Wow, what a weekend!
So friday night, right before we closed down the shop, Dani and Christina came in to get ice cream. I thought that this was it for Dani and I before she left for college, so I was all ready to be sad and all, but then she asked me if I wanted to tag along with her family and Christina to drop her off at UCSB. Obviously, I wanted to. I scrambled around for like 15 minutes trying to figure out how to get people to fill in for me at work, calling my mom to ask for permission, and figuring out what in the world I was getting myself into. I went home to pack a bag real quick, and then I spent the night at Dani’s.
We left somewhat early the next morning, and pretty much had no traffic the whole way. We didn’t merge onto the 101 in los angeles and we didn’t catch up with Dani’s mom and the uhaul until we were almost to santa barbara. Once we got to the campus it was a bit confusing because there were a lot of people and a 10 minute unloading zone and shuttles and blah blah blah blah blah. Everything got figured out, we met one of Dani’s 2 roommates, and then we started unpacking Dani’s room. I was so surprised at how much we got fit into that room. A U-haul’s worth of things fit into her section of a dorm, shared with 2 people, probably about the size of Dani’s room at home. It was seriously amazing. Dani’s younger brother, Little (Matthew) was so cute! He was like “sister, are you sleeping over here at santa barbara?” We stuck around for a bit getting books and stuff for Dani, and then we all went to drop off the U-haul (which was an issue because they were packed and didn’t want to take the truck. They finally did, though).
After that we left to go get a hotel for Dani’s family and Christina and I. It ended up being real nice, ocean font view and everything. Dani had to go back to the dorm for a meeting, so Christina and I went to dinner at this pizza place with her family. Aaaafter that, Christina and I walked over to State Street to see some shops and stuff. We went through some side streets to get there and we saw some hookers and we thought this homeless guy was following us. But then he walked into a Bar. An expresso bar. You just know he must be evil, lol. Yeah, so we were pretty jumpy for a while. Eventually we got to the place where the actual stores and clubs and stuff were and we took some pictures at a costume shop. We went into this “spiritual store” and bought these forehead jewels because we’re wierd, lol. We went into a club for a while but it was muy lame-o so we left and went to the movies. Guess what we watched. That’s right. Garden State. Again. Shoooooo. And it was just as good. We got out of that and decided to head back to our room because we didn’t want to get in trouble with Dani’s parents. We were freaked out about walking back with the homeless people and were thinking of trying to get a cab or something. But then we saw these motorcycle cabs. So wooo we took one back to the hotel and it was real fun! Christina and I were all excited and extra tourist-y, lol. It was nice to not have to walk back though, it was kind of far.
So much stuff happened at the hotel that night. And don’t even start to get the wrong idea. It involved things like us fighting for toothpaste, me running out of the bathroom and having the door shut behind me, me hiding in the closet with plans to jump out when Christina came out of the bathroom, me realizing that there was a door to the bathroom from the closet, me “coming out through the wall” and freaking Christina out, and seeing her make the best face ever when I did that. You probably had to be there, but it was so great. After that we watched a random show, reno 911 or something? Yeah, we were watching it just like, wtf?!? But then they cut to a trailor park scene with this asian girl talking and then this white woman was making fun of her and it was so hilarious! Seriously, I’m still laughing about it! We probably fell asleep soon after, I don’t remember.
This morning Dani came over to the hotel around 9:30 or 10 or something and we went out to breakfast or lunch or brunch or something at this Mexican restaurant. Oh, but before that, Christina and I were trying to get into our room one last time, but we’d left the door to the balcony open, and these REAL strong winds were blowing into the room, making it impossible for us to push open the door. I tried one last time and rammed the door as hard as absolutely possible. Of course the wind stopped blowing right at that moment and I flew in and landed on the floor. Yeahhhh. Little was so cute though. When we passed by the DMV, he was like… “whoa, that’s the DMV? Whoaaa cool! I’ve always wanted to see a DMV!” haha, and then we passed by the dump with the dump trucks and everything and he was all “cool, I’ve never seen a dump before!” Anyway, after eating we walked around State St. a bit more, went to the pier for a bit, and went back to UCSB one last time.
Aye, it was hard.
At first it was just us meeting her third roommate and taking a few pictures, hearing Motion City Soundtrack and following it to the dorm of this guy who Christina and I are convinced is Dani’s future husband, and watching some extension cord reworking. I started to tear up but Dani was like “oooofy don’t cry!” so I tried not to but Christina and I started to tear up and cry and then her mom got mad at us, lol. Then Little was crying and Dani and everybody and argh, her roommate probably thought we were psychotic. It was hard though. Like really really. Christina and I agreed that going there made it a lot easier to say bye, because we got to see where she’d be, we got to meet her roommates, and we got to really have a good weekend all together. But still, it was hard. We were saying bye probably for 10 minutes and when we were leaving everybody was staring at us because we were the sniffling people. I think her roommates probably went through similar things though, because one of them had a twin she was real close too, and the other had a boyfriend who she had to say bye to, but I dunno. It was like 5 of us walking out teary-eyed. Anyway, when we were at the parking lot, we realized Dani forgot something, so we waited for her and she rode her pretty green bike out to get it from us, so we got to see her one last time and take one last picture of her on her perty bike =)
Then came the drive home… SO MUCH TRAFFIC IN SANTA BARBARA!!! It took us like 1.5 hours just to get past Montecito! When we were back in Long Beach, we were looking at this car with these black chicks who were all dancing, and Christina and I were just staring and laughing, then I pretended to dance too, and of course at that minute they looked up at me. Basically everybody in that car started to crack up and then Christina and I were cracking up too. When we were by my house Little said that it was so cool that I lived by a liquor store, and then I was home… it felt sort of wierd, like if I’d been gone for 2 weeks or at least the same amount of time that the camping trip was, but it was only 2 days. Anyway, I changed real quick and went to work. It was pretty laid back, so we only made $8 in tips, but hey, eight bucks is still eight bucks. Nate and his brother Elijah came in to visit me, so that was sweet =) I think I have a barbeque coming up for work in Chino or something. Reminds me of the OC.
So yeah….. that was my weekend. Christina and I are probably gonna try and go visit Dani soon.
Ofy, I hope you’re having a blast! Don’t go too crazy, or I’ll have to buy you that book we saw!
What you all want to see: PICTURES
sorry if they’re huge or something.
p.s. don’t be offended by christina’s forehead jewel. the chick at the wierd store we bought them from said that it was originally an indian symbol meaning eternal continuity? or something like that, lol.
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