Day 27.

Today we drove into chicago. We parked about an hour or less outside of chicago in a rest area and slept there. We woke up and drove into chicago to catch a White Sox game. The tickets for the game were expensive, and parking was expensive too so we decided to skip the game. We drove through the city and went to wrigleyville. We checked out some shops and then ate at a mexican food place that was really good. After we ate, we went down to the hotel to check in and relax for a few. We watched 1000 ways to die, such a funny show! For dinner we went to Giordano’s. Its a hot spot in the heart of chicago that specializes in chicago style deep dish. Laxy and I shared a bread n stuff, it was so delicious. We then cruised around town and made our way back to the hotel.

Day 28.

So last time we stayed at a marriot we missed the complimentary breakfast in the morning. This time Laxy and I were determined to make it to breakfast…and we did! I told everyone I was going to wake them up at no later than 6:30 to get breakfast and everyone but jake said ok. So, I woke up at 6 and tried to wake laxy and adam up but they wouldn’t get up. Laxy said he had his alarm set for 8, so I told him to wake me up when his alarm goes off. I went back to bed and Laxy woke me up at 8 like he said he would. We tried to get Adam up but he didn’t want to go anymore. It was worth it though, I made a waffle with the wafflemaker. I also had an english muffin, some orange juice and a bowl of raisin bran. I dined like a king.
After breakfast we checked out by noon and drove to Minnesota. I watched Run fat Boy run on the way. It’s a pretty good movie. In Minnesota we stayed at adams aunts house, but she wasn’t there so we had to the place to ourselves. That night we went to the grocery store to get some food. I made some pasta, and fries. Laxy got some super delicious hummus and Jake got some pancakes for breakfast. We dined like kings once again and relaxed. I was so full.

Day 29.

Today we didn’t leave the house until about 4. So it was a very half lazy day. We took care of laundry and hung out. We then went to the Mall of America! We went on two rides, sponge bobs rock bottom ride and the green roller coaster ride featured in Mighty Ducks. The one that makes Charlie and fulton barf. We then explored the mall for a couple hours, I got an orange julius. mmmm. We then went to a Noodles and Company for dinner. It was so delicious! We then went on an adventure in St. Paul………..Then we went back to the place and got some sleep.

Day 30.

We left Minnesota in the early morning and made our way to Mt. Rushmore. We got there around 5ish. For lunch we stopped at a Hardees and had some quality fast food. There was this old grumpy impatient man behind us in line. The food was good.
At mount rushmore we went on the Presidents slide, which are bobsleds. So fun! Afterwards we drove up to mount rushmore and took the presidents trail. You can get pretty close when u take the presidents trail and the heads are actually pretty huge! We also stopped in the sculptors house where we discovered there is a hidden hall of records to the side a little behind the heads. Its not visible from any visitor viewpoints. We also stopped at a little strip mall on the way down from mount rushmore but it was not crackin.
Before we got to mount rushmore I got pulled over for speeding. The officer was so nice though! He made me sit in his car/suv and was asking me all these questions about our trip. I thought he was writing me a ticket and then at the last moment he said “here you go, this is just a courtesy warning you dont have to pay anything”. I was so relieved! If I knew he was writing me a warning I would have talked to him a little more.
We also got stopped on a highway under construction where we had to wait for a pilot car to lead us thr ough the highway because they were only letting one side go at a time. I got to be the leader of the cars because I was right behind the pilot car.
That night we were headed to Seattle. I was driving and we were in Wyoming. The gas was almost low and we drove through this really small town that only had one gas station but it looked close. So I continued on this small highway. There were no gas stations or anything on this highway for more than 90 miles and I was definitely not going to make it to the end with what we had. So I turned around and went back to the town hoping to somehow get lucky. By the time I got back in the town we were on empty, thankfully one of the pumps was still on so we could use our card to fill up. I was so happy that the pump was on. It was pretty scary driving down the highway because I saw so many deer, I’d say I saw at least 7! I had been driving all day so I handed the wheel down to Adam. At about 4am he pulled into a rest area and we slept for a few hours.

Day 31.

We continued on the road, and stopped for gas. Adam lost his phone at a taco bell we stopped at about an hour outside of seattle. It must have gotten lost outside when he was out there changing. We got into seattle and drove through the city. Jake Laxy and I were planning to stay with Laxy’s aunt and Adam wanted to stay at a hostel in the city because he wanted to explore. The hostel didn’t know if they had any beds and they wouldn’t be able to tell him for another hour or so. He decided to just come with us and stay at Laxys aunts. We showed up and met the family, such nice people. We were going to go to another relatives house for some dinner, but his aunt insisted on making us some food so we were going to eat two dinners. Remember, we just had taco bell too. So we ate some more food. We then went to the other relatives house and ate some more. We also met some other relatives who were really nice and funny.
After we ate, we went back to the house we were staying at. They brought over an RV from the other house for Adam and I to sleep in. It was amazing sleeping in the RV! I slept in a little bed up above the drivers/passengers seat. It was so comfortable and cool! We hung out with Laxy’s cool cousin AJ, had some drinks then called it a night. We played kings cup and Adam lost.

Day 32.

Today we woke up early and went to a shopping center to hop on a expressway bus to get into seattle. While waiting adam went to find an atm and we missed the bus because he didn’t make it back in time. So Laxy drove into the city. We went to a pizza place adam really likes called hot mommas. It was pretty good. We then found some parking right down the street for a good deal. The guy working there was super nice and he said it was okay if we parked longer than the 10 hour limit. I also saw 13 coins which is a wonderful place we ate at last time I was in Seattle. I love Seattle. We took a nice stroll through the city to the space needle. Seattle is so nice because everything is so close! We hung out at the space needle for a little bit then walked down to the piers. We walked along the waterfront until we got to the Pike Market place. There we watched the guys toss the fish around, we also got some donuts from this very popular donut shop right next to the fish tossers.
We walked through the market place, saw the first starbucks. We then walked to Pioneer Square where the underground tour is. The next tour was sold out and if we went to the one after we would have been late to the game so we just bought tickets for tomorrow’s 10am tour. We explored the toy store across the street, such a cool toy store! We then walked down 1st street to safeco. It was such a short walk! We stopped at the shops in front of qwest field and then continued. We got in line behind home plate and waited for the gates to open. We got our franky G bobbleheads and watched batting practice from behind home plate. The mariners played the cleveland indians and they lost pretty bad. Laxy and I got some garlic fries, they messed me up.
After the game we walked back to our car through the city. It took us about 40 minutes so it wasn’t bad at all. We stopped by hot mommas again because adam wanted some more pizza before we made our way back. Oh and adam locked the keys in the car earlier so when we got back we called triple A so the guy could get the keys out.

