Cae's Cookies

Ok, so, my best friend comes to visit me from Missiouri. We drive the near 3 hour ride to Santa Cruz and partied. I hadn't partied like that since that Thanksgiving night in Cornwall. That's near 2 years ago, for those who are new. Her and I put on our cutest outfits, fiddled with our hair and make-up and took a cab on over to the club called Catalist. Which, in case you're wondering, isn't such a bad place to go for drinks and dancing. Though we were there at 10:15PM, it wasn't quite as busy on the floor, no, let me rephrase that, the dance floor was empty. So, the security guy who stamped our wrists, told us that the PRE-party is upstairs in the pool room. Up, up, up the stairs we go (I love that Golum line), and proceeded to flirt our way to share a table with a few guys with drinks in our hands. Gresh had me drinking Sex on the Beach...which is mixed with rum...not exactly my fan drink. Soon later, though, she got me a Smirnoff. Yeah, baby! Well, we danced and drank the night away...except, when Greshann proceeded to drop her drink on the floor, it slipped, honest, I "cut" her off. I was teasing, but she took it serious so, when a cute dude offered to buy her a drink she said only if it's water, "I've been cut off." LOL Oy. Anyways....we got in around 3AM, it was 4AM we eventually fell asleep....wait wait wait. I forgot to mention that a small group of guys came over to visit us in our hotel room. Just for like 30 minutes. We'd met them at the club, I flirted with one, but that's about as far as it went.

When we discovered that the other half of our party, both guys, were due to arrive in just a few minutes, "shew, shew, shew" them out we did. Straight afterwards, we crashed....In the pictures you can see the waiting period between the time we got back to the hotel and for the small group of dudes to get there. We kept switching the camera between the two of us and snapping like crazy. There are a LOT of pics of her and I just kicking it on the two beds. Geesh, what girls will do when drunk and bored.....Moving right along. The guys came in near 6AM, I heard later on, because at the time, I didn't want to move to look at my watch. The unfortunate thing about drinking is that it gives people hangovers. There are many different types of hangovers, I believe. Two of which are the headache and/or the stomach ache. I've never experienced the headaches, though the stomache aches are the worst the morning after. And, though it was only two hours later, boy was I ready to just puke on anyone stupid enough to jossle the bed too much. Wait a minute! Greshann proceeded to do just that because she was still bouncing with energy when they got in...or something shocked her to life, and she was giggling and talking and moving....ooooyyyy. lol Morning! I woke everyone up at 9:30AM. No sleeping and lazing about, no matter the 7 hour drive the guys had to do to get up there, I wan't to enjoy my time there, not sleep it off in the hotel room. Jack In the Box, Starbucks and a slow confusing trip through downtown got us to the lighthouse, as you can see in the pictures, and then a little bit of a walk to the beach below led us to the Natural Bridges. That's that holy thing in the cliffside. After, there was beach play in the freezing water, lunch, shopping and thank goodness, NAP TIME! We all woke up at 9:30PM and got ready for another night at the club, except this time with the two guys. Repeated to dance the night away, after a few hourse playing pool. Greshann, who played the pool shark the night before, got a shot in behind the back, after which we proceeded to giggle and high-five over. Hey, we're buzzed, so giggling is permitted. Well, we had fun, which is exactly the point of the trip. Her and I took summer courses to catch up with getting our associates, Greshann just getting done with her's, and mine soon coming to an end, so we were entitled to have a little relaxation during our summer break.

Greshann led me through a successful parrallel parking, which made me all proud, the next morning (last day). The first day there I had tried, and ended up parking SO close to the curb that I scratched my hubcaps and it took me like 5 minutes to get there. It was embarassing enough, and this jerk and his friend had to walk by congradulating me on an "ace parking job." I retalliated with calling him a name...it wasn't as great a curse as I was hoping for, but I was flustered and couldn't think of anything better than "jerk" or something like that. BUT I made a perfect parking job the last morning when we were going for the best crepes for breakfast. Some more window shopping, tinkering around and enjoying eachother's company, and then it was time to head home. It was just the break I needed apparently, for since that vacation I started doing a lot better on my quizes for History and I even passed my Multiple Choice part of my final. I'm still not sure what grade I got on the essay and short answered questions...keep your toes crossed!

Movie references: While Greshann was here, we saw The Island and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Both are really good movies. If you're looking for action, The Island is the movie to see. And, if it's just plain entertainment, with comedy mixed in, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is the best choice for you. I didn't know too much about The Island when we sat down in the theatre, just the base line of the story; the society of people that are led to believe they are survivors of a chemical blast on Earth that are really copies of million/billion-ares that have paid to keep them as back-ups in case something were to happen to them and they'd need "extras." Now, Charlie and Factory suprised me. Greshann's mom recommended it for the two of us, said it was our kind of movie, though I had my doubts from the way the previews looked, not to mention that Johnny Depp looked really scary. Though when the movie started, I was captivated by the twists and the different story line presented in the movie. It is far different from the older version, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, trust me.

Well, I guess that's all for now. I may have more later on, and, now that it looks like I'll have more time to do stuff, more entries in the future. I've been trying to work a lot of Saturday's, like today, to make some extra money for the trip in October. I'm really excited to see everyone again over there, especially my newphew!

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