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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.
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.
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So to sorta recap from the last blog, I didn't get to sleep till about 8 in the morning. Yahh, that's a little late don't you think ?? Anyways, I didn't end up waking up till about almost 1 o'clock. I felt so exhausted it wasn't even funny. I was supposed to bike up to Anthony's place to hang out, that didn't happen for me. I pretty much sat on my ass, tried to get some feedback for my new Myspace page, and sleep lol. Sometime during that day, I fell asleep yet again. What woke me up twice were calls from Mav. The first call was about asking me to go with him to the Brunswick Bowling Alley to meet up RJ with his brother and cousin and Ann-Ann and her friend. I told the dude sure. I fell back asleep after the first call. I had an extra nice dream, no lie lol. Yet, it had to be interrupted. Mav called for a second time. This time though, it was "a get ready !!" call. When he picked me up, we went straight to the bowling alley.
When we arrived, they were already finishing up their bowling game and were about to leave. The next place we went to, or at least tried to, was Laser Quest. When we pulled up there, it was closed already. It was sorta typical though. It's a late Sunday afternoon, so I wasn't surprised that it was closed. Instead, we drove up to Palmer Park. It wasn't the actual park. We went to the top of some view point at the park. I've never actually been up there before to see it, so that was a surprise for me. We chilled there for a little while, took a picture or two, then headed out east to Sonic's. Not surprisingly, we somehow got ourselves sidetracked. We arrived though eventually. We didn't get anything there, but the others did though. Let me take that back. Maverick got a cup of water for $.27 lol. From there, we called it a night because well, there was nothing else to do. Pretty wack ayy ??
Well the day started out with me finishing up the text part of the blogs from Elitches and the Pike's Peak Incline and Bowling that next day. I was sorta worried that I was going to get behind because I had a lot on my mind for those blogs. Luckily, just before I left to go meet up with the others to hang out and play basketball at Sinton Park, I finished the Elitches video and at the same time finishing the last couple of sentences for my latest blog that day. Around four that afternoon, I headed with my bike to Sinton Park. I thought I was going to be late or something. To my surprise, I was the first and only one there for about 15-20 minutes. Good thing though, people eventually started to show up. Originally, we had plans to go swimming right after the park. But that didn't happen. We stuck around the park, not necessarily just playing basketball the whole time, but pretty much just hanging out and attempting back flips. I myself didn't attempt any back flips, but Jeff did. The results weren't pretty when he tried doing one a second, guided lol. Matt and Keanan also attempted to try and do front flips. Keanan eventually successfully completed one ... and on video. After we got thirsty, we all went to 7-11 to cop ourselves some Slurpees.
While we were there, I gave Keanan and Matt the idea to start taking a collection of picture in front of places doing back flips. While they were doing their back flips, they seemed to be getting some attention. These two guys started walking out and they confronted Keanan and Matt. They convinced them to do yet another back flip for them on video. Now that's what you call Keanan and Matt, monkey flipping celebs. I called it a day for myself with them and split ways to go to Giane's place to meet up with the rest of the Flips. When I got there, Julie took me home to drop my bike off while I got washed up and ready to go to downtown for dinner. When we got back to Giane's we left straight to downtown to meet up with Julius and Romano at Old Chicago.
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When we parked and tried to get a seat at Old Chicago, there was a thirty to forty-five minute wait for the table. So what we ended up doing to kill time for dinner, we just walked around and talked. While we were walking, that's when we met up with Julius and Romano. Time seemed to go by fast because before we knew it, we were called to get seated. When we got seated, it took us a short while to figure out what we wanted to get. I ended up being the last one at the table to be undecided. When the time came up, I decided to get a mushroom swiss burger. In the end, I ate a lot. I ate my food, some of Marie Fe's chicken sandwich, some of Julie's nachos, some of Giane's fish, and some of RJ's quesadilla. I was stuffed. After staying there for about two and half hours, most of us went back to Giane's to chill. RJ left when we got back, same with Marie Fe. Julie and Hannah stayed behind to go to the Ritz for a couple of hours. So we just chilled and talked and me, Steve, and Mav watched Giane and Julius practice for the dance before we eventually left for home when Hannah and Julie arrived back.
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.
