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Okay. Let's start with June 15th. It was 2:00 in the morning, so for some people it was still June 14th. Anywho!
Day One. June 15th. Wednesday.
We left from the school at 2. My mom dropped me off because I didn't want to leave my car there for a week. We rode to Omaha in a school bus. Yippe..but we each got our own seats. I sat near the back by the boys, and I didn't sleep much, but that was okay. They kept yelling stuff like CBAY! I forgot my underwear. and CBAY! They won't care that I have drugs, right?! It was pretty funny. But yeah, we got to Omaha early, obviously. Our flight got delayed because of some pilot paperwork or something. Then it got delayed again because of a paint chip, and they had to check it out. Kelly and Seth filled out their journals, it was hilarious. The journal entry read kinda like this: I will never fly Delta again. Delta sucks. I could be halfway to Mexico by now...that was fun. Jeff was walking around greeting people. That was fun too. When we finally got on our plane, we were an hour and a half behind, and we were almost positive that we'd miss our connecting flight in Atlanta because that was like, an hour or so time-in-between, or whatever. I sat with Sam, and Melissa and Seth were behind us. About three fourths of the plane was us. We all put our hands up for take off..and we had an awesome flight attendant, Charles, that Seth liked..I slept for almost all of it, except for when they brought us food. Turns out we did miss our connecting flight, but it turned out to be good, because then we had an opportunity for some Wendys or Burger King..I took for some Wendy's, and it was awful food, but we were all so hungry!! We didn't have to wait long by the time we'd eaten. Our flight was interesting. They did fit us all on a different flight to Cancun, but I don't know how, there were 20 of us..but hardly any of us sat by anyone we knew. I sat by a Korean guy and a lady that used to live in Iowa. I talked to her for most of the flight. It was fun. It took us an hour and a half to get through immigration. Tyff and Kendall were in a different line from everyone else, and they got done 45 minutes before everyone else..it took FOREVER!! They provided us 2 vans to get to our hotel. I was with Mrs. H, Kendall, Heather, Mindy, Amber, Sam, Tyff, and Melissa. It was a half hour away, I think. I felt sort of left out because everyone kept going..wow, look at this, or that..and I'd just been there two months ago. Like, we were driving on the same road and everything..but other than that..it was fun. That hotel was the best one. We all got our own bed!! It was cool. Anyways. First we headed to the beach, but it was dirty-ish, and there was a topless girl. The boys stayed over there, but us girls opted for the pool. We didn't stay in long because we were tired, so we went to our rooms. Jeff and Tyler came over though, so those two, and my roomies and I sat on our deck and just talked. Jeff mentioned.."this is the life..this is awesome"..and I agree..just sitting around talking, joking, laughing..it's the best. We were interrupted to go to a convenience store type place to get water and stuff. Everyone got eaten up by bugs on the way-I didn't though. We ate supper at 9. It was Mexican chicken soup, and I don't remember what else. Turns out when they told us the trip covered two meals a day, it didn't include drinks..and yeah, drinks were at least $1.50, so we spent fifty bucks on the trip just for drinks. After supper we went back to our rooms and showered..at 10ish Seth and Tyler came and visited us till 1 in the morning or so, but it was fun. All 4 guys that went were class clowns so they kept us laughing, for sure.
Day Two. June 16th. Thursday
We traveled for 3 hours to the next town, Valladolid. Jeff and the rest of our guys were flirting it up with the microphone before we started..all the girls got crushes on 'em right away. (We were w/2 other groups, one from West Virginia and 1 from Illinois) We watched Nepoleon Dynamite on the way. "We're in Mexico, and we're watching Napoleon Dynamite!" It was funny. Kumeon, our tour guide-he was awesome-brought 3 movies, and they were all movies we'd never heard of, except a remake of Star Wars, but Andrea had hers, it was awesome. We arrived at our hotel..then we went to a water park type place. It wasn't big, and no one was there. It had 2 water slides, and no lifeguards. It was a lot of fun. I went down the slide with Tyff, Andrea, Brit, and Megan in train-style..it was a blast..then we ate and went back to our hotel..and went shopping. I didn't buy anything. I was SO sick of shopping. My legs hurt and I wanted to go back to the hotel, but everyone else was shopping, so I kept shopping, too. We kept waiting on the same people..and it was annoying. But we made it. We had a menu type thing for supper, I had noodle soup, steak, and gross dessert. After supper we went swimming..I kinda didnt want to, but I was already wearing my suit from earlier, so I figured, what the hell..It was fun. The boys were doing belly flops and stuff. Kumeon came out and told us that the pool was closed..and we felt bad because there were about 15 of us so we were really loud, but it was funny. So we went back to our rooms and showered. The guys found a scorpion, I think..and kept it. That day was fun.
