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I'M BAAAAAAA-AAACK!
good god is it nice to be back in a place where the sky is blue (sometimes grey) the air is fresh, the temp isn't scourching, water is everywhere and everything is green! aiy! I had a fucking awesome time though on my road trip but i'm super glad to be back... we'll see if i retract that statement tomorrow when i go back to work though! ha
So the journey was to begin at 4am on april 29th as we departed seattle and drove south... and south... and south. I guess everything really began though when I went to pick j up in stanwood and watched her finish packing and said good bye to the family. I wasn't even done packing yet because I had 38476384634 errands to run and now she wasn't done... it was 11pm at night before the day we were leaving! oh god! We finally got back to my place and I finished backing and got into bed at 1am... keep in mind i have to get up at 3 to get all the last minute shit finished. I didn't sleep a fucking bit! I was either getting whatever illness james had or I was coming down with some allergy action and it sucked! I'm driving the first leg and I got *maybe* 30 minutes of actual "sleep."
We wake up, leave and I actually am able to make it until almost eugene. J takes over and then we stop in eugene for some good sight seeing (the soho house) and eatin (GLENWOOD!! mmmmm) then OFF again we go! we actually drove 16 hours the first day and stopped a bit in shasta to walk around the lake a bit. The drive through cali SUCKS!
We finally get to palm springs, our first destination and find that what appeared on the outside to be a G-H-E-T-T-O hotel was actually the cutest little suite that the owners of the hotel used to actually live in. It made paying $200 a night not so bad since it had a bedroom, living room, kitchenette and a big bathroom. As soon as we saw our place and the pool the motivation to go sit outside for 12 hours in blistering heat, listening to music didn't sound so appealing but we digressed of OF COURSE went to coachella!
So saturday we go and it's probably 105 degrees and they have 3 tents to provide 50,000 people shade... no misters and water was $2 a bottle and it wasn't always cold and they had 4 water stations with lines that seemed to stretch on forever! Schedule wise and organization, the promoters were SET! the stages were awesome and the 2nd main stage had a line of palm trees as it's backdrop, which looked incredible. The first day we eneded up walking around, or attempting to, listening to The Sounds, Howie Day, The Stills, Death Cab for Cutie, The Pixies and Radiohead. We tried our hardest to go see Beck play an acoustic performance on one of the smaller stages but the tent was SUPER small and the fucking raver tent could be heard from every point in the damn place so there was no way we were going to be able to hear him. As J and I were walking away from the mass of people trying to see beck, floods more were headed that direction. aiy! i bet next time they won't put a headliner on a small stage... no matter HOW last minute his addition was!
We *died* when we got back to the hotel that night... the ONLY thing we wanted to do was go swimming and thoughts of clear, chlorinated water flooded out minds all day as we laid in the middle of a sun soaked field surrounded by 50,000 sweaty bodies... mmmm pooooool! So no matter how tired we were we ran back to the hotel, threw on bathing suits and SWAM! oh god it was wonderful. Aaron and Lisa ended up staying w/ us that night in the living room and we all decided to go later the next day because really, there wasn't anyone we wanted to see early on sunday and being out there for 12 hours again, in even hotter weather didn't sound appealing AT ALL! So J and I laid by the pool for about 2 hours that morning before heading on out again!
Sunday... we got there just in time to hear belle and sebastian, who jasmaine hates but since she left her wallet in my car and had to spend about 30 minutes treking back to get it and left me waiting for her... she owed me! ha :) thank god it was in my car though because it had her ID, all her money and her debit card in it... so if it was gone, we would've been screwed because she was paying for the vegas hotel! So we listen to belle and sebastian, air, thursday, the flaming lips, the cure and le tigre. The sound on the main stage was all fucked up for the flaming lips so they didnt perform a very long set and it was still fucked up for the cure, which was disheatening. I was SO tired that dear robert smith was putting me to sleep and since I had to drive back to palm springs I bounced over to the Le Tigre stage to get some energy back into these old bones.
