19 posts tagged “giane morris”
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.
I haven't done one of these traditional "journal" or "diary" entries in a long while. So that means that something huge happened this weekend. Well, by just reading the title, you can assume what's making this period stand out more than a normal weekend or whatever.
Friday, it was the day before I planned to head to the Springs. A couple of days prior, my mom thought it would be a good weekend to come down because I could visit DJ and Tin since they were coming down for the weekend. After Math class, I decided to finish some errands to start off my "usual" Friday. I headed straight to the Denver Public Library to pick up a new book because I was on the way to finishing the book I've been reading that week before the next time I head back to the library; and to drop off and pick up some new CD's to copy to my music library. I seriously expected that my weekend was going to be relaxing and what not. I finished off the day hanging out and playing a couple hours of pool on campus with Dung before heading home and laying back for the night.
I packed up and everything the next day before heading to work. Everything was going grand; I was reading and finishing up reading my book on the train to work and I was excited to go back for the weekend. When I got to work though, I ended up finding out that I had to work both the next day and the day after that. Catch is, I couldn't or in other words, it was near impossible to have someone cover my shifts so either I had to lie and call sick, or go to work that next day. The thing that made things bad is that my mom was more than half way to Denver to pick me up when she found out the news, so I kind of had to go to the Springs and come back to Denver the next day; unless of course, I just not show up for work the next day (Sunday).
I arrived in the Springs around ten or so that Saturday night. I ate a little before I headed out to Joy's place first then to Tin and DJ's place to hang. It's great when you're talking to people you've grown up with all your life even though it was only for an hour or two. Even though we prolly only see each other once or twice a year, it's still quite easy to conversate and talk to each other. What a night though. I was hoping to wake up the next morning a little early so I can roam around the house and possibly study for my midterm exams that next day. I wasn't expecting to sleep twelve straight hours. I guess the weekend was really wearing me out. It was around one in the afternoon when I woke up and my mom's plans was to head to Denver around 3 or 4 so I could head to work on time. After eating a little at home and at Denver, I said my goodbyes and went to work. I wouldn't mind going to work, but considering I have two back-to-back midterm exams the next morning, going home around midnight and studying was going to be a hard task.
The next morning, after doing some studying the night before, I studied some more before going to my Math exam. Finished that with some uncertainty that I was going to finish the test coming out with an A. The same went for my History exam as well. It's ok though, I got my midterm paper from my History and was relieved to find out that I got a good grade for my paper while most of the class got worse. But things don't end there, I also had to go to work to finish that day. After playing some Killer, a card game I just learned today, I headed straight to work to finish the night off. What a weekend indeed. In the end, I figure all this hard work will pay off sooner or later.
This weekend was amazing. I couldn't really log this blog like I usually do cause I was pretty busy the whole weekend. After finishing my first week of school, it was time to just relax and have fun going back to the Springs to hang out, eat, and dance at the 2008 Filipino Pageant. I woke up that Saturday early as I did that whole past week. I did try to sleep in though, that didn't really happen though. My main plan for the day was to meet up with Ray at the Alameda RTD Station at 3 that afternoon. Before that, I tried to finish up as much homework as I could. I stopped during the middle of the chapter and called it quits. I eventually finished up the homework though. Going to the RTD, I brought my laptop, Math homework, and a suitcase with all my dirty clothes. The stupid thing I did this time was that I had intentions of doing my English homework in the Springs, right ?? But I ended up forgetting to bring my laptop's AC adapter. So the whole weekend, I just needed to use the battery I had left on my laptop as efficiently as possible. I met up with Ray a little past three. From there, we headed to the County Line Station. That station's the same area where Park Meadows Mall is located at. From there, we patiently awaited for Giane's arrival.
