Wednesday, June 11, 2003

I had a good time in Maryland, although there were a couple of hiccups along the way! The drive down there was pretty laidback, it was sunny and the roads were free of traffic......... but when I got to Boyds, MD, I couldn't find Vicky's house!! The worst part of it was that Boyds is a new town, so there weren't any maps of the area I could find - I ended up calling Vicky and having her come pick me up from the nearest gas station. We then went to her house, but after realizing that her grandparents and parents were all there at the time, I felt like I was imposing on them and decided to get my own motel room instead of staying there. The greatest thing about my motel room was the fact that a loudass train would trundle by every 20 minutes or so and wake me up! Vicky and I managed to have some great conversations, I guess we were just making up for the 3 years of lost time........ so we had a lot of updating each other to do and we had a ton of fun hanging out.

The drive down to NYC was not so smooth sailing......... it was raining SOOOO hard, and it's a miracle I even made it to Fan's house without getting lost! After putting the car in Fan's driveway, I hung out at the house for a little while, Fan's family was so nice to me - I got to drink Black Label with her Dad over dinner and play with Fan's niece....... such a cutie, although she kept testing me on what color every item in the room was. Got to Jason's house pretty late at night, then spent the next few days visiting all my fav Japanese restaurants...... Yakitori Taisho, Yakiniku, and had bubble tea (the good stuff :P ) at St. Marks. I spent my mornings waiting outside the Supreme store on Lafayette in the hope that I could buy one of the 20 T-shirts they sell per day, but arriving at the store 2 hours before it opens just ensures that you're the 14th person in line and get to watch the people in front of you buy everything up before you even get in the store..... Grrrrrrrrrrr..........

Friday night, it was Jason's friend's birthday so we headed down to this club called Lemon. Meesh managed to get away from Andrew for the night and join us too so me and Jason ended up big pimpin' coz we were the only guys at a table of 9 girls *flex*

The last day before I left I had dinner with Jenny and Jason at JaNa, this Malaysian restaurant in Chinatown. I learned a couple of things about Jenny at the same time:

1) Jenny loves to eat
2) Do not piss Jenny off or she will slap you :P
3) Jenny will say she sucks at pool then proceed to hustle you for everything you've got

The drive back to Michigan was pure HELL, I left at 6pm coz I was trying to avoid Jason and Justin getting me drunk that night........ drove the 11 hours straight through the night, stopping at rest stops and taking 20 min naps in the car, had a 520 mile stretch on I-80 and I think I spazzed out so many times while driving, blinking your eyes and realizing that I had fallen asleep and was in the left lane instead of the right. I don't even know how I made it back to Ann Arbor!