We left palm springs that next day and really... the 1st half of the trip was pretty chill. We went to Oceanside to stay with my aunt and uncle where we ended up walking on the beach and playing with my ADORABLE 2 year old cousin for much of the time. We went to sea world, which seemed a helluva lot bigger when i was 10. But whoever the fuck designed the layout of that place was on crack! there was NO easy way to get from point A to point B in that place. I think we walked around the same circle 45 times and still didn't see some parts of the park. A note to those who want to go to sea world and see the shamo show... sit in the soak zone RIGHT in the middle of the place! we were in line the 10th row and we didn't get a drop of water on us... on the sides though... you're fucked! ha It surprises me after so many "small print" statements and warnings, people STILL freak out, who are sitting in the SOAK ZONE when they get SOAKED! duh you fucking idiots... they label the area for a reason! haha people scattered when they started to actually get wet.
After that we went to Newport Beach to stay with one of my sorority sisters and we had all these plans to go to six flags and drive up highway 1 but we ended up doing NOTHING which was great! It was relaxing and just what we needed before heading to vegas. Katy drove us around the town and got lost a few times. Newport and actually any beach town in cali would be the ONLY places I could live in california i've decided. I don't think i'd even like SF but a beach town... now that would be the life! when we were in oceanside we walked to the end of the pier and jasmaine said "OMG... did you see that splash? did that guy just catch a monster fish?!" We were both a bit nuts that day so i thought she was hullucinating... then 5 minutes later we see 5 dolphins jumping out of the water and swimming towards the jetty... then we see 10-15 more... there were TONS! of all the times i've visited cali and spent time on piers i had never seen a dolphin, let alone a whole pack of them at once!
So after newport was *drum roll* du du DUUUUUUUU!!! VEGAS!!! I love vegas! I really do! As soon as we got there and walked 2353469 hours from the parking garage to the check in, we thew our bags in the room and went outside to walk around. we walked ALL over and i have only been to vegas once and never really done anything except see garbage so i totally forgot you can drink on the streets! So what did j and j do? Well we went to the little mini-mart of course to buy a six pack of beer we could carry around and drink! God what fun! The entire trip j and I were talking about all the fun things we would do if we ruled the world and how great life would be. One of those is make every city like vegas w/ regards to drinking. going out would be so much more fun in seattle if I could walk too all the bars with a drink in my hand the entire time. not to mention not needing to suck down a drink before they come and take it at 1:45... fuckers! Another thing we decided was every single person must take a week off work every 5 years... like all businesses would close at the same time and EVERYONE would help redue all the highways and roads so we didn't have stupid traffic caused by road construction! haha
ok... back to vegas... so since j and I watched the last 2 of the last 3 episodes of Friends at katy's the night before we felt we had been caught up enough and REALLY wanted to watch the series finale.. so us being super lame made a point to be back in our hotel at 8 to catch it. Some "psychic" stopped us while we were walking and grabbed the two of us and started giving us mini fortunes and was going to give us free full readings but we were like "no... FRIENDS IS ON!" haha so off we went to the room to enjoy some delish PBJ and watch friends. While we were walking around we got tickets for that night to see an "Erotic Hypnotics" show at the Riviera. FUCKING HILARIOUS!!! of all the volunteers only 3 got completely hypnotized and oh man were they funny! the hypnotist convinced the guys their penis' fell off and gave them new fake penis'. one guy looked like he was 8 (although i guess he had to be over 21 and he was married... i dunno) and the hypnotist gave him some thong underwear to just hold as well as some new fake, huge balls! well this guy proceedes to walk back to the stage and he put the thong on over his pants and stuck the balls into his thong... he then squeezed his fake balls for the whole rest of the show! It was pretty nuts.... if you get a chance to go i suggest it! although get tix at one of those 1/2 price ticket outlets. you really only save $10 after all the surcharges but hell... it's a savings.
we then attempted to find some strip clubs for our viewing pleasure but they were at least $25 to get into and that didn't even get us drinks. So that sucked... coming from portland were it is full nudity and free to vegas where it's topless and you can drink or full nudity where you can't drink AND you have to pay a big cover... not my idea of fun! although, I met up with some friends later in the trip who went to a strip club where maxim girls work and they said it was incredible so i guess next time j and i will have to hit that up. with all that walking j got a huge blister on her foot and I had to play doctor to her pussy ass when we got back to the room since she's never had a blister before in her life and I get them all the time from running... haha that was entertaining.
