OMG WE’RE BACK!

Sorry it took so long to get back to you guys!! Once we got to Hickory, NC, things didn’t slow down for us until we got back home. However, once we got home, we all forgot out user name and password for the blog…ugh. Anyways, now we remember and we shall catch everyone up on our missing pieces of our adventure

 

Hickory, NC was our home for 2 nights. We woke up the next morning, it was so nice to SLEEP IN!! No alarm clock! We took our time getting dressed and headed to our #1 fav… BOJANGLES! We were fueled up with Sweet Tea and prob the best fries of our lives, we were ready for anything. So what did we do?? We hit up the Valley Hills Mall!! Did a little bit of shopping and headed back to Katie and Matt’s place and got ready for the baseball game. Hickory Crawdads vs, i don’t know who. $1 beer (aka $1 piss) , YUCK, but LC loves it!!  We ate the BIGGEST MOFO of a HOTDOG that we have ever seen and cheese fries! We don’t really know who won. Amber and Tina hung out in the box, goofing off with strangers and getting weird looks like, who are you and why are you in here? bahahaha And LC spent her time catching up with old buddies. After the game, the fun times weren’t over. Ti me to hit up LC’s favorite bar, Sundries. We had some good times and great stories from there. If you want to know about it, just ask one of us Tina was DD and everyone LOVED her for it!! We stayed at Katie and Matts one last night. Next morning, we’re off to Savannah, GA.

 

4th of July: We said goodbye to our friends and left Hickory, NC for Savannah, GA. But of course we needed to hit up Bojangles one last time. We arrived at our hotel around 1pm, Best Western, and immediately took showers. Ahhh it was so nice to lay around for a bit. This whole trip has been non-stop. We started watching That’s 70′s Show marathon and fell asleep, so nice! We woke up from our amazazazing nap and got dressed for a Savannah Ghost and Pirate tour. The tour included us sitting on a bus and watching video clips during each destination. We also got to see fireworks on our tour. Savannah is filled with very creepy and interesting stories. We then hit up Denny’s (which was inside of our hotel) chicken fingers, fries and milkshakes! Had a great nights sleep and woke up ready to explore Savannah in the daylight. We went to visit River Walk.  It had really awesome stores and an incredible eatery, Huey’s. Yummy yummy Benoit. It’s a hollow dough pastry covered with powdered sugar. We would eat them and the powdered sugar would fly everywhere, so of course, we turned that into a game. muy muy delicioso!! We the left Savannah, GA for St. Augustine, FL, our final destination before we go home. tear.  

We arrive in St. Augustine, Fl just in time for another ghost tour. We got a good history/entertaining lesson, walked around for a while, took lots of pictures (lots of orbs) went to visit the St. Augustine Lighthouse and drove our tried donkeys home.

The ride from St. Augustine to Polk County was very sad. We had such an awesome time everywhere we went and the thought of returning to our normal lives, was a little depressing. These past 2 weeks have been the best! TONS of experiences and funny stories. It was amazing to see different sunsets, sunrises and landscapes. Absolutely BEA-UTIFUL! We were blessed to have such awesome people in our lives to allow us to crash in their homes for a bit. WE LOVE YOU GUYS! All 3 of us came back with an overwhelming amount of souvenirs!! From about 3 shot glasses per state, magnets, koozies, t-shirts, rocks, post cards, dinosaur eggs (true story) pictures, ect. 

 

This was a once in a life time trip.

Worth every penny.

QUESTIONS WE OFTEN GET:

How much did it cost? about $800-$1000 or Priceless

Who’s the better driver?: Amber

Who’s the funniest driver?: it’s a tie. Tina and Lauren

Who’s the better singer?: it’s a tie. Amber and Lauren

Which place was your favorite?: We all enjoyed Maine the most. Boston was awesome too though & NYC was a blast as well. 

How often did you fight?: Not at all. Fo real. We were fine. There was a point where Amber got a little annoyed so she was a bit moody, but no fights.

Where do you wish you could have gone?: Well the whole trip began with a plan to go to Montana, but that wasn’t realistic. It might have been nice to go into Canada since we were so close while at Niagara Falls. 

What would you changed about your trip?: Nothing. It was perfect. ohhh yea, if we could do it all again, we would go on that boat ride at Niagara Falls and stayed longer in Maine. Even staying at the Vermonter was an experience we wouldn’t change.

Where was your favorite place to eat? Bojangles!! what!! what!!

Did you leave anything behind?: LC left her camera charger somewhere. Maybe in Vermont.

