remain seated please
permanece sentados, por favorSaturday, February 01, 2003
got back from what was supposed to be a one-day trip to tahoe. instead it turned into a two-day marathon that took us across 440 miles, two states, and into the biggest little city in the world. RENO!
charles dan steve laurie elise connie and i went up to boreal for the $10 friday special. we left at around 6:30 and got there like at 9:30. we boarded for a long time, and it was great. even though the runs were really short and the snow was getting messed up cuz there were a lot of people, it was still a lot of fun. we rode some boxes, which was decent, a rainbow rail, which was pretty cool, and the halfpipe. speaking of the halfpipe, i had only done it once before, and it was a pretty sorry attempt at that. this time i got a little bit more speed and didn't cut the walls so sharp and so i got a little bit higher on a couple of runs. too bad i didn't know how to jump off so i ended up riding high off the wall and grooming the top with my hands. haha good stuff. we also went off some medium sized jumps, and that was fun too. we all got some air. stayed there til 5:30,6, and we were on the slopes for most of the time. must say that it was the most fun i've had boarding in a long time.
sad news. big scratch on my board, and many little ones on the sides. o well, like charles said... memories.
we decided to head up to reno, which is a 45 min drive from boreal cuz we were too tired to drive all the way back home. so we rode around and called places for their rates, but all the hotels were sold out cuz there was some convention. we were at a gas station when dan opened his door and put a penny-sized dent in it, from this big cement block in between pumps. so i went back to my car and told chaz and elise, and seriously like 2 minutes later elise swings my door wide open, doing the same thing on my door. it was hilarious. hahahaha. she felt so bad though. good times.
so we ended up staying at motel 6, $40 room for two beds. we split two and headed back to downtown reno to grub. it was like 8 when we went to go eat, but it freggin felt like 11. after 40 minutes of looking for a cheap buffet, we settled on the silver legacy, reno's finest establishment.... playa! for 15.99 we had a seafood buffet, one where we grubbed hard. chaz ate like 4 plates of stuff, it was disgusting. after that we walked around and went into circus circus, where we saw this lady doing this balancing act with her feet. it was really crazy stuff. i wonder how you learn to do that. anyways, she gave these menacing mysterious looks to the crowd, which was hilarious. after she was done we waved at her and she gave this little shy hello back. it was good. then we left and got home. it was only 1130, but it felt like 3am. i was delirious. i think it was also cuz i was real sick. hit me hard.... too hard. on the way back to the motel we took a long detour because freggin me chaz and elise were laughing hysterically for no good reason. it was so funny though. i couldn't even see where i was going cuz we were laughing so hard. we had another laughing attack in the room too. yeah, we were definitely dazed. i was tired but when it came time to sleep, i couldn't. i was past the tired point, and i felt so crappy and uncomfortable that i only got a couple of hours. i kept on tossing and turning. i think that kept some people up. my bads!
so we left at 12, right at checkout time and headed back. went through the mountains were there was a freggin blizzard that almost killed us. didn't have chains so we had to tough it out, and at times it got kinda crazy, but thank God we got through. in the middle of the ride chaz was like.... man for the past 2 hours i've been thinking about three things: getting a new car, buying a board, and driving up to tahoe to go boarding. he was all quiet the whole time til then, and that was why. hilarious. so we passed two in-n-outs, but we wanted to eat, so we turned onto a random freeway to get to the second one. we went in a circle all around it just to finally get to it, and when we got there chaz and elise walked around the whole dang plaza to get to an atm, when there was one inside the in-n-out. wow. we lagged. after we ate we went to destination 1440 cuz they were excited to buy gear, but it was too expensive so we came home. i took a nap, woke up and ate, and that's how we get to here.
this is detailed cuz i had a lot of fun this weekend, and i wanna remember it later. too bad that i'm sick and i feel like crap. someone shoot me and put me out of my misery.
or you could come take care of me. please?
