saturday augutst 27
today was not just any day. it started with liz and my's bi-weekly trip to methuen. then after we went out to lunch at friendly's with andre and joe. it was yummy, i got chicken strip basket. so did andre. and when the lady was explaining the sides to us she pointed to a picture of ceasar salad and told us it was brocolli. crazy! then we waited for andre's dad to pick him up. after that we drove through my favorite city, lawrence to get home. but we were dropping joe off in north andover. little did we know how much this one task would be the turning point of our day. so we were off to north andover and making good time. we ended up going down this really long street, then going behind a national park down through the suburbs. lots of turns and winds. anyway we get him home after me taking a really sharp right handturn and then liz and i are off to danvers....or so we thought. we end up getting lost in this crazy neighborhood. we see skip marks on the road and liz said they were mine, but i said that they weren't cuz we came from the other direction. so i drive down the street and it's a dead end. obviously not the way out. so we drive past MY skid marks and find a bunch more forks in the road. eventually we ask some little kids for help and the main road was actually right in front of us. so liz and i are on the main road driving back towards 114 whe all of a sudden i see a sign that says 93 south. and i was like hey 93 sounds oddly familiar we should go that way. so i turn around on the "highway" to go the other direction. cars were coming at us and it was really scarry. but anyway we survived that and then proceded to 93. we get on 93 fine and i read names that sounded familiar so the ride is plesant. then all of a sudden i see a sign that says peobody next exit. but i was like hey i don't want ot get off on the wrong exit i'm sure we'll get there eventually. so we're going 75 and having a good 'ol time when all of a sudden i see a sign that says boston...11. and i was like hey that's not cool. we dont' even live twenty miles away from boston. and we then realized that we past route 95. next we see a hotel... now this is one of those hotels that you see on the way to boston. one of those hotels that you would always recognize and associate it with boston. so liz and i scream and we're like shoot we're going the wrong way and only to assure us that much more we see STONE ZOO...JAGUAR CUBS....liz and i were going to boston. so we decide to get off at the exit and turn around and get on 95. yup sounds great.....except we had noooooooo gas. it wasn't that bad though, we figured there would be a gas station right off the road...15 minutes later we arive in some strange part of stonham. the first gas station we see is closed...then in the distance i spot one. we go to the pump and even though there is a truck sitting there the gas station is utterly desherted. i was freaking out cuz we had no gas then liz says..."hey what about that one?" right next to this gas station was a totally open one. so we get our gas and are on our way back to find 93. we get on 93 and then 95 and feel safe when we see that indian restaurant BALI HAI or something. we get home, and then part two of our adventure begins....to be cont. ahhh lot's of wtiting so tired. -tess