Day 33.

Today we woke up early again. We had to make it into seattle by 9:50 and Laxy’s aunts house is about 40 minutes outside of Seattle. Adam drove so he could drop us off in front of the underground tour. The underground tour was so awesome! It was really neat to go down there and walk around. The tour guides were super funny too. Afterwards we met back up with adam and went back to laxy’s aunts house. We hung out for a bit then went to this ethnic festival they were having at a park nearby. It was super cool to go there, they had good ass food and some cool stuff to see. LAIR was going on too! we saw some guys fighting and we talked to one of the guys and he told us some stuff about it. He was super nice too. We also watched some thug kids doing some crump dancing and explaining what goes into it. It was interesting…We got some fresh squeezed lemonade, soups and I got some jamaican food. Adam spilt some soup on his hand. Laxys cousin gave us a free shaved ice too.
We went back to the house and hung out because they were having a BBQ that night. A bunch of his family members came over and we all ate. I tried some crab, the kind that you have to actually work for to eat. It was a pain, but an experience. There was some other good foods too. We had some drinks and then Jake and I went to bed early. Laxy and adam stayed up a bit longer and finished a game of kings cup we started. Adam lost again and had to drink the kings cup that had popcorn, beer, soda and a fart in it! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA. so funny.

So it has been a week since I have posted anything on my blog. Right now I am in Chicago at a hotel with internet access and its day 27. Everything is going great and you will be hearing about it all shortly.

7/12/2009 -Day 20.

Today we woke up in a rest area. We got ready and made our way into detroit to catch a tigers game. The tigers beat the Indians 1 – 0 and Cleet Thomas from the Tigers was a double away from hitting for the cycle. They got this deal at this park where you get 2 hotdogs, a pickle, some cole slaw and a bag of chips for 8 dollars, what a steal! After the game we drove about an hour into Tex’s area Point Huron. We played some catch in a mall parking lot. We then found Tex working at his Target and hung out there for a while. A security guard that works with him was telling us about these “buttery ledges” to skate at a park. Tex got off work and we went to his house to drop our stuff off and meet his parents. We actually only met his step dad John and his lil bro Alex. We put our stuff downstairs in the basement then left to get dinner. We ate at a Cici’s and Tex treated us, what a nice guy. After Cici’s he took us around town, showed us the lake/beach, the boardwalk/ park and some other local sites. We then headed back to his place, watched some TV and went to sleep.

7/13/2009 – Day 21.

We had to wake up at 8 today because Tex had to work in the morning and his stepdad did not want anyone in the house without Tex being there. We left our stuff down stairs and hung out in Michigan to kill time until the home run derby at 8. We went to the park, played some catch. The park was near the buttery ledges. We also went to a Meijers, its like a walmart. Afterwards we went to the Lakeside mall about 30 minutes away. It reminded me of a Westminster mall. I got wetzel bits, so delicious. After the mall we went to some thrift stores. We then drove back with about an hour before the home run derby. We hung out inside a barnes and noble to kill some time, then went to Chillis in the same lot to watch. It was so weird, people were smoking inside the restaurant! Prince fielder won the home run derby. My two picks were albert pujols and joe mauer. I ate some mini buffalo chicken bites. Tex got off work at 10 and met us at chilis. So I asked him if we could stay with him tonight too, but it was kind of last minute because I asked him last night. He said it was cool though. I guess his stepdad John was not cool with it and said we could not stay at all. Text didn’t really make it too clear so we thought we were good to stay that night too. Well after chillis we went back to tex’s and we asked if downstairs was cool to sleep in. He then told us his parents didnt want us sleeping there at all! It was very awkard because all our stuff was downstairs in his stepdads room. Well tex went and asked his parents if it was cool if we could sleep in his room. After a couple minutes he came back and said it was cool. The only thing is we couldnt go down into the basement to get our stuff. So we had to wait until the morning to get our goods. In the end Im glad we had a place to stay.

7/14/2009 – Day 22.

So we got up and went down stairs to get our goods. Tex’s step dad left the TV on so we thought he was still home! or that someone was down there so at first we were afraid to go down there. We finally went down there and no one was there thankfully. I got my stuff out of there as quick as possible. We were paranoid that his step dad would be home soon because Tex said he comes home for lunch everyday. Well we got out of there without any awkward encounters. We went to a local cafe Called Daybreak Cafe. It was really good and cheap too.

It was now time to make our way to Canada. We decided we were going to go even though Jake didn’t have a passport. We took the bridge into Canada. We had to pull into inspection at the border, after they checked the car and did some paperwork we were good to go. It was pretty easy! So that obstacle was done, now getting out was all we had to worry about. We went to Toronto. It is a really nice city, we walked around found some huge mall and their version of time square (thats what I said it was, its not officially called that). We saw the space need they have, its super cool. We also drove around downtown and saw the sites.  We then walked around looking for a pizza place to sit and watch the all star game. We found a nice little place on a college street. We watched the game, the american league won. Afterwards we walked through the city to our car. It was time for Montreal.

7/15/2009 – Day 23.

