12 posts tagged “amanda thompson”

Every year, around this time of the month, the end of October through the first week of November seems to be a busy week no matter what's happening.  Look at last year ...

Halloween, we were busy Chipotle hopping throughout the Springs.  When I say "we," I'm talking about me and my Harrison Crew.  Then we celebrated Joy's birthday and then later in the week, the first ever Powder Puff Game at Harrison before finishing that weekend off with our "Hotel Gathering" at the Cheyenne Mountain Resort.

Again, that was last year.

This year, things are a little different.  We're no longer in high school, and most of us don't really keep in touch with each other anymore, well at least for me.  I did the whole Chipotle hopping as well, except I did it on my own in Downtown Denver.  It seemed like that whole weekend, and the week following it, I've been keeping myself real busy with things.  Saturday I worked a mid-day shift before getting picked up to head to the Nuggets-Lakers game.  This game was special in particular because it was Allen Iverson's last game as a Denver Nugget.  Not only that, we got to see Montell Jordan perform, LIVE !!  Things didn't end just there though, I got to do my usual window shopping at Cherry Creek before heading home to settle down Sunday.  Monday seemed like to be the only normal day of my whole week.  Nothing special really went on.  I just went to class, then hung out with the crew in the student lounge chillin' and playing cards before heading out to pick some stuff up at the library.  Those first two day of the school week that week I was really looking forward to because it was when I had to meet up with my scholarship advisor and my regular advisor about some major problems I had to get fixed ASAP.

After Monday, that's when things began to start happening.  My Sociology class was cancelled in advance because of elections.  After I dropped off my mail-in ballot, I thought I was going to be late for class, so I rushed to get to my Core Comp class on time.  Little did I know, that class, too, was cancelled.  So pretty much, Tuesday was a day of relaxation for the most part.  The day went by fast too, because I had to work that night.  Wednesday, was a day I had been looking forward to for the past couple of weeks because it was the day I planned to come to the Springs for the weekend.  I went to class, as usual, then went out to downtown to eat some lunch with some friends before heading back to the lounge on campus to chill.  I ended up heading out of Denver around four that afternoon to get to the Springs.  I ate for a little while before deciding to hang with Dennis that night.

Thursday, the plans were to go to Harrison to watch the second annual Power Puff Game before going to Brunswick for College Bowling Night.  It seemed like every day for this past week, something was going on ya know ?? It was great.  On my birthday, I went out with my dad to eat out before going to Anthony and Amanda's house to celebrate Talia's .... or Lia-ta's first birthday.  The night of my birthday was finished off with some late night grubbin' at Denny's with Giane and my sister.  My birthday seemed to be celebrated again when me and a group of my friends went to Red Robin to go out to eat.  We then finished the night watching Madagascar 2.

As many of you know, I just got a new job.  Thing is, I haven't started yet; I start next week.  I'm not on the schedule till next weekend.  So I decided to come down to the Springs to hang out for the weekend.  I was supposed to come down on Saturday morning.  But with special, special, special thanks to someone, I was able to come here on Friday afternoon.  Joy, Darlene, and I walked around 16th Street Mall after checking out my dorm.  We didn't know what to get to eat, so after meeting up with Ray, we headed south for the Springs.  We caught a little traffic, and we were getting a little hungry too.  What we decided to do is to stop by the Castle Rock outlets to grab something to eat.  When we got back to the Springs, we did a bunch of things before deciding to do a movie night.  We went to Target to window shop and "try" to find some things to buy for my dorm.  That didn't really turn out well.  We met up with Briana and went to Hollywood Video to choose a movie.  Prom Night was the movie we ended up choosing.  Other people came by to watch the movie: Jeff, Jon, and Matt.

The next day, Joy, Darlene, and I went to Matt's house to celebrate his birthday.  We ate, talked, and sang karaoke there.  It was a fun time and the highlight of the weekend.  Matt even shaved for the first time.  What an accomplishment ayy ?!

I originally was supposed to head back to Denver EARLY Sunday morning, but that plan changed to Sunday Afternoon.  Then yet again, the plan changed to early Monday morning.  What can I say; I miss being in the Springs.  Sunday night, Steven and I gathered up everyone to hang out.  BTWITIAILWU !! (inside joke).  Anyways, we met up in Wal-Mart before we headed to Anthony and Amanda's place to hang.

