15 posts tagged “steven schoolfield”

For those who don't know why I have this 'break' from school.  My school campus is basically being used for the Democratic National Convention.  Thus the reason why my school and Metro State and Denver's Community College started weeks before pretty much every other college in Colorado.  For that reason, I decided to get away from Denver because of two main reasons:

1. I haven't made friends in which I can just call up on the moment to hang out.  I sorta forgot to grab some numbers before the start of the break.

2. Everything's crowded up in Denver; you don't even know.  Places are being blocked off.  The main place being blocked off is my school's campus.  I don't really know Denver's spots to hang so the campus is the only place I know where to hang out at the moment.

Anyways, so the break started for me basically when I headed off to the Springs.

Monday.

I woke up around 9 that day so I could make sure I could ride the earliest FREX bus to the Springs.  9 was a little late because I actually planned to wake up around 8 but I kept snoozing the alarm.  As usual, I was waiting for the last minute to do everything.  My clothes weren't packed yet and my room wasn't cleaned up.  I had dirty dishes scattered throughout my room.  Ray called me to come over for a short while to pick up some movies from me.  He's the one that gave me the idea for just stuffing all my clothes into just one Hollister bag instead of bringing my huge red suitcase with me to the Springs.  I ate a couple of fruits for breakfast and packed some of them planning to eat them for a small lunch before going home.

After Ray left, I started working on my Myspace profile for a little while and finally posted it up on my Myspace.  This was my 2nd ever amateur level layout I made using mainly Adobe Photoshop to make and slice the layout.  I checked up the times in which the FREX is running to the Springs.  I found out that the only choice I had to choose from was the bus scheduled to leave at 12:40 that afternoon.  The bus before that I had already missed.  That bus left at around 9:30.  I had basically no chance to catch that bus lol.  When I checked the times up, it was around 11 o'clock so I still had time to spare.  I was put on pressure though because not only did I start cleaning up and packing around 11:15, if I were to miss that bus at departing at 12:40, I would have to wait for the next bus which leaves around 3:30 later that day.  I was not going to let that happen.

I finally got out of my place cleaned up, packed, and ready to go a quarter past noon.  When I got downstairs to the lobby, I double checked with the front desk to ask where the FREX station was.  She scared me because she said that the FREX might not be running that whole week because of the Democratic National Convention.  Time was ticking because like usual, I was running late yet again.  Apparently from the information I received, the FREX bus stop was at the Market Street Bus Station.  That would mean I would need to hurry my butt up because the station from my place is about five blocks away.  I was planning to ride the 16th Street Mall Shuttle to the Market Street Station, but that ended up not happening.  It was beginning to get crowded as well because of the Democratic National Convention.  The shuttles were running and I was in hope to ride one to the station.  The problem was that all of the shuttles somehow to only be running south bound, which was going the opposite way to the station. SMH.  With only minutes to spare, I power walked to the station to go ask for info about the FREX.  So I found out that the FREX and RTD were run by different companies so the teller couldn't help me out,  Eventually I went to a nearby restaurant and got helpful and specific directions to the FREX bus stop.

When I finally got to the bus stop, the FREX bus happened to just arrive at the same time.  It was an experience to ride that bus.  It was amazing actually.  The ride was comfortable because of the shock absorbers for it as well as the nice cool air conditioning being provided.  For $9 for a trip from Downtown Denver to Downtown Colorado Springs, that's not too bad.  At first, I thought I was going to be the only person riding the FREX down south cause I was the only one to board at that bus stop.  But eventually, by the time we got to the Alameda FREX bus stop, we had almost a full bus.  It sucked cause I had to share my seat with some guy all the way until the bus stop at the Castle Rock Outlets.  During that whole ride, I was hoping to get as much reading done as I can.  Defining Memories, the book I was reading actually wasn't getting too bad as I headed near the Springs.  Instead of using the free wifi provided on the bus, I decided to try and read the whole bus ride.  I was sort of successful with that.  I was able to read almost 30 pages.  That may not seem much, but with how fast I was reading that book back in Denver, it was a huge improvement.