the next day... room service and WE DRINK! We left the room at around 1 i think and as a tip from her boyfriend we headed to Fat Tuesdays where you can buy a drink cup in varying sizes and then you can get refills throughout the day for cheaper. So we both get 22oz pilsner glasses and each get a daqueri type drink with an extra shot and we proceed to drink those... go shopping, go back to our room, get some another refill and do more shopping, get another refill, go sit in the massage chairs at brookestone for about 30 minutes, get another refill and go talk to the guys at the magic shop and watch some card tricks. At this point we're so fucked up that i poke a statue that has on a monkey mask because for some reason i thought it may be a real person. When i discovered it wasn't i took the make off it's head and i put it on my own! hha oh fun times... i think we entertained pretty much every store clerk in ceasars palace friday.
it wasn't even 9pm yet and we met up with one of j's friends from work, toni, and we make plans to go w/ her and her boyfriend to Rain that night. After watching the Bellagio Water show j and i run into some guy on a bike who was selling VIP tickets to Rain for $10! HOT DAMN we thought! well... not so much! after going back to the hotel and being completely stupid silly for an hour Toni calls us and bails and we go to Rain anyway to check it out and score... we got VIP! So we get to Palms and find that our little yellow VIP cards only gets us in without having to pay but we STILL have to wait in line.... FUUUUCK! So we wait for about 25 minutes after the security guy tells us it will only be 10-15 minutes and then we see him and peg him! I said "look, you told us 10-15 minutes and we've been here 25 and have barely moved... now tell me honestly, how long do you think the wait is going to be?" to which is laughed and said "1 1/2 - 2 hours." we said FUUUUUCK THAT to Rain and met up with jasmaine's boyfriend and his friends at Margaritaville. We met some fun sisters from the midwest and the weird guys they had met up with and we all get drinks. We get more drinks and drink more and then maragritaville actually CLOSED! There was some kid rock look a like that people were freaking over but the guy didn't even look like him! We were in shock that some place was actually closing and jasmaine starts yelling "what do you mean you're closing?? this is vegas! NO WHERE CLOSES!!!" haha but the guys told us, take your drinks but you have to get out of here! What a great thing to hear... i love vegas.
hrmmm i don't really remember what our mission was at that point but my feet were KILLING me and we had 1/2 the strip to walk... so jasmaine boyfriend says he'll give me a piggy back ride and i'm like SCORE! no walking! The only thing was he was just as drunk, if not more so then I was. I kept walking as I went to jump on his back, with my drink in hand mind you... and I pretty much pour my entire drink into his face and on me and he doesn't catch me... in the middle of the las vegas strip, i take a spill, with legs spread eagle in my skirt and land on my ass... HARD! oh god... how embarrassing and i just tried to get away from the scene stat! ha... Matt kept saying "my eye, i can't open it cuz it's stuck shut" and i told him "MY ASS!!!! OH GOD MY ASS!!!!" haha fun times. soon after that the night pretty much wound down for everyone but I still wanted to go out so i did... until 8-9am in the morning.
I woke up at noon the next day, still drunk and I probably still should have kept drinking because 2 hours later all i wanted to do was die! it was jasmaine birthday day and I was too hung over to leave my bed... i couldn't even have any light in the room and when she went out with the other people we knew there, I had to black out the room and not move a muscle. it sucked! she was nice and brought me food though when i felt like i may be able to keep something down. oh what a slow eat that was... every bite i had to do breathing exercises to make sure nothing came up... so saturday was completely wasted! we got a hook up from this super hot guy who runs a VIP club adventure... she was going to go free cuz it was her birthday and just happened to share a b-day with one of the other guys who runs the VIP club deal... and I got my price knocked down from $100 to $50! We were going to go to 4 different clubs in a stretch limo with Cristal freely flowing... our cover was already taken care of, we wouldn't have to wait in lines and drinks were going to be comped... neither of us made it... dammit! oh well, next time maybe?
sunday j was tired and I was ready to go... we laid by the pool for a bit and then we split ways and i went to hang out with some friends, ended up seeing Mystere, which was incredible and then drove around, lost money while playing deuces wild poker and then ate. Jasmaine, matt and all his friends won money playing SLOTS... SLOTS of all things and here i was losing money! suuuuck! I should've met up with them and gambled where they were! hah... then we left monday...