This whole week turned out great !!  You don't even know.  Not only did I come out of the Springs with like 50+ movies downloaded to my external hard drive, I got to spend memorable times with my friends back home.

Thursday

Well, I woke up and my dad told me that he wanted to go eat out, which we ended up doing.  Before eating out, I ate a Lunchables while making my video blog for the first half of my DNC break.  When my dad got home, we went to La Casita to eat out.  Instead of getting the usual cheese enchilada combination plate I usually get, I got the carnitas and steak combination plate.  After I got home, I relaxed till about 7:30 later that night.  I fell asleep while I was watching TV.  When I woke up, it was already time for me to get ready to go to Papa Teddy's and hang out with everyone.  I left and picked up Jon before heading down to Fountain, where Papa Teddy's was located.  It was the first time I've ever went there, so it was of course an experience.  When we first arrived to the place, the exterior reminded me of like a Chuck E. Cheese's or a Peter Piper Pizza's.  When Jon and I walked in, we met up with Briana and Gabe.  Amanda and Anthony came out during work to greet us and everything as well.  Dennis eventually showed up, as well as Keanan, Matt, and Steven.  Before we even got our food, me and Jon went up and sang the first song of the night.  That wasn't the worst yet haha.  After we got our two pepperoni pizzas, which I'd to say that they were the cheesiest I've tasted in a long while, me and Dennis eventually went up there and sang Beyonce's Irreplaceble.  WOW.  That's all I have to say.  This was probably one of the most HARDEST songs I've sang lol.  Karaoke at a pizza joint was a pretty neat idea.  I had fun and I'm everyone else did as well.  Towards closing time, the group of us minus Bri and Gabe (who'd already left) and Amanda, made an acapella of Ben E. King's Stand By Me.  It was fun, though not the greatest harmonized performance in the world.  Shoot, even one of the workers at Papa Teddy's told us that seeing us sing was the most entertaining thing he seen all day.  I don't know if that's supposed to be a good thing though haha.  After all that though, when we finally called it a night after sitting around in the parking lot, I dropped off Darlene and Jon and went home for the night.

Friday

The next day, we proposed to hang out at 3 that afternoon.  That was the plan.  No one really talked with each other till Steven finally texted me to hang out.  I called up Matt and he joined us.  We decided to go to my place for a short while because our original plan was to do "an acapella" and then later that night, watch Mirrors at Tinseltown with Jeff.  That ended up not happening.  Instead, me, Matt, and Steven went to Entertainmart for the PS3 drawings they were doing.  We signed up for a raffle ticket and chilled out for a little while before going to the mall for about an hour.  We walked around, got a double cheeseburger from McDonald's, then headed back to Entertainmart to get ready for the drawing.  Psh.  The winning number were not even close to any of ours.  Man, the PS3 winner looked like he didn't even care.  Anyways, we headed out right after that.  As we headed out, it started to rain .. HARD.  We ran to the car.  On the way, my keys fell apart.  I ended up losing my purple keychain along with my purple key bottle opener.  I was pissed.  We called it a day at Entertainmart right after trying to search for my keys.  When we got back to my place, we chilled for a little while.  Steven surfed the net while me and Matt made an acapella of BBMak's Back Here.  Finally, we called it a night after that.

Saturday

It took us a while for us to finally figure out what we wanted to do.  I didn't really eat much except some watermelon.  I met up with Matt and Steven and Keanan.  We chilled at my house for a little while before we couldn't take it anymore.  After a couple hours of internet surfing, we decided to go to Wendy's on Nevada to meet up with Jon.  Originally, we wanted to go to McDonald's.  What happened was that pretty much everything on the Dollar Menu raised almost a quarter. So that's why we chose to go to Wendy's.  There, we ate and after sitting around talking in the car, we left to go to Jon's house.  At the parking lot, there was a pretty weird moment in which we were talking about funny lines in Harold and Kumar II.  It seemed as though this homeless guy heard us lol.  Anyways, at Jon's, we ate and chilled for a long while.  We socialized and played N64 as well.  At the end of the night, pretty much around 1 in the morning, I dropped off Keanan and Steven.  Right after, I drove to Denny's near the Crown Plaza Hotel to meet up with Julie, Mav, RJ, and his friend.  I didn't eat anything, but I ate other people's food.  I ate some juicy bloody steak with some potatoes. Cheaa.