Bonjour,

Laxy drove overnight into Montreal and woke me up at 6 because it was my turn to drive. The wild thing is that all the signs in Montreal were in French! It was so awesome, completely different than Toronto. The city had really cool buildings too. I found a park to park at and we slept for a few hours. When he woke up, Adam walked around the park with his laptop looking for some internet. We woke up and went to a book store. We then went to check out the hostel we were planning to stay in. Adam went into the hostel and asked the guy where some spots were, but he couldnt really understand adam. He told adam to check out mount royal street. So we did, we walked around and there were a bunch of nice little shopts. After, we checked out the olympic stadium. I then looked up places to see in Montreal in my phone and it told us to check out this place called Quartier Latin. We put an address into Franky and found a parking spot near the area. We then walked to where we thought it would be. At first we felt like there were many gays in this area. We realized we were actually in a gay area of Montreal called Gay Village! There were restaurants packed with all men…no women. Some funny bars/ restaurants and even a porn theatre. Well we looked at a map after walking through the village and found that we made a wrong turn. I knew it was right around there but the guys didn’t believe me! Laxy kept trying to put his arms around me and hold my hand….. After walking through the village strip once more we found the quartier. This place was really cool it had a lot of food places and was neat. We watched some weird clown show, and a guy singing at a bar/restaurant.  I really liked how the main language was french, it was neat to hear the people talk. We went to a place to eat called double pizza, they had a canada specialy called Poutine (pronounced Puts’n). They are french fries, smothered in gravy topped with cheese curds. The cheese curds part is gross but the other parts are extremely delicious. We then decided it would be a good idea to skip the hostel, leave montreal that night and drive through the night to Niagara falls, see the falls and then cross the border earlier in the day in case we experience any problems. This is because we heard that laxys cousin was stuck at the border for half a day trying to get back into the united states because he didn’t have his passport. I took the wheel and drove to the falls. We got there at about 5am and I found another park to park and sleep in. This one was nice because it wasn’t too hot when we woke up.

7/16/2009 – Day 24.

We woke up and went to the falls. Niagara falls is amazing! The sound of all that water rushing down the waterfall is crazy. The canada falls in my opinion were cooler than the american ones. They are both super cool though. Theres a boat that takes you into the heart of the falls called Maid of the Mist. So wild. People can also go on little paths that take you right down to the base of the falls. We walked to the Bridge to USA and took many photos. After a few hours we made our way back. It was time to cross the border back into the united states. Jake was pretty nervous as we were driving up to the border check. We get to the border, give the man our paperwork. He asks us a few questions then tells us that next time jake goes to canada he needs his passport. We were good to go! It was easier getting out of canada then getting in. We were all relieved. We were now in New York. We stopped at a Dunks and a taco bell. We were on our way to Pittsburgh. We got into Pittsburgh and found a hotel. We also found this amazing view of the city. There are so many bridges here! Driving into Pittsburgh is cool too because the city pops up through mountains of green trees. We checked into the hotel and relaxed for the night. The hotel concierge looked like Hurley from LOST but like 100 pounds lighter.

7/17/2009 – Day 25.

We checked out and went down to southside pittsburgh. We found a place in Oakland called the original hot dog shop. So delicious. I got a hotdog, fries and a drink. They have fries called O fries, stands for original fries. Seriously amazing. Laxy ordered a large, it was HUGE! We ate upstairs and it was hot as hell up there. The soda was also warm and flat. But the food was amazing. We then walked around southside, adam got a personality test at a scientology place. There was also a super cool bookstore that had a neat upstairs area, but it was hot up there too. We then went to a park, played some catch and watched some kids play at a park. We went to 711 and i got this tea that was in a mini milk jug, tasted good too. We then went to PNC park and went to a pirates game. The pirates played the giants and beat em. There was a huge rain thunder storm that came out of nowhere right before the game so there was a delay. They were all set for the storm because they had the field covered. Adam and I lied to Jake and Laxy and told them adam got caught for stealing. They totally fell for it. There were also $1 hot dogs! such a steal, although I was already full from lunch I got 2 hot dogs to take advantage of the deal. I also saw a kid barfing into a bag. They were also giving away free towels. The game went into 14 innings and we got to do a 14th inning stretch. In the bottom of the 14th the first batter hit a walk off bomb into the water. We went back to the viewpoint and then made our way to Cleveland. We found a rest area outside of Cleveland and slept there.

7/18/2009 – Day 26.

We woke up and found a movie theater. Adam and I watched Harry Potter, Jake watched public enemies and Laxy watched Angels and Demons. Harry potter was good. I give it 1 and a half thumbs up. We then drove by the ball park. We found a kinkos around the area so laxy could print something out. We then went to the Indians game. They played the Seattle Mariners. It was also a bobblehead giveaway. Surfin Sizemore. Our original seats were up high in the outfield, next to these annoying girls and “intersting” family behind us. Laxy and I found some seats behind home plate though so we upgraded. It was better because there were very little people in the section and you could see better.  The Indians lost. We then went to a white castle. This time around it was much better. I got 4 sliders, fried okra, and mashed potatoes. Dined like a king. As we were leaving it started to rain. We then hit the road for chicago. Jake was driving. He got pulled over, but I’m not sure exactly why. He was just warned though. Laxy also had an interesting encounter at the gas station with some guy who was talking to them but being an idiot at the same time. We found a rest area about an hour outside of chicago and pulled over for some sleep.

We found a rest area on the way to cooperstown and used it to our advantage. After some sleep, we continued driving to cooperstown. The drive there was really nice. Seeing the sights of upstate New York was awesome. We got into cooperstown and it was amazing. The baseball hall of fame is in a small town. Its got a nice little main street and some houses. We drove around for a little trying to find a nice place to park. We found a spot in the neighborhood that had a 2 hour limit. We parked, and made our way to the hall of fame.

The hall of fame is awesome! There is so much cool stuff in there. Its got the coolest stuff to see throughout baseball’s history. It’s real cool to see bats, gloves, balls that were actually used in some of the biggest moments in baseball. After a couple hours spent inside the musuem we finished up in the souvenir shop. I got a sweet dodgers shirt that has a list of all the dodgers inducted into the hall of fame.

We left the hall of fame and moved our car into another parking spot. On our way back to the car we stopped at doubleday field to watch some adult hardball league. We moved the car and walked through all the souvenir shops. They have everything a baseball fan needs. After searching through all the different shops we stopped in a pizza restaurant for some lunch. The pizza was pretty tasty, I got a supreme pizza slice. We ate, hung out and watched the rain. We heard some locals talking about rain, and saw a weather alert on the TV about some thunderstorms on the TV. The rain hit pretty hard, but did not last for too long.

