The Beginnings of the summer

Sunday night was my grad party. I was a great evening of talking, snacking, smoking, and hanging out with seniors until 2 in the morning. Planning on leaving the next morning, I said my goodbyes, expecting not to see everyone again until I got back in August.

On sunday night, after everyone else had left, planning on leaving the next day, all the 5 seniors buzzed our hair out of a great desire for efficiency, imagining that we would not see most people who actually cared about the length of our hair until it was, in fact, long again. Then after our wonderful adventure with the megabus, we buzzed peters hair the next night, and with newly aquired experience, had a bit of fun with it. Enjoy some pics:

The mullet!

waiting for the slaughter...

Everybody got a chance to do some buzzin...

peter wins for the coolest temporary hair, thanks to nick

The megabus adventure mentioned aforehand was quite a dissapointing experience at the time, but turned out to be an alright day. Basically, we had ordered a ticket for Sunday when we were supposed to be leaving Monday. Ignorant of this fact, we arrived 15 minutes early, and got in line to put our bags in the bus. When we reached the driver loading the bus, he looked at our ticket, explained it was an "old ticket." Then he said we should call customer service. Now before I continue, I must say that we got what we payed for so I can't be too angry, it was $30 a piece, very cheap for a 7 hr trip. So I called their "customer service" and got some lady named "Chaleen" who told me that if the driver let us, then we could ride that bus. So I went and told the driver that, but, suspicious from the start, he wanted to call "headquarters" and verify that we, in fact, called. But it took him forever to contact them, and then they had no records of a "Chaleen" working there, and no record of a call from 6 guys, one that should stand out. The driver had to leave to the next station and he said he'd keep trying... yeah right. So he told us to follow him. That's when I called my Dad and told him to come pick us up and bring us over to the next station. He did, what a great guy! Then we bartered some more with the annoyed driver until he finally called them again and still had no record of our call, so he said "Its not my problem" and got on the bus and drove away.

So, we had nothing to do all day, and so we went to my house, and picked up after my party! Man it was a mess... Then we napped, sat around, and talked to peeps, told our story. But then Mr. Bowar took us out to lunch! Another great guy! We went to El Loro... yum! Then we went to my favorite store ever, Burn. Its a cigar shop in Bville, and Andy and I bought some big ones. Then we drove to Peter's cabin, sat around, smoked the cigar, painted a raft, went to an island, and had dinner. It was a good day. Then we came home, had some peeps over and said bye again... for real this time.

The next morning Mr. Bulger drove us in, what a nice guy! We finally made our way onto the bus, no complications this time! Praise God! The coolest part about the bus was that it was a double decker! So, of course, we sat up top! There were enough seats close together so that we could all sit by eachother, and so I spent 7 hrs of my tuesday sitting next to Andy sleeping, listening to music, listening to Mitch Hedberg (laughing our heads off despite the funny looks we were getting from the rest of the bus), and playing Zelda. Overall a great trip. Upon arriving in Chigago, we got picked up by a couple other guys on the CSI who had arrived the day before, on time. So it was a 2 hr trip back to South Bend in a 7 passenger van with 8 people. Crowded as it was we managed to have fun with my 3 different Rubik's cubes. Joe Bulger has figured out the triangle one, it was only a matter of time for him.

Upon arriving to South Bend we approached a HUGE mansion in which we are staying and are currently living in 4 of its main level rooms. The history of the building is incredible. We live in an old garage, now transformed into a dining room, which was transformed into a stuff room and bed room. We were each given a bunk, a drawer for our junk, and a cubic foot tote for ALL our clothes. Living in household is all about being efficient, with time, space, and food. Its been great!

That was long, I'm planning on posting once a week, so keep looking!