Sunday

Sunday was pretty much my last day to hang out with people.  The Sunday started out very slow.  I went to Dennis's to hang out with him one last time this break.  But it ended up not being the last time because I eventually hung out with him the morning before I left lol.  At Dennis's, we just talked about different things before he had to head out to work.  Right after he left, I went home to grabbed something to eat.  After eating, I drove to Ft. Carson to go to the gym to play racquetball with the Pugh's.  As I drove, I kinda got myself lost and Jon had to redirect me to get to the right place.  We played a lot of games that day.  That day too, we played at interesting version of one on one with Tim serving for me and Jon lol.  Anyways, after the gym, I went home for a little while undecided on what to do.  I eventually made up my mind and decided to go to the movies to finally watch Mirrors at 10:10 that night at Tinseltown.  I still had a couple of hours before the movie started, so I decided to watch some YouTube videos.  I watched a couple of tutorial videos on how to do a back flip.  The one that got me inspired to finally attempt a back flip on my own was a video giving me very original tips.  The video told me to pretty much, "Man the 'eff up".  Pretty good advice if you asked me.  I went outside and tried it.  The first 5 or so tries, I was extremely afraid and in result, my flips were crooked and I wasn't landing them.  After I realized that I haven't broke my neck yet, I attempted it again with decent progress.  When I finally got one and landed it, it was too dark to see on video.  I can finally say though, that I officially landed a back flip.

After all that, I fell asleep and woke up just in time to get ready and leave for the movies.  I picked up and met Steven.  All in all, the movie wasn't too bad.  I thought, in my opinion, the movie had a handful of scary parts.  But that wasn't the highlight of that night at the movies.  The highlight was that freakin' girl that was at the ticket booth.  She was so hot haha.  Not only that, the wife, the milf in the movie was also hot.  Hence the description I've given her, "milf".  After the movies, I felt a little hungry, so we went to the Burger King on South Gate.  I got a Whopper Jr. and a six piece cheesy tot while Steven got two Whopper Jr's.  What made the food amazing was, of course, the unbelievable Zesty sauce provided by Burger King.  We called it a night finally after that.

Monday

Finally, my DNC was coming to a true end.  It was Labor Day and I was ready to head back to Denver.  That morning, Dennis picked me and Matt up to go to Burger King for breakfast.  We ate and talked for a little while.  Our time was limited because we had to leave to Denver before noon.  Dennis dropped me off after about an hour of hanging out.  We headed out soon after that.  We went to Sam's Club first to get something to eat as well as my new laptop backpack.  I eventually realized that I forgot something at home.  I forgot some dress clothes for the REACH Scholarship Meeting that Friday.  After we went back home and got my stuff, we finally headed up to Denver.  We went to my apartment to unpack before doing anything else.  My mom cleaned up my kitchen without being asked to and vaccumed some of the apartment.  After I took a shower, we headed out and went to the China town area to eat and pick up some more stuff.  After that, I drove us to Park Meadows Mall to look around.  My mom dropped me off at the County Line RTD Station and I took that to get home.  When I got home, I watched a movie or two and chatted the night away. 

At the Bear Creek that morning, there was a breakfast promotion for $0.95 breakfast for their country fried steak breakfast plate.  I had to wake up about an hour and a half earlier than pretty much everyone else because I had to bike.  I pretty much woke up around 4:30 that morning.  Before I left to bike to Anthony's place up on North Jetwing, I had a bowl of Wheaties to ensure that I won't get hungry on the bike ride there.  I arrived at his place right on time so we could head out carpooling.  We got there with already many people there eating.  I was with Anthony, Amanda, Talia, Amanda's brother Gabe, and her mother.  We didn't really have to make the waitress wait for us order, cause we already knew what we had in mind.  Before we got our food, Amanda forgot Talia's diaper bag so she had to run back to the house to grab it.  Our food came to us before Amanda got back so we started eating.  About halfway through my plate, Amanda arrived back.  Soon after, Briana and Matt came in as well.  For only $0.95, I don't think I've ever had as humongous of a breakfast as that.  The country fried steak took up nearly all of the plate and the biscuit looked like a Mondo Burger (Good Burger anyone ??) sized dinner roll.  As usual, I cleaned out my plate, it was great.  After that, we didn't really do anything else.  We stuck around the parking lot talking (and gossiping *cough* lol ..) for almost a hour it felt like.  We ended up splitting up after that.