We hopped in the car and left Cooperstown. We were now on our way to Detroit to hang out and stay with Tex! On the drive to Michigan we wanted to stop at some 711′s for free slurpees but unfortunately could not find any at all because we were pretty much in the middle of nowhere in new york. We made a little pit stop at a mall in Johnson city, new york. We dropped laxy off at a guitar center and Jake, Adam and I explored the mall. We asked some girl who worked at a Friendlys what the place was all about. It looked like a DQ mixed with a red robin. We also found laxy, it turns out the guitar center was closed so he just came to the mall. The mall didn’t have a food court! I asked some girl who worked at a piercing parlor in the middle of the mall what there was to do around town and where we were. Shes the one who told me we were in johnson city, new york. She said we were really in the middle of nowhere and the only thing to really do was a downtown main street area about 15 minutes away from the mall. We left the mall and went to a taco bell across the street. We were originally going to a dunkin donuts but changed our minds. I got a fresca burrito and a large baja blast. They were delicious. We left taco bell and continued our journey into Michigan. Jake and Laxy slept in the back like women, while Adam and I stayed awake into Michigan. While driving some wild bitch cut through 2 lanes headed into ours and almost sideswiped us so Adam gave her hell. Oh we also drove through the scariest area ever looking for gas! we almost ran into 4 deers it was very scary. We found another rest area about 30 miles outside of detroit and slept there.

Hello,
As I am writing we are driving to Cooperstown, NY. Today we left boston and made our way into Rhode Island. On our way to Rhode Island we made a nice little stop to watch Bruno. We stopped in Kingston, MA at the Independence mall. We watched the movie in a Regal movie theatre that was attached to the mall. There were a good amount of people in the theatre. Not too many, not too little. The mall was full of kids who were all locals, they probably spend much of their time in this mall. I had a feeling we were in a pretty small town. The guy taking our tickets was a dick to jake, but ended up being pretty cool with laxy because he told laxy he could bring in an extra large soda from taco bell in the foodcourt as long as he couldn’t see it. Jake won a bear in the claw machine in the theatre, we named him Kingston. So now we have 7 members on this trip. We went into the theatre and got some prime seating. The movie began and it was so funny! Very out there and wild but very funny at the same time. I give it two thumbs up. It didn’t drag on and it was very funny.

After the movie we ate at the taco bell in the food court. I got a bean burrito and a large baja blast mountain dew. Baja blast is so good! We ate our food and watched the little shits hang around the food court. Afterwards we hopped back in the car and took a nice little hour drive into Rhode Island. In Rhode Island we pretty much walked around found the water as the sun was setting. It was very peaceful and relaxing. While standing by the water sitting on a little wall we saw a crab in the water. Adam got in the water and tried to grab it so he could get a photo with it. However it was very quick and after a while of hanging around it took off into the dark. When adam first tried to grab it it stuck its pinchers in the air to intimidate adam. AFter hanging around crabville, we walked back towards all the shops and restaurants. On the way we threw some rocks into the water and got some good skipping action in. We walked through some warfs and found a little ballpark. We thought it was a minor league team but it turned out being something else. They were using wooden bats and pitching fast pitches but they did not look like a minor league team. After watching some baseball we walked to a restaurant called Via Via to eat. Adam got some pizza, Laxy got this interesting wrapped food, and i got a bowl of clam chowder. The chowder was not crackin at all. It was a bit cold like they microwaved it but not all of it heated up. The bowl was also very small and expensive for the size of it. I do not recommend the chowder from this place for any future visitors. However, the pizza looked pretty good. We ate and walked around some more. We found the whitehorse tavern which was a tavern that the founding fathers used to hang out in. As we walked up a worker took the open sign down. We stopped at a 711 and went back to the car.

Now we are on our way to cooperstown. Bye for now.

So right now we are on our way to Rhode Island. It’s actually day 18 now but I’m gonna write about yesterday, which was day 17.

On this day we woke up around noon. We got ready and left the house to explore Boston. We hopped on the subway and stopped in Harvard square. This place was real cool. There were many shops and restaurants. We found this vegetarian restaurant adam was looking for called Veggie Planet. The food was pretty good I got a vegan curry peanut pizza. The first half was really good, once I got to the second half though…It was just okay. The pizza dough was rectangular and very delicious. Laxy got this purple cold minty beet soup…you can imagine how it tasted. After we ate we walked around harvard square for a bit longer. We stopped at a dunkin donuts, which is everywhere here by the way, and we got some donuts and Laxy got a coffee (hes addicted). After some more walking we hopped on the subway and headed downtown.

We got off in downtown and walked around this outside mall area. It was pretty cool. We also found a park that was neat to walk through. In the park adam got some fried dough and jake got a mountain dew. The fried dough was so delicious! We the walked through a garden and Jake brought up the Paul Revere house. We decided to check it out after looking up directions on my phone. According to my phone the directions said it was a little over 2 miles away so we decided to do the walk. Well the address for paul reveres house is 19 North Square Ave. When I entered the address into yahoo maps it changed it to 19 N st. We walked and walked oh and stopped at a dunkin donuts again and I got a orange coolatta..so delicious!. and we walked some more. downtown was now behind us and we were crossing this large bridge. We were now in South Boston. We walked to the address and it was not Paul Reveres house. So you can imagine how we felt at this point. Laxy and I looked up many maps and yahoo mapped some different addresses to find where we needed to be. It turns out we were pretty close to it before we started our walking journey.

Well we walked back, it wasn’t too bad at all. Ended up back in downtown where we needed to be. We eventually found paul reveres house which was really cool to see. The road on his street was all cobble stone and bumpy and uncomfortable to walk on. I’m assuming that the road had been there since Paul Reveres time. We walked around the historical district some more and stopped at a 711. After a short rest we went back to the subway. Oh while walking to 711 we walked through little italy. There were some very small restaurants with very long lines, especially this one italian restaurant. Well we took the subway back to where we are staying.

When we got back there was a firework show. Adam and I were upstairs and we could see the finale. Uncle Mike and his wife got home a little later and we finally got to see who he was. They were watching the Daily Show. Jake, Laxy and I decided to go get some food while Adam stayed at the house to hang and watch the show with them. So going to get food turned into a food adventure.

