This Weekend
This weekend was Jasmine's 24th birthday party, here are the details in list form:
Friday, October 10th
-Still sick as a dog
-Jasmine comes home all in a tizzy, Jason is freaking out that no one is helping him with the bus
-I calm her down, we make a To Do List to quantify all that needs to be done
-Pick up pizza, head to Jason's pad
-Jason calls, "Please pick up rust treatment and cigarettes", back to the house we head.
-Stop at gas station in skeezy party of town (94+Van Dyke), Jasmine gets her purse stolen, luckily all the important bits were NOT in her handbag
-Finally get to Jason's, eat, have a beer
-Jasmine books our camp grounds in Ohio
-We finally commence working on the bus
-Jason gets the headlights going (yay!) and we clean out the sitting area (yay!)
-Ben stops by, is totally weird and then leaves
-Malayna and Danielle stop by to give us a hand but the majority of the work is done
-Jasmine and I go to Meijers (13+Little Mack) before 2:00am so we can buy supplies (read: by booze before they stop selling)
-$120s later we have everything we need for our camping adventure in Sandusky, Ohio
-We return to the Honey Hive where we meet back up with Mike and later Jason
-I finish packing and then force Mike to do the dishes on the platform it that it would be nice to return to the a (kind of) clean house
-We print the tickets and I make maps
-Finally fall asleep at 5:30am
Saturday, October 11th (Jasmine's Birthday)
-I wake up at 8:30 fully prepared. Malayna, Danielle and Becca have arrived. We're still waiting on Nic.
-Take a shower, feeling pretty good
-We start loading the bus and getting all of hour Ps and Qs in order. I'm really checking things off my list now!
-Nic finally arrives and after some fancy parking in our backyard we're all good to go
-The bus gets loaded up and we begin our voyage.
-A half a block later the bus breaks down and starts smoking, we all abandon ship
-Now, while Jason is a mechanic he had gotten a second opinion about the alternator "Do you think those belts will be a problem? They're not going to melt and over heat the alternator?" (Or something like that - I don't remember specifically) But yeah. That's exactly what happened
-We could at least get it back to our house where we unloaded and reloaded our cars.
-Thankfully it happened a block away and not an hour away and I'm certainly thankful we didn't take that death bus to Ohio, we surely would have all been thrown into the clink.
-This throws a wrench into our plan though since we have no bus there won't be camping, hotel plans are quickly forged
-After a pretty quick road trip we get to Ohio, check into our hotel and relax for a minute. Beers are cracked and champagne is popped
-Get back into the car and begin our 20 minute journey up the most boring, traffic congested road in -I'm sure- all of Ohio
-Becca's car was following ours when she got pulled over and searched
-We sneakily turn around and pull into a Pet Supplies "Plus", we have front row seats to watching our friends get fucked by the Eerie County Sheriff's Department
-They're separated and thrown into the back of two squad cars
-We (Me, Jasmine, Jason and Mike) are all freaking out - what if they all get arrested? How much would that bail be? And their car! It'd get impounded!
-Thankfully they let them all go...all go except Danielle who had a bowl in her purse
-Bail is expensive, but it was manageable between the seven of us
-This vacation is doomed
-After 3 hours and $260 later we get Danielle out of jail and FINALLY get to Cedar Point (America's Roller Coast) at a little after 5:00pm.
-We don't end up leaving Cedar Point until well after midnight, we return to our hotel giddy and loopy and smiley and continue to drink and talk until the wee hours of the morning
Roller Coasters:
-The Raptor
-We would have ridden the Coal Mine ride except it broke down just as we got to the front of the line
-The Gemini
-The Corkscrew
-Disaster Transport
-I refused to go on the Magnum and the Millennium Force though. I don't like big drops, I much prefer twists and loopty-loops and that sort of thing.
General thoughts:
-I think I did pretty alright considering I really don't like roller coasters. I just kept reciting the Litany of Fear in my head, this entire weekend
-I never knew my body could hurt in so many different places
-Ohio is a horrible, horrible place - don't go there if you have no reason to
-A good friend will come bail you out of jail, but a true friend will be sitting next to you saying...'Damn, that was fun!'
