the plan for sunday morning was to go to red porch cafe for brunch, however everyone had a surprise in store for me before we ate. when i went to knock on the other girl's room, the room had been decorated with ribbons and tulle and bows! so cute!! alice, jody, sharon, nancy and shal had stayed up the night before (til 5am!!) decorating! (thanks girls! what dedication!) shal said that they were really loud the night before, that's why she went over to help them decorate, but alcohol usually conks me out, so i didn't hear a thing!! there was a stack of presents for me to open, all pretty lingerie!
then we headed to our yummy brunch, they had really good french toast, i didn't order it but i tried someone else's. i had a good breakfast burrito and everyone else's food looked really good too. we then hit the beach! today the weather was perfect, no clouds threatening to pour rain, so we were really happy we could spend a few hours on the beach. at the beach they have umbrellas you can rent for the whole day, but each stand we went to said that they were all sold out! finally we were about to rent this little tent sort of thing which was a little more expensive, but an umbrella freed up for us to rent! perfect!
at the stand we were renting our umbrella from, i saw the rainbow flag blowing off of it and rainbow umbrellas on the beach, but i didn't really attribute it to a gay beach until we had all settled in and i looked around and saw all these gay guys milling around! it was cool though, cause they are all really buff and looked like they took good care of their bodies, so it was nice eye candy. even though it was a gay beach, there were other people there also, so it wasn't like we were the only non gay people. there were many women sunbathing topless as well. we spent about 2-3 hours on the beach, soaking up the rays and playing in the water. i definitely got a nice tan color, everyone was amazed at my tanning ability. everyone except me and jody got sunburnt! we headed back to the hotel around 4 cause nancy was leaving early. because she took this little vacation she now has to work 6 days straight!! =( but it was worth it right?? hehe
we took showers and then watched tv/sleep til dinner time (i swear we're the laziest people in the world, but i attribute it to the heat and sun, the heat doesn't make you want to go out and all that sun at the beach makes you tired =P ) we went to dinner at news cafe which is on ocean drive. sooo many people are walking around along ocean drive, and there are lots and lots of little cafes & eateries to choose from. the food was decent, we had really good peach sangria. we sat outside and sharon kept on complaining about feeling itchy, i guess she has the tastiest blood because no one else seemed to have any problems. oh yeah, during dinner they asked me questions about how well i knew julian. i think i did pretty well, some questions were kinda random so i had no idea or just guessed.
after dinner around 9:30pm the plan was to go back to the hotel and drink apple juice mixed with vodka and then go to a club. when sharon arrived on friday, she couldn't stop talking about it, so finally we were going to try this drink she loves so much. however, when we got back to the hotel, we started watching tv (our favorite pastime...) as we were watching, the power suddenly goes off, but goes back on again. 10 minutes later, the power goes off again, but this time it stays off for a couple of minutes. we're sitting in the dark thinking, what now? pearl goes outside and we see that the hallway lights are on and we could hear the music from the lobby, so it was just our floor with the power outage. a couple of minutes later, the power comes back on. we continue watching tv and everyone eventually falls asleep, except for pearl. the room starts becoming really hot and we realize that the A/C is broken, most likely from the power outage. what's weird is that the A/C in the hallway is still working, it's just the ones in the rooms. so we leave our door open so that we can have some cool air coming in.
shal, jody and i only napped for like half an hour or so, but sharon and alice slept the entire time we were in the room. around 12am, these 2 european guys from across the hall come by and say, hey, do you guys want to come out with us? we asked them where they had been (they had actually come from the club we wanted to go to, and they said it was good) and where they were going. they didn't really have a plan, so we weren't too eager to tag along. they went to their room and half an hour later they had changed and asked us again if we wanted to go out. alice and sharon finally got up, and i guess alice was very refreshed because she was very eager to go out again. since it was our last night, we decided ok, i guess we should go out even though we were tired. we drank some apple vodka drinks, but the vodka we used was kinda strange and gave the drink a funky taste. sharon had bought the alcohol from europe and it had a grass stem in it, so it gave the drink an herb-y taste. it was good, but kinda strange.
we didn't really know where to go, we didn't want pay cover to get into a club, so we just walked down the street our hotel was on, and found a club to go to. the guy outside said "free cover and free drinks inside" so we were like...ok let's go! but alice & one of the european dudes had to pay $10, but somehow the rest of us were able to get in for free, i'm not sure how. and there were no free drinks inside!! so that dude was a big liar. anyways, we got a drink and then went to the dance floor. everyone in there was african-american, although there was this other group of asian girls there which i thought was kinda strange. the music was all hip-hop, at first the music was ok, but then they started playing slow hip-hop which is really hard to dance to and the dance floor was getting empty. i must say though, they sure know how to bump 'n grind!! alice & jody danced with the european guys while the rest of us just danced together. eventulally we decided to leave and go somewhere else.
we went to a lounge really close by and we took a round of tequila shots and a blue colored alcohol (i think it was blue curacao but who knows). i could only take the tequila shot, i was not able to take the blue one. we danced some more, but my head was starting to hurt. half an hour later, the european guys bought ANOTHER round of shots, i was like..dang, they must really want to get us drunk! (we didn't pay for any of our alcohol except for the drinks at the club before!) i didn't take another one, but the rest did. i think they were starting to have a lot of fun =) my head was starting to bother me, so i wanted to head back. pearl and shal left with me while the rest of them stayed and partied. we came back around 3:30 almost 4, so they must have stayed out til 5am or later...crazy!
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