Alright so after asking Uncle Mike and Anne where some good food places were we made our way out. They told us there were some food places down the street walking distance. We walked down to the area where there some food places were. The only thing open was a dunkin donuts, and this chinese food place called Wangs. So this area has a chinese food place called Wangs, next to it a pizza place called Pinis and on the other side another placed called Woodys. So walked down to Wangs and the Pizza place. Well the Pinis was closed but wangs was open until 1am. Well standing outside of wangs we couldn’t decide if we wanted to eat there or not because jake was feeling something else. We decided to flip a coin. Heads we walk back to the car, get the gps and find a local fast food joint, Tails we eat at wangs. Keep in mind it about 1130 right now. Ok so jake flips the coin and its heads. So we walk back to the house, get the keys and hop in the car. We type in taco bell and find one a little over a mile and a half away. So we go there, it turns out this place is now a target greatland. Thanks Franky…Okay so we then look up KFC because the other taco bell is another 2 miles away and by this time were already starting to get frustrated. Well we find the KFC turns out its a KFC and taco bell combined…but its closed! So now we are at a point where its either go back to wangs, or try to find another fast food place. We look up taco bell once more and go to the one about 2 miles away. It turns out this taco bell is in a shopping mall, that is closed. By now we are way over it and pretty pissed too. So we decide to go back to wangs where we were originally. Stupid coin toss. Well we finally get to wangs, order our food. Our food started coming out because we ordered to go. Oh and while we were in there some nerds were eating and it was one awkward meal for them. 2 super nerds were arguing the whole time while the rest of them just sat there in silence watching awkwardly. OKay so were getting our food and I hear a girl scream or screech. Then I hear Jake say something along the lines of oh my this guy is barfing right at our car. I looked out the window and saw a stream of something falling and immediately turned away. At this point I was pretty scared. We all went outside, I immediately booked it the other way in fear.Laxy approached the barfing guy and his friends who were in a car right behind ours. He said something like excuse me can you get off our car, because his hand was on our car and he was barfing by the wheel. Then some annoying girl who was his friend was yapping at laxy. Then Laxy and the girl started going at it and Laxy said “Ill barf on your face” and she said ill barf on your mom and something like burn in hell. Laxy was heated!!!!! Well he got the car and drove to where I was. I hopped in quick and we went back to the house. There we ate, and talked about our adventure and those dumb people. After this meal we relaxed and went to bed.

So today 7/10. We woke up, laxy and I had leftover wangs. We then thanked Anne and left boston. Were now on our to rhode Island and on the way there we are going to stop and watch Bruno and a movie theater. So I will be back with another blog for another day soon.

Bye

Hello,
I am here in Boston right now and I am ready to blog about my day. Well today, just like every other day of this trip, has been amazing! So the day began in New York at Laxy’s relatives house. We woke up around 9ish and got ready. I had some coffee, and a bagel. They were delicious. After we cleaned up, we packed the car. We stopped at the post office real quick before we left the wonderful city of New York. There were hornets out by our car too when we were parked in front of the house. Okay, so we avoided toll roads and made our way to Boston. I drove. We had to stop for gas right outside the city. When we got into the city, Franky was giving us a little trouble so it took us a little longer than expected to arrive uncle Mikes. Uncle mike is Amanda’s uncle who we are staying with tonight and tomorrow. So we arrived to uncle mikeys and met his wife. I still haven’t met uncle mike yet but I’m sure I will tomorrow. His wife told us how to get to the park and how to get home after the game and then she dropped us off at the subway station. She also gave us this card that gets us onto the subway for free! We first hopped on the red line which took us to the green line. The subway was moving pretty slow but it did take us outside onto this bridge which was really cool to look at. The green line was packed. Many boston fans making their way to the park. There was this cute little toddler standing right next to me who gave me a high five. It was also funny to hear the Boston natives speak with their accents, same goes for new york. We got off the subway and walked to Fenway park. It was really cool walking with all the people into the park. There were these carts selling hot dogs and sausages outside the park, they smelt delicious and I really wanted to get one but I didn’t. We went into the stadium and walked a little and then went to our seats. We sat in right center. Our section was full of idiots who did not know how to find their seats. Everyone was in the wrong row, but after many innings of confusion they finally fixed themselves. It rained earlier and there was some light drizzle throughout the game, nothing big though. After a few innings Laxy met Jake and I at the snack shack and then came to sit in our section because he had a ticket for another section. Jake and I got dogs and sodas, I left my souvenir cup at the park though such a bum. Big Papi hit a big home run that put the Red Sox in the lead and Nomar came in as a pinch hitter. He got a standing ovation which was real cool. He popped up on the first pitch though. Earlier on the subway some boston fans were talking about nomar pinch hitting last night and how they gave him a standing ovation and how they want to see him turn things around before he retires. So the Red Sox won making our record 6 – 2. Towards the end of the game I walked over behind home plate to take some pictures. I had some random man take a photo of me and he gave me a strange look because I was by myself. I then met up with the rest of the guys after I took some pics. I finally got one of those sausage dogs a stand after the game and it was very delicious. We walked around a little bit and got back on the subway. We took it back and walked from the station to where we are staying now. I had to pee so bad! but all is well now. Now I’m just laying here in this cat infested house trying to stay alive. I am pretty tired so I’m going to call it a night.

Goodnight!

Good evening.

So I am sitting here in a nice comfy chair in New York and I am ready to share with you what I did today. Okay, So we woke up around 11am. I freshened up and Laxys nice aunt made us a feast for lunch/breakfast.  We also watched some of the Michael Jackson ceremony on TV. It was pretty sad. We then made our way into the city to try and meet up with Adam.  We parked down the street from central park. So on this street there was a sign that said pay meter to park here. So we paid the 5 dollar fee for a 2 hour parking spot. Remember this for later. Alright, so we walked down to Carnegie hall which is on 58th and 7th ave. Or somewhere around there. Took some pics of it and continued into Central Park. This was my first time in central park so I was very excited.  Every bridge and tunnel we saw reminded me of Home Alone 2, and reminded us (Jake, Laxy and I) of Cloverfield. We kept saying that every tunnel we were in was where they died in cloverfield. Oh and on the way to Central park and at some parts inside it, it smelt like bum piss. We walked around the park for a while longer, checked out a souvenir shop, some little softball fields, and the mall in central park. On our way out we walked by the pond which was cool. Okay so when we got back to our car we found a parking ticket on the window! What is whack is we paid for a parking permit and still got a ticket. On the ticket under violation it said no standing from 7am to 7pm…what the hell is standing!? so we are pretty bummed about that because the ticket set us back $115 big ones. We left in anger and drove to a mobil to get gas. Jake did a great job driving in the city, very New York of him. After the gas station we made our way to Citibank park which is not where the mets play. Franky was having a rough day today and told us to go to citibank park which looked like a minor league field. It was also almost an hour away from Citi field where the mets play. Well we showed up to the wrong park at around 720. The game started at 710 so we were already running late. Not only that, Adam had already showed up to the park with Amanda and some others and we had their tickets. Thankfully Adam was able to have the customer service print out new tickets and void the ones we had so they could get into the park without waiting. It took us about an hour to finally get to the ball park. Parking was kind of a bitch. There was only one opening for the lot and we drove passed it. So we had to drive all the way around the area just to get back on track. We stopped in a lot to ask where general parking was and the nice man told us. He said we could park across the street, or on the side we were on. He then warned us saying we did not want to park across the street. Probably because the area was kind of ghetto.