we drove back on highway 15 up into salt lake city... now i've NEVER been to utah, never had a desire to go to utah and now that i have driven through the entire state of utah i NEVER want to go back! We literally didn't stop at all in utah. We got gas at Shell just before leaving Nevada and didn't stop to get food, stretch break, gas... NOTHING until we got into idaho. Seriously... as soon as we crossed in to St. George we saw a mormon temple... like only 20 miles into the state! The state is UGLY! there is nothing to look at and half of it was covered in the most disgusting cloud of dust! we didn't even see the sky in salt lake and you could barely make out the mountains that were probably only a few miles away! It smells, and for every freakish looking subdivision there were at least 1-2 temples/churches which could been seen RIGHT OFF the highway... fucking freaky! we wanted to play the mormon game and write a sign that said "are you mormon?" and put it on our car window... haha... we both decided we are going to hell... when we stopped in a McD's just before leaving Nevada there was what looked like a family with 6 little kids... and I turned and said to j "ha, we are close to utah now aren't we??" haha hell is where we are going!
So that was the drive through utah! We stayed in boise and then left boise yesterday at 12 their time, 11 our time and make it back into the area at 6:30.
A few things we leaned on the trip:
- I'm never buy Cheveron Gas ever again... i'm sold on Shell and now understand why j has always gotten it. I wondered why i got almost 500 miles to the tank on a stretch of the trip and I realized why after I filled up with Cheveron, which i have ALWAYS used, and only got 400! CHEVERON SUCKS! USE SHELL!
- When staying in Vegas, unless you're going highroller and pimpin a monster suite, DON'T STAY AT A "spiffy hotel" on the strip! We realized how much money we threw away staying at TI... our room was just a room and we paid almost $200 a night... fucking RIP OFF! Her boyfriend and his friends stayed at a smaller hotel/casion right by the hardrock that had 2brs, a little kitchen and was much cheaper. I laughed when my friend stayed at the holiday in last time she went but now i understand how smart she really was.
so that's my trip! I had so much fun and it was SO nice to get away from seattle for awhile but it was only good because now i realize how much i really love it here... although, i could still live in a beach town in southern california! ha
good god is it nice to be back in a place where the sky is blue (sometimes grey) the air is fresh, the temp isn't scourching, water is everywhere and everything is green! aiy! I had a fucking awesome time though on my road trip but i'm super glad to be back... we'll see if i retract that statement tomorrow when i go back to work though! ha
So the journey was to begin at 4am on april 29th as we departed seattle and drove south... and south... and south. I guess everything really began though when I went to pick j up in stanwood and watched her finish packing and said good bye to the family. I wasn't even done packing yet because I had 38476384634 errands to run and now she wasn't done... it was 11pm at night before the day we were leaving! oh god! We finally got back to my place and I finished backing and got into bed at 1am... keep in mind i have to get up at 3 to get all the last minute shit finished. I didn't sleep a fucking bit! I was either getting whatever illness james had or I was coming down with some allergy action and it sucked! I'm driving the first leg and I got *maybe* 30 minutes of actual "sleep."
We wake up, leave and I actually am able to make it until almost eugene. J takes over and then we stop in eugene for some good sight seeing (the soho house) and eatin (GLENWOOD!! mmmmm) then OFF again we go! we actually drove 16 hours the first day and stopped a bit in shasta to walk around the lake a bit. The drive through cali SUCKS!
We finally get to palm springs, our first destination and find that what appeared on the outside to be a G-H-E-T-T-O hotel was actually the cutest little suite that the owners of the hotel used to actually live in. It made paying $200 a night not so bad since it had a bedroom, living room, kitchenette and a big bathroom. As soon as we saw our place and the pool the motivation to go sit outside for 12 hours in blistering heat, listening to music didn't sound so appealing but we digressed of OF COURSE went to coachella!