DId you get any tickets or accidents?: No accidents but 1 ticket. However, we don’t count that as a ticket. We were on the Jersey Turnpike, getting ready to pay our $1.25 toll but no one was there, so we kept going. About a month later LC got a ticket in the mail. A lovely picture of the backside of Lady Claire and a $26 ticket for running a $1.25 toll. We would have paid if someone was there. haha oh well

the end

peace out

 

I THINK I’LL GO TO BOSTON….

And Salem, And Maine…..

WOW OH WOW….we have been some traveling fools in the past couple of days. We, unfortunately for you, will not be returning to Florida…EVER. We have decided to start a new life in Boston or Maine.

Okay…let’s start with Boston. We left NY early Sunday morning and headed to Boston. On the way we drove through Connecticut and Rhode Island. We stopped in Rhode Island to see TAPS. They were closed…tear, but that didn’t stop us…PHOTO SHOOT!! After taking a million pictures, we took Lady Claire (the car) for a quick oil change. The people in Rhode Island were super nice. Everyone was very friendly and helpful. We felt really safe there. We saw a Rhode Island fire truck go by us and we were sure that a cat was stuck in a tree somewhere. Too bad we only stayed for about an hour. After the oil change, back on the road. We were very sleepy so Tina let L.C. buy a GIANT red bull, as she loaded up on coffee, and Amber slumbered a bit. We took some amazing pictures along the way. We even tried to hold our breath in all the tunnels along the way…which is good luck. Amber always tried to pop our bubbles so she could win, but we fought her off. When we finally made it to Boston we were really excited to explore. Boston is beautiful and full of life. We saw some historical sites and some crazy stuff. We stopped in a Starbucks for Amber to get a coffee, while Lauren and Tina went to the back to find a bathroom. While waiting an older man came out of the bathroom and another guy went in. The older man told the guy he left the stuff in there. We didn’t think too much of this. Then this younger dude took forever…..and a day. When he finally came out he handed the key to Tina, which pissed another guy off. He really wanted to use the bathroom next. Tina offered him the key but he refused. Tina then went on to unlock the bathroom door. (attached to the key was a huge basket for a keychain, so freakin funny) Lauren overheard the dude that came out of the bathroom talking to the man waiting. Wiping his nose and sniffing profusely…something did not look right. Lauren then says…”Tina don’t go in there, lets just go.” UMMM CAN YOU SAY DRUGS….???? So we left and continued site seeing. We saw the oldest elementary school, Paul Revere’s house, and coolest of all…sewers with smoke coming our of them. (NINJA TURTLES) While we were walking back to the parking garage we saw two old men fight. One even got out of his car…CRAZY.. But we still loved Boston.

Next stop… Salem. We left Boston and went to check into our body odor smelling hotel room. Boy did we miss being at Uncle Donald’s and Aunt Jo’s or Lance’s joint. By this time it was POURING. We unloaded our car and prepared ourselves for the ghost tour we had at 8 p.m. Luckily it stopped raining before we had to leave for the tour. We had not eaten anything since breakfast (except cheese balls and junk) so we were totally hungry. We almost didn’t’ do the tour, but did J Our instructor was a trained and professional ghost hunter. She wore all black and had bleach blonde hair. She first took us to a grave yard and told us some history behind it. We took pictures hoping to see some orbs in them. We then took pictures of an old jail house and continued to a few more haunted areas. After the ghost tour we went to Applebees. While waiting for our food, we decided to look through our pictures to see if we had anything show up in them. Tina and L.C. may have had some orbs in theirs. Amber had a very clean camera. J Ghost don’t appear to her haha. After Applebees we went back to our smelly, arm-length wide room. Hmmmm…cozy. We watched Wedding Crashers and fell sooouuuunnnnd asleep. We got up early…watched Saved by the Bell, and got ready for another long day of fun and traveling. The shower at the stinky hotel was amazing, unfortunately the towels were about the size of a wash cloth…or maybe we put on some pounds. Did I mention Amber stole a pillow?? Hehehe!! Hers was flat….true story! We checked out and drove back into Salem. We decided to do a Trolley Tour. Our trolley driver was a witty witch!!! She took us through the town and showed us some hot spots. We saw where they filmed some of Hocus Pocus, a memorial to Bewitched, and Puritans wandering the street. We decided to go to the Salem Witch Museum where we saw a reenactment of the trials with dummies. Once again we were starving. Forgot to eat…it was 2 p.m. so we zipped into a Thai restaurant. That was our first mistake. We then ran into Miss Swan (from Mad TV) she was our hostess. She started talking to us about cleaning the table, Tina then said, “I can’t understand her, we shouldn’t eat here.” Hmm…mistake 2…we stayed. We sat down at a little table and looked through the photo copied, stapled together menu. We only recognized one thing…chicken teriyaki. When Miss Swan came over to take our order…L.C. said she wanted the chicken teriyaki. Miss Swan tried to explain that the chicken was “ground chop chop”. Yeah, mistake 3…still stayed. We all ordered the same thing; when our food came out, it looked okay. But the more we ate, the more grossed out we became. Miss Swan didn’t split the check and when we asked for her to split it she said, “Well you no ask to split.” It took them about 20 minutes to work that out. After lunch we bought many cool souvenirs to remember Salem by, headed out the witch cemetery to take some pictures and then jumped back into Lady Claire.