Day 3. June17th. Friday.
This day, we went to the Cenote. It's basically a big cave with a big round pool of natural water. It was 300 feet deep, and really cold. But IT WAS A FUCKING BLAST. Omg, it was great..I could have spent the whole day there. My pics that I took there w/my digital camera didn't turn out good cuz it was dark, so that sucks..but it was soo fun. After that we went to the pyramid. We had a tour there, and it was really hot. I started to get really shaky. I was absolutely miserable. You have no idea how hot it was. Iowa will probably never be that hot. Omg, it was awful. And I couldn't understand our tour guide b/c he had such a strong accent. I can't explain to you how awful it was. The tour was an hour and a half, and after that we had the opportunity to climb the pyramid-yeah, after we're so freaking exhausted we can hardly walk..but I did, because it was one of those once in a lifetime things..and I almost died going up. No joke..I felt like I was gonna pass out. Those pyramids are huge. Pictures don't do them justice. I didn't even take a picture of the actual pyramid. They're so huge when you're next to them, just like the St. Louis arch..but still. It was GYNORMOUS. Afterwards, I sat at our meeting place w/the adults that didn't climb it and Sam, lol. We went back to the lobby, where I bought ice cream and got cooled off, then we went somewhere for lunch. It was ten bucks, plus two bucks for a pop, and it definetly was NOT worth it. But we got to swim afterwards..that was ok. Tyler cut his foot and blood was completely covering it. It was pretty gross. Then we hit the bus to travel to Merida. We watched Dodgeball this time, but I slept. We went to Wal Mart, and got a cake for Heather's bday, among other things, ate supper, then Kumeon took us to a club. The club was cool, but I wouldn't go again. I'm glad I went though. It would have been more fun if it would have been American music, but that was part of the experience. We got home late-ish, like 1..and showered..and SLEPT. I was completely dreading the next day.
Day 4. June 18th. Saturday.
We had breakfast (how we started everyday), and had a bus tour of Merida. My legs killed SO bad from the pyramid, and our hotel was on the 5th floor. We had to get out twice, but other than that, I pretty much slept through it, but a lot of people did. We'd only got about 4 hours of sleep the night before. After that we headed to a mall, where we got normal food!! Burger King, baby! AND I GOT A PINK COYGIRL HAT! I'm wearing it for my senior pics. Yay! i was so excited. That's about all we had time for-eating and getting a hat. But I don't think I would have gotten anyone anything there anyways because it was all stuff you could buy in America. We met someone there who has relatives in Ctown though..isn't that weird? She moved to Mexico from Iowa, and she teaches English there. I thought that was cool. Then we headed to the ruins or something like that. It was another hot, boring tour. But, not only was it hot, there were mosquitoes everywhere. It was another miserable thing. We went to a hotel, not ours, to swim and eat.They formed a volleyball game, Americans vs. Mexicans, it was fun to watch. We were supposed to go back to the ruins to watch a sound and light show, but almost everyone voted not to go. The chaperones talked Kumeon into it cuz no one wanted to go. I was so glad. I would have gotten eaten alive there. We did karaoke on the way back to our hotel. It was hilarious. There was this guy, Adam, and he was awesome..He acted gay..like seriously, he's the gayest acting person I know..and I even have a gay cousin, and he acted more gay than him, but I really don't think he was gay. But damn, could Adam dance..and he was really cute. Anywho, he sang a lot of songs, it was great.Kumeon bought us a pinata, and we were outside for an hour trying to break it. It was fun, but it got old and my legs hurt so bad I wanted to cry. That night was probably one of my favorites, along with the first one. (after our 4 guys met other school's girls, they sorta lost touch with us..hehe) All of the teen's rooms were together, all on the same floor and everything, and we just sat out in the hallway and talked and stuff. LOL, I was sitting in my room w/the door open and all of a sudden I saw something fly by..I was like, wtf..so I went out and I'm like, what just went by my room? And Chad (someone from a different school) goes I'm a flying penguin!! And he was sliding with his blanket down the balcony/hallway or w/e..it was great. It reminded me of college. One of the chaperones from somewhere else ordered pizza..and we sat and talked. It was a great bonding experience. lol. I went back to our room cuz I started to not feel good, but everyone stayed out and talked for a while..
Day 5. June 19th. Sunday.
