Here's a quick recap of the highlights of the rest of my Boston trip. Look to (e:maureen)'s journal in the coming days for photos of the trip.

Thursday
-while waiting for Maureen to get out of class I walked to Harvard Square and walked around and shopped. I was walking so fast cuz I always walk fast but it was silly because I had hours to kill in one little area but for some reason I could not bring myself to walk slow.

-bought the most awesomest little plant that grows in an egg for (e:maureen)'s apartment because she has an egg theme going on against her will. She hates the egg theme but I am forcing it by always buying her egg shpaed things.

-We went to Mr. Bartley's burgers which are world famous. They tasted like a burger. It was good and all but I don't really know what makes one burger different than another. It's all ground beef to me.

-OMG we went to this museum that had glass flowers. I can't even begin to describe how crazy it was. The flowers were all made of glass but looked so real. You would think they were real flowers. THey were made in the 1800's and it was insane. I don't think you can understand it until you see it. It was this years MAPARIUM!

-we heard about Longfellow's house and ignored it. deicded it was overrated.

-we saw running with scissors after eating at au bon pain. It was pretty good and if that was really that guys lifel it was insanity!!

-bought our Duck Tour tickets in the knick of time because they were sold out for Friday and most of Saturday and Sunday. The Duck Tour has been our dream, luckily we got the last two tickets!!

FRIDAY

-Friday was Salem day. Salem is a piece of crap. WE got there no trouble and got the tour book at the visitors center. THey have a red line like the freedom trail in Boston but it is in essence nothing like the Freedom trail. It is an insult to compare them. THe freedom trail is a self guided HISTORICAL tour. The heritage trail in Salem however is purely commercial even according tothe aldy at the booth who seemed disgusted by her waste of a life. It basically takes you to all these tourist shops and restaurants. ANything of historical significance is not open to the public or is shielded from the public by a 50 foot wall you have to pay to get past. It was ridiculous. This does not even cover the fact that the line on the ground does not match the line on the map from the very beginning.

-the Salem Witch Museum, the most visited according to the brochure, was a room with wax stagnant figurines that light up and tell a crappy story that everyone already knows. THye don't move. Theirs wigs are on crooked. And it ended with "whose side is the devil on!", a question we pndered and realized it must be on the side of the museums.

-this piece of crap museum also had a Pagan history versus everyone else history timeline. THough the timeline actually just had sometimes when non-pagans mentioned pagans as the pagan timeline. It compared the Salem Witches to communists, gay men, and japanese americans during WWII. Someone compared Salem to Aushwitz because of the statue of Samantha from bewitched. These people are whacked out! Also according to the museum, the most innocent perosn to die was the man who had claimed his wife was a witch, let her be hanged but didn't want to give up his land so let himself get pressed to death rather than not be greedy.Oh the horror!

-there also were many signs pointing to a nonexistent witch memorial park. Maybe you have to be a witch to find it like the water test.

- went to the first candy store in America and bought some candy that lasts forever.

-had a really good lunch after the most awkward moment of my life when we acccidentaly went into a closed restaurant, ordered drinks and then realized they were closed but then they wouldn't let us leave or give us the bill til we forced it from them. Next restaurant we went in had no food so we had to leave there too. But the third one was really good even if it did have a paralyzingly large menu.

-met Maureen's crazy condo mate. She is the happiest over reactive perseon I have ever seen. Or has an affect disorder. She is so excited about everything. Called us beautiful (evidence she is crazy). Was so excited to take our picture, soe xcited I was from Buffalo, so excited abou sponge candy, so exicted about breathing.

-went to a drag show. Crazily randomly enough the people at the table next to us in a bar that only had like 20 people at this point were also from Buffalo. What are the freakin chances? We are pretty positive one of the drag queens was really a woman. THey were not as good as the Buffalo drag queens but it was different becuase they come right out into the audience. I put my first dollars into a drag queens brasiere. She was the fat funny one though. She sang Dolly Parton's 9-5 but changed it to 9 by 5. Let your imagination go wild with that.

-got on the T for free that night probably becuase we were so freakin beautiful.

SATURDAY

-this was our day of shopping, HIt up H&M where I bought a few things and then DSW and Filene's Basement which disappointed because there was nothing I wanted.

-finally ate in the food experience which is just a food court and didn't actually eat their food but brought it from another place.

-headed to the Prudential Center where I bought the tea things that turn into flowers when you add water. Which I will probably crush to pieces in my suitcase.

-went on the Duck Tour which we have been waiting our whole life to do. It was ok except some parts were super funny and fun. The southern hicks next to us were a little annoying but otherwise the crowd was good. The best part was going down Newberry Street (Boston's rodeo drive) and our drive mooing, baaing and other animals noises (besides quacking which is banned on Newberry Street) at the passerbys. Newberrry had asked the duck tours not to quack on their street because they want to keep it classy. So our driver then decided to blast the radio and made the duck truck/boat jump up and down. And scream things wuch as "what up G?" to the people on the street. It was hilarious and held up traffic. We then hit a car. And he just kept driving as if it didn't happen.