When we arrived back at Anthony and Amanda's place, I called it a day with them and went off biking back toward my place.  On the way there, I stopped by the shop through the strip of Southern Academy.  I checked out Hancock Plaza and even browsed around window shopping at the Dollar Tree there.  When I got back home, I passed out for hour till about noon I think.  That night, Jeff and I made plans to go watch the new Mummy movie, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor at Tinseltown.  But before that, that was when I had nothing to do .... at all.  I thought about what to do and finally came up with a solution to use up some time.  I decided to start making a whole new Myspace profile.  After checking out this one dude's profile, it inspired me to make my own because I realized that I was capable to make one as good as the one I saw.  I started with just the left side of the page.  I ran out of time eventually because I had to go to the movies, so I put the project aside for night. 

When I arrived at Tinseltown to meet up Jeff, Keanan, and Nick, I easily found a parking spot.  That wasn't the most surprising part of that night.  What surprised me was the amount of Harrison High Schoolers were there.  After the movie, we saw people like Jeanette there.  Anyways, on the way up to the front, I saw Keanan.  As I was walking, out of nowhere, these people started to talk to me like they knew me.  They knew who I was, but I really didn't know who they were.  After all that, I met up with Keanan to wait for the other two and then something else happened.  So this thirteen year old came up to me and started talking to me like she knew me as well.  She kept trying to think of a name for me I guess.  She called me Allen and Alex repeatedly until I finally just said that that was my name.  Nick was the next one to arrive.  I told the two to go ahead of me and go into the theaters because I had to wait for Jeff.  He had my ticket, so yah.  When he arrived, we went to the theater just in time for some movie previews.

After the movie, I was disappointed somewhat.  Compared to the first two Mummy's, this was one the corniest of the three.  Also, the actress who played Evelyn, the wife in the first two Mummy's, didn't return for the sequel.  That made me almost as mad as I was when Katie Holmes didn't return to reprise her role as Rachel Gawes in The Dark Knight and instead put an uglier person in for the role.  The movie wasn't too bad though, if they were to take out the corny jokes and put Rachel Weisz in to play Evelyn, then the movie would be pretty decent in my opinion.  Anyways, after the movie, we were stuck figuring out what to do.

So what we did was that we went to the McDonald's near Harrison High School.  Coincidently, all of us drove .. except Matt.  So to save gas, we decided to carpool with Nick's Escort to go the McDonald's.  There we didn't even get anything to eat.  We just hung out and a couple of them got themselves just a drink.  After Jeff left to go home, the rest of us went to Nick's place to chill for a little while.  Nick and Matt went onto the computer while me and Keanan played a game of NBA 2K8 on the PS3.  After that game, we called it a night.  All of us went our separate ways.  I left and went straight to Ihop in Southgate to meet up Julie and Giane for a midnight snack.

I had to wait slightly longer than usual for them because they were running on Filipino time, for sure.  After about 25 or so minutes, they finally arrived.  Marie Fe, Victor, and Steve with his friend, showed up as well.  There were a lot of people there that night.  Maybe it was because we went in during the drunk rush.  Basically when everyone was getting out of the clubs to cop something to eat.  I ordered a simple sampler which I finished amazing fast.  That wasn't the highlight for the stay there.  The highlight was this drunk guy confronting us and talking to us out of nowhere.  He was just hilarious.  He kept talking about dance battles and American's Best Dance blah blah.  It was insane.  Another funny situation there was when Marie Fe ordered out of the freakin' dieters menu lol.  Her chicken was dry as the Sand Dunes.  As we were heading out, that same drunk guy made an insult towards Steve.  It was crazy because once Steve turned around, the guy quickly said he was kidding.  Funny stuff.

