Fort Lauderdale Trip Part 2

continued......

May 29 - Sunday

so i'm watching the karaoke and there are some really good singers......and the karaoke host, jose......is just hilarious.......trying to get people up to sing and what not.......then they start playing musical chairs......but not just ANY musical chairs mind you.......musical chairs "sea gardens" style......(if i forgot to tell you......i stayed at the fairfield sea gardens beach and tennis resort).......and i've never seen anything like it.......

they got 3 guys and 3 girls and situated them in their chairs.......and then they were told that not only would they have to hurry and find a chair when the song finished.......they had to dance while moving around the chairs.......and not just any dance.......the chicken dance......and of course, if you didn't "try" you'd have to sing......so these 6 people had to play musical chairs......most of them drunk......while doing the chicken dance.......and then of course......if they were able to make it to the next round.......they got a swig of "rum punch".......so they were actually getting drunker playing this game........it was funny to watch.......

then some more guests got up and sang.......and when it was over.......i looked toward the tiki bar and saw bryan talking to some girls......i figured i wouldn't bother him......i didn't want to be the reason he didn't get laid on this vacation or anything.......so i headed off to the room.....besides i wanted to write a bit.......and sit on the beach.......

so i get back to the room.......leave with the essentials.......and walk out onto the beach.......it was cloudy and getting dark.....but still bright enough to read what i was writing about.......but when i got out there.......my mind went blank.......just being out there.......warm salty breeze......waves crashing.......and i sat in a beach chair and absorbed it all.......i watched a father and his daughters fishing.......and another family play tag.......and even though it was getting late.......and the sky dimmer......the ambionic lights from all the beach resorts still made it bright enough to see things......

i lit a smoke.......and gagged a little......smoking really makes me gag.......and then i started to wonder why i even smoked.......(presently i haven't had a cigarette for about 3 days......and i feel okay).......i wondered why i even bothered since it literally makes me gag......i don't really need to smoke......i don't consider myself addicted.......even though i've been smoking on and off since i was 13......there would be months or even years in between where i didn't smoke........and then i would pick it up again.......and then drop it for a couple of months and then pick it up again.......so i began to wonder why i was smoking now?????.......i've noticed that i've smoked more in the last 9 months than all of the 12 years i've been around cigarettes put together.......

so i started writing about smoking.......and started writing down how i felt about it and what not.......and figured out that i smoke a lot when i'm bored.......i mostly smoke when i drive.......and i also figured that maybe smoking is my way of killing myself.......my "slow suicide" as i like to call it......seriously.......that's what i came up with.......that i've been sooooo depressed lately.......and i know i would never really wanna kill myself......so maybe this is my mind's way of doing what i know can't do.......if that makes any sense......

i also started a few writings that have been going on in my head......and i wrote about the ocean.......the lighthouse in the distance.......the families on the beach.....the ocean breeze......the sky.......and then i sat there for a while with my eyes closed and just breathed in the ocean air with my feet and hands swishing around in the sand.......it was a nice feeling.......

then i realized it was getting late.......i had been out there for a long time......so after walking along the shore and letting the waves crash into my ankles.......i started my trek back to the room.......

i got into the room and noticed bryan stopped by and left by the way things of his were scattered about.......and jumped into the shower to get all the sand off of me.......and i didn't notice that there was a bunch of sand stuck to my clothes.......and i just brought it into the bathroom and dressing area.......i figured "maybe bryan won't notice"......lol......

i get out of the shower and it's 12:30am.......and bryan isn't home.......i walk across the street to the main courtyard and check the tiki hut......and he wasn't there.......oh well......i guess he got lucky with one of the girls he was talking to.......so i head back to the room and i'm wide awake......so i flip on the tv.......

i watch tv for a couple of hours......feeling a bit lonely.......thinking about bryan having fun and me just sitting in a hotel room by myself.......and then i started getting tired......and bryan is still not home.......so i decide to head off to bed......but wanna have a cigarette before i go to sleep......cos again......i'm bored........i open the curtains and step onto the balcony.......light up my ciggy and watch the ocean for a bit.......i finish up and head back in.......i close the balcony door and shut the curtains......and while i was shutting the curtains.......i accidently kick the board holding up my bed.......and then all of a sudden the side i kicked drops down onto the floor.......i was like "OH MY GOD!!!".......and i was freaking out cos i just literally broke my bed......i try to lift up the mattress and box spring up and fix it.....but then the boards on the other side falls out from under the bed and crashes to the floor.......now i'm seriously freaking out.......i just broke my bed......and it's 2:30 in the morning.......and bryan could be home any minute.......