When I finally arrived at the bus stop on South Tejon near Downtown, my dad and my mom wasn't picking up.  I didn't want to stand around at the bus stop.  I felt tired and exhausted.  So I rode the free downtown bus shuttle to Kiowa and Tejon.  From there, I walked a block or two to the downtown's public library.  I finished up reading as well as eating a couple of apples.  My dad eventually came and picked me up.  We went to China Doll to pick up a bunch of food from my mom and we then went straight home.  There, I ate till I bloated and started stocking up on movies and everything I can download.  I didn't really do anything else that night.  None of the hanging out happened till the next day.

Tuesday.

The lechon and the sinigang from last night had me stuffed.  I slept good because of it.  I didn't anything much other than sit at home and go on the computer.  Around noon, I went over to Dennis's house to hang out before he had to go to class.  We sat around and socialized for a couple of hours.  He also showed me a HUGE spider that I thought looked like a brown recluse spider, which so happens to be found in Colorado.  Just looking at the spider was scary enough. Woah.  Dennis got hungry.  So as we were watching the movie Arachnophobia, Dennis made a nice looking chicken sandwich with sharp cheddar cheese while I ate a thick slice of that same sharp cheddar cheese.  It was pretty tasty.

Once I headed out, I went back to the house to chill and relax for a little while before heading to $1.25 Scoop that night.  I went there to meet up with Jon first at Target.  There, I went to look around for a little before heading to Baskin Robbins.  I was looking to see if they had rim replacements for my bike.  A day or two before I headed to the Springs, I caught yet another flat while I was biking around the Cherry Creek area.  I eventually found out my fact of the day.  So I had a feeling that I needed the long strip of rubber on the inner most part of the rim to prevent my tire from catching a flat because it helps keep the inner tube in place.  So I figured I probably have to go to a dedicated bike store to pick something like that up which I will have to do within the next couple of days.

On the way to Baskin Robbins, we met up with Keanan and Matt.  I got some cherry jubilee ice cream on a cone and Steven got a scoop of vanilla ice cream in a cup.  We chilled in Baskin Robbins for a short while before we went outside.  It was so weird because we were having the most random and not-so-normal subject during our two hour long conversation.  We talked about things from dreams all the way to things like the different ways to pick out your wedgies without catching any attention.  We finally called it a night around the time Baskin Robbins closed.  I gave Steven a ride home before going home myself.  At home, I did the usual things like download movies and surf the net.  I also did the beginning processes with my third Myspace profile layout on Adobe Photoshop CS3.  I stuck with that as well as watching a movie on TV while chatting online with some friends before finally calling it a night.

Wednesday.

I started the morning chilling on the computer and staying in the house.  Brian came over a little later to hang out for an hour or two.  We socialized for a little while before he headed out and I left to the Citadel Mall to meet up with Joy.  Prior to leaving, I took a shower and got ready as well as ate a delightful lunch.  I ate a bowl of rice with some corned beef.  I ended up running a little late to the mall because of that.  When I got there, I met up with Joy at near Aeropostale.  She apparently walked and browsed through five different stores while she was waiting for me.  I need to seriously get better with my time management because all week, during my stay in the Springs so far, I've been running late most of the time.  Anyways, for about an hour or so, I helped her out with some shoe shopping.  It took us a while for her to finally choose something at Lady's Foot Locker and Journey's.

After the mall, Joy wanted to drop by the Wal Mart down the street because she was looking for a planner.  I guess what happened, what that UCCS, the school Joy goes to, didn't give her a planner at all.  I was assuming that they were going to give her one during her freshman orientation, but I guess they didn't.  Again, it took us a short while for Joy to choose what to buy.  She debated between numerous planner until she finally chose one lol.  During that time, we also picked up snacks and food for her to bring during class.  I tried helping her out by choosing to buy in bulk so she could save money.  She was choosing to buy the individual lemonade packets instead of buying a huge pack of lemonade powder for almost the same price.  Joy argued about convenience over price.  SMH.  Anyways, after Wal Mart and the mall, we parted ways and said our goodbyes.