-We went to the North End for an Italian dinner. I ate an extended family of calamari first fried then in pasta. For some reason mine and Maureen's dishes were 8-10 times the size of everyone else's in the restaurant combined. It was really weird but tasty which was the theme of our weekend. We then walked around the North End and got pastries to take home from Mike's Famous pastry place. Shockingly it was only 5 dolla for an eclair and a cannoli which were HUGE!!!

-we rented Bride and Prejudice which is a great movie and watched all the extra feautres.

SUNDAY

-we tried to go to China Fair houseware extravaganza but it was closed. IT was still pretty impressive just to look at from the outside.

-we went to Chirstophers for brucnh and itw as muy tasty.

-we packed my suitcase which was a travesty. It took all morning. WE had to gather everything which I had spread throughout Maureen's apartment. And then pack it. And then take it all out cuz it wouldn't all fit. Then repack it. We just made it. I threw some stuff out to make it work. I hope it is under 50 pounds but I doubt it.

FYI: NEVER eat 10,000 pistachios, 47 bags of chips with dip, 100 candy bars, 50 packs of skittles and starburst and a butload of other unnecessarys with 12 pitchers of red stuff. Unnecessary. We are both nearly 50 lbs heavier after these 5 days. I might break the T on the ride home cuz I am so fat!

See y'all soon. Don't forget if you want more check out (e:maureen)'s pictorial version which is coming soon!

I will update on Salem and the rest of Boston later but right now I feel soo sick from all the junk food I have eaten the last two days. At least 20 mini resse cups and milky ways and snickers, a bag of pistachios, chips with dip, skittles galore, more starbursts than I have ever seen in my life. We just sit here eating it all and chasing it down with the red stuff drink that I love....well if we can get our fat asses off the couch we are heading out to a drag show tonight perhaps. Hopefully we don't vomit!


don't let me forget to write about the most awkward lunch ever where we ended up having to leave the restaurant...

Right now I am in (e:maureen)'s apartment while she is at school. This vacation is all about relaxing and just having fun. Last time we did they hyper powered see everything so this time is more laid back. Last night we ordered in Chinese food and watched like 2hours of Laguna Beach.
The flight was not great. First we were delayed in Buffalo for like a half hour. And then waitedin the plane in Buffalo waiting to depart for another kinda long period of time which hardly ever happens in B-lo. Then there was a lot of turbulence. I felt so much pressure in my head and ears which I don't usually get. Like my body just has to feel bad in some way, like i wasn't really sick to my stomach and didn't vomit (yeah me!) so instead I got really bad pressure in my head. I still couldn't hear for like 2 hours after i got off the plane and it was weird cuz I didn't realize and just thought everything in BOston was really silent at first. The pressure reminded me of when my family went to South Carolina and (e:paul) thought his eyeball was going to fall out because of the pressure and asked the stewardess for a cup of water to catch it in. It was hilarious. At the same time I was vomitting. The old lady next to me kept trying to get up whne she wasn't allowed and they asked my mom to try and keep an eye on her. Needless to say it was an interesting flight. That was the first time my family ever flew together somewhere.
Today we are going to supposedly one of the best burger places in America called Mr. Bartley's Burger Cottage. It is supposed to be really good. Then off to some museum where they have glass flowers that look like real flowers. It sounds cool. Then maybe some shopping and lazying around. I can't wait to buy some clothes and stuff. THough where I will fit it, noone knows. My suitcase is packed to the max. Maybe I will have to buy another suitcase to carry stuffI buy home. WE'll see...ok i'll keep on updating maybe. HOpe the b-lo is good!

in 12 hours I leave for a 5 day vacation in Boston with (e:maureen). What i need really bad is a vacation from work so it will be nice. But i will miss everyone here. How silly, it is only 5 days, but I don't leave a lot. I can't wait to do all the things we missed last time I was in Boston. Oh wait< i don't believe we missed a thing cuz we jam packed that vacation. At least we will see Salem and who knows what else this time....oh yeah the DUCK TOUR! I Can't wait for that. What I can wait for is dying in a plane crash though now with terrorists I am not nearly afraid of crashing as I am beiong hijacked. So thats' good right? At least in a hijacking you have a chance of winning. Who can't fight off a buttload of terrorists with Purell, Visine eye drops, sunglasses, a book on style and how the French made pop culture, and a couple magazines. Cuz that is what I have in my carryon, and i thin kthat might just be weapon enough to succeed against hijackers.

So I am still in my PJ's and it is almost 8pm. I had such high hopes for car cleaning and shopping today. Instead I got sidetracked by like 6 hours of Golden Girl Trivia online. If you get one of the top four scores your name will appear on an episode of Golden Girls on LIFETIME!!! My highest score is currently 125 highest. Holy heck it is way harder than you would think. People are hardcore trivia masters. I would have thought I would be one but I guess not.

