it was too scary to put into words. Dead Borimir was in the boat as he was in the movie and it was so lifelike... highly disturbing. There was a Gollum mask in the gift shop, but it was $60. Such a crazy amount of detail went into the entire trilogy, each costume and sketch must have taken ages to make! We also met a guy dressed as Frodo, he made the costume himself and it was so realistic, right down to the hair on his little hobbit feet! Well we couldnt get a pic with Sam, so we took one with him, lol! It was worth driving up to Boston, and I was so happy to see Em. She asked if I ever felt like all my friends live far away... I laughed. I have lots of friends far away, but I dont even see the ones I have near b/c of stupid work and school! Thankfully someone else feels the same way because I thought I was the only one.
Then it was back to work :-( same old garbage... I didnt feel like making this guy an espresso so we (my table partner and I) told him the machine was broken, then he asked to speak to the boss. He said he knew we had the machine and just didnt want to make them, so my boss started yelling that "You never tell a guest that the machine is broken!" so she told him we would make them, and he wanted 6... yet we had NO ESPRESSO PODS IN THE ENTIRE PLACE! The purchasing department let the supply run down to nothing, then bought the wrong thing so there really was nothing, and the night wedding had a cappucino espresso bar during dessert! I laughed my head off, because our machine was broken and while the restaurants machine worked there were no espresso pods anywhere! They told me to go talk to the guy, and I went to the bathroom and did not return for 5-10 min, LOL! thats why they are paid the big bucks... just goes to show you to listen to your staff . For the night wedding they had to have an "irish coffee/herbal tea" bar instead, ROTFL! not my problem... LOL!!! whatever is all I gotta say.
Sukhvir better come back soon, I miss that boy. He is over in India peeing in a hole right now and sponging himself clean with water collected from the well...:-( My life seems so empty without him, I miss our 4 phone convos a day, and I have not gotten a single text message since his departure :'( Hopefully he will call me when he can. I keep looking at my oz pics and my tropical island calendar and wishing that I could go on a trip too... oh well you have to suffer before you can reap the rewards, I just hope I do not die before my ship comes in because then it would have all been in vain. At the museum we met were talking with this dad about how rude the people from Boston were and how nobody cares or has manners anymore and society is in a crisis. He also said that his 13 year old son came to him and said he had nothing to look forward to, its a shame that he figured it out at such a young age. Emily was saying how it will take her 10 years to save up for a house and she cannot live on a teachers salary and that scares me. Here I am thinking I will have money and then she says she cannot live on $42G a year. WHAT!?!? That worries me very much, everybody wants their own house/property, yet not a single one my friends is able to do it, even the working ones... I thought all my troubles would be solved when I had a real job, but apparently not. Oh well I am not going to worry about that now. We read this 1st grade book "Wemberly Worried" about a mouse who worried about everything, and I thought of myself. From now on I am going to try and worry less!
The next day we woke up "early" to get to Boston to see SAM!!! The actor Sean Astin was signing books from 10-12, then 1-5... so we thought if we got there at 10 then we could get our book signed by 12 in time to go see the exhibit... boy were we WRONG! We had not woken up early enough b/c at 10 the line went out the door, into the street, and was wound around 3 or 4 times inside! We found out from a worker that the first 800 people had gotten pink tickets and that they would get their books signed, but anyone else wasnt guaranteed. We spied in shifts, me and em then my mom and jill and found out the pink tickets didnt even go halfway through the line :-( plus if we waited then we would miss our time to the exhibit and not get to see it and possibly not even get our stuff signed. We decided to go see the exhibit because that was the primary reason we went all that way... but the Sean Astin sightings were fun. We snuck past the security guards and saw him from the side, then when we went upstairs to see the exhibit you could see him from the balcony. He was a cutie, he gained weight to play sam so at normal size he was cute, and he dyed his hair a dark brown color. Jill was going crazy taking pics, and at one point she and mom were SO close to sneaking on the line because nobody would have noticed but then they didnt have a pink ticket so they would have been busted :-( Oh well... the exhibit was awesome. It had all of the costumes from the movie, which in person looked very dingy, but they were so detailed and Galadriels dress was AMAZING! We got to hold Gandalfs sword (they made you put on gloves), take pics like Gandalf and Frodo in the hobbit hole where one person is smaller, and there was even a thing where you could move around and they changed you to look like an orc, elf, and soldier in the computer and had it do the same moves as you.
The Sauron costume was one of the scariest things I had ever seen! I wish we could have taken pictures, it was too scary to put into words. Dead Borimir was in the boat as he was in the movie and it was so lifelike... highly disturbing. There was a Gollum mask in the gift shop, but it was $60. Such a crazy amount of detail went into the entire trilogy, each costume and sketch must have taken ages to make! We also met a guy dressed as Frodo, he made the costume himself and it was so realistic, right down to the hair on his little hobbit feet! Well we couldnt get a pic with Sam, so we took one with him, lol! It was worth driving up to Boston, and I was so happy to see Em. She asked if I ever felt like all my friends live far away... I laughed. I have lots of friends far away, but I dont even see the ones I have near b/c of stupid work and school! Thankfully someone else feels the same way because I thought I was the only one.
Then it was back to work :-( same old garbage... I didnt feel like making this guy an espresso so we (my table partner and I) told him the machine was broken, then he asked to speak to the boss. He said he knew we had the machine and just didnt want to make them, so my boss started yelling that "You never tell a guest that the machine is broken!" so she told him we would make them, and he wanted 6... yet we had NO ESPRESSO PODS IN THE ENTIRE PLACE! The purchasing department let the supply run down to nothing, then bought the wrong thing so there really was nothing, and the night wedding had a cappucino espresso bar during dessert! I laughed my head off, because our machine was broken and while the restaurants machine worked there were no espresso pods anywhere! They told me to go talk to the guy, and I went to the bathroom and did not return for 5-10 min, LOL! thats why they are paid the big bucks... just goes to show you to listen to your staff . For the night wedding they had to have an "irish coffee/herbal tea" bar instead, ROTFL! not my problem... LOL!!! whatever is all I gotta say.
Sukhvir better come back soon, I miss that boy. He is over in India peeing in a hole right now and sponging himself clean with water collected from the well...:-( My life seems so empty without him, I miss our 4 phone convos a day, and I have not gotten a single text message since his departure :'( Hopefully he will call me when he can. I keep looking at my oz pics and my tropical island calendar and wishing that I could go on a trip too... oh well you have to suffer before you can reap the rewards, I just hope I do not die before my ship comes in because then it would have all been in vain. At the museum we met were talking with this dad about how rude the people from Boston were and how nobody cares or has manners anymore and society is in a crisis. He also said that his 13 year old son came to him and said he had nothing to look forward to, its a shame that he figured it out at such a young age. Emily was saying how it will take her 10 years to save up for a house and she cannot live on a teachers salary and that scares me. Here I am thinking I will have money and then she says she cannot live on $42G a year. WHAT!?!? That worries me very much, everybody wants their own house/property, yet not a single one my friends is able to do it, even the working ones... I thought all my troubles would be solved when I had a real job, but apparently not. Oh well I am not going to worry about that now. We read this 1st grade book "Wemberly Worried" about a mouse who worried about everything, and I thought of myself. From now on I am going to try and worry less!