I then drove to Steven's place to pick him up so we could hang out.  We decided to go to my house to plan what to do that night.  There, couldn't figure out what to do for hours and hours.  We sat there watching TV and staying on the computer before Jon finally called me with plans to go to the Ft. Carson gym to go play some racquetball.  I thought I was going to drive.  But what ended up happening was that Jon, along with his mother and his brother, Tim, came to my house to pick us up.  We first went to go to Steven's to go pick up his ID because he forgot it.  Right after, we went to Darlene's place to go pick her up before finally being able to get on post to the gym.  We got there around 9.  The gym was to close in about an hour, so we had to be quick about playing.  I went and changed into my gym clothes and went straight to the racquetball courts.

We played three games in total.  Everyone that came except Steven and Mrs. Pugh played that night.  The first game was me and Jon vs. Tim and Darlene.  The two of us came out as victors.  The second game I play with Darlene as my partner.  Darlene and I came out as victors for that game.   The last game we played, I had Tim as my partner.  Jon and Darlene came out of this game as the winners.  During that whole time, I ended up getting hit by the ball a lot.  I got hit on the back of the head and on the arm.  Darlene got hit or almost hit by the ball many times that night, somewhat because of me lol.  Jon had it the worst though.  During the second game, I think, he tried going for the ball running towards the front wall.  He ended up slipping as he jumped on the wall and he banged up his knee pretty bad.  This night of racquetball was filled with injuries.  It was pretty bad, but was also extra fun and exciting.

The night didn't end there though.  After we dropped off our borrowed equipment, me and Steven got dropped off at my house to pick up my car while the Jon and his family went to go drop off Darlene and go home.  I got a couple of downloads ready and had a short conversation with Dennis before heading out to Jon's house to hang out for a little while.  When we got there, we ate a piece of pizza and chilled for a while.  That night too, we had more weird topics during our conversation.  Tic Tac and Tator, Jon's dogs were also wild as usual.  Jon was showing us how Tator smarter than Tic Tac.  He showed us how Tator responds to "ball", while Tic Tac pretty much just followed Tator and did whatever he did lol.  It was a fun night.  Before we headed out of Jon's place, we also played three games of Super Smash Bros. on the N64.  After dropping off Steven and going home, I relaxed and stayed up till around 4 before passing out to sleep.

Computer time's the only thing I've been doing till I went to 24 Hour Fitness with Anthony, Matt, and Steven.  I met up with them around 5:30 instead of the original time that was planned, 5:00.  I got there a little early.  So what I did before the others got there, I benched a couple of sets to kill some time.  We played a lot longer than we thought.  We didn't finish until almost 9.  My shirt was dripped with sweat.  Everything except my bottom of my shirt was sweated up.  When I got home, I basically stayed on the computer for a little while before I passed out.

That next morning, I woke just fine.  I woke up around 8 that morning to get ready to hang out with everyone.  I ate a bowl of Wheaties and grabbed a banana before heading to Dennis's.  I arrived at Dennis's on time, 8:45.  I waited for the dude to get out of the shower.  We then left to go pick up Jon, Jeff, then Steven.  The first place we went to was the Chapel Hills Mall.  We got there just on time.  It was 10:05 when we walked in.  We checked out the mall for a little while.  We walked around most of the mall.  The last place we checked out there was the store, It's Your Move.  There was a shocking game they had going on.  Compared to the gorilla shaking game at Chuck E. Cheese's, that was nothing compared to what we experienced at that store.  For about twenty minutes, the game got addicting.  Me and the rest of the others were hooked.  There was this other game we also found interesting from the looks of the box.  The game was called Dirty Minds.  Dennis ended up choosing to cop that instead of the shocking game.  The game was alright, but it was a disappointment.  Though there were many riddles that were hilarious.

We were extra hungry by the time we left the mall.  During that same time, that was when the soreness really kicked in for me and Steven.  It was pretty bad lol.  My butt cheeks were hurting and everything.  It really sucked.  Anyways, we left the mall to go to Cici's Pizza for lunch just around the corner.  It was a pretty good deal if you asked me.  A full buffet for under $6.  We stuck around there for a couple of hours before chillin' in my car.  After that, Dennis had to part ways as well as Jeff.  The rest of us went to my house to relax and chill.  I also gave Jon a tour of my house since it was his first time coming to my house.  Soon, Jon had to leave too.  He got picked up.  Steven and I chilled for a good hour or two before Matt arrived.  We soon left to the mall to walk around and then to Entertainmart to play some games.  At Entertainmart, I ran into Victor and Kevin D.  They were as bored as we were.  While Steven and Matt played Guitar Hero and Super Smash Bros. Melee, I got hooked on this first-person shooter game, Frontline for X-Box 360.  It was uber fun.  After Entertainmart, I pretty much called it a night and said my goodbyes.

