This is gonna be like a roller coaster, up, down all around and it will go by faster than you think.

[peach_juice]

Goood Morning. Yes, IT IS monday, and yet, the morning has been fairly decent. Granted I did have to take my dad downtown during rush hour traffic. I think all trucks should be banned from the highway, or forced to use a specific lane (to hell if they need to exit). Yes, so all the annoyingly slow trucks would be concentrated in one lane. Then they would know how the rest of us feel when we are stuck behind one that is going 45-50 on a road that has a 55 mph speed limit, and everyone is doing 65-at least. And, if they decide to get cocky and try to use a different lane... their tires will explode. Now i know i have no idea how that would work (sensors along the white line separating the lane perhaps?) Whatever. Ok so enough with my fantasy for the morning. I just got back last night from an awesome road trip. It's actually going to take me like a paragraph just to explain who i went with and why. OK sooooo Heather and I, went with Heather's Dad's Girlfriend's Daughter, the daughters sister,the daughters boyfriend, the boyfriends mother, the boyfriends brother, the boyfriends' friend, the boyriends' cousins, the cousins girlfriends, and finally... the cousins girlfriend's brother. Yea it was like 15 of us... All hispanic except for me. And all of them spoke spanish except for me an heather. So half the time, heather and i were like... w/e just nod compliently. Anyway, we went drove to Tampa on Friday night... which almost didnt work because they left the key to the gas cap at home, and home was a long ... long way away by the time this oversight was noticed. So there we were, in a gas station, a gas station in the middle of nowhere, a gas station with a radio that was playing some god awful spawn of Polka and Country music. So needless to say, desperate mechanical adjustments to the car were enacted, and we left that gas station, broken gas cap and all. But, I digress. We stayed at a Best Western in Tampa and heather and i had our own room (heeeeeey). Busch Gardens was alot of fun. I think i picked up some Spanish, because at a certain point, I could pretty much guess what they were saying the whole time. "MI FAMILIA!!!!!" "VAMOS" "AQUI"!!! We had sooo much fun. We went on Montu first. I was looking at heather and im like "I CANT F***in believe you got me on this crap." But of course I liked it. ITs just the first huge drop on roller coasters that i cant stand. Not because its scary, I just dont like that prolonged feeling of my stomach in my throat. I love the twists and turns and upside down stuff (especially the upside down parts), but I could do without the long drops. So you can bet i DID NOT go on the new one: Sheikra. Its all about these two vertical drops. HELL NO. Heather went on it, she said the drops weren't so bad, but that the ride wasn't worth waiting over an hour for. Oh and i think it was a general consensus that Gwazi sucks. Wooden rollercoasters are PAINFUL. I nearly bit my tongue off. Unfortunatly we didnt get to go on Kumba, because thunder started coming in and they closed the rides. I loved seeing all the animals though. The hippopotamus in the water was wicked. But you know what is sooo cool- seeing ducks feet paddle underwater.... that and Giraffes. Giraffes are one of the greatest animals i have ever seen. Anyway, around 4 the skys unleashed their mighty fury and opened up hte flood gates. We were drenched inside and out. We started running towards the cars... all 15 of us, at top speed in the pouring rain, on slick pavement. I think we took out at least 5 unsuspecting tourists. Sunday, was amazing though. Adventure Island has to be my favorite park of all time. I love water. And you cant complain about the 20 somthin yr old Hott hott lifeguards. No, most certainly not. Heather and I did our own thing for a while. The first thing we went on was the tallest/steepest slide in the park. I climbed up all those steps... i looked out and im like... heather... that thing is at at like a 70 degree angle, wtf. And this 10 year old girl turns around in front of us and asked us if we had ever been on it before and i was like... uhm NO. And shes like... its not that bad, Blizzard beach has higher ones. Lol... i was outdone by a 10 year old girl. Heather was like... ur 18 elaine. But let me tell you, adding those last 8 years does nothing to change how high that freaking slide was. But i went on it... nearly cried, but it was alot of fun. Just make sure your legs are closed tightly.... REALLY tightly... hehe. But seriously people, the best part was a i did all this in my swimsuit and got a wicked tan. : ). Heather and I are going back in 2 weeks : ). Anyway, now that ive bored you with my brilliant narrative of the trip, I shall end this quickly. We got back at like 11 last night and Kenny and Mike came over ( I know they missed us terribly... movie night had taken a temporary leave of absence). Mike and Kenny ate bugs (lol yes yes they did) and I just laughed. Kenny and I finished watching Deer Hunter, which was good, but got really complicated/weird in the end. There is this one part though... that is hysterical in the most awful way, that we just cracked up sooo bad over. Ok sooo the guy (Christopher Walkin -sp?) was at a bar in vietnam after being totured by the enemy. This hot native chik comes up and coerces him to go back to her apartment. The apartment is this one room dimly lit by a low hanging lamp. Behind this lamp, against the grayish green wall, was a tiny wooden, cage like, baby crib with a toddler standing in it. The lady then like tries to take off the guys pants... right in front of her kid and we were like wtf. But then it got worse... the guy is trying to resist and rambling on about an elephant and the kid starts crying. But the woman ignores the kid until the guy forcibly removes himself from the room. THEN she goes to pick up the kid. She picks him up and hes about to stop crying when she accidently hits the kids head on the lamp. thats when kenny and i lost it.. like... wtf... Anyway, that said... im gonna get back to work now.
Big up youself
Rispeck
-E