How I spent my summer vacation.
AT the beginning of the summer I decided to travel down to San Antonio and see some friends. I hoped to see Andrea, John and Micah. I had last seen Andrea at the end of the year, John at the end of my freshman year and Micah nearly three years ago. Due to some scheduling and money problems I didn't get to go down when I had originally planned, but I was determined to get down sometime this summer.
Lo and Behold, I find out my dad has to teach a class in San An a week after we get back from Oklahoma. I contact my friends and ask my dad if I can tag along.
Unfortunately, not 24 hours after I tell John that I'm coming down, he learns that his grandfather is dying and he'll have to go to Lubbock. Oh the irony. Also Andrea is heading to Lubbock on Wednesday to visit her sister.
So we arrive in SA Town Sunday night and my dad and I go see Harry Potter 5 and have dinner at Hooters. I'm expecting a call from either Micah or John about hanging out but When john calls I learn more of his grandfather's problems.
Monday I sit in the hotel all day because Andrea is at work, and cant get down to SA until Tuesday, and Micah doesn't call until that night. The hotel was actually not bad, I practiced my Ukulele, watched TV, and rode the stationary bike in the rec room. That night my dad and I go see Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.
Tuesday Morning Micah picks me up and we drive around trying to find something to do. We walk around down town and see the Alamo (not terribly impressive.) Eventually we go back to his Apartment and play some video games. Megan, Micah's Girlfriend comes over and after many phone calls we manage to get Andrea to the apartment as well. Mich and Megan have never been to Freebirds, so we all hop in Megan's white Ford Bronco (the OJ chase car) and have some great burritos. Micah has to go to work so The three of us left decide to go hang out at the nearby mall. We walk aroiund the mall and hit all the important stores: Hot Topic and Spencer's. I buy a 13 dollar t-shirt at Hot Topic, because I just don't have enough t-shirts. We joke about me getting a makeover, but we forget to follow through on it.
We stop in at New York and Co. because they are having a really big sale. I'm doing my best to have fun by joking about trying on some of the clothing. Megan finds a dress that she looks gorgeous in, and Andrea gets a cute shirt for her upcoming audition. And because that last sentence didn't make me sound gay enough, I tried on a pair of capris that looked cool. It was supposed to be just a funny thing, and Megan didn't think I would go through with it, so I did it to prove her wrong. The strangest part is that fit great and looked really cool. I'm not entirely sure if Andrea and Megan said so to be nice or because they did, but I liked them and ended up buying them. I should mention that I learned some interesting things about women's pants. Most importantly is that the zipper flap is backwards. I mentioned this to Megan who said I shouldn't get them if it would be a problem, but it actually isn't that bad. I'm also concerned about what my parent's will think so once I've purchased them I remove the tags and put the pants in my Hot Topic bag.
After the mall we go visit Micah where he works: the Office Depot copy center. I had previously mentioned making a bunch of copies of the word fjord as part of a performance art thing I wanted to do so I plunked down my last ten dollars on 130 copies of the word fjord. Something else that would have to be explained to the family.
Side note: My Mother mentioned that her mother mentioned something about how I did my own thing, and that was cool(not her words.) I think the Girl pants and copies are further evidence of that fact, but that doesn't mean that my family needs to be aware of them at the moment. I'll tell them eventually, once enough time has passed.
While being driven around by Megan and Andrea we listened to the soundtrack to the Tenacious D movie. One of the songs contained the line "Government totally sucks," which I can identify with.
Wednesday I hang out with Micah and Megan some more, Megan takes us to the park that we tried to get to the day before, and we walk around and eventually end at Incarnate Word where Megan goes to school. She takes us to the blue hole which is one of the sources of the San Antonio Rio. I take a drink from it because I can and hope that brain worms don't kill me. We meet some of M&M's (I love that nickname) friends and we all watch the latest Bourne movie. This is followed by a trip to a local pub where they sever Scotch Eggs. Yay! For the uninitiated, A scotch egg is a boiled egg wrapped in sausage and the deep fried and eaten with mustard. It's incredibly yummy.
The Pub is having goldfish races and most of us enter. In goldfish racing there each racer has a goldfish in a rain gutter filled with water. The race shoots the fish with a water gun to make it go and the first to the other end wins. I lost in the first round, and when M&M faced off we learned that huge boobs beat a big penis every time. After the pub we went to heather's house and just hung out and talked for way too long. But it was lots of fun.
While at Heather's I really felt an annoying pang of being single. There were a couple couples that were not so subtly making out at one point and I was jealous. Not much I can do about it, so I tried to be polite.
I should also mention that the pants were worn all day Wednesday along with my new shirt. I noticed a few other things about pants made for the fairer sex. Firstly they (the pants) are slightly stretchy. Don't get me wrong, I've been around girl pants before and I knew they had some give to them, but I didn't know how awesome that actually is. They're just fun to put on. Secondly is the pockets. The front pockets are too small. I could barely fit my wallet in one and my phone in the other. I understand why women carry purses for all their stuff: they're pockets are just inadequate. Also the back pockets were sewn shut. There were pockets there, I just had to remove the thread keeping them closed.
I get back to the hotel at around 1 AM expecting everybody to be asleep. Which is incorrect. My mother is up reading. i was planning on nobody being up so i could slip out of my pants without any awkward questions. I should mention that I wore my new t-shirt to distract from the pants as a backup measure to the plan, but no such luck. My mother is aware that I have worn nothing but carpenter style pants for the last 8 or so years, and quickly noticed the new pants. I tried to play it off, but without much luck. I think the fact that I had new pants at all distracted from further inspection. Thankfully.
Thursday I managed to see John for a few hours in the morning. We went to the mall, hung out got some cookie cake and went to the goodwill store. It's weird how easy it was being back together, I think it was because we kept in touch so much over the past year. John also gave me the DVD of The History Boys. which i have been meaning to see for a while now. For Lunch I met Micah and Heather and Amanda at Jason's Deli. It was fun talking to them. Micha and I hung out a little more before he had to go to work and then I went back to my hotel.
My family went to the cheesecake factory for dinner and we bought Wild Hogs on the TV in our room. The Movie was surprisingly funny and worth the time.
Friday morning we woke up, packed and went back to Grapevine.
Hoops I did it again.
