My 2nd entry of being 16! (Stacy said it, not me)
This is unnecessarily long. There's also an unnecessary amount of pictures. We took 212, and that was AFTER we paired down. But there's only like 60 on here. Only.
Allie and I went to Chicago for the weekend. It was really fun. Allie was supposed to come over on Friday and spend the night because we had an early flight on Saturday but her mom got stuck in "SoMA." Stacy stopped by after work with my birthday present. Sixteen cups of vanilla pudding. Ohhh yeah. We sat on the end of my driveway and ate pudding. This was at like 10 or something. I was lying down and I heard someone talking to us and I got scared. I sat up and Mike and Ali Schwartz came over and sat down. That was weird. Mike is my neighbor who I have talked to once in my life in 7th grade, and I haven't really talked to Ali since 7th grade either. They stayed for like an hour and we had a pow wow. They went home and Stacy left a while later, and I went to bed around 1. I had to wake up at 4. FOUR! To meet Allie. She came early too. She got here at like 4:20 or something and we left for the airport like an hour later. Our flight left at 8:08 so we had some spare time to explore. We slept during most of the flight. After we got there, we hung out in the city for a few hours. We went to Marshal Field's and ate in some cafe. We figured it would be a waste to go and not get dessert, but we were really full so we split something. We didn't know what to get and the waitress was putting TREMENDOUS pressure on us, and us being the indecisive people that we were just sat there blankly. Finally she read the choices out loud, straight from the menu in front of us, and Allie decided we should get a PEANUT BUTTER SUNDAE! Just because that was the only one she could remember. Ugh. There are pictures...It was huge. We walked around the store for like 20 minutes and groaned. After lunch, we went to the new park they built in Chicago, and then my parents released us on Michigan Avenue. It wasn't too exciting because they go rid of FAO Schwartz. The main attraction. We walked forever looking for the Water Tower Building, which we found, but it had no stores worth looking in. It had 7 floors of stores like the GAP, Banana Republic, Victoria's Secret, and so on. We did go in Brookstone to sleep on some bean bed for...too long. After Chicago, we drove to the base (where I used to live) and checked into the BOQ (hotel type dealy). We were like the only people in the whole place. I'm sure there were others but we only saw I think 3 people in there the whole time. There wasn't even a receptionist. You have to get rooms in another building. It was like the Shining! We walked around the base for an hour. We walked to the beach, and we went to the part that no one goes and waded around. Allie caught 3 or 4 fish with her bare hands. IIII was impressed. After dinner, we were really tired, but we decided to play. We also wanted to search for a dryer for Allie's pants because she got pretty messy with all that fishin'. We found one on the bottom floor, and it also had a laundry cart on wheels so we had some fun with that, until we heard someone and had to "roll" back as fast as we could. We tiptoed around the floor and practiced our Secret Agent moves, because obviously it is a punishable crime to be on the bottom floor of the building. I'm not kidding. It probably is. It was apparently a big scandal to be walking around the neighborhood at 11am, but I'll get to that later. We went into the work out room, and had a sauna water fight. It wasn't much of a fight. I just hurled some at Allie. We got a Mountain Dew to accompany our pudding in our fridge. That was our only real mission. To fill the fridge. We found wine glasses, and toasted to good health and had a party in the room. We went to bed at like midnight or something. I think that was the longest day of my life.
Tuesday we woke up and walked to the Navy Exchange. What an adventure that was. Ok. Since our goal was to fill the fridge, that's what we set out to do. We bought $15 worth of crap including chips, ritz bits, sodas, BENADRYL, little Debbie's, and gum. We got to the checkout and the lady asked me for my Military ID. Ugh. She called the next man over and I started collecting the goods and she told us he was with us, so we used his card and got all our food. As if ordering $15 worth of junk food wasn't embarrassing enough. So we left with the food and were walking down the street and this cop pulled up in front of us and we almost walked into him. He was like, "Please tell me you're not on active duty." And we thought he was kidding and we kinda laughed and he just sat there, and so I was like "OH! No.." and he asked all these questions and I guess I didn't hear some and apparently answered them wrong. So he questioned us for a while, and asked us where we were from and how old we were and who we were with and all this stuff. And then finally he said he hoped we weren't on active duty because Allie had red streaks God forbid, and we should be careful on a base full of 18 and 19 year old men. We continued walking and this sailor asked us about the cop and walked with us and kind of mumbled some stuff that we couldn't really understand. We went back to the hotel room and got my parents and then we went out to Allie's old hood. We went to her elementary school and walked around the premisis and played on the playground and such. We visited the school next door, and walked through a neighborhood to see her old friend's house. Then we went to see her old house, which was not the same house, just the same address. After dinner and some driving, we went to Lake Forest which was the town where I went to school, and we walked around, and went to Blockbuster and Allie and I bought 2 movies to watch in the room. She got Igby Goes Down and I got Session 9. We walked around the base some more. It was dark by then, and Allie insisted of walking through the lit Barracks where all the sailors live and I was scared. I hate sailors. We walked to a playground and sat and then walked down my old street, and these kids were out playing flashlight tag. I was jealous. We walked home after a little while and we were stopped again. The first time it was kind of funny. "haha that cop thought we were students." And I understand that they were just worried about us because it was dark and sailors are...sailors. But they weren't really that nice about it. And getting stopped twice in one day while trying to walk around your old neighborhood is kind of disheartening. Despite all of the warnings, we actually did make it back safely. We watched the movies, and then went a-exploring. We got back to the room at 3, and then watched 2 hours of Viva la Bam.