ONE OF THE BEST DAYS EVER. We rode in the bus from 12:15-7:30 minus an hour for lunch.On my way on the bus, I fell sorta and I got a nasty purple bruise, which is yellow now, and it hurt for a long, long time, it still does, actually.. Lunch was a rip off by the way. We had a free day until noon, so we just layed around our room and stuff. Talked, what have you. A few people went to church, but I didn't b/c we'd seen the church on our tour. I still didn't feel the best off and on, and when I didn't it sucked. We finally got to watch the Notebook..and then we watched the crappy version of Star Wars (I listened to my headphones when they watched that). When we got to our hotel, it was time to eat practically right away. I didn't eat anything. We went shopping afterwards, and I didn't buy anything except water..Then we slept. It was a lazy/fun day..btw-it poured the whole day.
Day 6. June 20th. Monday.
We went to a beach..then we were supposed to go to Xel Ha...It started pouring when we were at the beach..our bags got wet, and everything in them did too. Our towels, our dry clothes, everything. So, we didn't go to Xel Ha..we were given the opportunity to go the next day though. We were given a free day. We found a McDonald's in the shopping strip..we went and looked at the beach..and went back to the hotel and chilled..Went to supper, and shopped again after supper.
Day 7. June 21st. Tuesday.
This was a free day. Almost everyone went to Xel Ha, but Me Tyff Sam Andrea Britt and Adam stayed behind. I got my hair braided w/Tyff Andrea and Britt. It took forever. Three ppl were working on mine, and Brit and Andrea were sharing a person! That's how long/thick/whatever my hair was. One of my ppl was like 8 mos. pregnant and her belly kept hitting me. It was funny, then there was like a 7 y/o girl..she was adorable. Yeah..then we ate at Mickey Dees again, and headed to the beach. It started POURING, and the rain KILLED when we were walking. But the water was awesome. It was really windy so we got some good waves. Brit didn't get in cuz she was being a baby..and she was miserable..We left our key @ the front desk in case Melissa got back before us cuz that's what ur supposed to do if ur roommates split up..and when we went to get it they didn't have it. So we went to try our room, and it was locked, and no one was answering. We were SO pissed that Melissa didnt leave our key for us. A maid let us in...long story short, Melissa didn't have our key either, lol, and we were so pissed. So Cbay and the front desk started fighting, then Kumeon started fighting too-they wanted us to pay for the key, even though we had 7 witnesses that watched us turn it in. Kumeon switched us rooms b/c it wasnt safe since we didnt know who had our key. Then we ate supper, and it was actually good. Then we went shopping, and that was pretty fun. They were hitting on us left and right that night..I wish we'd have had more time to shop that night..Seth and his whatever were holding hands and stuff..she was from freaking W. Virginia. and Kelly and his girl whatever were getting close too, and she had a boyfriend at home..Whatever..Tyler and Jeff were just with all the girls..they didn't get particularly close to just one. We packed after we got home and whatever. Went to bed..
Day 8. June 22. Wednesday.
We drove to the airport, and waited for our first flight. I bought my mom this bowl bead thing she wanted last time, and my dad a harley davidson mug. It was ok. We were bored..We slept most of the time on the flight, I sat by Amber and Melissa in the middle aisle. It was fun. We had a 4 hour layover or w/e till we got on our next plane. We ate at Wendy's..and sat around..played UNO for an hour and a half-just one game! No one would win, but there were 7 of us which could be why. We passed the time. I sat with Sam on that flight, and it was kinda annoying cuz since she was one of my roomies, we were sick of each other. We all put our hands up for take off, then started clapping when the plane was in the air, and when we were done clapping, it jerked to the left..it was funny. Seth was like..we're going down!! And he did the light show for us that we missed, lol. We got in Omaha, finally, on time, and got our luggage. Well, Megan's wasn't there..poor Megan..something about a slip.? and how they thought she was staying in Atlanta or something, I'm not sure..but they're going to send it to her I think. I guess we're just lucky it happened on the way home, not on the way there. Cuz that would have sucked. My walkman or w/e u call it ran out of batteries right away on the way home, so I couldn't sleep. Everyone else was sleeping, for the most part. We got home at 2, and my mom and I stayed up and talked. I last looked at the clock at three.
It felt so good to sleep in my own bed, shower in my own shower. I think showering there made me dirtier.
But Ryan came over and wanted me to go to his gmas w/him. So I did, so I was in the car for another 7 hours yesterday..cuz she lives 3-4 hours away..but I slept all day there. But regardless, I wish I wouldn't have gone. I got home at 10.
It literally took me almost 2 hours to type this up (but I was eating and doing pix too, lol) I work tonight, my first day/night back..I'm sorta excited, I missed it but it would be nice to have had a lazy day. I'm gonna put pix up later.
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Chelsea!
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