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Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Well I packed up my clothes and shit this morning before heading off to work. Apparently there is a hurricane in the Keys right now, but it should be gone by the time we are down near miami. We are flying into orlando Tomorow and should be in miami on Friday. I'm really looking forward to some time off of work and I've never been to florida before so it should be an exciting time. Furthest East in the states I had been before this trip was Montana, so it will be exciting to see the Atlantic Ocean. Hopefully we can go to a few good clubs while we are down there, i've heard some great things about Florida Clubs, maybe some good DJ's will be there.
I got to watch the Seahawks beat the Atlanta Falcons Sunday in my season ticket seats. They are some pretty shitty seats but I have them all year long and they were pretty cheap for 2 :) I just get smashed anyways and it is just like i'm down on the field anyways. I wont be able to make next weeks game cuz I will be in florida so I gave the tickets to Chris, hopefully he can find someone to take. My seats are next to some chick who always yells "Go Big Cocks" and its starting to get kinda annoying, although she said she has a Shaun Alexander Jersey she doesnt want and she'll bring it to a game for me to have, so i'll have to put up with it until I get the free Jersey ~~
I'm working until 1 AM this morning to try to make up some of the hours i'll be missing this week, i'm gonna have a pretty shitty paycheck in a few weeks cuz of this, but it will be worth it.. Work has been pretty busy lately but that helps the day go by faster..
Current mood:  tired
Friday, September 2, 2005
Yay Early shift today at work. 6am to 2pm. Then I get to go home pickup Chris and we head to the SEAHAWKS GAME! FUK YA. Game starts at 6 so we will drink heavily at my car with the other tailgaters from 3 to 5:30. Thats a solid 2 and a half hours to put beer into my body before they start to cost $8.50. Chris got the Pepsi Club seats so I gave my season tickets to the game to Kevin I wonder who he's gonna bring. I invited him to go tailgating with us but I dont think he'll make it out for that.
Its been pretty slow at work lately, thats ok gives me some time to make really bad purchases online and update my Livejournal. Get to go to the Island this weekend really lookin forward to that. Hopefully there will be lots of people there this time. Memorial day was kinda lame, but the fourth rocked. I bet it will be a bust weekend, but oh well I always have a blast there anyways.
I came home to a wonderful surprise last night, Kevin and Joe had mounted the projector so it is up on the ceiling now. Ceiling mounted projector = less of a chance some drunk idiot will knock it down breaking the 300 dollar bulb. Most likely I would have been that idiot :) My screen should come tonight or early next week, although I haven't received the tracking number yet for it, i sure hope the guy has already mailed it. I need to go to Fry's and get a long component cable and switch box for my xbox and the DVD player.
Our house is really starting to come together I cant wait till we have our huge housewarming party! Anyways there is some work to do here so I better jump on that.
Current mood:  excited
Thursday, September 1, 2005
Holy shit i forgot i had a livejournal. Well life has been good, Been workin my ass off at Microsoft and moved into a place with the guys in bellevue - 10 minutes to work now fuck yeah! i've been drinking every night for about a month straight, I think the new house is turning me into an drunk (Lol like i wasnt one already)
My sister, her Husband and my nephew have moved to New York. BOOO! i helped them pack up monday and move all their stuff into a moving truck. I will really miss my sis, it was nice having her around to hang out with and my Bro wasnt that bad to hang out with either. I was hopeing to take him to all my seahawk games (I got 2 Season tickets this year up in the nosebleeds, not bad for 460 bucks.) I guess i'll have to find random people to bring now :)
Anyways i'll try to update this damn thing more, most likely i wont tho as i am lazy and never remember to.
Current mood:  predatory
Monday, February 14, 2005
Well alot has happend since the trip.. I think this will be my once every 4 month Update..
I got a job! holy Crap! I'm working network security at Microsoft (Scary) I didn't really think i'd get back to work this soon but the job came up and I decided to go for it.. Nailed the interview like always and am now working full time 8 to 4 protecting Microsoft from viruses and hackers!
My sister and Brother in law also just had their first kid, Dylan Anthony Wyskiel was born on February 4th, 2005 at 8 pounds 4 ounces! I'm an uncle finnaly! I always figured my sister would have a kid first.. My dad came down and saw him and we all went out to the KEG for some grubbin steak! It was great to see him again and he was really excited to be a Grandpa! I think i'll be going down to California in June for my step sister Kate's graduation.
