Spring Beak!

26/03/13

Spring break. That’s all I need to say right? Only kidding. First thing I need to note on is I came back last night to an almost full ½ gallon or 2L bottle of milk that I forgot to throw out. I was expecting the bottle to have exploded with sour milk spilt all over the bottom of the fridge but surprisingly it was still fresh and I had it on my weetbix this morning…. I have had that milk for 3 weeks now…. What in the world do they put in their food over here! That is not natural.

Right well to begin i can't remember every minute detail of the week but it was seriously like a reality tv show. Jersey Shore international style i would say...

Ok we flew down on the Saturday and darling Jack stayed the night and took me and Portia to the airport the next morning. Poor dani had her flight booked to Atlanta for the Friday so had to fly down then and stay an extra night. It was quite an easy journey and we stopped off for a MASSIVE hagen daaz Sunday at the airport (not a good start to the week). Once we picked up dani we headed to the car rental place where we had some major trouble getting our car. Portia's card didnt have the full $350 needed for the payment and they wouldnt let us pay on another card so we all had to chip in a little in cash and then pay some extra because apparently teenage girls cant be trusted....

Car trip down was alright. We got delirious towards the end of it but that made it more bearable on my behalf at least. Again you may think delirious is my favourite word… and maybe it is but it is perfect to describe how I get when I am TOOO tired, and that is more often than not on over here. We got in at 3am and basically went straight to bed. People were still partying but no no that could wait until the morning.

Next day was cold and windy but that didn’t stop the fun. Hottubs and heated pools are a great invention. Because we were going full boar from about 10am we were all asleep by 7-8pm and so I had a wonderful sleep over 12 hours!!! Wowie!

Next day was much sunnier and everyone came out to play! And I mean everyone! It was the busiest beach day of the trip. One really cool thing was for st pats day they somehow dyed the sea green! 

I cant remember anything of note really on that day apart from EVERYONE except the smart aussie over here got sunburnt and peeled for the entire rest of the trip! All I can say is sucked in! you all need to learn to slip-slop-slap! In saying that though I was probably one of the palest by the end of the trip which confused everyone because Aussies are meant to be BROWN!!! Yeah well genetics isn’t really in my favour now is it….

We also went to a beach party on one of the days where there was free drinks for 5hrs! woohoo! I didn’t drink though because we danced soooo much! didnt have time to wait in lines! There was an awesome DJ set and a country music set as well… and I admit… I am a country music convert now… I love all the corny American stuff! Country Girl is the best song.

Towards the end of the week dani (frenchie) was discovered by a French filming crew. So naturally as her BFFL, the two of us are now being featured on a French documentary on the main TV station in france. They followed us around for 3 days and interviewed the both of us (mainly dani in French, with me looking like a mute in the background). It was quite funny because people were getting really confused and thought that we were celebrities! :D nothing wrong with that…..

Second last day all the girls stayed in bed but I managed to head out once the sun was out. So glad I did because I say so many Minnesota people that I actually already knew! Reed from my accounting class, Annie from well I guess Sigma Nu and the rest of the Snu’s! It was great fun! And I managed to rope one of the boys to drive us home from the airport when we got in so that we wouldn't freeze without our jackets!

Oh and I think I should drop out of business school and do a cooking apprentership… seriously. Look i even have my own business set up!

Even on spring break I was coming in off the beach, stealing the spatulas off the boys cooking a bbq saying no no no your doing it all wrong. Here let me show you… I ended up cooking their whole lunch for 8 people! And well its safe to say I took over the pasta, pancakes, scrambled eggs and cocktail making for the week. I cant help myself!

The last night of the trip we went to hammerheads fred's again. Going there I was completely pooped out and didnt really want to face hard liquor again. I was such a wet rag for the first half of the night but then Wesley made me come with him into the mosh pit once the glow paint started being sprayed and well... 

WHO DOESNT LOVE GLOW PAINT?! I had the best time! Such a grub and I love it! Haha I slept like that though when we got home which was not really a good idea… my hair had become all crusty with green, purple and orange paint and well my face was not much better. It was VERY hard to scrub off the next day and so I still managed to travel to Atlanta with a fluro green neck and chest… needless to say my singlet is destroyed.. even after two washes! mum i need you to bleach it!!! 

Other than 2/3 nights, we were all in bed by 11pm and so well it sounds dull but we were honestly all partied out by then! I also definitely spent over $1000 but again… it was worth it. 

On the way home Atlanta was a bit of a let down. It seemed like a pretty city but we were so ridiculously tired and it rained the whole day… we still got a nice lunch from Ray’s in the city though and I was super touristy and held out my map and camera everywhere we managed to walk in the wet!  So crazy it was only about 9c but I was walking in only jeans and a shirt… I mean I was cold but Minnesota has really acclimatized me! Beach in winter!?!?! Here I come! 

We also went to the Coca Cola factory which well as a coke lover (NOT) was thrilling.

Apart from the coke onsie i found!!!

Also #FUNFACT atlanta fire hydrants are painted silver!

One more thing. I just went to the supermarket to fill my barren fridge and I couldn’t resist the jumbo packet of bunny peanut mnm’s so of course I bought them and was munching away on them on the bus… nek minute… the crack whore across from me (don’t want to be so politically incorrect but she was clearly off her face, only had one fake eyelash on and was slumped on the front seat of the bus) springs to life and asks me for some! I was pretty bewildered but of course I offered her the bag… when she couldn’t manage to get any out I helped her again. I tell you though it lifted my morale for the day. I felt very charitable and offered up my seat out of the goodness of my heart and not to get away from my new friend or anything.

Now that im back in Minnesota its time to do a major detox… toooo much frozen pizza, chips and well just disgustingness. So good to be home and clean and cold again J

If I have forgot anything well… too bad.

Much love,

dee