Yahh, I didn't do much that day.  All I really did was finish organizing some pictures and tagging them using Adobe Photoshop Elements.  I got a text from Anthony later on that day about going to the gym and playing some basketball at eight that night.  I got there just on time.  The thing was, that I was the first one there.  Matt eventually showed up, but that was after I'd already benched, dumb bell benched, and shoulder pressed.  Eventually, about twenty minutes later, Anthony, Geoff, Amanda, and Briana showed up.  In the basketball court, the usual Wednesday night pick up games were going on.  Matt decided to join in early while the three of us: me, Geoff, and Anthony just shot some hoops while we waited for Matt.  After two pickup games, all of us decided to play as a team along with another person.  We lost both games pretty badly actually.  It's ok though, I was looking to get a good workout out of it.  I did.  I didn't get home from the gym till almost midnight.  Amanda and Anthony invited me to go to some $0.95 breakfast some place was promoting.  Since I got home from the gym so late, I basically slept in and didn't wake up.

That next day, I woke up around 11.  I didn't do much, yet again, except stay on the computer finishing up some stuff.  During that time, I finished the WaterWorld compilation video from the other day.  Later on that day, Brian picked me up to try and play some basketball at the gym.  We ran into a huge problem though.  Brian ended up not being able to get in because they found out that he had already had a trial membership.  Shoot, if we would've known that, Brian would've never said anything about that.  So what ended up happening instead was that we dropped by Keva Juice to pick up a drink for Brian.  After that, we just dropped by Border's and Target to check out on some stuff.  Nothing much really happened after that.  We ended up just chilling at my house for a short while just sitting there before we basically called it a night.  Yep, these past couple of day really sucked.  Really really sucked.

This was the day after Elitches so you gotta believe that I was tired and drowsy that next morning considering I didn't get home till about two in the morning because I was at Giane's house.  Well I woke up, had a large serving of my favorite cereal, Wheaties.  Soon after, I biked to the Target at the Cheyenne Mountain Area near Tinseltown.  There, Matt and Keanan picked me up to go meet everyone else at the Cheyenne Mountain Resort.  It took us a while to actually get to the incline because we had to pick up Nick, who was still probably asleep when we were getting him.  We arrived at Manitou Springs around 10:00 to 10:30.  We started our hike up the incline with some who have done it before and with some being their first time up.  Joy, Nick, Darlene, and I were the ones who've already hiked up the incline before.  The newcomers to the incline that day were Matt, Keanan, and Mina.  For all of us I thought, this was the fastest we all got to the top.  For me, I got around 45-50 minutes to get to the top while the rest of the guys made it around an hour.  It was an improvement, but I don't care what anyone says, hiking up the incline'll never be fun no matter how many time you do it.  Real talk.

On the way back down, we decided to take Barr Trail down.  All of us ended up separating and going into groups because of the different paces.  Me personally, I started to basically run because I started to hear thunder rolling.  A little past the halfway point, when a couple drops started to fall, I thought it was going to start raining harder.  So I freakin' book it.  When I got to the bottom, I went to take a long drink at the water fountain and washed my feet off at the sink there while I was waiting for everyone to finish up.  We all finished the hike by going to the Subway near Target and Tinseltown to grab something to eat.  After eating, we just called it a day for all of us I guess.  Most of us I believe went home.  I did the same and got something to eat.  While I was waiting for 6:00 to come for bowling, hosted by the Thompson family, I ended up passing out for about two hours.  When I woke up, I got dressed and left to go to the bowling alley.

I picked up Steven and arrived at the bowling alley on time.  We played and bowled with two lanes for all of us.  We played a couple of games and eventually got tired of it.  During that time too, my head was hurting so much.  It was probably from not hydrating myself enough after we went hiking.  Thanks to Amanda's ibuprofen, my headache went away after a couple of hours.  What sucked about it too was that I was getting really really hungry.  But I wanted to save money and not give in to their bowling alley food which was overpriced I thought.  Luckily, I found my last can of tuna and pineapples in the trunk of my car.  We stayed at the alley for hours before we finally left.  Part of the group had to leave earlier, which was Robert, his cousin, Ed, and Danielle.  The rest of us were stuck at the parking lot for a short while trying to figure out what to do.  Another part of the group decided to go to Taco Bell, which was Mina, Gabe, and Bri.  We finally decided to just go to Denny's near Harrison.  We waited for Anthony, Amanda, and Talia there, while they dropped off little Gabe home.