Next stop…Maine. York Harbor, Maine to be exact. We were only about an hour and fifteen minutes from Maine. L.C. did the driving…Amber was the co-pilot (her job: feed driver, keep music flowing, keep driver awake) and Tini took a tiny little nap in the back. She only slept through New Hampshire which was 4 exits long. When we arrived in Maine, we stopped in the welcome center for a town map. Our next stop was the Nubble Lighthouse. We drove down some winding roads that appeared to be forest like. We then came up to a stop sign and right there in front of us was the ocean. I promise you it looked like PARADISE. We did not plan to get out of the car at this point…but we just had to. We walked down to the water, took some pictures, and collected some pretty rocks. Amber found a dinosaur egg!!! We have it in Lady Claire. Occasionally we will take it out and have photo shoots with it. We’re trying to figure out what kind of dinosaur egg it is…we’ve excluded any flying dinosaurs, the wing span it far too large for the egg J It was hard getting back into the car…we wanted to stay forever. But it was also hard to get back in the car because we were distracted by the bird that got struck by a car while we were on the beach…ewwww not pretty. We went to the Nubble Lighthouse…absolutely BEAUTIFUL…and took some more pictures! We then went into town to do a little shopping…a little of course turned into a lot. Best of all was the cute little lobster dog collar that was purchased by L.C. for Turtle. Next stop…The Lobster Barn!! Tina and L.C. were very excited to eat LOBSTER!! Amber the daredevil she is, ordered shrimp!!! (Amber HATES seafood) We asked the waitress how eat the little suckers because when they came out it looked like a live critter on the plate. Tina and L.C. tore up the little 1lb critters they ordered while wearing a bib. Amber ate all her shrimp and tried some lobster…what a trooper. We skipped out on the bill and headed to Vermont…

j/k we paid….A LOT…

Amber took the drivers seat and started our journey to Vermont. Two minutes into trip we (AMBER) decided we needed ice cream. (Amber has a mild obsession with ice cream, it makes her crazy) Soooo, we looked to Gabi (GPS) for our ice cream destination. We found a place called Wicked Good Ice Cream. Unfortunately, with the directions Gabi gave us, we ended at someones house…no ice cream. (Gabi had a minor fever, no need to worry Lancey Poo) So we looked to Gabi one more time for a tasty treat, she came through for us. On the way she led down a dirt road that said NO TRESPASSING, PRIVATE DRIVE. We decided with our instinct, to do as she says. We drove the illegal dirt road for about 4 miles and guess what??? We got some ice cream. Yummy!! Dude, Gabi is a balla, she knows all the back roads and just when we think we are lost, she leads us the right way. Bless her little components. With tasty treats in hands, next stop…THE VERMONTER.

Amber tore up the roads on the way to The Vermonter. They were winding and mountainous. It seemed like a never-ending journey. We even saw ice on trees…well it looked like ice. No one would get out and check because: a. it was dark, b. Tina is chicken, and c. it was too scary. We drove and we drove and we drove. We then came to this town that was not too far from our destination. In this town were creepy, life like statues. Being dark and all it kind of freaked us out. When we finally arrived at The Vermonter it was about 1:30 am. We pulled into what looked like a scene from the movie Vacancy. The front office was a little trailor home. We had to ring the bell to get service. A little Indian man was woken from a deep slumber to come answer the door. He then made L.C. fill out nonsense paperwork and gave us a key (a real one). He told us to pull around and park by our little trailor home. (#8) We were attached to another “motel room.” We unlocked the door and stepped up into a room that was about the size of Lady Claire. Add in two mini queen beds, a desk, a non color T.V., and the loudest window air conditioner ever…it had to of been possessed. We had a front door, a back door, and a door on both sides of us, connecting us to other rooms. 4 doors!!! That’s way too many ways people cold get in. That night, the hills were alive with the sound of the Vermonter. We did not sleep soundly that night, the noises of The Vermonter kept us up tossing and turning. We kept hearing bugs, people talking, the air making obscene burping noises…it was an experience. Amber was a little uneasy about the place so Tina and L.C. stayed up to protect their young with the tasor. (thanks Allison) We then woke up, which is hard to believe since we barely slept. We loaded up Lady Claire, who decided to let her alarm go wild. We couldn’t get it to stop, which caused us to wake up the little Indian man again. UGH…what a night and all that entertainment only cost 100 dollars!!!!