Friday, October 10th
-Still sick as a dog
-Jasmine comes home all in a tizzy, Jason is freaking out that no one is helping him with the bus
-I calm her down, we make a To Do List to quantify all that needs to be done
-Pick up pizza, head to Jason's pad
-Jason calls, "Please pick up rust treatment and cigarettes", back to the house we head.
-Stop at gas station in skeezy party of town (94+Van Dyke), Jasmine gets her purse stolen, luckily all the important bits were NOT in her handbag
-Finally get to Jason's, eat, have a beer
-Jasmine books our camp grounds in Ohio
-We finally commence working on the bus
-Jason gets the headlights going (yay!) and we clean out the sitting area (yay!)
-Ben stops by, is totally weird and then leaves
-Malayna and Danielle stop by to give us a hand but the majority of the work is done
-Jasmine and I go to Meijers (13+Little Mack) before 2:00am so we can buy supplies (read: by booze before they stop selling)
-$120s later we have everything we need for our camping adventure in Sandusky, Ohio
-We return to the Honey Hive where we meet back up with Mike and later Jason
-I finish packing and then force Mike to do the dishes on the platform it that it would be nice to return to the a (kind of) clean house
-We print the tickets and I make maps
-Finally fall asleep at 5:30am
Saturday, October 11th (Jasmine's Birthday)
-I wake up at 8:30 fully prepared. Malayna, Danielle and Becca have arrived. We're still waiting on Nic.
-Take a shower, feeling pretty good
-We start loading the bus and getting all of hour Ps and Qs in order. I'm really checking things off my list now!
-Nic finally arrives and after some fancy parking in our backyard we're all good to go
-The bus gets loaded up and we begin our voyage.
-A half a block later the bus breaks down and starts smoking, we all abandon ship
-Now, while Jason is a mechanic he had gotten a second opinion about the alternator "Do you think those belts will be a problem? They're not going to melt and over heat the alternator?" (Or something like that - I don't remember specifically) But yeah. That's exactly what happened
-We could at least get it back to our house where we unloaded and reloaded our cars.
-Thankfully it happened a block away and not an hour away and I'm certainly thankful we didn't take that death bus to Ohio, we surely would have all been thrown into the clink.
-This throws a wrench into our plan though since we have no bus there won't be camping, hotel plans are quickly forged
-After a pretty quick road trip we get to Ohio, check into our hotel and relax for a minute. Beers are cracked and champagne is popped
-Get back into the car and begin our 20 minute journey up the most boring, traffic congested road in -I'm sure- all of Ohio
-Becca's car was following ours when she got pulled over and searched
-We sneakily turn around and pull into a Pet Supplies "Plus", we have front row seats to watching our friends get fucked by the Eerie County Sheriff's Department
-They're separated and thrown into the back of two squad cars
-We (Me, Jasmine, Jason and Mike) are all freaking out - what if they all get arrested? How much would that bail be? And their car! It'd get impounded!
-Thankfully they let them all go...all go except Danielle who had a bowl in her purse
-Bail is expensive, but it was manageable between the seven of us
-This vacation is doomed
-After 3 hours and $260 later we get Danielle out of jail and FINALLY get to Cedar Point (America's Roller Coast) at a little after 5:00pm.
-We don't end up leaving Cedar Point until well after midnight, we return to our hotel giddy and loopy and smiley and continue to drink and talk until the wee hours of the morning
Roller Coasters:
-The Raptor
-We would have ridden the Coal Mine ride except it broke down just as we got to the front of the line
-The Gemini
-The Corkscrew
-Disaster Transport
-I refused to go on the Magnum and the Millennium Force though. I don't like big drops, I much prefer twists and loopty-loops and that sort of thing.
General thoughts:
-I think I did pretty alright considering I really don't like roller coasters. I just kept reciting the Litany of Fear in my head, this entire weekend
-I never knew my body could hurt in so many different places
-Ohio is a horrible, horrible place - don't go there if you have no reason to
-A good friend will come bail you out of jail, but a true friend will be sitting next to you saying...'Damn, that was fun!'