I had to cover for the weekend guy tonight becuase he is apparntly pretty stuipd and doenst know alot o the stuff he is supposed to, so he's being retrained next week. So I had to work the 6pm to 6 am shift yesterday and Today.. But I get Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday off! So its kinda like my weekend! I think i'm gonna go out to some bars tonight with my old buddy Matt.. gonna try to pick up some rats who are all bummed about not having a valentines date, God I love this day:)
Over and out!
Current mood:  cheerful
Saturday, September 4, 2004
Well.. The Trip is over.. (Thank God) it was really dragging on.. although i did have a blast in Vegas.. i was ready to get home and sleep in my big comfy bed! My Internet wasn't working this morning, so i connected to Paul's cable internet to get some stuff done.. MY CAR WONT START! not sure whats wrong with it.. prolly hasn't been drivin in 2 months, so needs to get back to runnin all the time..
The Trip isn't REALLY all the way over.. i leave today to go to the island with kevin for a labor day weekend.. so i wont prolly be home until Monday night / Tuesday.. then i can Start lookin for a job! YAY.. also need to get my finances in order and figure out how much everyone owes me for the trip.. that will be a fun 5 hours.. I got to See Autumn this mornin tho on Webcam and she got to see me for the first time in a few months lucky her.. well.. unlucky i guess! :( am Defintly excited to talk to her again! I may go to the EQ Fan faire in New Orleans with her at the end of October, if i have enough money for it.. kinda vacationed out for the time, but who knows how i'll feel in 2 months~~
Well need to finish packin for goin to the island.. will be nice to be able to walk around without havin an extra 30 pounds on my back!
Sunday, August 29, 2004
Welp.. Europe is Done.. Thank god.. i was really starting to get sick of everyone hateing americans.. I know now where i will go next time i go to europe.. NO WHERE NEAR LONDON!!! Too damn expensive there.. I'll prolly go back to Ireland and amsterdam one day..
when we landed in San fran, we rented a convertible Chrysler and bombed over to Las vegas to pick up joe.. after about 8 hours of driving we got to vegas and grabbed joe then i drove all the way to Mission viejo and we got there at about 5 in the mornin.. Wes great to see my dad and Karen, and kate and colin..my bro and sis.. my dad also got us tickets to an angels game on friday.. We went to six flags during the day and rode plenty of rides.. there were hardly any people there cuz school had just started so the lines were very small.. we left there at about 5 and got to the angels game about 45 minutes late.. It was still a pretty good game and they had a huge fireworks show afterwords!
WE were supposed to leave my house by 10 the next day but we didnt leave until 11 so we got in to the car rental place at 5:30 when we needed to have it back by 4 and they wanted to charge us for a whole nother day.. becuase we were an hour and a half late.. so we just kept the car for another day.
we went out for Jay's birthday last night.. i bought him a shot of Jagermiester for his bday, also drank a few beers.. good to be back in the US and seeing Good ol budweiser on Tap :) we spend another two days here then we head off to vegas.. i'm really ready to go home.. but vegas will be fun :)
Monday, August 23, 2004
GOD I HATE THIS PLACE.. UK is so damn expensive.. Everything is in pounds and everything is as expensive as can be.. Stupid train rides are like 50 bucks a trip.. a few trips and thats alotta money! we took the train down to Rosslare and had a nice Hotel room right by the ferry 2 days ago.. didn't really go out that night cuz there was NOTHING around the hotel and Ferry.. we also had to get up at the buttcrack of dawn to catch our ferry.. We made it by like 10 minutes and the ferry guy of course told us that we were late and should have checked in 30 minutes ago.. We'll remember that for next time :)¬ woah.. wtf is that thing.. its supposed to be a tilda but its in its spot ¬¬ actually it looks kinda cool maybe i'll use that from now on instead of the tilda.. if i can ever find it on a normal keyboard..
The Ferry ride took 4 hours and it was HUGE.. as soon as we got off the ferry a local van took us to the train station for a pound each.. we made the ONLY train leaving the ferry town of Fishguard or some shit with liek 5 minutes to spare.. We are pretty good at barely catching things! After about 4 tranfsters later we found ourselves in the shittiest little town ever.. Salisbury (yeah like the steak) After walking around looking for a hotel for an hour or two it was like 9pm, and we were getting sick of it.. we found a shopping Cart and stuck all our stuff in it and wheeled it around.. yay our packs were off our backs! finnally we found a hotel that would let all 4 of us cram into a double bed room for 60pounds, but we had to pay the guy cash.. Kinda shady but it was a cheap room! We had planned on getting up at like 5 to catch a taxi out to Stonehedge, so we could get the Sun Rising over stonehedge, but it rained all night and in the morning, so that ruined that idea :(
We got up at like 7:30 and headid out for the day, only to find that no place serves breakfast b4 like 9am, so we walked around for a few hours. Finnaly we stopped at the Cat tavern, a crappy little mom and pop place next to the train station. We ordered breakfast and Kevin tried to order a Guinness but the old ass hag wouldn't serve us liquor cuz it was so early.. He also tried to get some Baily's for his coffee but she wouldn't do that either.. The iceing on the cake is when 2 regulars walked in and sat at the bar, she poured em both out 2 beers, Kevin got irritated and I decided it was time to go to the bathroom, so that i did.. right next to the toilet.. i hope she has a great time picking it up off the Ground! We also got shitty service from her.. i guess she doesnt realize that if her shitty ass cafe wasn't in this shitty ass town next to StoneHedge, she'd be shuckin hay or some shit, whatever else people in the 45 other crappy ass towns next to hers does..