We then drove from Vermont to Niagara. It was a pretty sane trip. Nothing too crazy happened! We arrived at Niagara Falls around 2:30. What a beautiful site!!! We parked Lady Claire and went to take a closer look. We stayed on the American Falls side because L.C. doesn’t have a passport and we didn’t want to take the chance of losing her in Canada! We took some amazing pictures and videos, got a little wet, and of course, loaded up on souvenirs. We really wanted to stay and take this fun boat tour, but we still had a long drive ahead of us. Next stop Scranton, PA!!!!!

Ear plugs for Tina

Poor girl. Man oh man, when L.C. and Amber get that music going, you can’t shut them up. It’s not really singing, it’s yelling or chanting if you will. It just comes naturally, can’t help it. We were all pretty stoked about Scranton!! HOWEVER, Scranton barely exists. A Welcome to Scranton was no where to be found L We found the University of Scranton, Scranton Motors and a Scranton Deli shop, but that was it. We wore our Office shirts and everything haha. We did find a Mifflin Road though. It’s about 10:30ish pm, onward towards Gettysburg, our hotel destination. 2 hours and 30 minutes away. We arrive at the Days Inn of Gettysburg …sigh… we’ve needed this. A clean and friendly staff awaited us. The people were helpful and kind. The looks of the hotel was nice and our room was clean, finally. The beds were so comfy, and not even a faint odor of B.O. Bliss. Fell asleep watching What Not To Wear and Home Movies (a really funny show)

Woke up at 9:30…yesss we slept in! L.C and Tina ran downstairs to grab breakfast before it was over and took it up stairs to eat with Amber. It takes her longer to get up in the morning. Got dressed, loaded up Lady Claire and found a Double Decker tour bus of Gettysburg. It was a perfect day to have a tour, the weather was amazing. The tour was cool and we saw a lot! When it was over with we were once again, starving. We had one last stop before we ate though. (Amber driving) TAPS had inspected a hotel in the area that we wanted to find and eat at, Cashtown Inn. We have really rough timing though because it was all closed. We took pictures and left to grab some grub. After eating we were on the road around 4pm. Next stop Hickory, North Carolina. Music was flowing again and Tina was hesitant to join in on the singing but she gave in. There was a party going on in Lady Claire. Beautiful Soul by Jesse McCartney, Beaches of Cheyenne by Garth Brooks, Hungry Eyes, Grease Soundtrack, Matchbox 20, Maroon 5, some Avril, oldies, 80’s, the list goes on. We are sad to report the death of Gabi Gonzalez Denmark Cerati. At 5:30 pm, July 2, 2008, Gabi froze and hasn’t returned to us. She won’t turn off and we have no way of fixing her right now. We feel just awful because earlier today we gave her a pep talk about her little “charade” earlier (A reminder if you have forgotten. It’s when we were looking for ice cream and she brought us to a home, not an ice cream joint) We feel a little lost without Gabi, for real. We do believe that Lance killed her. He never did like her and we think she knew it. Perhaps he lit a candle on her or dipped her in a bucket of water. We all know what those things do to components. Amber drove about 5 hours of the Gettysburg to Hickory, NC trip and L.C. drove the remaining hours. She had her Red Bull in her, we were good to go. Arrived to Lauren’s friends place at 11ish pm. We are staying with Katie Wilson and Matt. Lauren’s cool friend Amanda is staying with us too!! YAY!!!  10:45 pm THANK GOD ALMIGHTY Gabi returned to us!! She’s alive!!!!! Got to their house around 11ish and hung out till we feel alseep. It’s coming ot the end of our trip and we are tired!! Each day we get a little slower in movement. WE have a baseball game tomorrow night.

Check back with us for updates. We’ll add pictures in Savannah.

 

*Here’s a side story from New York. Some of the craziest stuff happened to us in Starbucks. So Amber and Lauren had to pee real bad so we popped into Starbuck to go. We had a line, that we hope was for the bathroom. For all we know it was a drug line or something, we never did see a sign or a bathroom. Tina sat down at a table. At the beginning of the line was a lady picking her nose and I mean PICKING her nose! She wasn’t shy about it at all. She would look around and stare in your eyes while picking. YUCK! Do we look, do we not? Who knows? We had to pee bad so we didn’t let that bother us. To our right was a man hunched over. Very still, not moving and chin touching his chest. That couldn’t have been comfortable. We weren’t real sure if he was breathing until he groaned real loud, scaring a little pee out of us. Thank God, he’s alive. However, to our left was a women sitting at a table, cussing and yelling a up a storm. We were looking for a blue tooth thing or phone because no one was sitting with her. “Put the baby in the freaking bag!” (she wasn’t saying freaking though) She was just a yelling and saying some of the weirdest stuff. “Put it in the F’in care seat. F! F! F! F you! F you!” It was like she was talking to someone because she would pause, almost as if she was hearing a response but no one was there. After her 13^th time yelling about a baby in a bag L.C. and Amber turned to each other, “Screw it, let’s hold it.” And we left.