Well we finally made it into the stadium lot. Laxy picked up his ticket from the window while Jake and I got our tickets from Adam. We went into the park and walked around. The Dodgers were already up 4-0 which was awesome! There were quite a lot of Dodger fans too! When Manny ramirez came up to bat some booed, others cheered. There was a section by where Jake and I were standing who were chanting “Manny… Manny” which was cool. Blake Dewitt hit a homer! The Dodgers ended up winning 8 – 0. I was so happy to see my team win it across the United States. It was really cool to see them playing at the new citi field. This fan was also chatting with me when we were standing on the field level. She told us where to check out some of the cool things the field had to offer. Like the old home run apple from the old stadium and a dedication to Jackie Robinson behind home plate. After the game we made our way back to Laxy’s relatives house. Here we ate some KFC and now its almost bed time. I will be writing soon.
Goodnight

Hello,

Today Adam woke me up at around 8:45. We woke up early because we wanted to be able to get ready and make it to the new Yankee stadium at least an hour before the game started so we could check out the ballpark.  Well we ended up leaving a little after 10. We got to the stadium and parked in a lot right next to the old Yankee stadium. It was really cool to see the old one and the new one right next to each other.  Jake, Laxy and I went into the ballpark a little before Adam because he had to wait for Amanda and Mckenna to show up so he could give them their tickets.  We walked in and got some free G-Force cards. We entered right behind homeplate which was cool. I snapped some photos behind the plate and we started walking around the park. After a complete trip we went up to our seats. We sat in the bleachers in right center 8 rows up. It was real nice because our view wasn’t obstructed by the restaurant they put out there in center field. It was pretty toasty though. The game started and after the first inning Jake Laxy and I went to get some beverages. It was really cool to see the fans in the bleachers do the roll call when the game started. We got some souvenir sodas above the restaurant in center field and hung out up there on the patio for a few innings.  There were some home runs and some good plays. While up on the patio I spotted some vomit in the distance. What shocked me was how people were standing there without moving or even reacting to it! I was eating some sunflower seeds and spitting the shells on the ground and I realized there was a guy trying to sweep them up while I was spitting them out. Well Laxy notified me. It was strange and I felt bad for eating seeds, but I shouldn’t have because I was at a ball game. So I thought that was strange. Oh, and when I was buying my soda this kid in front of me turned around and ran into me, I apologized even though it was his fault and he said “what the fuck ” in a new york accent. What an idiot. Anway we decided to walk around the park and check out the sites while the game was going on. We eventually ended up behind home plate which was really cool. We stood there and watched a good portion of the game. Before we got behind home plate we were in right field and Laxy was eating seeds and spitting them on the ground, I was too but laxy had the bag in his hand so it looked like only he was eating seeds. Well the usher standing near us told laxy to spit his seeds into a cup and the usher used his foot to sweep the seeds to the side. Once again, another example of how they do not enjoy people eating seeds at their park….doesnt make sense. The game was pretty interesting, the Yankees almost came back in the but they couldn’t pull it off. So the Yankees are the first home team we have seen lose so far on this trip. Our record now stands at 5-1.

Well after the game we made our way into Manhattan. Our first stop was Time Square. It was crackin. We stopped at a souvenir shop and walked around the area for a bit. We also went to a 3 story drug store called Duane Reade. After that we walked through the city for a good long while. We saw a bunch of people gathered in a park like area waiting to watch a free movie on a big screen. It was neat to see all the people there. We then walked to the empire state building. Right by the Empire state building we saw some girls ask someone to take their picture with a man. At first we thought it was just a group of friends but somehow came to realize it was probably someone famous they were taking a pic with. Laxy saw the man and instantly thought Clive Owen.  He was close, but it actually turned out to be Gerard Butler.  Adam was the one who got the name right.  Before he could remember the name I went up to the girls after they took the picture to ask what that guys name was because I definitely recocgnized him.  They seemed to be big fan.  They told me it was Gerard Butler. I asked what movies he had been in and they listed a bunch including 300, and P.S I love you.  I knew I recognized him from a movie because I watched P.S. I love you not too long ago! He looked real nice. He looked at us and smiled…too bad we couldn’t get a picture with him.  After walking down from there Adam took off to hang out with Amanda and Mckenna. Jake Laxy and I took this time to explore the city. We got a subway pass and went to little Italy. In Little Italy we went to a Italian restaurant I think I went to on the other road trip I went on. It was called Rudys. The food was delicious. Jake and I fell in love with our waitress. She was so cute. I can’t explain it. Well after we ate we hopped back on the subway and went to the site of the World Trade Center. It was crazy. It was very sad and when you are there you can’t believe what happened there.  We also saw a little memorial with flowers and some candles it was really sad. After walking around the site of the WTC we walked down to Wall St. We walked down wall street and checked out the sites. We then got back on the subway and went to Grand Central Station. To my surprise, grand central is the huge station you see in movies and pictures! I was so excited. The subway system in New Y ork can be a bit confusing, but with mine and Laxys expert knowledge combined we were able to breeze through the city. From the grand central station we walked to the Rockefeller center. We walked around the area for a bit and made our way back to the car. Which was parked in a free parking spot right down the street from Time Square. After getting to the car we made our way back to Laxy’s relatives house where I am writing this blog entry. Well it is almost 4 am and I am getting tired so it is time for sleep.

Goodnight.

