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Hmmm... Ok so this post is about 3 weeks late... and seems somewhat pointless. but I'm going to write it anyways, cus someone out there in cyber space may like to read it.
wow im really behind... I just re-read my last post
So from New Haven Matty, Jaymes and I drove to Boston. After Garmin (The GPS) gave us a nice tour of the city cus I took a wrong turn and didn't listen to her, we arrived at the hotel we were staying at. We shortly rendezvvoused with a bunch of pommys from camp and Clem and Simon two Kiwis. We were putting 11 people in two hotel rooms that could only sleep 4 so we had to do some smuggling, but we were used to that by now.
So we got a bunch of beers for that night had some dinner... and drank those beers. The next day we slept till probably around 12 and Matty's friend Natalie picked us up (matty, Jaymes, Clem, Laura, me) and took us back to her dad's restaurant for lunch. It was a lebanese place with a buffet lunch. After a week of Subway it was a nice suprise to eat some home cooked food. The best thing was that she didn't let us pay. Then we caught a subway into the city and Natalie gave us a 7 hour tour of Boston. We walked for ages, but found the city really beautiful and had some cool history. It was really nice of Natalie to do so much for us. We headed back to the hotel had some beers and food then (Jaymes, Matty, Natalie and I) headed back into town to catch up with Tim (matty's mate) For some beers. We drank a lot then went to a bowling alley which had free bowling on Tuesdays. Matty got s***faced smashed a salt shaker on the road then fell asleep against a wall when we got back to the hotel and finally passed out in a suitcase. A good night was had by all.
The next day (wednesday) we slept in till around 2pm and then slowly headed to a beach. It was a nice day and we pretty much lied on the beach for around 4 hours. Matty stayed in the hotel after his lil experience the night before. He was a little tired. The water at the beach was cold but still a good day for lieing around. Then that night we had dinner with the pommy's as the next day we would be saying farewell. Then we walked around for ages and didnt really go anywhere cus the boys were all underage. It sucked cus we walked past all these killer pubs with live music (Cant wait to get bck to them)!
The following day we started the long drive to Penn State College. We were driving along some freeway in the middle of nowhere and were meeting up with Stoner and Jo in hartford. Stoner called us up and as it turns out he was three cars in front of us at a toll. It was a possibly the most random thing ever as we came from completely different directions and left at different times. So they followed us back to hartford where we dropped off there car and joined forces to head to penn state. I did most of the driving that day... even though i wasn't insured to drive the car. But it was faster that way if you know what i mean. We got to Penn State at around 10pm and met up with Sara (from Camp) and her room mate. We bought a bunch of beers and then drank them. Then we slept... 7 of us in one very small dormatory. It was ridiculously small, but a good experience. The level of the building we were on was full of sororiety girls.
The following day (Friday) we spent the day walking around campus as sara had class most of the day. we met up with Mia from camp and went back to her place. That night we partied at Mia's place and drank lots of beers out of red cups (ahh my dream come true). Oh it was Stoner's bday too so we went out for dinner. The college party was everything you could imagine. girls beer, beer pong, and more beer.
The next day was Saturday and was the first college football game of the season. Sara and I slept in and then met up with her room mate and her boyfriend to go to the game. We got scalped tickets of the street for 30 bucks each. We were in the nose bleed section but they were worth 50 bucks. The atmosphere was incredible. The marching band was amazing and the chanting rivaled soccer matches in england (i imagine). There were 100000 people at the game it was the biggest crowd ive ever been in and ive been to two afl grand finals. This was the first game of the season and penn state smashed the other team by 50 points. We left at 3 quarter time. That night we went to a night club which was sick! wvery cheap drinks and then we went to a frat party. It was exactly like the movies, and we got free beer! It was awesome!
The next day we drove back to Boston (Me matty and jaymes - Jo and stoner caught a bus to NY). Actually we drove towards boston but stayed the night in Watersbury whcih was a boring down in Connecticut I think.
So we arrived back in Boston on the Monday at around 2pm. We were due to stay with Mattys mate Tim. But he wasnt finishing work till later. So we found a park (or should i say court yard) and kicked a footy. Me and matty invented a game which i sucked at... but it killed a good 2 hours. Then we met up at tims and well ... drank some beer! then went out to some pubs
The Tuesday was one of the best days on the trip. We sat around drank beers had a bbq and played some frisbee game that im pretty sure Tim invented. It is hard to explain but the rules required you to have a beer in your hand at all times.. so its my kinda game. Then when we had drank enough beer we went to Fenway Park for Boston V the Orieles. Fenway was a great experience. The place is amazing and has so much history. And it was good that my new team the Red Sox got up!
Wednesday we just spend the day lieing around at Tim's place. Thats when i uploaded a lot of photos. Much to everyone elses demise cus i took the computer for a few hours. Stoner and Greg came to Boston and I picked them up. Finally we were all together and ready to officially begin the road trip. We drove about 2 hours out of Boston and stayed in a hotel for the night. By this stage we had got the knack of finding cheap hotels and ones with breakfast included. and we were well trained at sneaking in the fifth guest to sleep on the floor.
Thursday we headed the rest of the way to the Canada/US border and Niagara Falls. We saw it from the US side... not very impressive. Then crossed the border into Canada, the falls were much better from that side. Again we found a cheap hotel and headed to a restaurant for dinner. We had some trouble extracting money as no atms accepted Visas.. that sucked but we worked it out eventually.
Friday we went on the maid of the mist (The boat that goes right up to the falls) we got drenched it was great fun. We then drove to Toronto (Around two hours) to D's place (D is matty's wife from camp). Garmin the GPS didnt work in Toronto so we had to go it solo with a map. was pretty easy. We finally got to a supermarket and had access to a stove so i cooked up a big spaghetti that must have fed around 11 people and there were still left overs which we ate later that night whilst drunk and then again for breaky in the morning... it was a lot of spaghetti and contained vegetables which was the most exciting bit. We drank lots of beer then got lead on a wild goose chase around the city and didnt end up going out anywhere... IT was a pretty disapointing night... had some potential but was disapointing. We then all slept on D's very small kitchen floor. I slept on half a couch Stoner slept on some chairs that he lined up and greg and jaymes spooned on the floor. Greg thought that Jaymes's bum would be a suitable pillow too.
Then Saturday we walked around town and found a dunk competition on the street with none other than Lebron James himself judging it. Very Exciting. We stood right on the baracade and I got some cool photos of Lebron. The dunks were cool too. We bought some more alchol and some more pasta and ate more left over spaghetti... Then we hit a night club.. it was cool. Full of guys but me and Jaymes had fun. There was a shower in the night club on the dance floor... and who knows what came over us but when two very pretty sisters invited us to join them in the shower we naturally obliged. Then more girls joined in and we just looked like two seedy guys trying to crack onto about 6 girls. Then the other boys spoted us and stoner must have laughed for about half an hour. Im glad we entertain him.
Sunday we slept in and then headed to a hotel outside of Toronto as our stay at Ds place was over. matty of course stayed there for some spooning. We went back to Ds that night for dinner she made us some lasagne. Then headed to a pub for some beers and 2 dollar shots. The place was empty but we watched some footy and chatted.
Monday we attempted to play golf, but that fizzeled so we settled for mini golf. That night we watched Step Brothers. By this stage we were all well and truely over toronto as it hadnt really offered us anything particularly special apart from plernty of beer and some spag bol and lasagne. Matty had a good time though and thats all that matters... We not me!
So we picked up matty and then headed to the Canada/US Border... Thats when the Nightmare that brought about an end of the road trip began.
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