9 posts tagged “briana park”

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. 

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.

Well, before I go into the main topic for this blog post, I'll talk about what happened the day before and that night after Elitches.  Well nothing important happened, but I found out something big about myself.  The day before Elitches, I pretty hung out with my sister with going to the gym and having her come with me to get a haircut.  After picking up some Culver's from the drive thru, we went to Giane's house.  There, I found out that she now owned a bunny.  Towards the end of that night, I started to figure out that I may be allergic to rabbits as well.  The next day for sure I knew that I was allergic to her little bunny, Ginger Lillian.  The night after Elitches, I got dropped off at Giane's to join her, Julie, and Julius.

Anyways, back to the main topic.  So that morning, I got picked up to join Bri, Gabe, and Mina.  To my surprise, they were originally planning to get food at the theme park.  Thanks to the Asian Filipino Kuripot-ness in me, I made sure that didn't happen lol.  We dropped by Target to grab some food for lunch there.  We picked up some bread, cheese, sandwich turkey, Welch's fruit snacks, and fudge cookies with cans of Sprite and bottles of water to wash all that down.  We drove and got there on time to get our tickets before the lines started to grow.  Once inside, we went to ride our first ride of the day, which was the Sidewinder.  We then went to the Tower of Doom, Mind Eraser, and the Boomerang before heading out to Gabe's car to eat lunch.  The first time we rode the Boomerang, we planned to pose and smile for the camera during the ride.  We all thought the picture was going to turn out well, but they deleted the picture before we even got to preview it because of "sexual gestures" lol.  So apparently, one of our riders made a peace sign and stuck his tongue.  Coincidently, with the angle of the camera, it looked like him licking through his peace sign ... you get the idea haha.  Also, on the Tower of Doom, I decided to try and tape our ride, but I didn't hide the camera fast enough.  The operator acted kind and ask me ..... well basically told me that she was going to put my camera down by my stuff.  Another ride I remember specifically is the Shipwreck Falls.  Someone ... *cough* Bri and Mina *cough* told me that if you sat in the front of the ride, you wouldn't get as wet.  Hmmm, that was a whole bunch of ass cake because we ended up getting soaked SMH.  It was a good thing though for me cause all I was wearing during that ride was my swim shorts and my slippers.  The day was only just beginning.

We decided to go eat right after that.  Maybe we walked to slow to the car or something because when we were going near the car, there was another family going for the table.  Shoot, it was a little heartbreaking because we planned to eat on one of those picnic tables.  Good thing though that one of the families was kind enough to allow us to sit right beside them to eat.  The food was so good that we sorta overate.  It didn't bother us though with the 15-20 minute break we took before heading back in.  We planned to go straight to the water park right after lunch.  That didn't quite happen though.  Since we kinda ate a little too much for lunch, we decided to just take our time and look around the shops inside the park.  It seemed a little repetitive because we (me, Mav, and Alex) did the same thing when we went.  But it was fun because there was a different group of friends with me.  Finally after looking through all of the shops, we were finally ready for the water park

When we got to the water park, we were very fortunate to find a beach chair to put our stuff on considering how surprisingly busy the day was at the time.  Right after we put our stuff down and everything, we went straight to the wave pool.  The wave pool at Elitches wasn't too bad for what it was; granted, the one at Waterworld, known famously to Colorado residents as Thunder Bay, was and will always be much much better than the one we were swimming at that day.  After the wave pool, we all got the guts to go to the individual water slides.  It was pretty cool even though it's not as high as the other slides i've been on.  There was another tube slide we were planning to go to that supported all four of us at the same time.  The problem was when we got to the top of the slide ready to go in line, they decided to close the water park because it began to thunder and rain.  If you thought that other thing was heartbreaking, this  was heartbreaking for sure.  We quickly left the water park because it started to rain really hard.  Luckily, the staff allowed us to get into the showing at the theater, Imaginique, to get us away from the rain.  The show was pretty much the same as the last one I saw when I went with Mav and Alex.

When we got out of the theater, I was surprised to see that it totally stopped raining.  The best part about it was that they reopened the water park for the next hour and a half.  We quickly went straight there, dropped our stuff off, and went straight to the big tube slide we wanted to ride originally before they freakin' closed the water park.  Yep, that ride was pretty fun.  Mina and I then went to ride more individual tube rides before we met up with Gabe and Bri at the lazy river.  After going to the little kiddy part of the park and back to the wave pool yet again, we called it a day from the water park.  Not much went on at Elitches after that.  We went and rode the Boomerang a second time to get a nice picture during the ride, which I might say, turned out pretty decent.  We left the park pretty much after that last roller coaster ride.  For dinner, we decided to go to Casa Bonita a couple of miles away.

When we arrived there at Casa Bonita, Mina and Bri had an idea to see the reactions of people if they were to "accidentally" drop my camera into the water in the fountain that was there.  They did it and there was this blond lady just staring at Bri when she saw her drop my camera into the fountain.  It was priceless lol.  When we were getting seated, we were hoping to be sitting at a good spot near the waterfall instead of in the basement where no one was there.  We didn't get seated there, but we did get seated at the theater none of us realized was ever there.  It wasn't too bad cause there was a magician there doing some magic tricks.  After two full plates of food and some sopapillas, I called it quits.  We concluded our night there.  To conclude, I gotta say that Elitches with my Harrison people was a night to remember for me.  I thought our day was ruined when it started to rain, but it didn't lol.