The title pretty much explains what happened throughout my day today.  I woke up around 8 that morning to answer texts from Jon and Jeff about our status on going to the gym.  Even though I woke up and responded to them them pretty fast, I fell back asleep.  The next hour, I got a call from Jeff that they were on their way to my house to pick me up.  It sucked cause I ended up laying in bed for another couple of minutes before actually getting up and getting ready.  I went straight to the bathroom to brush my teeth and got dressed.  Usually I would go on the computer to do some quick check ups on some stuff, but that didn't happen that morning.  As soon as I got dressed, they arrived.  So I quickly made a sandwich consisting of ham and pepper jack cheese and headed out in my slippers.

When we got to Garcia, the gym in Fort Carson, we all got our rackets and googles and went straight to the courts.  We played a couple of doubles games.  But as I found out, two weeks without playing any racquetball had an effect on me.  My serves were really off compared to a couple of weeks ago and everything.  We all concluded that each of us were off than usual because of it being early and all haha.  We played all that way till about 11:30 that morning.  After I got dropped off at home, I didn't really do much.  I ate a meal and then fell asleep.

When I woke up, I had a huge headache.  It really sucked ... Steven called to hang out.  But he didn't call me back, so that didn't happen for me.  I ended up just sleeping the whole day and through most of the night.  I woke up around 11 and luckily my headache went away.  I ended up just typing up some blogs and chatting with some peoples on Yahoo Messenger.

That morning, I worked on finishing up my new profile for hour before I finally got out of the house around six.  Dennis and I, well mainly Dennis, came up with the plan with hanging out at the Citadel Mall with everyone.  I drove for the second day in a row and picked up Dennis and Kyle to meet up with the rest of the peoples.  When we arrived, we first went to this jersey shop and looked around for a bit.  The three of us was just the three of us for a short while.  I decided to call my mom up while I was there so I could get some food money when I get hungry.  Not surprisingly, my mom was at the mall too.  The three of us walked to American Eagle, where she was at.  Right when I arrived, I made a deal with her without even saying anything to her.  I had to suck up to her and do whatever she told me to so I can get my food money.  For about twenty minutes, I had to try on some clothes.  It was worth it though.  I needed to modify my outdated wardrobe.  That day, my mom got me a new pair of K-Swiss skater shoes, a pair slippers, a pair of shorts and 7 shirts.  Sweet.  Thank you Mom.

After saying bye-bye to the mother, Matt, Keanan, and Nick had just arrived.  I didn't only walked out of that store with five dollars for food money, but also my sister's lunch from Panda Express.  When I walked out of the store, Nick and Keanan were talking to Megan Stimol and Ashley Hendricks.  Right after that, we went to the food court to sit and talk.  Eventually, we all got up and about half of us got some Chick-Fil-A to eat.  I got the usual, as usual.  From there, we went to the arcade and all these other places.  As you can evaluate from the pictures posted, the boys were caught unexpectedly in a suspect position with Barney.  SMH haha.  After hanging out at the mall just having a good time, we headed out and left to go to the Carls Jr. near Harrison.  There we witnessed Nick and Dennis deepthroating their Six Dollar Burgers while Kyle manfully ate his jalapeno cheese burger.  We stayed there for a little while, but we had to cut the Carls Jr. hang out short because the workers there were hinting us to leave so they could start closing.  From there, Kyle and Dennis had to go home.  The rest of us chilled for a short while at my place.  That too was cut short because they needed to head home.

I didn't want to just stay home, so I asked my mom to drop me off at Giane's, where Julie and Giane and Ginger were chillin' at.  When I got there, we sat there for a little while just talking.  RJ, Russell, and their cousin arrived shortly after.  Socializing, gossiping, me working on my cool new Myspace page was all that was happening there.  We ultimately decided to go to Denny's to grab yet another midnight snack a second night in a row.  Again, we arrived during a drunk rush, so it was kinda packed when we arrived.  It felt a little awkward because I was the only one just sitting there with a laptop right in front of him.  Yahh, I was confident to finish up my first Myspace DIV profile, which I ended up doing when we got home later.  Surprisingly, I didn't order anything.  But I still somewhat ate, I freeloaded from everyone's plate except Russell's.  We stayed there for a good hour and a half before we finally called it a night.