so i call the front desk and of course maintenance isn't in......cos it's really late.....so they send security over.......and i'm really embarassed......and they're laughing at my bed all broken and lopsided.......so they take the matress and box spring off and lean it against the wall.......and we're all looking at the frame.......and it's a frame made of wood, slid together like a shelf.......and i'm like......"uh, that doesn't even look right".......there weren't any screws holding the frame together or anything.......

so security puts the fame back together the best they can by sliding the boards and corners together.......and then puts the box spring on it......the security guards think they got it until i ask one of them to stand on the box spring.......so he stands on it......and the bed comes crashing down again.......the security guards were like, "uh, i don't think your bed is safe......we might have to get you another room"........and i was like, "i can't get another room and switch in the middle of the night without my roommate here, besides, i don't think you guys have any rooms"........and then they start asking about my "roommate" and what not........and i was telling them how i wouldn't be able to explain this to bryan......and since it was around 3am and i wanted them out before bryan got home i just finally said......"forget it......take the frame out and just put the box spring and matress on the floor".......so they do and tell me they are going to put in a maintenance report and telling me the bed is just unsafe to have it on the frame......so i hurry and get rid of them......i didn't know how i was going to explain this to bryan.......and i was just really embarrassed.......you can't imagine.......and i went to bed knowing that it was safely on the ground.......lol

may 31
monday, memorial day.......it's still dark when i hear bryan take his bed out from the couch and hear an "oh shit"......i thought to myself, "oh he's just getting in"........and i look over at the clock and it's 6:30am......i was like, "holy shit" that must have been some night.......i lazily go back to sleep.......

i wake up again and it's about 8 o'clock......and not wanting to wake up bryan, i just laid there in bed staring at the ceiling.......thinking about what i was going to say about my bed being on the floor.......and i can hear people in the pool outside.......so around 10am i open the curtain just a bit to see what was going on......and the hotel is teaching people how to scuba dive in the pool........which i thought was cool......

i figure bryan had enough sleep and get up and manuver my way to the bathroom/dressing room (which his bed blocks by the way) being careful not to touch his bed and things on my way there.......but because it's me.......i failed when i went around the corner of his bed and i brushed against his cellphone that was charging on the counter and dropped it on the ground.......and he woke up.......

FYI: just so i don't confuse you guys......our room has a sliding door that lead to a closet/dressing area with mirrors and a sink.......and inside of that is another sliding door leading to the bathtub/shower and toilet.......

the first thing he says was......."where did you go last night???.......i was looking for you to see if you wanted to hang out with us"........and i told him that i went out to the beach to write.......i left the dressing room door open so i could hear him tell me about his night while i brushed my teeth, wash my face and do my hair.......

and he's going on and on about how much fun he had (without me, BTW).......and how he and matt was talking to all the chicks......and just going on and on.......and i'm thinking that i really don't wanna hear it.......i just kept laughing at him and nodding......and having troubles putting my tongue piercing back in......bryan was watching me and wondering what i was doing......and i told him i was putting my peircing back in.......and he thought i was popping pills or something like that......lol......

anyway......i finish getting ready and me and bryan are talking and he decides to get in the shower.......i'm sitting in the arm chair reading my book when all of a sudden i hear bryan yelling from the bathroom "there's sand all over the floor!!!!!!!"........ah shit.......and i yell back "sorry!!!!!!"........he comes out of the dressing room and starts talking shit about how he steps out of the shower with wet feet and gets sand all over them like he's walking on the beach.......and i tell him that i didn't think i had that much sand on me until i got into the bathroom/dressing area.......and then we start bickering and bantering like an old married couple about sand.......

so i wait for him to get ready and decide that we'd walk over to the tiki hut/courtyard for lunch since they were having a BBQ.......and after lunch he tells me that he's going to walk around and look for matt.......meanwhile i'm watching the resort activities like karaoke, dancing (i got dragged out by the host to do the electric slide) and coconut bowling........two strawberry dacquaries and a mudslide later......bryan comes back to check up on me......we head back to the room so bryan can change and he decides that he wants to eat again and asks me if i have money to go out and eat.......and of course i do.......(me and bryan were broke when we started this trip and were waiting for our paydays and direct deposits to hit our accounts for spending money).....