After Leaving my Surprise at the tavern, we headed to the trainstation to catch a bus to Stonehedge.. 45 minutes later we were stareing at 4500 year old Rocks, What a site! Most of it has fallen down over time but you can see pretty well how great it looks.. we got a lotta pictures and some video before the Rain came.. Man it rains more than Seattle here.. i cant wait to get home to actually get some sun :) We took t he bus back to the trainstation and 50 Dollars later and 2 and a half hours on a train we were in london.. Found an interenet cafe and ordered up another hotel room.. for 80 pounds a damn night.. thats like 140 bucks a night for a 4 person family room.. although the hotel is supposed to have wireless, so that will make it worth it.. they never usually do or its like 15 bucks a day :( I think we are going to go see some Shakespear play at the Globe theatre tonight.. it should be nice.. although we have to Stand to watch it cuz all the seats are already sold.. We'll see.. More updates soon hopefully if we have internet at the hotel!
Thursday, August 19, 2004
Well.. i made it outta amsterdam Alive! That place is a blast let me tell you.. Its kind of weird how they do everything, but once u get used to it, it all makes sense..If you see a Cafe, it means they usually sell alchohol.. If they Call themselves a Coffee Shop, it means you can Sit down and Smoke marijuana there, and they usually have their own Dealer in the back who sells sacks of Pot.. They dont really care if u come in and buy a drink or something and smoke your own.. Most of the places can only have either alchohol or Weed, but some of the places have both.
The best part about amsterdam was that the Heiniken Brewery is in town! so everyplace has Heiniken on Tap! we also went on the Heiniken Tour, and got 3 free beers :) i think my average each night was around 14 Beers... Damn amsterdam! The red light district was Crazy too! its amazing how women just sit in these windowed door rooms and beckon you.. the average price is around 50 Euro for olmost anything you want (I Read), i'm sure the really good looking ones are more.. some of the ally's you can go down are honestly like 4 feet wide and really fat ugly black girls will try to pull you into their rooms.. I just kinda walk through laughing and they dont mess with you..
we spent yesterday in Scotland.. Edinburough and Glasgow mostly.. was pretty nice.. on our way back to the hotel a football game was getting out so all the people were walking around in kilts and stuff.. was kinda cool to see that.. i still dont see how they get so much excitment outta that dumb game tho.. I am missin home alot.. kinda looking forward for this big trip to end.. although it has went pretty damn fast so far..
Well i'll update later prolly.. we found interent in the corner of our hotel room!
Sunday, August 15, 2004
WHAT HAPPENS IN AMSTERDAM STAYS IN AMSTERDAM
We'll i'm in amsterdam now and havent had much time to update.. Stockholm was Great.. its amazing how much water there really is up there.. i didn't think everything was on the water as much in these towns. We went out with Nharvi (Jenny) the night we got there and had some drinks and went to a pretty cool Cafe.. then we went to an outdoor bar thing with really comfy couches and had a Few beers.. also had a shot of Sambuca (sp), it was alright but i'm not really a big fan of Licorice and it tasted just like that. The hotel room we got was really nice tho.. Jenny Suggested one right by a subway Stop and it was honestly one of the coolest places we have stayed at yet.. with some KILLER AC.. The buffet Breakfast was HUGE too.. like 5 big tables of diff kind of food..
Thursday we Decided to Check out the city and Do some shopping.. found the Stockholm Hard Rock and bouoght some Stuff.. Then in the evening we went on a Viking Boat Cruise of the City.. It was really fun cuz they had a buncha viking stuff we could wear so i had a mask and Axe most of the time scaring the little kids on board.. Plus they had Lots of MEAD! so we got kinda happy that night.. Joe and Chad wanted to go back early and sleep so me and kevin stayed out and had a few beers at some places.. when we got back to the hotel, Joe and chad were waiting outside, it seemed the key had stopped working, so they had to wait for us the entire time while we were out drinking hah..