I must shower soon though becuase of Teres's pole dancing classes Chippewa scavenger hunt tonight. If you see us out stop by because Teres gets points/prizes for getting different people to do tihngs on poles and stuff. We have to find all the bars with poles...

....ok back to one more round of trivia

I AM NOW IN 48th place. NUMBER 1 HERE I COME!

Well they found the girl from the accident. Worked out that she is liable. Now I am just sitting here waiting for them to arrive to look at my car and give me some money hopefully!

1. The girl who was drunk and hit me does have insurance. It turns out the police report and everythign was wrong. Her insurance company called me today basically saying they will give me the money. The catch is they have to talk to her first, and haven't been able to fnd her. They can't pay out claims without talking to her. I told them to call jail, she might be there.

2. Elephants groom themslves when looking in mirrors which means something really important that I can't remember at the moment. They join an elite group of humans, chimps and possibly dolphins as the only animals who recognzie themselevs in a mirror and use it to be pretty or soemthing. I love elephants and I love mirrors so it is good news all around.

3. Bob Barker is retiring in June. This is so very sad. to think me and my friend Carly from like elementary school always dreamed of going and meeting him and "coming on down" . Maybe I wil lhave to call her even though we haven't hung out in years and make a quick trip to LA for a little Pricing game.

OMG me and (e:mk), (e:jill) and (e:beast) went to Frightworld tonight by the Eastern Hills Mall. (e:mk) talks about it in her journal also. Lets just say the four of us should not do haunted houses together. It was five different houses you could go in. In the first one after many a slamming ourselves into walls cuz we were in a huddled mass and could not run without falling. Well we eventually reach a room with a chainsaw man at which point (e:mk), (e:jill) and myself basically back into a corner screaming and refusing to move for way to long and then run out the wrong way aka the kiddie exit. We get lost in the bakc room where al lthe people in costumes walk around and eventually get escorted out from back there by a man in a furry costume.

me and (e:jill) thought we were gonna call it quits and (e:beast) and (e:mk) did the next one alone while me and jill tried to huddle near the polic officers cuz even in the outside area it was scary cuz they had people walking around scaring you and chasing you with chainsaws. there was no rest. We eventually huddled with an eight year old boy hoping he would protect us.

We decided to brave another house whihc was not supposed to be as scary and i kept my eyes closed the whole time. It wasn't too bad except it was so painful cuz we were huddled in a mass and it was thin walkways for one perosn so i kept getting my head/arms/body slammed into walls and cornerns. At the end of it there was this rainbowy spinny tilty bridge and I was terrified that they had accuidently lead us into the clown one which I did not think i wanted to go into so i freaked out nbut it turned out it was just the end of the one we were in. We were guided out by this man with a glowstick> I tink we were holding eveyrone up cuz it wasn't really suppsoed to be a scary one and we were in a huddled mass stuck in many spots.

We neededa nother break after that and the people in costume were so mean scaring (e:jill) mainly cuz she lookd so scared but we deivsed a plan where we put our heads together and if we didn't' look at them for long enough and cried hard enough they would go away.

MK and Teres did the insane asylum one by themselves cuz I am terrified of asylums , jsut the thought of one terrifes me and they said it was the scariest one.

We then went in thte circus/clown one and it was terrifying but fun. Clowns are scary. It was like funny/scary. We did slam into many more walls and I thkink i knocked some of the decoration off the one wall. One of the scary clowns eventually sang a song with us to calm us down.

Yeah we are like five year olds, we know it, I am prolly never going to a haunted house again ever! We were suposed to go out after because it is daylight savigns and we gain an extra hour but I am feeling way to beat up/in pain/stomach ache/headache. Seriuosly it took everything out of me goi ngin those scary houses.

They had a concensision stand. Who can eat at a thing like that. I am still tense as can be.
I may never sleep again....

I was going to write about the Halloween party last night which was very fun. It is always a good night when you spend the night dancing the night away on rolleblades. Hopefully (e:mk) and (e:metalpeter) will post some pics. (e:jill) even won best female costume....but alas that is all i will say BECAUSE

the stupid ho that was drunk and got in the car accident with me HAS NO INSURANCE!!!! So if i want to get any money out of that frekin beyotch, I'd have to take her to small claims court and can only get like $1,000 anyway and then have to fight her prolly to make her pay. I don't know if it is worth it but I prolly will just to make her pay!!!!! I am so flippin mad about this. WHy do I always have the suckiest luck!!

Once again it is like two days before halloween and me and (e:jill) have been planning halloween since like oh I don't know May and already decided on our costumes then. But we never got around to it of course and then realized the parties start this friday! UH OH! Anyone got a pair of size 14 roller skates and a whole bunch o glitter? We always succeed somehow though so I'm not worried! Captain Planet, Wind up Monkey, it always works out fantastically and nearly nude!