Since it was raining a bit hard at the time, I knew Giane was going to be slightly late cause I know how afraid she is to drive in the rain. We got into the Springs around 6, just in time for the Pageant. After we dropped off Ray, we headed straight to the Crown Plaza Hotel, where the Pageant is annually located at. When we arrived, the event had just started. Giane and I were both undressed, so we went to the hotel room we had checked out and changed into a more appropiate attire for the event. When I got back into the ballroom, I ate a lot of rolls with butter and salad. We talked a little while, ate, and watched the Pageant take place. The talents for each lady was different for each person. Alyssa Magalong played her violin rendition of Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go on". Ann-Ann did her usual hula dancing with money being thrown at her lol. Grace Norris sung a song. Jenny did a hula dance as well. My sister did their dance they practiced for. They danced to Madonna's recent "4 Minutes". I had fun that night. The only problem I was really having was my right ear. What happened was that with the changed of elevation from Denver to Colorado Springs, my ears didn't adjusted right probably because I forced them to adjust. Bad idea. My ears didn't feel normal until I actually got back to Denver Sunday night. And even still, there's a noticable difference with my right ear compared to my left ear. It'll get better though, hopefully. It was great seeing everyone again after moving up to Denver. Nothing much happened after the Pageant. We headed over to Denny's to grab something to eat before simply going back to the hotel and sleeping for the night. At the room, Giane and Steve had one bed while me, Marie Fe, and my sister had the other bed. Maverick didn't want to join either bed so he chose to sleep on the floor. The next morning, we just all left and I went home to get some Filipino food to eat for lunch. On the way home, we dropped by Albertsons to pick up some food for me to take back home at Denver. When I got home, I was so happy to be eating some Filipino food again. It felt awesome eating some rice ya know ?? About an hour or two later, we left to Denver. We headed to the Cherry Creek Mall first before heading to the China Town area to look around and pick up some more food. After the China Town area, we left to my dorm and drop off my stuff. After we put my food and clothes away, we went to Picante's to grab some dinner. I ate a pork and green chile burrito. It was amazing. After dinner, the fam went off to go back to the Springs. I finished the night completing my Math homework, which I found out later on I didn't even have to do yet, and chatting with friends on AIM and Yahoo Messenger.Picture Downloads:
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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.
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
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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.
I didn't really get up to do anything till like noon. Around 1 or 2, I finally got my ass up to go to the Old Town Bike Shop in downtown on Tejon to go fix up the gear cable on my bike. It was pretty sweet to look at the different types of bike that they had. I learned a lot from looking around at that shop. Basically to have a quality bike, you're gonna need to drop some big bucks on it. To sum everything up about bikes, titanium framed bikes>steel alloy bikes. Anyways, the repair guy did a great job repairing my bike. The service there was great and everything; I recommend going there if anything happens to your bike. Well after I got home, I ate a tuna sandwich and I packed an extra "triple stacked" tuna sandwich for dinner on the go. So after, I left to go bike to the gym and get a quick weights workout.
I wanted to go on base on my bike to go meet up with Jon and Jeff, but as I was approaching the B Street Gate, the sign basically concluded that they would not let me in without a safety reflector vest and a bicycle helmet. So what I ended up doing was biking all the way back home to go grab my car. I thought I was going to be late meeting up with them like usual. Fortunately though, they were the ones late because Jeff left his ID lol. We ended up going to the Waller Gym since the other one we usually go to closed earlier. The racquetball court there was slightly different compared to the other gym's. The ceiling was higher and the walls seemed closer. Like the first game we had seemed really frustrating because everything for me was going too long in my serves. After a while though, I started to kill it. After that day of racquetball, I started to really like this game a lot. I mean, I can finally say that this is much easier compared to tennis now lol.
When I got home, Julie and I went back to Fort Carson to watch some firework near the park formally known as Iron Horse Park. The fireworks were pretty nice from the view that we had. After those 20 or so minutes of fireworks, we drove to Giane's to meet the others up. We missed a huge event though at Tinseltown. So something happened I guess with the movie Hancock, so they started to give away free tickets. Maybe I should've went and got some lol. Well after sitting around trying to figure out what to eat, Giane, Mav, and I went to King Soopers to go pick up some candies and pizzas and fruit punch while Julie, Kevin, Alex, Steve, and Art stayed at Giane's. When we got back, we watched an episode or two of In Living Color while the food was cooking. When the pizza got done, I ended up eating about six or seven slices haha. Well we finished the movie watch the movie 23 with Jim Carrey.
What a BORING Sunday .... all the way till around midnight that next morning. I went to Ihop with Julie and Giane. We ate there and stayed there till around 2. But prolly the most memorable thing about that whole time was getting back into the car for the ride home. Ok, so there was this LITTLE house spider hanging out on the side of the passenger door. Giane notices it and starts FREAKING out haha. Classic video.
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.