So saturday we go and it's probably 105 degrees and they have 3 tents to provide 50,000 people shade... no misters and water was $2 a bottle and it wasn't always cold and they had 4 water stations with lines that seemed to stretch on forever! Schedule wise and organization, the promoters were SET! the stages were awesome and the 2nd main stage had a line of palm trees as it's backdrop, which looked incredible. The first day we eneded up walking around, or attempting to, listening to The Sounds, Howie Day, The Stills, Death Cab for Cutie, The Pixies and Radiohead. We tried our hardest to go see Beck play an acoustic performance on one of the smaller stages but the tent was SUPER small and the fucking raver tent could be heard from every point in the damn place so there was no way we were going to be able to hear him. As J and I were walking away from the mass of people trying to see beck, floods more were headed that direction. aiy! i bet next time they won't put a headliner on a small stage... no matter HOW last minute his addition was!
We *died* when we got back to the hotel that night... the ONLY thing we wanted to do was go swimming and thoughts of clear, chlorinated water flooded out minds all day as we laid in the middle of a sun soaked field surrounded by 50,000 sweaty bodies... mmmm pooooool! So no matter how tired we were we ran back to the hotel, threw on bathing suits and SWAM! oh god it was wonderful. Aaron and Lisa ended up staying w/ us that night in the living room and we all decided to go later the next day because really, there wasn't anyone we wanted to see early on sunday and being out there for 12 hours again, in even hotter weather didn't sound appealing AT ALL! So J and I laid by the pool for about 2 hours that morning before heading on out again!
Sunday... we got there just in time to hear belle and sebastian, who jasmaine hates but since she left her wallet in my car and had to spend about 30 minutes treking back to get it and left me waiting for her... she owed me! ha :) thank god it was in my car though because it had her ID, all her money and her debit card in it... so if it was gone, we would've been screwed because she was paying for the vegas hotel! So we listen to belle and sebastian, air, thursday, the flaming lips, the cure and le tigre. The sound on the main stage was all fucked up for the flaming lips so they didnt perform a very long set and it was still fucked up for the cure, which was disheatening. I was SO tired that dear robert smith was putting me to sleep and since I had to drive back to palm springs I bounced over to the Le Tigre stage to get some energy back into these old bones.
We left palm springs that next day and really... the 1st half of the trip was pretty chill. We went to Oceanside to stay with my aunt and uncle where we ended up walking on the beach and playing with my ADORABLE 2 year old cousin for much of the time. We went to sea world, which seemed a helluva lot bigger when i was 10. But whoever the fuck designed the layout of that place was on crack! there was NO easy way to get from point A to point B in that place. I think we walked around the same circle 45 times and still didn't see some parts of the park. A note to those who want to go to sea world and see the shamo show... sit in the soak zone RIGHT in the middle of the place! we were in line the 10th row and we didn't get a drop of water on us... on the sides though... you're fucked! ha It surprises me after so many "small print" statements and warnings, people STILL freak out, who are sitting in the SOAK ZONE when they get SOAKED! duh you fucking idiots... they label the area for a reason! haha people scattered when they started to actually get wet.
After that we went to Newport Beach to stay with one of my sorority sisters and we had all these plans to go to six flags and drive up highway 1 but we ended up doing NOTHING which was great! It was relaxing and just what we needed before heading to vegas. Katy drove us around the town and got lost a few times. Newport and actually any beach town in cali would be the ONLY places I could live in california i've decided. I don't think i'd even like SF but a beach town... now that would be the life! when we were in oceanside we walked to the end of the pier and jasmaine said "OMG... did you see that splash? did that guy just catch a monster fish?!" We were both a bit nuts that day so i thought she was hullucinating... then 5 minutes later we see 5 dolphins jumping out of the water and swimming towards the jetty... then we see 10-15 more... there were TONS! of all the times i've visited cali and spent time on piers i had never seen a dolphin, let alone a whole pack of them at once!