UPDATED July 30, 2008

Note: I uploaded the picture up using zip file.  Simply download each of them. For every file, right click and simply extract them.

Theme Park Pics

Water Park Pics Part 1  Part 2

Casa Bonita Pics

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.

Yahh, so the Monday after the Independence Day Weekend started really early for me, but late for some lol.  I woke up around 10 that morning and called Jon to confirm our plans for that day, which was racquetball at Fort Carson at noon.  Around 11:30 to a quarter till, I started biking up to his house to carpool with him along with Darlene and Keanan.  When we arrived there, pretty much all of us were rusty for some odd reason.  We were like missing the "gimme shots" and what not.  Eventually though, we all shook off the rust and began playing some intense games.  The most intense I had that day was playing one on one against Keanan in back to back games.  There were several times during the game where the score stayed the same because the possession of the ball kept switching back and forth.  After three hours of hardcore racquetball, we went out to Taco Bell to grab some lunch, special thanks to Mrs. Pugh.  From there, we went back to Jon's house to hang out for a while.  That basically concluded that night.

The next day was basically dull and boring to me all the way till I got outta the gym.  I didn't leave my house till about 4-5 that afternoon to bike to the gym.  I got outta there around 6:30 to meet everyone up at Baskin Robbin's for the usual Dollar Scoop.  When I got there, I didn't notice the news till I actually got in line.  There was no more Dollar Scoop.  Starting that day, they changed to $1.25 Scoop.  How freakin' lame is that !?  Yahh, it really got me heated.  I mean, first they freakin' raised the price of the Tuesday special at Popeye's gradually from $.89 to a whopping $1.19.  But now they had to change the price for freakin' Dollar Scoop ?!? *Sigh* Well thank goodness I'm heading out of this atrocity come next month.  From there, I can probably find a new place to treat myself.  Anyways, after eating some ice cream, people wanted to hang out, but I was sorta in a cookie cause I had my bike with me.  Thanks to Jeff though, I was able to carpool with him along with my bike, Nick, Jason, and Keanan to go to Fortuna to meet up with Amanda, Kailaini, and Briana.  I didn't really eat anything there cause I was trying to save some money, but the others did.  Once we finished up eating, we basically dropped my bike off at home then Steven, Nick, Keanan, and I all went to the Antiques Billiard Museum to play some pool.  And eventually, Robert, Ed, and Ray came up there as well.

So everything basically stayed dull and boring till about 4 o'clock when me and Jeff headed to Anthony's and Amanda's BBQ at their new house near Sierra.  Keanan, Matt, Steven, Dennis, John Briggs, Jon Pugh, Jeff, Ray, Ed, Robert were all there.  Coming outta the basement was Kailaini and Briana.  I was supposed to be the Crown Plaza for Tia's Debut around five, but I decided to stay for a little bit longer there.  As a matter of fact, about two hours longer I stayed there lol.  After chillin' at the house for about an hour, we all headed to a nearby park to play some 3-on-3 basketball.  The game were intense for me especially since I was playing in dress shoes, a wife beater, and dress pants.  Right after we finished, I cooled down and headed to the Crown Plaza.

Even though I arrived there two hours late, I didn't miss a thing lol.  About ten minutes after I arrived, the things finally started.  They did the usual cotillion.  But the most memorable thing about this dance compared to other debut's, someone, specifically Mav, walked off the dance floor after four of their dancers were left confused during the dance.  CLASSIC.  The best part though about the whole debut, in my opinion, was the food that they were serving.  The roast beef was medium rare (the way I like it), the rice and breadsticks were pretty decent.  Best of all, the mashed potatoes were the pretty much the best I've ever tasted.

We finished the night going to someone's house and chillin' there with the peoples and the stripper pole in the basement.  We ended up arriving home around four in the morning because we went to Denny's to satisfy our hunger.

It's a good thing to have friends in your life.  I can rely on them whenever we need something to do.  Only a day I've been back and I'm already back to my usual social ways with being out all the time kind of deal.  For most of the day though, I basically stayed home and tried to organize everything on my computer.  Even though I only organized about slightly more than half of my stuff, I got a whole lotta stuff done.  After I finished that, Joy and I tried to gather some people up to hang out for the night.  We all met up at Joy's house around 8 with some of the people arriving about an hour or so later.  The people that were there were Joy, me, Darlene, Robert, Ed, Mina, Nick, Amanda, Bri, Ray, and Gabe.  It feels great for the most part to be back even though it's just plain old Colorado Springs.  Just sitting there hang out and talking with my friends is a great enough to call it a night.

Song: Yah, you know that song where you know you're gonna be obsessed about and gonna be listening to a lot right ?? .. Well, this song's prolly gonna be in the 100 plays club soon from the looks of it.

I also tried experimenting the family camera, the Panasonic Lumix.  When comparing the Olympus SW i have with the Panasonic Lumix, the Lumix is the easy winner when talking about overall picture quality.  I actually have an idea now of how cameras work and stuff.  So i kinda experimented with the camera with some night shots of the sky.  I was hoping the sky would've been more star filled, but i guess i gotta take what i can get.  I guess i just gotta try this again in the future; maybe i can get better shots then.