 

Welcome to New York… Thank you!

Gabi led us through the city. Not sure why, but she did and it played towards Amber’s advantage. Her first experience in the city! Lauren did a great job driving and Tina dominated the back seat! As we were leaving the city, a person in a car next to us wanted us to roll down our window, so we did. Mistake #1. We are not sure if the person was a boy or a girl, however the shim had better eyebrows than us! True story! As Lauren rolled down the window, the shim (in a HIGH pitch voice) said, “OMG, you are so pretty! Who are you with?” At this point L.C. rolled the window up saying, “My friends.” Mistake #2 :rolling window up. The shim didn’t like that, at all. That’s when the welcoming to New York began. Shem was upset that we rolled the window up and began yelling things at us to roll the window down. We didn’t. The shim then threw an unknown nastiness at Lady Claire (our car) while yelling, “That’s what you get ( loosely moving his shim hand) you deserve that.” Thanks New York. Tina, by the way, can do an amazing impression of the shim, you should ask her to show you sometime. Lauren is laughing at how stupid we were and Amber took it the hardest. She didn’t speak until we arrived to Aunt Jo’s. Haha. We arrive to L.C.’s amazing Aunt Jo and Uncle Donald’s place. Time to chill and relax…NOT! We went out with L.C.’s cousin, Don. He took us to a bar on Long Island and we had a good time J We were walking to our car and we saw a pizza joint, so Lauren and Don stopped in while Tina and Amber stayed outside. Well Amber and Tina decided to sit on the sidewalk, and a man walked up. Hmmm… oh crap. Tina put the keys through her fingers, that way if things got ugly she could jack up him face or something. Smart thinking!. He said, “Hey, do you have any gum?” Amber and Tina said, “No.” (the man) “Do you have any cigarettes?” (Amber and Tina, rudely) “No, we don’t smoke!!” (the man) “Do you want sex? Because I do.” (Tina and Amber) “NOOO!!! Go away!!” Amber had some choice words and choice fingers with the man. L.C. had spotted the man and her and Don came over to us. By that time the man had walked away and we headed for the car. As we were walking to the car the man began to follow us, Amber was getting upset so L.C. told her to grab Don’s arm. We hopped in the car and began singing while eating pizza. No more worries J

*We ride a train from Long Island to Penn Station for an hour. Then if we want to travel anywhere else we have to take the subway. That gives way too many options for 3 indecisive girls to choose from. Which subway? Which stop? Meaning, we got lost from time to time.

Day 1: We did NOT dominate New York. Late start, not knowing what train to catch but we finally figured it out. We were lost ALL DAY LONG!! We went through Central Park, had a dirty water hot dog, yum yum, walked through Time Square, the zoo, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, The New Yorker, the boat house, where they filmed Enchanted, 27 Dresses and Home Alone 2, found the NBC store and headed back to Long Island. While walking around, random men would rub our arms or touch us. “Hey blue eyes.“ (whiling rubbing Laurens arm…yuck) We also got really gross looks from the men walking around, they weren’t shy at all. P.S. Tina makes the boys say, HELLO!! We hung out with the Murphy family and went to sleep.

Day 2: We needed a break!!! Aunt Jo planned on taking us to Fire Island, a place with many beaches and bars, to go see cousin Don and relax!! Then the rain came….so we bailed! Instead we had a yummy lunch at a pizza place!! We heart Italian ices!!! Next stop was Defiance TATTOOs!! We went in and a very nervous L.C. filled out the paper work! We tried to talk Aunt Jo into getting her tramp stamp, but cousin Danni wasn’t gonna have it!! Tina joked around about getting one, and Amber couldn’t decide on a tattoo to get so she didn‘t get one. There was some colorful rap music playing in the background while Lauren walked into the room. She designed her turtle tattoo that she got on her foot and a tiny star on her wrist, very cute!! Later that night we had fun!! We went to Target with Don and we bought Disney Scene It and movies. Then we stopped by a liquor joint where Don bought an outrageous amount of alcohol! We went back to the house, Don is a bartender so he mixed us some drinks, played Disney Scene It (spanked Don and Danni haha) Uncle Donald made us yummy munchy food, and played beer pong!! WHOOP WHOOP!!