When they arrived, we ended up sitting there for another thirty minutes deciding on what to get.  I was planning on not eating.  But I finally gave in and got some biscuits and gravy.  Steven and Matt got the samplers and Amanda and Anthony got the bottomless pancakes.  While we were eating, we saw some coked out crack heads.  It was pretty interesting watching them trying to spit some game to one of the waiters there.  After finishing our food and talking for a short while, we went to the parking lot to talk yet again.  Eventually, we officially called it a night there and went home.

I had to wake up around five that morning because I lived 64 miles away from the city of Denver.  After a nice tasty pancake made by the madre for breakfast, we met up with Victor to go to the University of Colorado Denver for my freshman orientation.  We sorta got lost, I don't really know how that was possible considering that college could be seen driving through I-25.  But we ended up going there and arriving on time.  I didn't really know what to expect when I got there.  Right when I walked in, I was greeted with souvenirs and an informational packet with stuff I needed to get taken care of.  The first event of the day, we were greeted by a full rack of muffin and other tasty pastries.  That was pretty sweet.  Before we got something to eat for lunch, we went to the Campus Village to check out the housing.  I must say, this is what surprised me the most the whole visit.  The dorms there were basically apartments.  Everything you would ever need to keep yourself entertained was there pretty much.  Wifi internet, pool tables, a mini gym, basketball courts, a laundromat, big screen TV's, video games and movies for check out, X-Box 360 and Wii's for use.  It was just amazing.  It didn't surprise me though how expensive that place was.  I almost back myself out of the college until I found out a risky, but beneficial solution.  And for that, I am now officially registered and ready to go to University of Colorado Denver.

Once I got back to the Springs, I had a little over 30 minutes to get myself ready for The Dark Knight premiere.  I can't really describe how excited I was for this movie.  I went about an hour and a half early to Tinseltown to drop off my car.  I then left to go to Target to meet some of the peeps up.  The first one that was there with me was Dennis.  We got some snacks and then met up with the others: Mav and his siblings, Mitch and Monica, Joy, Jon, Christine, Amanda, Bri, and Anthony.  About an hour before the showing, we quickly went to the theaters to get in line.  Not to my surprise, there was a line building up at the auditorium we were going to watch the movie at.  It was about ten minutes before they actually let us in to get seated.  Luckily, we sat at some decent seats.  Bri and Amanda sat closer to the bottom.  Mav, Monica, Mitch, Joy, and Christine sat all the way in the back of the theater.  The rest of us, including Steven, who surprised me by meeting us at the theater, sat in between the two crowds.  Though we had to wait like 45 minutes before even just the previews to start, the wait was worth it.  I mean granted, I fell asleep through one or two of the movie trailers in the previews.  From the get go, even just the first five minutes of the movie did not disappoint.  I'm not going to spoil anything about the movie, but let me just say that all the hype about this movie lived up to it.  Heath Ledger's performance was simply amazing.  For those who haven't even seen the movie and assumed that Ledger's performance couldn't possibly top Jack Nicholson's performance in Tim Burton's Batman couldn't be any more wrong.  Throughout the film, the movie kept me up and wanting more and more.  I got to admit though, the movie was a bit long ... too long maybe.  But regardless, this is the film to see for this year so far, PERIOD.

Anyways after the film, the bunch of us stood outside waiting for everyone else that went to the bathroom.  Amanda, Anthony, and Bri ended up leaving right after that.  Once the rest of us met up, we found ourselves stuck in a problem.  We didn't know what to do after that.  We stood there, I guess, for a good 30 minutes maybe deciding if we were going to do anything else.  After a good time just standing in the parking lot, we all ended up eventually just calling it a night.  What a surprise haha.