7/3/2009 – Day 10

We pretty much spent this day driving through South and North Carolina into Washington D.C. We woke up somewhat early, hung out with Travis for a few and took off. On our way out of Georgia we stopped at a fruit stand on a corner and got some fresh fruit.  The Georgia peaches were AMAZING!!! sooo fresh and delicious and juicy. mmmmmm. After the fruit stand we made a few stops at some gas stations hunting for postcards. However, we were unsuccessful. We made our way out of Atlanta and into South Carolina. On the way to D.C. we decided we wanted to have Bennigans for dinner. We orginally decided to go to Waffle House but then chose Bennigans. After driving into North Carolina for a while we discovered that there was no Bennigans. Instead we found a restaurant that was shut down called Atlantis. So we decided to check out another Bennigans that Franky (our gps) listed.  After about an hour of driving we discovered that this Bennigans had not been built yet! Thats 2 for 2!!!! We stopped at a gas station for some gas and coincidentaly there was a Waffle House right there. So we decided to just eat there because it was already 10pm. It was my first time and I’ve heard so much good things about it from Danny.  It was pretty delicious and cheap as well. There was only one waitress there and you could tell she was having a rough night because it was busy and she was the only waitress. I kind of felt bad for her. We finished eating and continued to D.C. We didn’t have a place to stay on this evening so we decided to sleep in a rest area. It wasn’t bad at all and I got good sleep.  The ground smelt like bum piss though which is very disgusting…but funny. Laxy kept saying it smelt like BUM PISS. haha.

7/4/2009

Happy 4th of July!!

Seriously, there is no better way to celebrate fourth of july than in the nations capital. It is wild! So to start off from the beginning of the day.  We woke up around 9-9:3am.  From the rest area we drove into Washington D.C. It was only about 10 minutes outside of D.C. Our first stop was a place called Sticky Fingers. They specialize in vegan/veggie foods.  I got a bagel with cream cheese, Jake and Laxy both got vegan cinnamon rolls. They were delicous!! After we enjoyed some sticky fingers we walked down the street for a little. We ended up turning around and heading back to the car. We freshened up and made our way to the subway station.  We bought our day passes, and headed to the ball park to catch a nice ball game in Washington D.C. on the 4th of July.  Nothing beats some good ol E.C.P.T (East Coast Public Transportation). The subway dropped us off right in front of the stadium. I went and picked up our tickets via will call and we made our way into the stadium. They were giving out free mini flags, it was very patriotic.  We explored the stadium, took some pics behind home plate and watched some batting practice.  Gregor Blanco (some guy on the braves) fouled a ball behind homeplate and one of the coaches threw the ball to me! It was a nice little 4th of July souvenir.  After hanging out behind the dugout for a little longer we headed to our seats.  The game was a good one.  The braves were winning but lost it in the end, which keeps our streak of home teams winning when we see them.  Adam Dunn hit his 300th homerun and it was a bomb! I was getting a soda at a concession stand and I hear the crowd go wild me and this random guy look back and just see this ball flying towards us. It hits the seats right behind us and the fans go wild.  After I got my soda I walked up to where the guy who caught it was and he was on the jumbo tron! I stood to the right and saw myself up there! I then saw laxy heading to the bathroom so I joined him.  After the game we made our way back to the crowded subway station and went back to the car.  Back at the car we called some hotels because we wanted to get a place to sleep on this evening after the celebrations.  After calling many places we found a hotel room for a semi-decent price and booked it. It was time to make our way to the celebration!! We took the subway and ended up near the capital building.  On our way we signed a beam that is going to be used for whatever they are building where the World Trade Center used to be.  Afterwards, we kept walking.  We got to the capital building and it was packed!!! There were so many people everywhere.  The entire area in front of the capital was fenced off and people were standing in line to get into this area.  There was a concert going on and a lady asked us if we knew who was performing, but we didn’t. Later on that night at our hotel we discovered it was Taylor Hicks from American Idol who performed. We started walking towards the Washington Monument.  It was like a huge festival from the capital to the washington monument. The entire mall area was packed with people waiting for the firework show, it was crazy. Laxy and I got some fresh squeezed limeade.  We got to the washington monument and the area around it was also blocked off and there was a line to get in.  The line was not as long but we still did not want to wait. We decided to keep walking and make our way to the Lincoln Memorial. When we got to the street we noticed another entrance to the area of the washington monument and there were no lines! So we decided to go ahead and take advantage of that and go in. We went up to the monument and took many photos. We walked around the area and there was a stage with a band playing. The area kept filling up with people.  We could see the Lincoln Memorial and it was packed! The entire staircase was full of people.  They had the area around the reflection pool closed off though. That was where they were shooting fireworks from later that night.  We hung out on the grass for a while as the sun went down. While we were sitting there Laxy got stung by a bee….twice!! Once on the arm and as he tried to pull the stinger our it stung him on the finger. It was his first time being stung, and thankfully he was not allergic. It was crazy though I could just imagine the pain he must have felt. One time, when I was in 4th grade I stepped on a bee. My big toe got very fat and it hurt so bad. Not a good experience.  Anyway, he got over it quickly and the night went on. Once the sun set the firework show began. It was real nice because it just started randomly and caught everyone by surprise. This was honestly the best firework show I have ever seen… EVER! From the beginning it was a finale, and the finale was the most insane finale ever! The fireworks were huge and it felt great standing right there at the washington monument watching this with the hundreds of thousands of people, possible more. Jake and I watched the fireworks together going crazy while Adam and Laxy were somewhere else. After the firework show we searched for a while and eventually found them through all the people.  It was time to make our way back to the car and then to the hotel.  The streets were packed, they were only letting a certiain amount of people into the subway at a time so we decided to just walk back to our car. It was about a 3 mile walk and we made it back in about an hour or so. We walked through some pretty interesting neighborhoods, they were lighting off fireworks and bbqin all over. Oh and earlier when we were walking around we walked by this block party, it was probably crackin by the night time. We got back to the car, and drove to the hotel.  It was a motel 6, and it was probably the shittiest place I have ever stayed. We pulled up and had to check our car in. Then we unloaded our goods and went to the room. There was this homie chillin on the balcony just watchin over the lot. I went to the car about an hour later to get my camera charger and this guy was peeking through the windows! He was very shady looking.  Well after watching some sports highlights we went to bed.