We had to get up at 9 to head down to the city. When we got to O'Hare, Allie wanted coffee so we walked alll the way across the airport to find a Starbucks. The nice boy she was admiring (admiring=stalking) happened to be there, which was our excuse of why it was worth it to walk back across the airport when we found out there was one RIGHT in front of where we were sitting. We got home, and dropped Allie off around 7:30, and that was our trip in short actually.
Handicap Porn
I like this one, besides the bad set up of it
Uhhhh
That's all we could do
Marshal Field's
The famous Chicago Mercury Ball
I don't know what we were doing. I think it had to do with Play Doh.
Fishin'
Un pez!
Boy do we love our ladles
Oh how pathetic
What a good bartender
I am not akin to being surprised coming out of the bathroom.
Thaaat's better. Good Lord. We bought more than I remembered
A picture Allie's mom painted for her school
I don't know if she was angry at the bush or what
Allie in her nose
Allie's ex address
Inner peace!
He'll NEVER get old
I know thats just what everyone wants to see
This one's my favorite
The big chair pose
creepy
Looking at the miracle, apparently
Boo!
Boo for Biz
Our crash pad
"What were we doing for 2 hours?!" "Bam."
My hoose
uck
Uck some more
My old school
Aw
My concerned mother face!
I needed a bib.
Allie and I went to Chicago for the weekend. It was really fun. Allie was supposed to come over on Friday and spend the night because we had an early flight on Saturday but her mom got stuck in "SoMA." Stacy stopped by after work with my birthday present. Sixteen cups of vanilla pudding. Ohhh yeah. We sat on the end of my driveway and ate pudding. This was at like 10 or something. I was lying down and I heard someone talking to us and I got scared. I sat up and Mike and Ali Schwartz came over and sat down. That was weird. Mike is my neighbor who I have talked to once in my life in 7th grade, and I haven't really talked to Ali since 7th grade either. They stayed for like an hour and we had a pow wow. They went home and Stacy left a while later, and I went to bed around 1. I had to wake up at 4. FOUR! To meet Allie. She came early too. She got here at like 4:20 or something and we left for the airport like an hour later. Our flight left at 8:08 so we had some spare time to explore. We slept during most of the flight. After we got there, we hung out in the city for a few hours. We went to Marshal Field's and ate in some cafe. We figured it would be a waste to go and not get dessert, but we were really full so we split something. We didn't know what to get and the waitress was putting TREMENDOUS pressure on us, and us being the indecisive people that we were just sat there blankly. Finally she read the choices out loud, straight from the menu in front of us, and Allie decided we should get a PEANUT BUTTER SUNDAE! Just because that was the only one she could remember. Ugh. There are pictures...It was huge. We walked around the store for like 20 minutes and groaned. After lunch, we went to the new park they built in Chicago, and then my parents released us on Michigan Avenue. It wasn't too exciting because they go rid of FAO Schwartz. The main attraction. We walked forever looking for the Water Tower Building, which we found, but it had no stores worth looking in. It had 7 floors of stores like the GAP, Banana Republic, Victoria's Secret, and so on. We did go in Brookstone to sleep on some bean bed for...too long. After Chicago, we drove to the base (where I used to live) and checked into the BOQ (hotel type dealy). We were like the only people in the whole place. I'm sure there were others but we only saw I think 3 people in there the whole time. There wasn't even a receptionist. You have to get rooms in another building. It was like the Shining! We walked around the base for an hour. We walked to the beach, and we went to the part that no one goes and waded around. Allie caught 3 or 4 fish with her bare hands. IIII was impressed. After dinner, we were really tired, but we decided to play. We also wanted to search for a dryer for Allie's pants because she got pretty messy with all that fishin'. We found one on the bottom floor, and it also had a laundry cart on wheels so we had some fun with that, until we heard someone and had to "roll" back as fast as we could. We tiptoed around the floor and practiced our Secret Agent moves, because obviously it is a punishable crime to be on the bottom floor of the building. I'm not kidding. It probably is. It was apparently a big scandal to be walking around the neighborhood at 11am, but I'll get to that later. We went into the work out room, and had a sauna water fight. It wasn't much of a fight. I just hurled some at Allie. We got a Mountain Dew to accompany our pudding in our fridge. That was our only real mission. To fill the fridge. We found wine glasses, and toasted to good health and had a party in the room. We went to bed at like midnight or something. I think that was the longest day of my life.