 

Day 3: BEST DAY IN NEW YORK!! We had a bit of a rough start but it ended with a bang!!! 13 purses, 6 pairs of sunglasses, 2 wallets, 6 pairs of earrings, 4 rings and 3 necklaces later it was official, we DOMAINATED CANAL STREET!! We ate Chinese food in Chinatown, and took a chance to see a Broadway show. We walked SEVERAL blocks to 46^th and Broadway, bought tickets randomly for Grease the Musical and had 20 minutes to get there. Our seats were kick-butt!!! 8^th row, center!!! We saw Taylor Hicks while we were in line and come to find out he was in Grease, he played Teen Angel. The older women behind us about flipped their lids when he would come on stage. At the end he did a special little song and one of the women jumped to her feet grabbing the back of Amber’s seat, however, not before scratching her shoulders. OUCH, OMG!! She’s crazy for that Taylor Hicks!! We got out kind of late so we booked it over to the train station to catch the last departure. Sleep time.

Day 4: We got to sleep in and we arrived back in the city later for one last time L We had basically seen and done everything we wanted so we went back to Canal Street J It rained.  We jumped in a electronic shop for shelter.  Some cutie boys offered us t-shirts…they thought they were funny b/c they said they had only white.  We chatted for a while…Tina like…Lauren loved!!  They told us we needed to go salsa dancing but we passed…Uncle Donald would have been proud!   We got some good deals on purses.  As we walked down Canal St. many little china girls stood on the sidewalk.  They would sneak up on you and without even moving there mouth, in a very soft whisper they would say…coach, chanel, gucci…  To get those deals we had to follow the little chinese ladies through alleys, stairways, and very scary places…so worth it!  We then hauled butt to the train station because we were late. It was 8:50 pm and we were on 49^th street. Our train was leaving at 9:20 on 34^th street. We had 30 minutes to run 15 blocks!! We did it!! Arrived at 9:18 to see that our train actually leaves at 10:07!!! Man oh man!!! Killed some time with ice cream and Lauren got a Mets tall Bud Lite. Came home, Madison (L.C.’s other cousin) cooked us some pancakes and bacon and got our junk ready for our next destination, Boston and Salem, Mass.

New York was an amazing adventure!! We learned a lot and had a kick-butt time!!!

WE HAVE BEEN GOING AND GOING…PICTURES WILL BE POSTED WHEN WE HAVE A CHANCE TO CATCH OUR BREATH!!

Check back with us for updates J J J J J

 

 

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We are going to blog NY as one big blog.

So we will have it posted around Monday or Tuesday

 

PHILLY!!!

In West Philadelphia , born and raised. On a playground where I spent most of my days….

Our first stop was at Fort Mifflin, PA. A show we all love, TAPS, filmed there and we just had to take a peek at some ghosts. We walked around and took some cool pictures. It’s where soldiers were stationed and at some point they kept prisoners there. The tunnels were quite eerie, filled with spider webs. In one of the pictures above, we were about to walk into a really old building and it was very dark. Lauren had the tripod, using it as a weapon if needed, and was the brave one to enter first. Tina was taking pictures behind her and suddenly L.C. heard a noise and completely freaked!! Hence the other picture. Tina died of laughter! It is Tina’s favorite picture so far J We were next to an airport, yay for Amber! Planes were flying over us every 10 minutes….YESSSSS! We could catch them in our hands and put them in our pockets J We loved it there! Next…

We arrived in Philly where we ate a yum yum Philly cheese steak and water ice. The Philly was delicious but the water ice was more trouble than it was worth…thanks Lance. It was over-flowing out of the cup and dripping all over our hands. After about 10 minutes of sticky hands we scrapped off the top on a sidewalk and kept on moving. We saw the Liberty Bell, which was pretty sweet. We viewed a few buildings where National Treasure was filmed, that crazy Nicholas Cage. We found Ben Franklins grave site and Betsy Ross’ house. We walked around beautiful downtown Philly, then headed towards NY!!

We drove through Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey. Next stop NEW YORK baby!!

 

 

 

Charleston and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

 

Sorry so late…these pictures go with our first post.  Georgia, Charleston and Myrtle Beach!!  Enjoy!

 

D.C. Part 2…

 

 

We’re back!! Sleeping in!! whoop whoop!

Today’s focus: anything we haven’t done yet. Which means we saw The Smithsonian Museums, Air and Space, National Art Museum, Arlington Cemetary, changing of the guards, JFK’s grave site, Ford Theatre, the room where Abe Lincoln died, tried to go to the Spy Museum but ran out of time, National Archives: Constitution, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence (very faded), and Iwo Jima Memorial.