So after newport was *drum roll* du du DUUUUUUUU!!! VEGAS!!! I love vegas! I really do! As soon as we got there and walked 2353469 hours from the parking garage to the check in, we thew our bags in the room and went outside to walk around. we walked ALL over and i have only been to vegas once and never really done anything except see garbage so i totally forgot you can drink on the streets! So what did j and j do? Well we went to the little mini-mart of course to buy a six pack of beer we could carry around and drink! God what fun! The entire trip j and I were talking about all the fun things we would do if we ruled the world and how great life would be. One of those is make every city like vegas w/ regards to drinking. going out would be so much more fun in seattle if I could walk too all the bars with a drink in my hand the entire time. not to mention not needing to suck down a drink before they come and take it at 1:45... fuckers! Another thing we decided was every single person must take a week off work every 5 years... like all businesses would close at the same time and EVERYONE would help redue all the highways and roads so we didn't have stupid traffic caused by road construction! haha
ok... back to vegas... so since j and I watched the last 2 of the last 3 episodes of Friends at katy's the night before we felt we had been caught up enough and REALLY wanted to watch the series finale.. so us being super lame made a point to be back in our hotel at 8 to catch it. Some "psychic" stopped us while we were walking and grabbed the two of us and started giving us mini fortunes and was going to give us free full readings but we were like "no... FRIENDS IS ON!" haha so off we went to the room to enjoy some delish PBJ and watch friends. While we were walking around we got tickets for that night to see an "Erotic Hypnotics" show at the Riviera. FUCKING HILARIOUS!!! of all the volunteers only 3 got completely hypnotized and oh man were they funny! the hypnotist convinced the guys their penis' fell off and gave them new fake penis'. one guy looked like he was 8 (although i guess he had to be over 21 and he was married... i dunno) and the hypnotist gave him some thong underwear to just hold as well as some new fake, huge balls! well this guy proceedes to walk back to the stage and he put the thong on over his pants and stuck the balls into his thong... he then squeezed his fake balls for the whole rest of the show! It was pretty nuts.... if you get a chance to go i suggest it! although get tix at one of those 1/2 price ticket outlets. you really only save $10 after all the surcharges but hell... it's a savings.
we then attempted to find some strip clubs for our viewing pleasure but they were at least $25 to get into and that didn't even get us drinks. So that sucked... coming from portland were it is full nudity and free to vegas where it's topless and you can drink or full nudity where you can't drink AND you have to pay a big cover... not my idea of fun! although, I met up with some friends later in the trip who went to a strip club where maxim girls work and they said it was incredible so i guess next time j and i will have to hit that up. with all that walking j got a huge blister on her foot and I had to play doctor to her pussy ass when we got back to the room since she's never had a blister before in her life and I get them all the time from running... haha that was entertaining.
the next day... room service and WE DRINK! We left the room at around 1 i think and as a tip from her boyfriend we headed to Fat Tuesdays where you can buy a drink cup in varying sizes and then you can get refills throughout the day for cheaper. So we both get 22oz pilsner glasses and each get a daqueri type drink with an extra shot and we proceed to drink those... go shopping, go back to our room, get some another refill and do more shopping, get another refill, go sit in the massage chairs at brookestone for about 30 minutes, get another refill and go talk to the guys at the magic shop and watch some card tricks. At this point we're so fucked up that i poke a statue that has on a monkey mask because for some reason i thought it may be a real person. When i discovered it wasn't i took the make off it's head and i put it on my own! hha oh fun times... i think we entertained pretty much every store clerk in ceasars palace friday.
it wasn't even 9pm yet and we met up with one of j's friends from work, toni, and we make plans to go w/ her and her boyfriend to Rain that night. After watching the Bellagio Water show j and i run into some guy on a bike who was selling VIP tickets to Rain for $10! HOT DAMN we thought! well... not so much! after going back to the hotel and being completely stupid silly for an hour Toni calls us and bails and we go to Rain anyway to check it out and score... we got VIP! So we get to Palms and find that our little yellow VIP cards only gets us in without having to pay but we STILL have to wait in line.... FUUUUCK! So we wait for about 25 minutes after the security guy tells us it will only be 10-15 minutes and then we see him and peg him! I said "look, you told us 10-15 minutes and we've been here 25 and have barely moved... now tell me honestly, how long do you think the wait is going to be?" to which is laughed and said "1 1/2 - 2 hours." we said FUUUUUCK THAT to Rain and met up with jasmaine's boyfriend and his friends at Margaritaville. We met some fun sisters from the midwest and the weird guys they had met up with and we all get drinks. We get more drinks and drink more and then maragritaville actually CLOSED! There was some kid rock look a like that people were freaking over but the guy didn't even look like him! We were in shock that some place was actually closing and jasmaine starts yelling "what do you mean you're closing?? this is vegas! NO WHERE CLOSES!!!" haha but the guys told us, take your drinks but you have to get out of here! What a great thing to hear... i love vegas.