We had planned to get up early, catch a Bus ride to the Airport from the Terminal from the central station, but when i asked the lady at the front desk how the best way to get to skavsta airport was she said the bus from another station.. it seemed our Discount Flight Leaves from some shitty ass airport 100km away from stockholm city.. YUCK.. so we had like 3 hours to get to our flight and the bus left from some other part of town in like 10 minutes.. so no way we'd make it.. I asked her what the Cheapest way to get there through taxi would be and she called metro taxi. who would take us to the airport in an hour for a flat fee of 1250 Krown wich is like 125 bucks around.. not wanting to lose $500 worth of tickets we did that..
We made it about 3/4 of the way to stockholm when me and chad heard a huge THUD.. We asked the driver what that was and he said he didn't know.. he seemed to have no power in the taxi now tho.. We were trying to pass a big truck when i noticed he was just revving the engine but nothin was coming out.. and we were just kinda coasting.. so he pulled over to the next rest stop.. at this time i told him to Call another Taxi or something because we have a flight to catch.. he just kinda stood there.. stopped the car and said it will be ok, i will restart or some shit.. I guess i really couldn't understand him cuz he was all arabic or some shit and named Hussein.. I guess that shoulda really been a Tip off..
He started the taxi back up and could get to about first gear before he could no longer go any faster.. so he decided to try to drive the rest of the way in first on the side of the highway.. Again, i told him to call for another taxi becuase this wasn't going to work and we needed to be at the airport for a flight that left in 45 minutes.. again he said it would be ok..Finnaly after going about 3 more Ghetto Miles, the car completly stops.. no way to keep going forward.. i tell him to call a Taxi NOW! he gets on his little phone and starts talking to someone.. have no idea who it is.. we ask him whats up and he says another taxi will be here in 5 minutes.. 5 Minutes pass and we are getting agrivated and down to like 30 mins till we can be there.. 10 mins and nothing.. at about 12 mins i open the door cuz he's outside just doing nothing and tell him that we are going to just walk and try to hitch a ride to the airport cuz this taxi shit aint gonna work.. and he starts trying to flag down random people driving by.. at this point we all get out and start getting our stuff. he said that a taxi is very close coming from the airport..
Now heres the best part, He tells us that he will pay the other taxi's fee and that we are just to pay him the 1250 for getting us this far.. as the Airport is 3km Away.. I told him there is no way we were paying for this ride, as we are now on the side of the highway with 20 minutes to get to our Flight to amsterdam. He told us that it was not his problom the car broke down. I told him that IT WAS his problem because it is his company's place to make sure all the vehicles are in good condition for driving.. He again told me that i need to pay him for getting us this far.. i told him that we paid him to get us from Stockholm to the airport, not Stockholm to the side of a god damn Highway. he got on his little phone and started talking to somebody and i told him "Tell Whoever is on the phone that there is no way we are paying this company if they dont do their jobs properly.. i coulda taken a bus and gotten here faster than this, but i paid for the taxi for the convenience of getting somewehre earlier"
The Airport taxi showed up at 45 after, and our flight left at 55, This guy was nice and swedish! after lugging our bags into the back and letting him know the situation he roared off, happy to get his fair.. He at least understood us and we asked him when the taxi had called his company.. he had all the stuff right up on his display on when exactly the call came in.. and it was 10 Minutes before he got there.. that asshole Driver had lied to us about calling early the entire time.. well this Driver got us to the airport REALLY fast.. passing cars and stuff.. and the fee was only 150krowns wich is like 15 bucks.. we gave him 160 and started RUNNIN to our check in..
The lady at check in told us we were mighty late for check in and we gave her our story..she felt bad so let us on the plane.. told us to run to the terminal and get on the plane.. so we run as fast as we can to the terminal.. speed through customs and security only to get to the gate to find out the flight is delayed 25 minutes.. haha.. So all in all, We got a Taxi from Stockholm to an airport 100km away for 15 Bucks.. Not a bad deal in my opinion :)
So we Made it to Amsterdam!!!