We started off trying to find the Pentagon, which Tina ended up with 1,000 pictures of, but missed our exit and found a parking garage. We began to walk. Gabi led us We went to the Air and Space Museum. Amber about peed herself, planes everywhere. We saw the Wright Brothers Exhibit, which was very cool. That’s where were saw the planets and lightening. They filmed Transformers 2 at the other Air and Space Museum and they filmed Night at the Museum 2 using the Wright Brothers plane, where we were. It got a little dull, so we bounced.

We then hit up the National Art Museum. It was ok. Some of the “art” there was challenged. There were some wood sculptures that reminded us of poop. jk jk But seriously, it was crap. We walked from room to room becoming more baffled. If you were walking with us you may have heard,

“Hmm this is art?”

“They stole that from a unicorn.”

“That’s not art.”

 ”I made that in Kindergarten.” “Copyright.”

 ”Jump through it Amber.”

“This is a bird cage.” “Oh this is his first attempt at the bird cage.” “All of the birds got out.”

Amber is intensely looking at a piece of “art”. ”What are you looking at?” “I saw a fuzz, i thought it was a spider.”

“They must have made it in this room.” 

Lance drinking water from a water fountain, “Is that art?”

“This isn’t art, these are shapes.”

 We would have pictures to prove the craziness but the guards said no. It’s funny, the crap “art” couldn’t be photographed but the actual art could. Go figure. I think one of the guards overheard us and led us towards some paintings. He saved the day!

We then wandered over to the National Archives Museum. We were able to view the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Declaration of Independence. One of the guards there was very scary scary. Saw the Magna Carta and booked it on outa there. We cut in front of people to view the documents. I felt kind of bad, but we had to commit to the line. Don’t look back.

We tried to go to the Ford Theatre, but it is under construction till February 2009. CLOSED. Sad sad, tear. We walked across the street to the room where Lincoln died. Sad Sad, tear, again. We attempted the spy museum but bad timing.

Arlington Cemetery. Words can’t describe it. We were able to see the changing of the guards and a short ceremony. We viewed the Kennedy family grave site. It was rainy, but still really cool. Our yegs hurt. (little Seth) The planes flew right over us VERY COOL!!!

There was tension amongst our group, not gona lie. It’s very ugly and we were hoping that nothing like this would happen. People told us that we may annoy each other, we didn’t believe them, they were right. The fight… dun dun dun…ooooohhhh. It was Lance vs Gabi…dun dun dun! Lance doesn’t like asking for directions, hence Gabi. Lance continuously called Gabi names and put her down. Gabi kept her cool and got us to where we needed to be. GABI WON. (if you may have forgotten, Gabi is our GPS)

Our final stop for the day was Iwo Jima Memorial. Much bigger than we thought!! Another very cool thing!! We ended our night at a Japanese Steakhouse eating yummy food. We caught shrimp in our mouths and laughed till be cried. i think it’s because we are so tired. Everything is funny.

Today was more of a serious day and we were really tried, so not as funny. Stay tuned for Philly and NYC.

We will show pictures soon of Charleston, SC and Myrtle Beach SC.

We hope to have videos up on facebook soon.

Lance is a wolf. Aka liar. He likes to make us get off at wrong metro stops. L.C. and Amber got up twice. He’s such a wolf and we are awesome!

 

 

 

D.C. Part 1…

 

Four score and one day ago…

We started our day on the metro, yo. We arrived in the city to find a par-tay going on, just for us!! jk But there was a big shindig going on!! what what!! pigs were a roastin’ and we were toastin’ in the DC sun. YEA! Our first stop was the old postal building to go to the tip top and see the sights and catch our berrings. About half way we decided to take the stairs. Huge mistake. (LAUREN!) But we made it! We began walking towards the Washington Monument, our photographer, Pooh Bear, took some amazing photos. Next stop, the poop infested (STACEY) Reflection Pool where we did a very funny video that you will not see due to uploading problems. Then we went to see our man Abe. (He called us babe) Soooooo many steps. He’s a pretty big guy. (That’s what she said) All we wanted to do was crawl up in his lap!! However, they told us no. We then headed over to the Korean Memorial. Lance got the great idea to walk to the Jefferson Memorial. AWESOME JOB LANCE! 10 miles later, we finally arrived. On the way, we made our own fun. That’s when Amber sat on F.D.R.’s lap and L.C. posed with his dog, Toto. The monument was cool, more stairs, but cool. Moving right along, on our walk back we were very parched. We found a vendor and got refreshed!! However, we were the last customers. So as we enjoyed our delicious and tasty treats (italian ice & drinks) on a bench, we watched everyone get rejected and recieved dirty looks. Some girl stole ice from the vendors and then signed (as in sign language) something mean to us. Whatev. Bitter. We then walked towards the Vietnam Memorial and ended our trip taking a gander at the White House. We tried to jump the fence, no luck. Back in Woodbrige, we enjoyed some Chillis, i felt God’s presence there. L.C. and myself enjoyed a Miami Vice, Tina enjoyed a Margarita and Lance sailed away with a Captain and Coke. Good times. The queso tasted like Spaghetti O’s!! Fact: Amber’s face turns red at night. Myth: Amber has a fever. (No need for cow bell) At some point in the day Amber got peed on by a bird…YESSSS and L.C. got pooped on by a bird. True Story, saw the whole thing. Fact: Lance lacks faith in Gabi. It’s a very sad thing. Pray for him.