hrmmm i don't really remember what our mission was at that point but my feet were KILLING me and we had 1/2 the strip to walk... so jasmaine boyfriend says he'll give me a piggy back ride and i'm like SCORE! no walking! The only thing was he was just as drunk, if not more so then I was. I kept walking as I went to jump on his back, with my drink in hand mind you... and I pretty much pour my entire drink into his face and on me and he doesn't catch me... in the middle of the las vegas strip, i take a spill, with legs spread eagle in my skirt and land on my ass... HARD! oh god... how embarrassing and i just tried to get away from the scene stat! ha... Matt kept saying "my eye, i can't open it cuz it's stuck shut" and i told him "MY ASS!!!! OH GOD MY ASS!!!!" haha fun times. soon after that the night pretty much wound down for everyone but I still wanted to go out so i did... until 8-9am in the morning.
I woke up at noon the next day, still drunk and I probably still should have kept drinking because 2 hours later all i wanted to do was die! it was jasmaine birthday day and I was too hung over to leave my bed... i couldn't even have any light in the room and when she went out with the other people we knew there, I had to black out the room and not move a muscle. it sucked! she was nice and brought me food though when i felt like i may be able to keep something down. oh what a slow eat that was... every bite i had to do breathing exercises to make sure nothing came up... so saturday was completely wasted! we got a hook up from this super hot guy who runs a VIP club adventure... she was going to go free cuz it was her birthday and just happened to share a b-day with one of the other guys who runs the VIP club deal... and I got my price knocked down from $100 to $50! We were going to go to 4 different clubs in a stretch limo with Cristal freely flowing... our cover was already taken care of, we wouldn't have to wait in lines and drinks were going to be comped... neither of us made it... dammit! oh well, next time maybe?
sunday j was tired and I was ready to go... we laid by the pool for a bit and then we split ways and i went to hang out with some friends, ended up seeing Mystere, which was incredible and then drove around, lost money while playing deuces wild poker and then ate. Jasmaine, matt and all his friends won money playing SLOTS... SLOTS of all things and here i was losing money! suuuuck! I should've met up with them and gambled where they were! hah... then we left monday...
we drove back on highway 15 up into salt lake city... now i've NEVER been to utah, never had a desire to go to utah and now that i have driven through the entire state of utah i NEVER want to go back! We literally didn't stop at all in utah. We got gas at Shell just before leaving Nevada and didn't stop to get food, stretch break, gas... NOTHING until we got into idaho. Seriously... as soon as we crossed in to St. George we saw a mormon temple... like only 20 miles into the state! The state is UGLY! there is nothing to look at and half of it was covered in the most disgusting cloud of dust! we didn't even see the sky in salt lake and you could barely make out the mountains that were probably only a few miles away! It smells, and for every freakish looking subdivision there were at least 1-2 temples/churches which could been seen RIGHT OFF the highway... fucking freaky! we wanted to play the mormon game and write a sign that said "are you mormon?" and put it on our car window... haha... we both decided we are going to hell... when we stopped in a McD's just before leaving Nevada there was what looked like a family with 6 little kids... and I turned and said to j "ha, we are close to utah now aren't we??" haha hell is where we are going!
So that was the drive through utah! We stayed in boise and then left boise yesterday at 12 their time, 11 our time and make it back into the area at 6:30.
A few things we leaned on the trip:
- I'm never buy Cheveron Gas ever again... i'm sold on Shell and now understand why j has always gotten it. I wondered why i got almost 500 miles to the tank on a stretch of the trip and I realized why after I filled up with Cheveron, which i have ALWAYS used, and only got 400! CHEVERON SUCKS! USE SHELL!
- When staying in Vegas, unless you're going highroller and pimpin a monster suite, DON'T STAY AT A "spiffy hotel" on the strip! We realized how much money we threw away staying at TI... our room was just a room and we paid almost $200 a night... fucking RIP OFF! Her boyfriend and his friends stayed at a smaller hotel/casion right by the hardrock that had 2brs, a little kitchen and was much cheaper. I laughed when my friend stayed at the holiday in last time she went but now i understand how smart she really was.
so that's my trip! I had so much fun and it was SO nice to get away from seattle for awhile but it was only good because now i realize how much i really love it here... although, i could still live in a beach town in southern california! ha