The night stayed young for me though.  I didn't get to sleep till like 8 that next morning.  I actually finished my page and had it up and running in just about 20 minutes after we arrived home from Denny's.  But knowing me, I had to keep experimenting and modifying my page.  I eventually came to a finish hours and hours later.  I felt proud.  I felt inspired now to use this as a new hobby since I'm actually not too bad with Photoshop as a beginner.

The day started right on time.  Joy, Darlene, and I arrived at Waterworld about thirty minutes before opening.  Luckily, the park opened up early so we were able to settle at a good place to put our towels, clothes, and cooler at.  The bad thing about it was that none of the water attractions were open till ten o'clock.  When ten hit though, the three of us went on the Pharoah tube ride and one of the small water slides.  We also went to Thunder Bay before we took a break to wait for Nick and Steven.  On the way up to the lockers, we saw a little bunny roaming around in the grass near one of the water slides.  When we got to the lockers, we called up Nick and Steven to see where there location was.  When they arrived, we went straight to the rides.  The thing that really surprised me was the amount of people that was there at Waterworld compared to what it would be if we were to go on a weekend.

We officially started our day at the half pipe type slide.  I kind of forgot what the name of the ride was. Right after that, we went straight in line for the ride called "The Revolution".  But to me, that ride was known only as "The Denver Nugget Slide".  That ride after the first time riding it that day, we already claimed it as the funnest ride in the whole park.  While waiting in line, we saw AJ Tao there.  I thought Joy was making a joke when she said she saw AJ, but it was actually him lol.  We took a short bathroom break before we did anything else.  There, I took the largest doo-doo I've had in the past couple of days.  After washing up, I was ready for whatever was next.  The next ride we went to was the Voyage to the Center of the Earth, known to me as "The Dinosaur Ride".  The line wasn't too bad.  What was bad about that ride was the walk up with the tube.  It really sucked.  Towards the top at the beginning of the ride, I found out that there's a new thing Waterworld was doing with special valet passes.  For $20, we were to get full access to the red pink tubes at the top of the rides instead of waiting in line for one.  Sounded like a good deal to me.  The Dinosaur ride wasn't too bad.  Throughout the whole day though, the line for that ride stayed long the whole time.  It was about three hours in and we finally called it quits for a while so we could eat lunch.  We pretty much ate everything we had there through just the first round.  That killed like thirty minutes right there.

After digesting and relaxing for a short while, we went and took the transport vehicle at the entrance of the park to go to the other side of the park where the fun house was at.  The ride we went in line for next was the toilet bowl slide.  The wait wasn't too bad except for the fact that the sun was hiding and cold water was being sprayed and dropped all over us continuously throughout our wait.  I tried taping myself on the toilet bowl slide, but that didn't really work out very well lol.  We were left undecided on what else to ride.  We ended up going in line, yet again, on the Denver Nugget Slide.  Darlene didn't want to wait, so she left us to go to our table and wait for us there.  The wait was about thirty minutes, but it was worth it.  Riding this ride again was probably one of the highlights of the day.  We took some picture while on the ride.  When we got off, we were quickly confronted by one of the security guard about jumping out of our tubes.  No one was about to talk, so I pretty much just told him what I did and got a warning for it lol.  After that ride, Joy called it quits for the day when it came to getting wet.

When we went to go meet Darlene, we got her and the four of us left to ride as many rides as we can before the park closed.  The first place we went to was the ride, "Storm".  The lines were surprisingly short.  We ended up riding that ride a total of three times before going to ride a different ride.  Shoot, the lifeguard even remembered us and took a picture or two with us during those three rides on "Storm".  We rode a ride called the "Colorado something" I forgot what it was called lol.  Let's just say it was a really bumpy ride.  We rode that twice.  Darlene wanted to go somewhere else, so she left us haha.  So the three of us went on the ride that fitted two adults.  The ride was called "Thunder River".  I would put this probably second funnest for the rides.  The ride was intense because we called ourselves "seventeen year olds" instead of adults.  So what ended up happening was that we filled our tube past occupancy.  This was another highlight of the day.  Before actually going down the ride, we ended up being stuck on a ledge for about 15 seconds.  It was funny cause the lifeguards were just staring at us like we were stupid haha.  We ended up riding that ride a couple times too.  The lines towards the end of the day seemed to be shortening surprisingly.  Too bad the lines weren't that short throughout the whole day.

