so we drive along the highway to her place and it's really not that far away, maybe like 15 minutes, which is good considering i'm going to have to leave at 7am on tuesday morning.

anyway, we're driving and things are good, i'm not exactly saying much. just a bunch of glances at sara and outside as we drive through the city, i'm mostly trying to soak in all these new things.

we get to her apartment and it's pretty much like i expected, i drop off my stuff and then meet her roomate. i had heard a lot about her beforehand and had talked to her more than once and knew she was a goofball and a half, but i guess since she had just woken up she was pretty subdued.

a minute later and we're back out the door, heading to some bar with wendy. 30 seconds after heading out the door sara's on the phone with manda and they're talking about where to eat tonight. i say i don't care, cause really if you truely ask me where to eat i'll say bk, or someplace they don't have out here. eventually they decide on some mexican place i've never heard of.

by the time the food for tonight is decided we're at the bar and so we sit down for a drink or two. and the most amazing thing is that it's happy-hour and you get 2 for 1 deals, sure that might sound dumb to a lot of people but no place around here has happy-hour deals like that. it's always a few bucks off drafts, or something dumb like that. man i'lll take 2 for 1 deals any day of the friggin week. though i think if all the bars around here had deals like that i'd become an alocholic so fast it'd be scary, so i guess it is a good thing we don't have deals like that.

we have a few drinks with wendy, play a bit of pool [in which i got my ass hustled by wendy] and all in all it's not too bad. wendy's sometimes pretty funny, and at others downright disgusting so it's not too bad to hang around her.

happy hour's over so we leave wendy and head to the mexican restaurant to meet man and john. traveling over to the restaurant i'm struck at really just how much construction is going on around the roads. sara had told me before lots that they were always doing construction but i didn't know it was on as big a scale as they're doing. i mean it's complete add 3 lanes to each side and tear up the nearby country-side kind of construction, it's almost scary, that and their complete lack of real pre-exit lanes. you know the ones you turn off on to slow down before the turn? around here they're pretty long, in denver they're about 10ft long.

anyway we get to the restaurant soon and it looks pretty packed, you can see a lot of people out on the patio and even more standing waiting to get in. man and john are totally cool but i feel out of place cause they have all sorts of jokes that i don't care, and a different set of "movies". by that i mean the ones that everyone has seen and can quote lines back and forth. theirs is tommyboy and i can remember seeing it once or twice, but can't quote it for shit. now if we were to start quoting any of the kevin smith movies, i'd so be in my natural habitat; guess it means i need to watch tommyboy a lot more. or i should get them to watch the kevin smith movies more, either way it'll eventually happen that i know their jokes too, just at the moment i was super quiet cause there wasn't a lot i could say.

finally after getting annoyed that we werent' getting seated i went in and asked the guy if we could have a table since we obiviously weren't called. turns out the turdburgular's handwritting was so messy that his scribbles to scratch out other people's names had partially covered up our name and he had forgotten about us. so we took a nice table outside on the patio and looked over the menu.

now this is a mexican-food place, which means i get fajitas, it's what i always get and probably always will. only i looked over the menu, and saw no fajitas. i saw all sorts of other fajita things, but no normal steak fajitas. seriously what kind of mexican place doesn't have fajitas? anyway i got conned into getting some sort of burrito, or something [i forget exactly, i'm sure sara will remind me] and when it comes it looks..gross, and has sour cream and quacamole all over the top, but when i eat the portion that doesnt' have that all over it, it's actually pretty good. so i scrape all the stuff off and dig on in, and mm it was pretty good.

also i'd like to say that 5'6" isn't tall at all, i don't care what anyone else says.

we finished eating and by this time it's about 9 or so, so we figure to drive man and john home where they can drop off their car and get a ride to cosmic bowling with sara and i. now if you read this at all i'm sure you've seen me mention cosmic bowling, the only times i've gone have been after working at logans where we've all gotten loaded and bowled. so i figure this will be happening tonight.

only it doesn't, because this retarded bowling alley closes the bar/concession stand about when bowling starts, so you can't get any pitchers to drink with your friends. really what the hell's up with that? that's half the point of doing cosmic bowling.

anyway we start bowling and of course all this time sara and i are going back and forth about who's better at bowling and what do i promptly do my first frame? i get 3. oh yes i am going to be on pace to rock out. needless to say she beat me pretty soundly the first game. since we had paid about 20 bucks for unlimited bowling we just kept going and my game got decently better, but still wasn't "normal". eventually i figure, why not try it left-handed, since i know i'm slightly ambedexterious in bowling i give it a whirl and instantly i'm bowling like an normal human being. the night passes by with us switching lanes because the little shits next to us know no proper bowling ediquette, and wonderment at these three girls next to us who seemed to be randomly chucking the ball down the alley with little effort and still causing the pins to go flying like they hit it with a ton of speed.

finally i think all of us started to just tire out, we got to the point where obiviously no one wanted to really be playing anymore and so we called it a night and retreated back to sara's apartment and promptly passed out.

while it was a super-fun filled day i was honestly so extremtly tired it was scary. so all in all it was an awesome way to start out the trip.

expect more soon..

scud