Wednesday, August 11, 2004
Well our train got into Copenhagen and we got off and started to walk looking for an internet connection to try to get a hotel. after walking down 4 different streets and finding no internet we decided to just stay out all night, seeing as how our train to stockholm left at 10 in the mornin.. on the way back to the train station we found a huge internet gamer cafe called Boom Town.. we went in and booked our flights to rotterdam from stockholm for the 13th.. FRIDAY THE 13th! scary.. Then we went to some gay circus thing that was shittier than Enchanted Village.. it costed 9 euro to get in and the rides were like 9 euro also.. we walked around that and noticed how gay it was so we decided to eat.. We saw a Hard Rock so we went inside.. they told us it was a 30 minute wait so we went to the bar.. the bar was CRAZY.. i was busy drinking my Long island ice tea and the Music got up WAY loud.. then all the waiters and waitresses got up on the bar and started dancing! it was really cool i'd never seen that at a Hard Rock before..
after about an hour and a half of waiting i got the waitresses attention and she asked us if we were waiting for another table still.. we said yeah and she said we shoulda said something cuz she's a stupid blonded.. hah.. so we sat down and had like 3 more long islands.. at about 1.30 in the mornin there was us and like 12 other people in the place. They started playin all USA Music like BORN IN THE USA and stuff.. WE all started singing along to the music and people started leaving.. so we stopped and the hard rock people told us to keep going cuz we were clearin out the place and they wanted to leave.. so we kept going heh.. we asked where we could stay out all night, and the guys wrote us a map out of a all night bar to go to.. So we went off on our all night journey.. After following the water for awhile, we came upon a kinder care like place.. with a club house and a wooden tunnel. Kevin claimed the Bottom of the clubhouse and joe claimed the upstairs.. i took the wooden Tunnel, using my shoe as a pillow i fell asleep. about 30 minutes later kevin wakes me up like theirs people here! i put on my shoe and me and kevin walk out.. i never saw anyone there, but kevin said joe and him saw some people down there just staring at us..
I think we walked to the other train station 3 miles away.. looking for any park or anything to sleep on.. Finnaly we made it back to the Train station and i decided to just pass out outside it, as the Train station was closed.. it was about 3 in the mornin and it didnt open until 5.. after attempting to sleep for about 30 minutes i walked over to the Interent Gamer Cafe.. They had EVERQUEST! so i spent all night and morning playing everquest.. got to raid a bit with the Guild and talk to Autumn and Nharvi online, felt good to play some eq again hehe.. Went over to the train station and got on the train to go to Stockholm!
Monday, August 9, 2004
Well i made it to berlin.. we got in at about 10 at night and took a taxi to our hotel.. it was pretty nice.. i had to wait outside while joe and Kevin checked in tho.. and there was a bar next door so lucky me! i had a Berlinder Beir.. it was pretty good, so i had another.. i finished 2 big beirs before they got back down to me.. and they sat down and had a drink with me.. then we walked down the street and starting figuring out what part of town we were in.. We saw a MAN bar.. and basicly a bunch of guys all huggin and kissin.. oh no! we booked a hotel room in the Gay part of berlin.. GOD.. what is it with Gay dudes on this trip.. i swear i'm gettin sick of seein so many of em..
After walking past about 4 gay bars we decided to go down a side street hoping to make it outta GAYTOWN, Germany and we hit up a fountain bar.. it was really Good food i had riggatoni with uncooked ham and broccoli.. and another huge Beir.. this time HEINIKIN.. yay..
Today we Took a double decker bus tour around germany..we saw part of the berlin wall in its original place, and alotta the rebuilt Town.. its amazing how new this place is.. it basicly looks like new york now, with a buncha rebuilt really old looking building ands tons of embasy's.. we are going to stay another day here and then head to copenhagen tomorow..
Hopefully more updates soon
Saturday, August 7, 2004
CHEAP AS SHIT!!!!!!
Well kinda.. the Tourist part of prague is just as marked up as the rest of the trip has been.. but if u go to the Dive bars and crappy alley restaraunts then its REALLY cheap to eat and drink.. beers are around 20 Kronars or whatever they use here.. which works out to be like 65 cents.. Kevin and I went to the bar last night and had like 4 shots of absinth and a few drinks and it only costed like 6 bucks.. talked to some Gay guy who spoke a little english too and tried to learn a few of the words like Good and thank you.. and botched them horribly.. we wrote most of it down tho, so we can use it later..
our hotel room was OK.. we stayed at the belvedere Hotel.. had to book a hotel room b4 we left the airport tho.. and our flight was like 2 hours late.. so we got into prague at about midnight.. and took a Audi Taxi to our hotel.. the guy drove like a maniac but we got there fast.. The Czech Girls are SOOOOO hot.. i jsut wish i could talk to em heh.. my Russian / Czech needs a little improvement..