after bryan changes we head back over to the tiki bar where they're still doing karaoke and calling all the women to come up behind the mic.......and i'm just standing there watching all the girls get up when all of a sudden a lady grabs me by the arm and drags me up to the crowd of waiting women......i look back and bryan and he just shrugs.......i get up there and look towards the tiki bar and see rebecca and jake there.......i run over (to get out from the spotlight) and say hi to them.......and then we both get dragged back out to the crowd.......so we're standing there talking and wondering what they want us to do.......and basically they wanted all of us to sing "i will survive" and dance.......and i don't know the song......i should but not really.......and i look over at rebecca's husband and HE knows the words......rebecca tells me that jake won a karaoke contest when he was 15 singing this song.......which i thought was funny.......

after the song......i walk with rebecca back to where she was sitting at the tiki bar and chat with her and jake......and they ask where my friend is......and i look around and see bryan sitting at one of the tables waving......i point him out to rebecca and jake then turn around towards the bar.......not even a minute later after i point bryan out......he's right next to me.......the first thing he says is......"i thought i would walk over here to see what she's saying about me".......i roll my eyes with an "oh brother" look on my face and introduce bryan to my new friends that i met the day before.......i mention to bryan that jake was in the army.......and right there they hit it off.......and they were just talking and talking.......and me and rebecca were just listening to them talk cos i've heard all bryan's stories......and she's heard all jake's stories.......and during this time the tiki bar is hosting a "mix drink class" so we're sampling a bunch of drinks......and then after a while of talking, rebecca and jake tell us about the calypso cruise that they're going on the next night and want us to come.......bryan thought it would be fun so he asks me if i wanna go......and i'm thinking why not.......so we plan with rebecca and jake to go with them on the cruise.......

well rebecca and jake take off.......it's about 6pm and they wanna go sit in the hot tub......ya know do "honeymoon" stuff......and bryan tells me that he'll be right back.......so i take a seat at the bar AGAIN.......and start ordering me a drink.......i'm talking to the bartender, whose name is karen......and she's really cool......and also talking to the bar flies who don't stay at the resort but come to the tiki bar everyday.......which i thought was cool.....they were really nice guys......they are like the "norms" of the tikie bar.......so whenever anybody comes to the bar they'll always see a familiar face.......and then i ended up talking to this other guy about something uninteresting but i pretended to be interested just to be nice.......

finally bryan came back and saved me.......i was telling him that i was glad he finally came back.......there were people just talking to me about nothing i was interested in.......and bryan told me it's because i get pegged "the listener".......and people see that i listen so they like to talk to me......i shrugged it off and figured that's probably why me and bryan get along.......he talks and i listen.......with that i saw that he found matt and that he was coming along with us.......hallelujah!!!!......bryan can talk to matt so i don't have to sit there and listen to him.......lol.......and we're off to eat.......

we went driving around for a while, looking for a place to eat when matt got curious and asked us how bryan and i met........i gave bryan the "do-you-wanna-tell-him-or-should-i" look.......bryan just looked at me and told me to tell him........and after i told him.......matt was definately surprised........he thought we were childhood friends........and he was even more surprised when i told him that this was the first time i've met bryan in real life........and i tell matt that me and bryan are just good friends.......and nothing else.......and that's the way we like it........matt thought it was pretty cool......

so we finally find a resturant......i forget the name......that was really nice and on the waterfront........and it's really pretty where boats would park on the side.......we sat there eating and watching all the boats pass by and seeing everyone having fun and what not......and bryan is talking away.......and once we got up to head back......i thank matt for coming or else i would have been stuck listening to bryan talk......and bryan just tells me to shut up because he knows i love him......and i sarcastically say......."oh, so that's what i'm feeling huh?"......and roll my eyes......and he all like "don't you roll your eyes at me".......and matt's just watching this still amazed that me and bryan had only met in real life two days ago.......

we get back to the hotel......and bryan is tired.......i'm mean c'mon......i only let him sleep for 4 hours.......so we head up to the room.......and he jumps into bed while i sit in the armchair and watch tv a bit.......i wait for bryan to fall asleep before turning off the tv and lights.......and i head off to bed.......

*****stay tuned for the tuesday and wednesday party nights*****