America discovered itself

hello.

i had one of the most fabulous weekends in the history of me-ness.

so we had a four day weekend this weekend cuz dia de los santos is a holy holiday in spain so me, annie and jackie didn't know what we were gonna do, we wanted to do something, but we didn't really have that much money so we couldn't go anywhere really cool...like out of the county or whatever (so much for my grand plan of going everywhere! damn the american economy and our worthless dollar!) but i have been wanting to go to nerja (mediterranean beach town west of here) for a while because my teacher suggested it as being really nice and a bunch of people from our program went and really liked it, plus i haven't seen the mediterranean yet...jackie and annie weren't really showing that much interest or initiative so i decided to lift the whole thing off the ground

we ended up leaving to catch the bus on friday at six, the bus was four hours so we got there at like ten, then chilled and showered and watched the end of harry potter which we started on the bus..oh, we stayed at this hostel that was twelve euros a night per person had three beds a huge bathroom (w/biday) and an amazing terrace...by around twelve we started to hit the streets...

i heard of this plaza in nerja called tutti frutti (i know wierd huh?) where apparently all the action is... so we decided to find it...we got there and the first place we see is a bar called maui! of course we thought that was awesome (especially since it said "maui skandonavian/english bar") and we got inside and realized that everyone spoke english! aparently nerja is like some kind of haven for northern europeans! it was insane! they were sooo funny and so nice and the bartender gave us like 12 free shots and these dudes we met bought us drinks..

so we went to play pool, me this dude aaron (a male version of me...aparently..the 17 yr old kind) vs annie and this englishman james...the wierd thing about it tho was that the balls didn't have numbers or stripes and solids...they were all just plain red or yellow plus the black one..apparently they were english balls...needless to say countless jokes about never playing with english balls ensued...ps. we kicked ass!

so we stayed out until 7:30 in the morning getting free drink after free drink and getting flirted with by not-so-cute nerja boys...it was sweet! oh yeah and i met a dude who went to my preschool in santa fe!! it was so insane and i was so drunk that i could not get over it! he remembered so much shit about it too! i so don't remember anything from those days! small fucking world tho huh?!

the next day we slept through breakfast and barely woke up in time to get some lunch and check out the beach for a little while...then we rested in the hotel room for another few hours till we went back out

that night was like a marathon of free shit...first was the free drinks that kept coming from all directions...then some dude was like "i heard there was some american girls in here looking for pot yesterday" we never said anything of the sort but there were no other american's there so it must have been us...either way he had me open my purse and just shoved a huge handful of weed in there! awesomeness huh?!?! oh yeah and then jackie found a full box of cigarettes on the ground...i didn't think it could get better until we went into a bar that was having an eighties night! i asked for micheal jackson and they played billie jean immediately! it was the shit!

we went to bed a little earlier that night (scoring a free cab ride) and then went to see some caves the next day...those kind of sucked and i like almost had an asthma attack from the lack of oxygen down there but after that we ate some delicious calamari and paella and sat at the beach eating ice cream until we had to catch our bus...

i guess it was really nothing that special..but..it just was...perfect company, perfect environment, perfect price (free)

also i thought i had lost my pony express sweatshirt but then i found it later! (i am one lucky bitch!)...and my near asthma experience got me to reasses my quitting situation

so anyways..yeah i'm happy and my mommy's coming and i'm gonna make her buy me presents! woo hoo!