We woke up this morning and kevin was pukeing (again) maybe somethin he had last night didnt agree with him (coulda been the 4 shots of absinth.) i also didnt feel very well tho.. at 12, check out time.. they called our room and we wanted it for another day but they were booked.. so they put us in a bigger room with 3 beds.. kevin barely made it out and passed out on the chair while they showed me the new room.. its alot bigger than the last one and has plenty of room for some Hired hookers! yay.. After sleeping a bit I walked down to the city center to meet joe.. after wandering around for like 2 hours i found him and we went and ate at a pilsner cafe.. i had some chicken breast thing it was pretty good.. and cheap.. i think it worked out to about 3 euro for the meal.. not bad..
I think we are going to get a train to Berlin tomorow.. then maybe see if we can get a flight from Berlin to Stockholm.. i'm sure it will take a long time tryin to take the Eurail there.. we'll see tho..
Friday, August 6, 2004
Good ol Italy! well our train took us directly to rome from Milan.. once we got there we booked our room for 2 nights and went out for the night.. Italy looks like it closes down earlier.. i guess that was one nice thing about Spain, that everything was open most all night.. Definatly a Night time City.. we spent 2 days in Rome.. it was Quite beautiful.. has to be the most beautiful place i have been so far.. we saw the collisium, and a bunch of old city buildings.. everything is crumbling and looking really old.. the collisium was actually pretty small i expected it to be a lot Bigger, from the movie gladiator, but it was actualy quite small.. still very impressive tho..
we got a train ride from Roma to Venezia yesterday and stayed at a hotel here last night.. and went to a nice ristorante on the water.. this place is a tourist trap.. they charge you for everything under the sun.. we got charged 3.50 apiece COVER charge just to sit down.. and the bread he brought to us was an extra 6 dollars.. even the bottle of water was 6 euro.. our dinner was 150 Euro.. which is like 200 american.. YUCK.. the house wine was 25 bucks.. screw this place.. Although its really, really nice the way everything is on water here.. All the taxis are boats lol.
our flight to prauge leaves tonight at 8:30 so we need to try to find the airport.. I cant wait for prauge.. its gonna be nice to live for cheap for awhile.. so used to paying out the butt for crappy ass little places.. apparently u can live like a king in prauge for like 80 bucks a night.. we will see about that.. Well time to go change my laundry.. i bet the washing is done now.. time to dry:)
Monday, August 2, 2004
Well today we leave spain.. i´m happy to get outta this place i´m getting sick of eating baugettes and weird meat with eyeballs.. i´m also sick of seeing Full Pig legs everywhere hanging from hooks..
Last night after going out all day, we went back to the Hotel and watched eurotrip, then after it we were about to fall asleep at about 11pm when the AC turned off.. then Kevin noticed that the laptop wasn´t charging anymore.. so we tried the lights and they were all out.. the power for our block went down.. so me and Joe and Kevin got up and went outside.. sure enough there were lights on around us, but none on our block! needless to say we left all our valuables in the room locked in the huge safe.. it looked like business as usual tho, plenty of people outside and the bars and cafe´s were all pretty much workin the same.. i guess this happens alot over here..
So we walked around till we found a bar in the gothic corner and had all had a Heiniken and watched some Street urchen try to juggle.. he kept dropping the pins tho and they would bounce off the ground and hit this woman.. finnally about after 3 times she got up and moved.. then he came around with his money change thing and i told him i had a cat in my pants in spanish and he kinda looked at me wierd.. and then moved on eventually.. We went down La rambla again and kevin bought me a Spanish porn book for my birthday for 3€.. i was hopeing their would be some weird crazy stuff in it but it was just a normal playboy type book.. i was extremely upset.. so we replaced all the pictures on the wall at the hotel with the other porno cutouts that came with the magazine.. then we stashed some porn in the safe for the next lucky hotel patrons..
We left our stuff at the train station in lockers and headed out to see some sites today.. we walked around and found a really cool park with a big bungee thing that kevin and Joe played on and we filmed some stuff that will prolly make it on the next video.. I also found something that looks just like a giant cock! so we filmed that too.. EXCITING!
God the internet is so cheap over here.. i´ve been on here for about an hour now and its only costed me 1 euro.. yay for cheap internet.. well going to try to find some tickets for prauge and shit.. going into second world countries sucks!
Sunday, August 1, 2004
YAY!! Birthday in Europe always a plus! I celebrated it at 12:02 in the mornin here at some Korean Run Italian resteraunt in Spain.. Go figure.. When i get back my insurance is gonna go down.. GOGO 25.. god i'm like 1/4 of the way to a 100.. thats scary..
Well i wrote out a HUGE response sitting in ibiza the night before we left, but the stupid internet went down and i clicked update and it lost the page.. so I lost all the typing i had done, so i have to try to remember what i wrote.. oh well..
I've had a yucky runny nose for a few days now.. i wake up in the morning and my sinuses are full.. but there are alot of farmacia's around here to take care of that :) they have everything under the sun there its just hard to tell them what u want!