We fell asleep watching Fools Gold. L.C. drools and throws DVDs at Amber. Amber can smack the junk outa Lauren, when she deserves it. Cheesy puffs are yum yum late at night

D.C. Day 2 coming soon.

 

 

On our way….

 

 

Everyone is accounted for, all fueled up, luggage packed, red bull is chilling, and Charleston awaits.  Here we go……Tina (that’s me, waving) drove the first shift, Winter Haven to Charleston.  Amber hung out for awhile and then she fell asleep in her african blanket.  Lauren popped in the music and the singing began….poor Amber.  While we were driving through Georgia, Lauren decided to play the license plate game, great idea. Then she came up with a new game, Toot Trucker Toot, (it’s when you get the truckers to honk) that’s how we met Tyron and Dwayne. Don’t worry, we named them, what kind of people do you think we are?

(it’s Amber) When we arrived in Charleston we weren’t really sure what to do or where to go. We found a Welcome Center and stopped in. There, we met a real character, Peter. Peter, had a broken finger that freaked me and Lauren out, yet Tina did not notice, she doesn’t judge. We had a hard time figuring out who he was talking to, due to his lazy eye, so we all stood close together and answered at the same time. With several comments like, ”Anything for three beautiful ladies.”, it seemed like he was ready to meet us for lunch. Weird. (Peter asked Tina) “Where are you from?”  she said Florida. “What nationaliy?” He was really in to Tina. Peter was a cool cat because he hooked us up with a good deal on a historical tour of Charleston, so we thought. We were referred to as the “new aged people” on the bus because we obviously were the youngest and we used debit. Randy was our driver and i sat in the middle. How the heck am i suppose to get a good view, let alone a good picture, from the middle? i’m taking Tina and Laurens pictures. The tour was informative and made us sleepy. Lauren slept, twice. Tina, the camera wiz, was taking pictures while elbowing Lauren to WAKE UP! The tour ended and we were READY to leave Charleston. It’s a beautiful place, but we had learned enough. Mrytle Beach, here we come.

(It’s Lauren) Take a ride with me cause i’m driving!!!  After the tour Gabby (or GPS) lead us to a stormy Myrtle Beach.  When we got there we put money in the meter and headed to take a walk on the beach.  The beach was BEAUTIFUL, but we had to beat the storm.  We took pictures of our feet in the sand (Amber had one black toe nail)  and Tina videoed me and Amber giving you all an update (which hopefully we will post soon…if it works).   When leaving the beach we thought it would be fun to take a picture of us jumping in the air.  Tina got some great shots of us!!!!  Back in the car….we loaded Tina in the back for a nap in the African blanket.  While driving some interesting things happened (or maybe it was the red bull talking).  Amber put on Daniel Tosh that seemed to crack me up to the point of tears…4 REAL!  THis adorable little boy had his face smushed up to the car window next to us…so funny.  AFter a good laugh we kept on trucking…then the little boy appeared again…”Look Amber it’s the cute little boy again”, I said.  When we looked over there he was with his shirt up, twisting his eight year old nipple, with his tongue going crazy back and forth.  LIttle Sicko!!!!!  AFter laughing until I cried…we got the heck away from that car!  Next stop…Bojangles!!  Yummy yummy!!!    THere we switched driver…while in the drive thru!!   From Bojangles to Woodbridge, VA there was 5 hours of NSync, Dixie Chicks, and three loud girls (that’s us) singing into loofas on stick!!  Can you see it……..

Arrived at Lances (Amber’s sweet cousin), ate Wendys, fell asleep watching Billy Madison….

Haha…we made it through day 1!!!  and yes we did ALLLLLL of that in one day!!!!!  AMAZING!!!  I KNOW WE ARE!!!!

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