Before I start on the second part of the road trip, I must update a bit with what I'm currently doing. I dropped Peter off at the airport this morning. I'm still tired from having to get up at 5am. I'm free for the first time in a long time. No guests (much as I dearly love them), no work, no school. Now what do I do? Catch up on my blog and work more on trip planning I guess. Oh, and I've tossed in moving back to my parents into this mix too. I've moved back all the immediate stuff. I need to do at least one more trip to pick up furniture and all the other stuff that didn't fit into my car.
Roadtrip wise we went to the Monterey Bay aquarium after leaving my Grandfather's house. We spent about 3 hours there before heading to Long Beach. The trip took a bit longer than expected and we didn't reach Long Beach until after dinner time. We had no idea where Brooke was, she'd been drinking all day. We did watch some fireworks and eat some burnt pizza before meeting up with Brooke. We were then dragged over the entire town while she was on a bike and we were running after her. I discovered I had a headache in order to escape yet another bar/club.
The next day we got up in time to watch a worldcup game that started at noon. We watched it at an Italian Cafe. Then we went to the beach where I collected a nice sunburn despite lotion. I got some reading done, it was really quite nice. Then we all went to a nice Mexican place for dinner and happy hour with 3 dollar margaritas or something. I obviously did NOT need 4. After dinner we went back to Brooke's place, took showers, and got ready to go out. Then we went to a boat and sat in it drinking for awhile. I wasn't drinking at that point since I was already quite drunk. Brooke dragged us to a couple more bars before we managed to find an excuse to go back to the apartment. I went to bed and the boys, bless their hearts, did the laundry until 1 in the morning.
After Long Beach we were headed for Vegas. As we were packing up the car, I managed to fall down 5 or so stone steps and land on my ankle. It hurt, but I was ok. (On a more important note, my laptop which I was carrying also survived the fall.) I was supposed to drive that first morning, but I decided that since my driving ankle hurt like heck, Peter could get his introduction to driving in the US by fire. Start in LA! We stopped by Brooke's work on the way out of town for a really good breakfast. Then we made the pretty uneventful drive to Vegas. I swapped to driving about an hour to Vegas, probably not the smarted choice I ever made. It made my ankle hurt like hell when I tried walking again. And, of course, the elevator in the parking garage was not working. We checked in with no problems and took a nap until dinner time. We had a circus circus buffet for about 13 dollars per person. It was what we paid for, an ok buffet but nothing special. Lots of kids since Circus Circus caters to families. Afterwards we wandered around the strip a bit then went to bed.
To be Continued!
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