Chad left today to go to rome.. we have to stay here a few extra days to get kevin's passport.. we booked our Eurail train ticket to Milan today.. an extra 92 Euro with the pass..i'm really begining to think this eurail thing is not worth the money or time, when there are flights going from city to city that are WAY cheaper.. Easyjet.com and Ryanair.com will treat us good... We are going to Meet up with the Girls we met on the Plane over from Las Vegas when we go back to london on the 24th, so that should be a blast. Maybe Leanne and Ash a little Sex instructor lesson! remember kids first lesson is always Free!
Lookin like we'll get us a rental car in Sanfransisco when we land on the 25th, till the 28th, where we will get picked up by jay in San Fran to head over to Vegas.. Hopefully Autumn wants to come down for the trip i'd love to spend a few days with her :) we'll see tho!
Me and kevin have been pounding back Tussin.. its just like the old days cuz its got the dxm is in it yay! i dont feel sick anymore!
Anyways time to go~
Thursday, July 29, 2004
Well my worst nightmare has come true.. Ibiza is in fact an island full of gay dudes... Kevin Joe and I went out to the Pancha Club last night and again it was full of 80% dudes and they all seemed to be making out.. mucho Scary!! The club was HUGE tho, like 4 different rooms playing different type of tekno, and a hip hop room also that i spent some time in. Thiswas the biggest club i had been to here yet.. it was a big circular room that u can walk around with differnt doors going to differnt areas, basicly it was a big maze. Eric Morrillo was playing and DJ rap was on before him.. i liked DJ rap alot, played alotta good hits.. They really seem to like Nirvana and White stripes here.. which is good becuase when Nirvana comes on i can tell people that thats from my home town back in the states.
Its so cool to be in a different Country half way acrost the world and the only music you hear is still in English.. at least they got some parts of the culture right down here. Even if Ibiza is the Homo Capital of the world.. The cool part is that we can just pretend we are irish and use the word Fag alot, cuz that is a ciggarette in Irish so if anyone gets offended i can just say that i was talkin about tobacco :) I'm kinda gettin tired of going out to clubs everynight.. hehe i get worn out after too many 9 in the mornin nights.. oh well can sleep in pretty late here anyways. We filmed some Guys in towels at our Villa and at the pool today, so hopefully that will make it on Ellensburg Extreme next year.. i'll finally get to be in a Guys and towels episode..
I bought some Souvineers yesterday also. so now i need to find a post office and send back a buncha crap.. i think i'm gonna send back some clothes too. I keep buyin new clothes and i dont have room in my pack for the old and new clothes.. even tho I lost like 12 pounds when i sent back my laptop.. i hope it gets home.. they didnt really have insurance in France for mail.. and a big old box going through 100+ hands over many international borders with a tag that says 2,000 Value may get swiped!
My stupid oakley watch broke also.. so i sent that back and bought one off a guy walking around the beach.. he wanted like 50 bucks for it but i talked him down to 20.. i love this country sometimes :) too bad the thing isn't fitted for me so i have to find some sort of punch to get the little rods off it to make it fit me.. i hope i can find one soon so i can start wearin my watch again.. it sux not knowing what time it is when you are always so used to it being right there on your arm..
YAY my birthday is Sunday.. Too bad i'll be in Barcelona or on my way to rome for it and not in ibiza.. maybe we'll stay another day becuase Kevin has to pick up his new passport on the 31st in Barcelona.. not sure how thats going to work, but we'll see.. I'm starting to get a tan.. its kind of exciting.. i've never really had a tan before.. Usually its either White as crap or burnt to a solid pink.. i kinda burned the other day.. but it went away and now its kinda brown.. i hope to get some sun, i really dont wanna be a white whale anymore..
Welp time to get some other stuff done online.. hopefully i can update b4 we leave ibiza again.. Going to see Tiesto Tonight at Amnesia.. lets hope there arent too many ass pirates there tonight..
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Well the last few days have been pretty hectic here in ibiza.. we took a bus to the airport as soon as we got over on the ferry to get our rental car kevin had taken care of.. only to find that we had no idea where the whizz car rental place was.. and kevin tried to call them but they werent open or it was a fax number.. so we just rented a car from eurocar betacar or some shit.. its a little pos 4 cylinder 4 door that barely moves.. and its a damn Manual and i have no idea how to drive a manual, so its proven to be pretty difficult driving. I´m gettin it slowly but surely, but i stall alot and still havent got down the ebrake turns.. :)
We took the rental care up in the hills to find our Villa and we found it, it was sooooo beautiful.. it has a pool and AC!! its like a big 2 bedroom villa with our own kitchen and everything.. Its so secluded and filled with flowers and trees, looks so nice. We went to Privelage club saturday night and it was Baelaric people playing.. a buncha shitty ass local Dj´s who all sucked and couldnt beat match for crap. Then Sunday night we went to Amnesia for a foam party.. As soon as we got in there i noticed it was filled with about 80% guys.. and abou 60% of the guys were gay.. i serously am having my doubts about Ibiza now.. i hope that it doesn´t mess up my view of ibiza if it just turns out to be a big gay island.
