I'm doing this via flashbacks/entries.
August 7th 2008: “BEEP, BEEP, BEEP” Did you know that hair school has strict no cell phone rules just like high school? Well for some reason my phone wasn’t on vibrate. Troy had just sent me a text to inform me that Grant was having an invite whoever Rockband get together that Saturday. Good to know the text was super important.
August 9th 2008: “KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK” Anyone aware that the Johansen’s are getting some fancy new furniture? True story. Brett and I walk into Grant’s house and eventually end up playing some Rockband. Everyone was good but me. I’m slightly embarrassed to sing along on that game and even though I play piano, I have absolutely no drumming skills. Needless to say we rocked the show. Here is where my little story starts... We are sitting at the table eating some yummy chili dogs when I let my eyes wander to the nutritional facts on the back on a Cherry Coke can, don’t ever look at them. Slightly to the right was a waiting adventure... Buy one get one free Six Flag tickets or one for $21.99! Amazing.
August 9th 2008 (10 minutes later): “CLICK, CLICK, CLICK” Three computer are on in the Johansen’s office as we search for a CHEAP hotel, driving directions, local beaches, gas costs. Seriously we planned a trip for five people. Brett and I, Troy, Grant, and Alec. Leave early Friday morning and spend the day at Six Flags, stay the night in our cheap hotel, spend the day at the beach, then drive home. Yay!
August 15th 2008: “BUZZ, BUZZ, BUZZ” Brett answers his cell phone and Grant is at our apartment ready for our trip. I’ll skip the driving part. I slept through most of it. We ended up having to pay $30 for our tickets instead of the $22.99 we were hoping, but none of us bothered to contest our little coupon from our Coca Cola can. We all started with this little dinky roller coaster as a warm up. The plan was to work our way up to bigger and more scary rides. That didn’t go over to well. After our dinky ride we went to the new X2 ride: pretty much the most scary ride in the whole park. The ride drags you up like 175 feet or something to the top. But you are reclined on your back as it drags you up, moving backwards. Then the ride dips you like it is going to fall the 175 feet but it doesn’t. Then your seat starts to spin and rotates you while dropping you the 175 feet. You are falling face first, trying to scream. Then from there you don’t really know what happens, seriously. You’re spinning everywhere while your seat is rotating. Somewhere in the ride fire shoots out at you, but you are totally lost. We watch this happen dozens of times as we waited in line. Alec and Brett kept watching it over and over and over again hoping something less scary would happen. Then they started freaking themselves out about getting on. Well eventually we made it to the front of the line and they almost chickened out. But they rode it, and I guess enjoyed it. We made it to more roller coasters after that. Tatsu was a fun one where you ride kinda suspended, like flying I guess, since I know what that is like and all. We rode this water raft ride, most people got wet. It is funny getting on those things cause you expect to get wet but don’t want to, but you are still on the ride. Anyways as we panicked about getting wet Grant and Troy ended up soaked. Alec and Brett were not too badly damaged. I got away with just a wet left shoe and a few splashes. Then... once the ride is over this red headed kid, like ten or something, sitting next to me on my right, starts splashing up a storm! Brett and I are yelling at this kid, “HEY HEY HEY! What are you doing?” and “HEY! Cut that out!” My once dry shoes were wet with my rear end. Please, don’t feel sorry for the kid, it way funny. We rode so many rides. Brett was too tall for one of them. The Batman ride we mistakingly rode twice in a row and got super dizzy. We rode the Goliath ride three times I think. I almost passed out the first time due to gee-forces. Then the second and third times I was freaking out thinking I was going to die cause my lap bar was definitely not going far enough down. Alec and I yelled at each other with breathing comments while freaking each other out. Then to end the evening we took one last ride. Grant made Troy and I run to get our last ride in for the night at Superman. If you have been to Six Flags before you know that Superman is up hill. Not cool. Then it was over. Hotel and sleep.
August 17th 2008:"BROOM" We left the window open that night. We slept cause we got a smoking room and did not like the smell. We heard cars come and go all night. Finally in the morning all you heard was cars starting as tourists got up early to vacation. We drug ourselves out of bed and headed for the beach. We did the Santa Monica thing. Riding waves in on our belly. Grant made a beautiful alligator in the sand. Brett swallowed lots of water and lost his lunch. Alec and I crashed on the sand for an hour. No one brought sun screen. Even the Mexican burned. It was such a nice relaxing day under the sun. We drove home and... The End.
August 17th 2008:"BROOM" We left the window open that night. We slept cause we got a smoking room and did not like the smell. We heard cars come and go all night. Finally in the morning all you heard was cars starting as tourists got up early to vacation. We drug ourselves out of bed and headed for the beach. We did the Santa Monica thing. Riding waves in on our belly. Grant made a beautiful alligator in the sand. Brett swallowed lots of water and lost his lunch. Alec and I crashed on the sand for an hour. No one brought sun screen. Even the Mexican burned. It was such a nice relaxing day under the sun. We drove home and... The End.
