i have tried to start one of these before, but never would keep up. Lately however i have been writing more than i feel i have written in years. so i thought this would be a good first entry seeing as it is a milestone in my life.
in the past few months i have come to know some of the most influentical and amazing people i will ever have the pleasure of knowing. in the past few days i have said goodbye to some of these people. september leaves, college-bound kids leave. but if you are going to go - go out with a bang.
Lets bring 16 of your closest friends to Darian Lake for a day...
and thus my story begins.
Car Ride Up-
First mistake of the day, pulling into different gas stations. c'mon guys we've been on the road for less then a minute and we are THIS disorganized (if this give you any foreshadowing) =o) not to mention we stop at one that doesn't have a sufficent amount of candy for Brianna's liking.
Back on the road again, we embark on the thruway. Someone once said "it is not the weakest bladder, but the strongest, that decides the rest stops" 3 exits away and we stop. ::sigh:: =o)
rest stop fun, AJ desides that if you have a grassy hill why not make the best of it. So he, justin, and joel go and roll down the hill. justins legs attacked joel. fine family fun for all ages.
Sidenote #1: sunflower seeds hurt when you are pelted.
seth let me borrow his cell phone for a "just-in-case" so i get yelled at when i call the van that seth is in by Katie thinking i'm seth... eek! must have happened once before... ahem seth.
suddenly it rains on a beautiful cloud free day and Justin thinks hes badass when he shoots water out reynolds sunroof onto Lonergans car. just you wait... pay back is a bitch.
Ride up Comprimization w/ Joel - Change CDs every 2 songs until we pick the same artist different CDs... goofballs.
Opps! Lonergan pays a bit too much attention to naif and not enough to the car stopped at the green light. a small bump, no damage.
parking lot trauma- With a parking fee of 7$ (in the words of lonergan) "For 7$ they better rotate my tires, change my oil, wash, and wax my car..."
Sidenote #2: when putting car into reverse to get change from a ten dollar bill always look for large attendants and large vans ... twice ...
FINALLY we enter the park, pee and find lockers (do we feel like the muppets take manhattan yet??) either way the dynamic 16 are soon to be found destinationless. However - sparked by excitment we find our first stop, Superman ride of steel. AJ, Laura, and Doug seem to be the only sane ones and are keeping their feet on the ground. I definatly see their point. If you haven't been the six flags in NY just a low down on the superman ride of death, 80 foot 40 degree angle drop... yeah right. its a 40 sec haul to the top if that gives you any insight onto how tall this thing is. So i decide to keep firm on the ground and not plummet to my death. that is until joel extends and hand and says "please go with me"... AWW! can you really say no to that?
in the wait i was nervous but still going to go on. that is until naif and some random old lady scare me more than i wanted to be. naif points out and has me watch the 40 second climb and the screaming people falling ... this is supposed to be fun?!? then if that wasn't bad enough a random old lady points out a maintience crew working on the brakes... OK I'M OFF!! just to be held and said "its ok". needless to say because of my friends i went down the death trap and survived and of course wanted to do it again. =o)
However the split was next. I mean what do you do with 16 teens that all have different wants? Let 2 go to the arcade and 14 on another roller coaster.
The boomerang - wee? lets flip you upside down twice and then do it all again, only backwards. maybe i should re-itterate? wee?! so i have adopted a roller coaster partner because of my experience on the superman. however justin asks if anyone will ride in the back with him and joel said something like i will. i told katie about how joel left me for justin =o( katie looked at joel and was like "you just traded the right girl for the wrong guy" joel was like "good point" and took my hand.
next coaster, Viper Tunnel O' Love. Joel scareamed at the screamers in the .4 seconds of darkness. kids. hrmph.
hunger starts to sink in and brianna and i are determined for food. however seth points out that going on the mind eraser after we eat would be a bad idea. so we hold down our enormous erge to eat.
the mind eraser is my favorite coaster and there were only 13 of us on it... however we took up every car but one. how awesome is that to be the only people on a coaster. you and your friends. too bad thats one of the only coasters with no picture. i would have had to have bought every one to build a mini coaster.
we split up to eat. brianna and i raged towards food with joel, justin, seth, lonergan trailing behind. we wait at the ferris wheel for the rest of our party and once we are safely together again we deside to do a ride with ALL 16.
Hello grizzly run. 2 tubes, 8 people each. Myself, joel, doug, laura, seth, brianna, lonergan, miller and reynolds, naif, katie, jenny, hewitt, mindy, dan, aj; we embark on our journey down the river. they won't let joel take of his new 15 dollar shoes. those bastards!
at the start we give a good flip off and say how we will make it to the bottom first.
sidenote #3: we won
at the end joel reaches his hand into the water and splashed me. uh oh. not that. thanks to that and seth flipping off our friends, we were kicked off the ride. oh no!!! heheh.
after being soaked we split up into small groups and go our own ways. doug, laura, seth, brianna, and i went to conquer the HOUR LONG WAIT for a log ride. the whole time i am punking two eleven year old. one that looks just like my ex boyfriends new girlfriend and one that she thought she was just the shit. they commented on how my, laura's, and brianna's boobs were all too big. and how my ears are streched and how gross it is.
once again... what is americas youth coming too?!?!
after the log ride we meet up with justin, lonergan, and joel and head out to do our own thing while the rest of our group went to the parking lot to do something. we head over to the predator and joel and i ride front car with miller and brianna right behind us. ugh, i hate wooden coasters.
however the predator was right next to the swings... YAY!!! seth, joel, brianna, and i race towards them. joel gets in trouble (again) for twisting.
we meet at the fountain for food. the restaurant we deside to go to is closed. fun. so we make reservations at beaver brothers
sidenote #4: beavers have a 16" inch long tail to attract a girlfriend.
we have time to kill so we head to the arcade right across the strip. we win loads of tickets and seth, lonergan, and naif get blow up bats. (UH OH OH NO!!) hehehe
wars take place, naif gets a black eye. attacks Jenny.. jenny tags me in, i win. mwa hahahahaha. not really but re-matchs simmer.
we eat. then rush outside to watch the lazer light show. Brianna starts a conga line. people clap at the retarded kids wishing that they could be that cool.
we walk out, a group, a clan, a band of brothers. enjoying our last mintues with one another.
the ride back. long and tiring, but i had a nice shoulder to sleep on. listening to dashboard to put us to sleep and AFI woke us up.
sidenote #5: Pay back - don't get even get ahead. almost home and doug and joel send 3 full bottles of water onto Reynolds car. MWAhahaha
we get back to home base where all our cars sit and say goodbye. mindy is in tears. i hate goodbyes. we send eachother off with love and best wishes. and drive away.
so this is my begining, starting with my final goodbyes.
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