The foam started up at 5 am and went till 7 am.. i was in the middle when the foam came out and it serously started chokin me and i fell to the ground trying to breath.. then they started playing YMCA and i was like.. omg i´m going to choke to death on foam listening to ymca.. i crawled myself to the edge of the dance floor and made my way under one of the rails just in time before the big gay orgy started in the middle with all the gay dudes in the foam.. needless to say i didnt head back into the middle.. although i did dare Chad to go in Butt first and see what happened.. he didnt :(
Then when i got back from the foam party at like 9 am, the irish guy from one of hte other villas was heading back to his villa from the pool completly hammered.. he said he was gonna go get vodka and come back.. and sure enough he came back with half a fivth of some vodka and some orange juice.. so me and chad and kevin and him drank the rest of the fivth, then joe came out and me the rest of the guys went to bed and me and joe finished the second half of our liter of vodka.. mixing it with whatever juice we could find.. needless to say i went to bed at like 2pm and slept for like a day straight.. man that felt good ;) needed to catch up on some sleep. We will hopefully be going to see armin van buren tonight or maybe carl cox.. not sure which one we will go to yet.. we need to find some damn wireless interenet too so kevin can update the site.. we have a lotta good pictures of barcelona and ibiza to post..
ok well 7 mins left on my i'net timer.. so i better get to checkin my mail and stuff..
Thursday, July 22, 2004
well its the second day now that we are in Barcelona.. the first day was rather eventful.. it started with our extra 63 dollar train ride to Barcelona in a 4 person sleeper car.. We went out to Normandy beach the day before, and had to do some Train hopping to make the 12 hour direct Train ride from Paris to Barcelona. We actually made the train with about 20 minutes to spare. then the train guy told us that we needed to make reservations to get on that train.. after showing him our europasses and other various things and blankly staring at his really fast speaking french, he let on the Train.. and we were on our way to barcelona. After we were going they told us that we had to pay 63 each for reservations or whatever.. so we argued that for awhile.. but in the end we are stupid american tourists, so we had to pay.. oh well we got a 12 hour direct to barcelona trip outta it.
When we arrived in Barcelona, me and kevin immediately happy to start using our 2 years of Spanish.. although we soon figured out that they speak catonese or some shit.. a mix of Spanish french and some other weird language.. so we are still pretty confused. although we can ask where the bathroom is and order drinks :) We found Wireless internet at Starbucks in the center square of barcelona so kevin sat down to update gimpcity for awhile.. i went and found a store where i got like 4 nice shirts and a pair of slacks for like 20 Euro.. which is like 24 bucks.. not bad.. this place is hella cheap.. we eat breakfast for like 3 euro everyday and their Coffee here is SOOO good.. its like all espresso shots..
When i came back from buying my clothes kevin asked me if i had his Rick Steeves moneybelt and i didn't, so during the time i was gone, kevin had gotten his Money belt with his Passport and Eurail pass (And Euraill pass insurance card) stolen from him.. I honestly thought it woulda been me to first loose my passport.. but luckily enough it wasn't.. so kevin ran off looking for the police and Chad and I went and got our hotel room. We met christina later who is studying over here and we all went out for drinks then went to the Hard rock.. it was nice seeing an All English menu again.. and eating a big juicy steak :) I think i got a little tipsy after my fourth long island and the 4 Vodka and NARANJA (Orange) Fanta's cuz at like 10:30 i was tired.. so we all walked back to the hotel room. Spain really comes alive at night.. the streets were full of drunks and stuff.. and everyone was so merry and happy.. we went down many ally's full of restaraunts and people just hanging around drinking.. i think we need to take it easier so early and go out at night.. because apparently nothing closes down until morning.
Woke up refreshed and headed out to find an interenet cafe cuz we need to order our ferry ride tickets to ibiza.. So should prolly get to that.. we are going to leave saturday the 24th to head over there for an entire week.. i hope our villa is in range of some Wireless internet.. if not gonna have to hit up more i-net cafe's.. hopefully there are 1 or two over there :)
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