Nothing special really happened Wednesday.  That morning after eating and organizing more pictures, I actually drove the first time in like two weeks to Garcia Gym in Fort Carson to play racquetball with Jon and his mom.  We started playing around 2:30 for about an hour.  The games we played with all three of us were actually pretty intense.  The last game with Jon especially was one of the hardest games I've played since I started playing racquetball.  I went one on one for a last game for the day with Jon.  After learning and playing racquetball so many time with him, I've learned to become a not so bad player.  Still though, the game was intensely close.  People had the courts reserved, so we had to keep our game short.  We tried to have the game to a race to 11 instead of the usual race to 15.  Towards the end of the game, we stayed in a draw because no points were being awarded because of change of possession.  In result, with the score being like 13 all, we decided to call the game a draw because there were people waiting to play in the court.

Right after that, I drove back home to drop off my car to pick up my bicycle to bike to Sinton Park for our planned hang out.  Before I left, I packed a ham and pepper jack cheese sandwich just in case I didn't go straight home.  When I arrived at the park, I thought I was going to be late.  Surprisingly, I was only the second person there.  The only other person there was Steven.  It was crazy for this guy cause he had to walk all the way from his house.  Yahh, that's pretty far.  More people started to show up, but unfortunately, no one brought a basketball.  Keanan showed up,  Then Robert and his cousin showed up.  Still no ball though.  Finally, Anthony and Amanda and Matt showed up.  Both of 'em brought balls so because of that, we were able to start playing a game and shoot around.  We play all the way till around seven.  I had to wait for a while before I was able to bike home because it started to rain really, really hard.  Once the rain slowed down, I biked home and that basically concluded my Wednesday.  I stayed at home and finished the night looking through old picture albums and scanning a lot of those pictures.

That next morning, I had to wake up around 9 because I was gonna join Dennis, his two cousins, Sydni and Joe, and Megan to the Valley High Swimming Pool.  I really didn't know where this place was at, but when we arrived there, I quickly recognized the pool from my childhood.  When we got there, we came like 40 minutes too early.  So what we ended up doing is we went to a local Walgreens to pick up some stuff.  When we got back, that's when we started to swim.  To my surprise, compared to the weather from the other night, that day turned out to be a pretty nice and hot day.  It stayed really sunny for about a couple of hours before it started to get cloudy.  We left the pool after it started to get really cold and it started to rain.  I kinda passed out in Dennis's car on our way to his aunts house for dinner along with Joe and Megan.  When we got to his aunt's house, we stayed and chilled there for a little while before eating dinner, which was nachos with a bunch of different stuff on it.  They also had two really big dogs.  One of the dogs specifically didn't like Dennis.  He was like bipolar or something though.  It was funny because after he would bark at Dennis, all of sudden he come up to him and start licking his hand lol.  Once we finished that, we ate some cherry chocolate ice cream.  That tasted really, really good ayy.  After dinner and dessert, we all started to play this karaoke game on PS2 consisting of 80's songs and many recent pop songs.  The highlight of the night for me was when both me and Dennis hit the high note in the song Take on Me by A-ha.  We stayed playing that game for hours before we actually headed out.  After we left and dropped off Megan, we went to Tinseltown to pick up our tickets for The Dark Knight showing.  That's basically the started of my weekend right there.

Well the day after the 4th of July, surprisingly, I already had my weekend planned out for me.  That Saturday morning, I biked up to Mav's place to drive to the park near Anthony and Amanda's house near Jet Wing.  We were supposed to meet up with everyone at the park at noon, which we did, but everyone showed up late.  For almost an hour, Alex, Mav, and I sat around with our jug of water waiting for the others to show so we can get some basketball going on.  We kinda got tired of waiting for them, so Alex asked the kid nearby with a basketball to play with their ball.  Knowing us, we didn't think smartly to bring a basketball with us just in case people showed up late.  Eventually though, the others showed up.  Anthony, Geoff Piechowski, Matt, and Amanda showed up.  Shortly after, Robert Pruitt showed up to play as well.  We played a couple of games of 3-on-3.  After an hour or two of basketball, we went back to Mav's place to go get ready for Fort Collin's.  I biked home from Mav's to go get ready and take a shower as well.