Tuesday we woke up and walked to the Navy Exchange. What an adventure that was. Ok. Since our goal was to fill the fridge, that's what we set out to do. We bought $15 worth of crap including chips, ritz bits, sodas, BENADRYL, little Debbie's, and gum. We got to the checkout and the lady asked me for my Military ID. Ugh. She called the next man over and I started collecting the goods and she told us he was with us, so we used his card and got all our food. As if ordering $15 worth of junk food wasn't embarrassing enough. So we left with the food and were walking down the street and this cop pulled up in front of us and we almost walked into him. He was like, "Please tell me you're not on active duty." And we thought he was kidding and we kinda laughed and he just sat there, and so I was like "OH! No.." and he asked all these questions and I guess I didn't hear some and apparently answered them wrong. So he questioned us for a while, and asked us where we were from and how old we were and who we were with and all this stuff. And then finally he said he hoped we weren't on active duty because Allie had red streaks God forbid, and we should be careful on a base full of 18 and 19 year old men. We continued walking and this sailor asked us about the cop and walked with us and kind of mumbled some stuff that we couldn't really understand. We went back to the hotel room and got my parents and then we went out to Allie's old hood. We went to her elementary school and walked around the premisis and played on the playground and such. We visited the school next door, and walked through a neighborhood to see her old friend's house. Then we went to see her old house, which was not the same house, just the same address. After dinner and some driving, we went to Lake Forest which was the town where I went to school, and we walked around, and went to Blockbuster and Allie and I bought 2 movies to watch in the room. She got Igby Goes Down and I got Session 9. We walked around the base some more. It was dark by then, and Allie insisted of walking through the lit Barracks where all the sailors live and I was scared. I hate sailors. We walked to a playground and sat and then walked down my old street, and these kids were out playing flashlight tag. I was jealous. We walked home after a little while and we were stopped again. The first time it was kind of funny. "haha that cop thought we were students." And I understand that they were just worried about us because it was dark and sailors are...sailors. But they weren't really that nice about it. And getting stopped twice in one day while trying to walk around your old neighborhood is kind of disheartening. Despite all of the warnings, we actually did make it back safely. We watched the movies, and then went a-exploring. We got back to the room at 3, and then watched 2 hours of Viva la Bam.
We had to get up at 9 to head down to the city. When we got to O'Hare, Allie wanted coffee so we walked alll the way across the airport to find a Starbucks. The nice boy she was admiring (admiring=stalking) happened to be there, which was our excuse of why it was worth it to walk back across the airport when we found out there was one RIGHT in front of where we were sitting. We got home, and dropped Allie off around 7:30, and that was our trip in short actually.
Handicap Porn
I like this one, besides the bad set up of it
Uhhhh
That's all we could do
Marshal Field's
The famous Chicago Mercury Ball
I don't know what we were doing. I think it had to do with Play Doh.
Fishin'
Un pez!
Boy do we love our ladles
Oh how pathetic
What a good bartender
I am not akin to being surprised coming out of the bathroom.
Thaaat's better. Good Lord. We bought more than I remembered
A picture Allie's mom painted for her school
I don't know if she was angry at the bush or what
Allie in her nose
Allie's ex address
Inner peace!
He'll NEVER get old
I know thats just what everyone wants to see
This one's my favorite
The big chair pose
creepy
Looking at the miracle, apparently
Boo!
Boo for Biz
Our crash pad
"What were we doing for 2 hours?!" "Bam."
My hoose
uck
Uck some more
My old school
Aw
My concerned mother face!
I needed a bib.