So today, Saturday, Alex, Mav's family, Monica's friend Tori, and I all went to Elitch Gardens, the family theme park formally known as Six Flags Elitch Gardens. The day started off pretty well considering that we slept most of the way up to Downtown Denver, the location of Elitch Gardens. Mav and I attempted to try and keep ourselves busy during the drive there by watching The Descent on their portable DVD player. What ended up happening was that we both started to fall asleep. I guess getting very few hours of sleep'll, in the end, benefit you in which you won't have to stay up for hours during drives to far destinations. So what was supposed to be considered a 2 hour drive can feel like a 5 minute ride because of sleeping. Great thing huh ??
Anyways when we finally arrived to the theme park, that's when the true fun started to happen. We arrived at the parking just in time for opening. Before we actually went in though, we had to solve a little problem before proceeding. So last night, Mav bought an extra ticket on accident because they already had the right number of ticket beforehand. After like 2-3 minutes with finding a resale, I found a person who bought the extra for the price we got it for, $24.99. It was pretty sweet. Once we got in there, all the young'n's went straight to the Mind Eraser. It was pretty cool cause all the rides we rode that day, they basically had no lines, so the wait was very little. Well anyways, what was memorable about this ride was that after riding the ride, the picture of Mitch's face was priceless ... well because you couldn't see it. While everyone had their usual roller coaster face, Mitch looked like a dead zombie throwing up from alcohol. Right after that, we went straight to the other rides such as the Boomerang and the Twister II (both of which, Mitch had priceless faces) and also the Tower of Doom (which everyone except me and Alex pussied out) and the Halfpipe.
Well another classic moment that happened today was when we were on the Twister II. So for the other two rides before we came to this one, the Boomerang and the Mind Eraser, Mav recorded footage while the ride was going on. Unluckily, Alex decided to record this time and he got warned by the operator there .... three times lol. Two when we were getting seated for the ride; and one time on the first ramp up the ride. It was hilarious cause on the way up the ramp, the speaker hanging out beside us as we were passing by up the ramp had a voice scream out, "PUT THE CAMERA AWAY !!" lol. Well after riding all the roller coasters out there (except the Sidewinder), we all went to find a spot to put our stuff at and go swimming. The bad thing about it was that it was abnormally cold. We eventually got used to it, so we then went to a couple of slide before heading out to the car to grab something to eat for lunch. When we got out to the car, we opened up the truck of the van. When we opened up the car, the back seats were pulled down to make it seem like it was a picnic table. Everything was set up; the drinks were cold, utensils were available, the meats were warm and hot, and most importantly, there was rice.
Once we finished eating, we had yet another problem. So basically visitors are able to exit and re-enter the park as long as you get this special stamp and a ticket stub. Yahh, when I first read that, I thought it said or. I mean I was fine cause I had my ticket stub in my bag. Mav and Alex, on the other hand, didn't lol. We ended up having to get Mav's mom to come give them extra ticket stubs to get in. Well when the problem was solved, the three of us went to what was formally Looney Land looking for Bugs, Tweety, Sylvester, and the others. This was before we even found out the bad news. So we first went into the foam place with the foam balls and their guns. It was pretty sweet even though we were technically kinda too old to be in there without a legit reason. Walking out of there, we were still looking for the Looney Tune characters. We finally decided to ask a couple security guards nearby about the situation. That's where we found out the horrible news. So I guess last year, the corporation, Six Flags, decided to part ways from Elitch Gardens. With parting ways, Six Flags also took with them the Looney Tunes, the Batman attractions, and basically anything dealing with Warner Brothers. That explained why Looney Land was renamed, there was no more Batman show, and the Batman ride was renamed to the Dragon Wing. Wack. So of you guys probably already have known this for a while now. But for me, I didn't mainly cause the last time I went to this theme park was when I was in middle school.
Well even though the whole Warner Brothers theme throughout the park is gone, there were still entertainment that still kept this visit enjoyable. There were these African dancers who performed for the public doing these acrobatic and athletic trick and moves with jump ropes and everything. It was pretty sweet. There was also a show presented by Cirque Innosia called Imaginique. The show had a similar style of entertainment like the show I watch before at the World Arena earlier this year. That show was called Saltimbanco, presented by Cirque du Soleil. The tricks and movements they did during the show was simply amazing, and we'll just keep it at that.
For the rest of our time there, we rode a couple more rides, chilled out at different areas of the park, a window shopped at the many souvenir shops there. Overall, the stay there was pretty amazing. When I look back at everything we did that day. I gotta say that this is a day to look back upon when this summer ends.
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.
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.