7/5/2009

So today we woke up around 10 or so. Checked out of the nice hotel…and drove to Philadelphia. We got into philly around 2. We orginally planned to catch a game but did not make it into the city in time. Oh well, I don’t think any of us cared at all.  The phillies suck. Anyway, on our way we stopped in Maryland and got some postcards, went to a target and got gas. This gas station had a computer where you can order a sub sandwich by touching what you want and someone makes it in the back! Well back to Philly. So we got in around 2. We went to a Cheesesteak place that had vegan ones called Giannes.  I got a cheesesteak hoagie hold the cheese. It was delicious.  We also stopped at a record shop for a while and we saw a Maddison look-a-like from behind/the side. It was funny.  After hanging around south street for a while we went into downtown. In Downtown we found a parking lot, parked and began our walk.  On our way to JFK Blvd. a lady stopped us asking if we had change for a dollar in coins so she could pay for her parking meter. Jake and I gave her some coins because we are nice.  We started at love park. We took some pictures and there was a bum there asking to take peoples pictures. He would then ask for money. We made sure to avoid him. We then walked down the street, and walked down some more. We stopped at one of the big fountains and looked around. Then we continued walking until we got to the Rocky steps. When we got there we saw a guy pull up blasting the rocky song, he jumped out of his car wearing sweats and red converse, he ran up the steps and put his hands up in celebration just like rocky did.  It was really funny. After the rocky steps we made our way back to love park. On our way back we stopped to play in the fountain for awhile. The water was really cold so it was really refreshing, although the weather was cool.  We stopped at a 7-11 across the street from Love park, got some postcards and refreshments and then looked up how to get to the Liberty Bell. I looked up how to get there on my phone and we walked there. It was about six blocks from where the 7-11 was. We also watched some skater kids on our way. We got to the liberty bell and actually got to go inside to the building where it sits! We took some photos with it and then went across the street to independence hall. This place was really cool, we hopped on a tour that takes you into the hall and we got to go into the room where the declaration of independence was actually signed! It was really neat, after hanging around the historical district for a while we went back to the car and left for New York.  We drove for about four hours to New York. It was cool because we got to drive under the hudson river and into the city as well. It was really nice with all the lights at night. We got to Laxy’s uncles house and hung out for a while and now I’m just blogging. It looks like I’m pretty much done with today though. Tomorrow we are going to a Yankees game, I will keep you updated. Oh and I will upload some pictures soon.

Goodnight

Let me begin my blog by saying…Atlanta is an awesome place!! The people are nice, the city is nice and overall its a great place.  So today we woke up at 2:30.  It was nice to catch up on some sleep.  Adam woke up earlier though and was just hanging out watching some TV for a while.

Main attractions of the day:

- Cici’s Pizza

- Coca Cola World

- Braves Game

So we left Travis’ at around 3 or so and went to Cici’s for lunch.  It was so delicious!!! I had some great pizza slices, some chicken noodle soup and some pasta (no cheese) and a slice of bread n stuff. They have this really good louisiana chicken pizza mmmm. I also had a slice of peperoni and jalapeno, a slice of bread n stuff and maybe another but I can’t remember.There were some scary thugs at Cici’s too, one had a knife hanging from his neck.

After Cici’s we filled up at a local shell and went to Coca Cola World of Georgia.  At the gas station the lady in front of me in line put down $13 dollars on lottery tickets, she had so many slips though it seemed like way more.  Well Coca Cola world was so cool! We started by watching a nice little animation documentary. After the documentary we went to this room that showed the bottling process of coca cola. After that we watched a 4-D show on the secret ingredients of Coca Cola. During this 4-D show there was a part where a bug is flying in your face and then it stings you.  To give the viewer a sting effect they have this little thing in the back of your seat poke you. It really hurt! I think it hurts more because it catches you by surprise.  When the 4-D show was over it was time for the best part of the World of Coca Cola…the taste-it room!!! In this room there are 60 different types of coca cola products you can try, and you can try as much of it as you want!! Lets just say by the time I was done sampling every flavor I felt like throwing up.  There were so many weird flavors and so many delicious flavors.  A popular nasty flavor was called Beverly. It sells in Italy, it is very bitter and disgusting.  In the photos for this blog I put a picture of all the different sodas that were available. Once we were done drinking all these sodas, Laxy, Jake and I refreshed our palettes with some good ol original coke, and some cherry coke too.  While we were in this place Adam was checkin out the city and takin some pics because hes not a big fan of coke and didn’t want to spend the $$ to get in. We also got to take home a fresh glass bottle of coke that was bottled at the World of Coca Cola. It was neat checking this place out and learning a bunch of cool things about coke. It was also nice to learn that coke was invented in Atlanta!

We made our way to the car and headed to the stadium. One thing I noticed about Atlanta is the traffic. Maybe its because they are doing construction all over the city, but they have some heavy traffic at times. Well we got to the stadium and parked across the street in a very nice little local parking spot. This parking spot was awesome! it looked like the owners lived in a house looking building inside the lot.  We got two free waters for parking there too which was a nice little gift.  We walked into the stadium and saw some interesting bums.  One of them was foaming out of the mouth, it looked like he had rabies! It was pretty intense. We got into the stadium and walked around for a little bit. Turner field is a really nice park. Along the terrace level they have these little stands where u can stand and watch the game. So we stood in that area for the whole game, it was so nice.  A nice view of the game from behind the plate, you have the freedom of walking around and checking the sites without having to hike down from the top. The game was really good. The braves swept the phillies which was super cool. Adam and Jake were especially excited when their favorite ex-angel garret anderson came in to pinch hit and hit a home run.  It was very cool to watch that happen.  Another ex-angel casey kotchman also hit a homerun so they were also excited about that, but not as excited as garret anderson.  The fans at the game were cool, very into the game.  It was also awesome to see everyone do the tomahawk in sync with each other. Overall I would say this ball game is the best one we’ve gone to so far. The people were really nice, the game was great and they also had a firework show after the game.  The firework show was solid throughout, the only downside is the finale was not too crazy. We sat right behind the dugout during the firework show, it was a great view.  After the game we drove back and now were all just relaxing ready for some sleep.  I video chatted with nick woodside, and laxy was video chatting with gloria. Well its time for bed, I’m planning to eat a georgia peach and visit MLK’s grave tomorrow before we move on to the nations capital, Washington D.C.!

Goodnight