The way back home was extra boring.  We got lost for about almost an hour and a half trying to get back to Katherine's apartment.  No lie, that really pissed me off ....... really .. pissed me off.  I wanted to rip someone's head off.  When we finally got there, we picked up our stuff and started to head back to the Springs.  I sorta fell asleep through the ride out of Denver.  When we got back to the Springs, Joy dropped me off at Steven's house to watch the new Harold and Kumar movie.  There we just watched the movie, chilled, looked at the Waterworld pictures we took that day, and pretty much just went home.  What a fun day overall.  If you don't include the whole episode of us getting lost in Denver, the day pretty much turned out almost perfect.  With just the five of us, I had so much fun at Waterworld. Thanks.

Note: Here are the pictures from that day.  Since there were so many high quality pictures taken, I had to compress them via WinRAR. if you wanna check 'em out, you gotta have WinRAR (which is free, go to rarlabs.com to download it).  Download all the parts, put 'em in the same folder and extract only one of the files by right clicking and clicking on extract.

WaterWorld Pictures Part 1  Part 2  Part 3

WaterWorld Video Clips Part 1  Part 2  Part 3

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

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

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

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

I said that this was memorable night for a reason.  Nothing happened at all for me during the day.  I pretty much didn't step a foot out of the house until almost 9 that night.  I got picked up by Nick, Keanan, and Steven to join Ed and the others at Red Robin for dinner.  When we got there, we had to wait for others to arrive.  It was just the people riding in the car with me, Ed, and Robert with his cousin.  The rest to arrive was the girls, Kristie, Joy, and Christine.  From there, we all ordered our food.  Well, I didn't order though as well as Steven.  We stuck with the simple free water and the bottomless fries Red Robin provided.  Surprisingly, that really filled me up.  All I ate was fries and the leftovers of Joy's chicken sandwich.  After that, we all drove by the theaters, I guess, to sneak in to the movies.  We didn't go though.  We instead went to Quail Lake to chill and relax.  The other car, Robert's car, ended up following us.  Before I left with my sister, we played some midnight basketball at the park.  There was this game we started to play called, I think, Celebrity Basketball.

When I got picked up, Julie and I went straight to the Mendoza's place.  There we got a couple of drinks, a shot or two, and all that good stuff.  We just basically sat around for a little while and socialized for most of the time.  I even tried a cigar just to see what it's like.  It tasted like a strawberry Pop Tart to be honest, but I doubt I'm ever try that again.  Steve and I eventually decided to go grab some late night Mexican food cause we were getting really reallly hungry lol.  We went to the Albertacos on Austin Bluffs.  I was looking forward to get a churizo burrito, but they said that they were out.  I suspect BS, but it's whatever.  I instead got a breakfast burrito with extra green sauce.  When we got back to the Mendoza's house, the night was only beginning.  We got back to find out that people were missing.  Justin and Julie ended up to be the ones missing.  They were dropping off Ralph and his cousin to his house I suppose.  Anyways, when Steve and I walked to the basement to see what the other were up to, we saw the whole crowd except Ryan in the bathroom.  I looked over to see he-who-shall-be-remained-nameless bleeding to death and everything.  Ok, that may be a little over exaggerated, but it was pretty bad lol.  So what ended up happening while I was out was that the dude tried to open up a bottle with his mouth and it ended up breaking on and cutting the dude on  his chin really really deep.  It was basically deep enough to the point where it needed stitches lol.  Well, I still can't imagine the possibility of that happening especially when you look at the result of the bottle.  I thought that was the buzz kill of the night.  But it wasn't.  Some of the people were nice enough to take the dude to the ER; the rest of us went back to the basement to watch a zombie movie, Undead.  What a night.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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