10.29.2003
poopy
poopy was the "word of the weekend" when we were on vacation. i'm not really sure why we appointed poopy as word of the weekend, but andy, kyle, and i had a good time abiding by the rule. other than the shocking news of the fire that toto shared with me on sunday, we all had a really good time on vacation. let's see, toto dropped me, andy and kyle off at the airport on wednesday night at around 9:30pm. we checked in, kyle ended up having to get body searched because he left his nextel on his hip, and we boarded our flight barely on time. we got to watch a movie... it was "alex and emma" which i wanted to see when it came out. delta charges a whopping $5 for headsets, but luckily, chakee's laptop case had headphones in it, so i got to watch it for frizee. i watched the entire thing even though i was drowsy from the dramamine, and actually fell asleep during the last 15 minutes. so, i have no clue how it ended. lame, right? it scored pretty low on my scale (2 out of 5 stars), so i was okay with not seeing the end. anyway, we had a layover in atlanta, where we actually had to change planes, and it was 5:30am local time, but it was actually 2:30am our time. we went to our new gate, but i had to run to the starbucks to see if i could get an "atlanta" starbucks mug. the line was longer than all hell, and i had to walk super far, just so the starbucks girl could tell me that they didn't have any. neat. anyway, we boarded the plane, i went back to sleep, and before i knew it, we were in baltimore. well, the 3 of us picked up our rental car... went looking for something to eat since it was 8:45am there (but really 5:45am). our rental car had one of those Hertz Neverlost things. it was a GPS and it was damn cool. it took some time to get used to because sometimes the verbal directions came a million years early and you made a right turn way too early, and sometimes it came at the last minute and you would pass your turn. but the cool thing was, if you did make a mistake, she (we called it a she because the voice of the spoken directions was a woman's voice) would recalculate your path and get you back to where you needed to be. when i was driving, we started calling it "neverlost, unless you are marlou" because i kept messing up the directions. but it wasn't really my fault. so, our plan was to drive to D.C. for a few hours while we waited for sean's plane to land. i forgot how spread out it is out there when everything here is so squished together. we tried to find a place to eat, but ended up at a mall. that was fun. we eventually got to D.C. (it was only half an hour away from the airport) and just drove around. we never got out of the car (except to buy 2 starbucks mugs for me) but we just saw the sights from our car. we headed back to baltimore to pick up sean, then we headed to wilmington. our hotel that sean reserved actually ended up being in pennsylvania, but that was only 20 minutes from where the wedding was. we took showers, and went in search of a place to eat dinner. it was colder than a mother that night. we found this little bar/restaurant in downtown wilmington, which in san diego, it probably would have been packed cause it seemed like a really cool place, but it had about 20 people in it. we ended up staying there after dinner to have drinks (in which kyle proceeded to hit on the bartender hard core) and played on their touchscreen game thing. we went back to our hotel at 1:30am (a late night out there) hoping to find a denny's to munch a little before going back to our hotel. they don't have anything like that out there, so we ended our night. we got up the next morning to check out of our hotel so we could check into our hotel in wilmington. we found a perkins restaurant (kind of like ihop - similar to denny's but not open 24 hours) and on the menu, next to bacon, sausage, & ham was the word "scrapple." we all came up with our own ideas as to what scrapple was so i asked our waitress. she didn't have a very appetizing description of what it was "it's like pork" she said. i've so far looked it up since we've been home and here's what i found: scrapple website. scrumptious. we got to our hotel, waited for andy's other friend, shawn - from new york, to get there then we got ready for the wedding. it was freezing out there that night and it's not as if i had one of those thermal long sleeve dresses on. it was a small wedding, probably less than 100 people and i wasn't a big fan of the ceremony. 2 of the 3 passages that were read during the ceremony were "how do i love thee" and that one about "love is patient, love is kind." don't get me wrong, those two passages definitely encompass love and blah, blah, blah, but i thought they were a little cheesy and a bit overused. or i'm actually just mean. eh, i don't care. so after the ceremony, they had the open bar hour with appetizers. that probably wasn't the best idea, especially not with andy and his friends. so, andy decided to be DD that night, so i drank with andy's friends. well, we all proceeded to get pretty drunk so dinner was quite entertaining. included was the discussion about shawn and kyle being gay lovers, me trying to cut into my filet mignon with the provided butter knife and my steak flying across my plate and into my glass, and our table ringing our bells incessantly just to get the new wedded couple to kiss. after the wedding, we ended up going back to the bar we had been to the night before and when kyle and sean wouldn't leave, me, andy, and shawn went back to our hotel. we all slept in, hungover and happy until we had to check out of our hotel again. we ate at denny's (far, far away) and when we headed back to D.C. to spend the remainder of our vacation, shawn went back to new york. well, this will have to be continued because it is time to leave work and go home.