Before we left to Fort Collin's, we had a little problem with transportation.  In the end though, Kevin and Alex ended up just staying behind for the trip to Fort Collins.  In Giane's car, it was Giane, Julie, Steve, and I.  In Darien's car, it was Darien, Mav, RJ, Cameron, and Darien's cousin's, Victoria and Stella.  We got there around night time at Fort Collin's.  Before we headed to Patrick's place, we stopped by at Chipotle to get something to eat, finally.  After eating that, we finished it off with some dessert at Cold Stone.  I was pissed tasting the Cold Stone cause knowing that there's no Cold Stone near in the Springs.  Anyways, after eating dinner, we finally arrived to Patrick's, even though we got slightly lost.

The night had just begun from there.  Compared to the other times we went to that house, this time the house had every room themed and lit up with different colored bulbs.  When I first walked into the house, the living room looked almost like a rave-like environment.  There was two computers running at once behind the DJ's booth and there was a smoke machine and streaming lights flashing throughout the room.  Near the kitchen and by the living room, there was a bar set up with Mike, the bartender for most of the night, ready to make drinks.  The other two open rooms had different colored lights as well as different music playing in each of them.  One room was lit blue while the other is lit red.  I went to go to the red room where the hookah was at.  Outside in the backyard was a beer pong set up and ready to go.  During the middle of the party, I ended up actually getting the munchies.  So in result, Mav and I went to a nearby gas station to pick up some stuff and Taco Bell to pick up some food.  Let's just say the night was classic.  Hookah, beer pong, music, hanging out at the roof of the house, watching out from dog doodoo in the kitchen, socializing with everyone.  The night was basically ultra fun.  I mean, even sleeping on the coffee table wasn't too bad.  It was actually pretty relaxing when I woke up the next morning.

The next morning turned out pretty boring for the most part because everyone was sleeping or just wasn't there.  When everyone finally got up Ryan E., Patrick, Giane, Steve, Hannah, Julie, and I went to Olive Garden to get some lunch.  Pretty much everyone got the soup and salad there.  After a couple hours of eating and then socializing in the parking lot, we finally started to head out back to the Springs.  The time it took us to get back to the Springs felt like it was double the time it should've took probably because Giane was driving slow cause of the rain and her messed up wind shield wipers.  It was all good though.  We eventually got home around 6 the night.  Right after brushing my teeth, putting on some clothes and fixing up my hair, I quickly left to go to Genna's house to celebrate her birthday.  That's where I basically concluded my night.  We watched the Olympic trials and this dancing show on MTV, ate a bit, talked a bit, and played some cards.  It was a pretty fun way to conclude this 4th of July weekend.

Fourth of July's usually mean that you're gonna have BBQ's with the fam.  That's what we did before I left to go do anything.  Around 3:30, I left to go bike to Quail Lake Park to meet the peoples up for some basketball and hanging out.  This was the first time I experimented with a sweater on a hot sunny day to prevent getting any darker.  Surprisingly, I didn't sweat as much as I thought from wearing a sweater.  When I arrived to the park, the first person I noticed was Dennis.  I thought he wasn't going to come because no one was answering his house phone.  We waited there for a little while till Jeff, Jon, and Matt showed up.  After we chilled there for close to an hour, Anthony, Amanda, and Steven showed up.  We started to play a game of 21 for a bit.  We finally got the games going when Ray, Rudy, Ed, Robert, and Michael showed up.  We played basketball all the way till around 7:30.  After I biked home, I hopped in the shower and got picked up by my sister to go to Mav's place.

We ate when we got there.  Oh my gosh dude, the BBQ beef that they had was simply amazing.  After we stuffed ourselves with food, we went outside to have our little photo shoot with fireworks.  It was Giane, Julie, Mav, Alex, Kevin, and I that were in this little shoot.  Out of all of the fireworks that neighborhood used, the best one I thought was used was the windmill one where the thing was spinning.  It was pretty sweet.  After the photo shoot, I ate a little more and we just chilled out for about an hour before we headed out to Kevin's to chill yet again and watch a movie.  That's where we basically concluded the night.  For some reason though, I was feeling REALLY sleepy, REALLY early.  I was like passing out on them at Kevin's while we just sitting there.  I thought I really didn't do much that day, but I guess today really exhausted me out.