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Call me Silly but the only reason I joined band was for the band trip. We went to Toronto last year this year I am going to Cleveland. Woohoo. Actually I need to Leave in like 5 minutes soo. Hopefully we dont mess up at the competition too badly  And I will see yall on MOnday when I get home. Hopefully not car sick 
Peace and Trees
~Andy
All this energy callin` me,
Back where it comes from
It`s such a crude attitude,
It`s back where it belongs.
All the little kids goin` up on the skits go
Cleveland rocks! Cleveland rocks!
Jumpin` Jane Jean, and moonin` James Dean go
Cleveland rocks! Cleveland rocks!
Cleveland rocks! Cleveland rocks!
BAND TRIP!!!!!!
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Wow! The enthusiasm isn't difficult to see, hehehe!
I hope you have a REALLY good time.
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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But if you're going to Cleveland during baseball season it's "Wahoo," not "Woohoo." I hope you get to spend a day at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's great. I grew up just a few (well ok, about 60) miles south of there.
And yes CLEVELAND ROCKS and so does Ian Hunter.
Think good thoughts,
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The oldest off to Myrtle Beach and the other to Orlando. Oh, my aching wallet!
Hugs,Charlie
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I try to think back to the Jurrassic era when I was in High School...I don't remember doing anything fun like that. I played no musical instruments.
But friends and I did publish an underground "alternative" school newspaper, kind of a lampoon...never got caught, cuz one of us had a key to the school office and we used all the office equipment after hours, and we looked "official". That was fun!
Andy let us know how your band did in the competition, and whether you had any cute roomies!
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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Im home and ill tell yaall how it went later, but im sleepy now and need to go ot school.
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Welcome back, Andy. My fish is happy too.
Simon.
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You really got a fish ohhh what kind !!!! That is soooo awesome dude!!
Peace and Trees
~Andy
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DAY 1
Oks.. friday I had to be at school before 7 am in the morning. we left from school at 8 o clock almost on the dot. Pulle donto the highway I swallowed my Dramamine (motion sickness pill) and we were cruisin. I put on my head phones and immediatly leaned against Brenda napping. She borrowed on eof my sleepy music cd's and quickly fell asleep we both woke up about 2 hours later becuase various body parts had gone numb. Swapped cds then went back to bed. We woke up at lunch (McDonalds *puke*) I hate fast food lol. While we were etaing this annoying kid Matt came up to us and sat down he's such a pain in the butt. While we ate we talked to this little old lady with two small puppys and she wasfascinated by the fact that we were all the way from NJ her and her husband are from PA. She asked us if we ever heard of Stroadsburgs band hahah little did we know we would be meeting them later... More tomorrow bout them..
So we had 7 hours of traveling like that. We watched a lot of aweful movies. (Robin hood men in tights, and Speed) to name a few. Slept a lot and went through quite a few batteries. We finally arrived at the hotel and I was sharing a room with 3 other guys. All basically my friends. Patrick, Andrew F, Me, and Derek. So we got our keys and for some reason our envolope had five keys. We didn't udnerstand it so we just tossed the spare key on a table and claimed beds and sofas. me and Andrew in a bed, Patrick in the second, and Derek on a sofa. So we got our keys and for some reason our envolope had five keys. We didn't udnerstand it so we just tossed the spare key on a table and claimed beds and sofas. Andrew and I in a bed, Patrick in the second, and Derek on a sofa. So we all ehaded off with our respective 'buddys' (gotta love school trips) and went to investigate the hotel. We were on floor 4 and it was really high.
So the elevators were glass and the corridors all open the hotel was based around a square design basicaly with the rooms along the outsides and a lobby in the middle. As we rode up the glass elevators we saw this asshole Kev standing in front of our room holding all his luggage, and we are all liek WTF is he doing here he's not in our room. When Patricks goes, Omy God we had 5 keys... he is in our room. So we go tover there and let him in adn he was thorally pissed at us. For not being there to let him in originally.
He goes inside and throws his tsuff on the sofa kickin all of dereks off. Then after cursing us out for a few minutes he grabs his pack of ciggerettes and leaves the room again. All of us are just standing there staring at each other in disbelief. The rest of us are all friends but kev god we hate him. Ok quick info about him bear in mind I am not trying to be mean or anythign its jsut quickest way to describe him, he is fairly short and fat weighing maybe 180 red hair. he is 'gothic' you knwo wearing all balck and tyring ot be scary for attention. he is all decked out in a dog collor and leather wrist thingys that look really dumb on him. and fake leather pants (god i hate that stuff if you want to wear leather buy the real kind!! god! the plastic stuff looks aweful plus its made from vinyl chloride soo...) Yeha. Ok thats enough about him. Anyway. So he stormed out of the room to go smoke of course..
That nigth we went to the Hard Rock cafe in Cleveland and everyone was like swooning over the waiter his name was Clint I thougth he was ugly but ya know.. Everyone was like trying to get there picture taken with him and stuff and he was a good sport about it. It was kinda fun, they let us dance on the tables and stuff. So that was kinda cool. I had never seen the video to YMCA before. Those guys really were gay huh... So we get back to our room and Kev pulls out these two bottles, blood red hair dye. *SIgh* So what does he do dyes his hair. Unfortunitly getting red hair dye like all over the floor in the process. SO I am alwyas kinda jumpy person so I was watching tv and patrick and I are doing ballet warm ups and stuff while watching (hes a dancer too much bette rthen me goes ot a much harder school). After like an hour of that Kev wnats to make prank phone calls but our phone didn't work so they sent Andrew and I to the band directors room (Mr. Masters) to tell him we are scared becuase the phone isn't worlking blah blah blah. We finally got it fixed to say the least. Kev prank called a trillion people.
Finally Im getting kinda tired and out of no where he tackles me on to the floor, and bites my damn leg!!! And I started begging him to stop and let me go and all that does is make him bite meharder. All the guys in my room are just watchign noone would interfer. SO finally I give up and relax, only then does he let my leg go and I just curled up into a ball crying. What does kev do. he fuckin picks me up and strats holding me I was like wtf. I pushed him away from me and went into the other room (it was a suite) and climbed into my sleeping bag. A few minutes later Andrew and Ptarick came in with my bunny and handed him to me and passed me my cd player then sat there talkin to me for a bit till I fell asleep.
DAY 2
The next day was less eventful Woke up dragged my poor body down to breakfast checked the bruise on my leg. GOt dressed dug out my flute and we hoped back onto the buxs ot go ot our competition. As far as playign was concerned the competition went ok.. We played better then normal But we still sucked pretty bad. And we got our asses beat by Straudsburg the same band we were told was so wonderful on the way up.. The we went to the Science Museum me and all my firends got our pictures taken with a big space man. And we played with all the exhibits. Then we walked like 50 feet to the rock and roll hall of fame and hung out there for the rest of the day.
I saw osme cool ass shit there. Anyone who is interested in music artifacts and bands and stuff has to visit that palce sometime it is unbelievable. I could have spent the whole trip there! Brenda Andrew I and Mr Steere (assistant amrching band director) wandered around together. I admired elton johns outfits. And beatles artifacts. Got to see the original lyrics for songs they had musicians notebooks and tsuff on display it was awesome. After tehre we hung in our rooms for a bit. That night masters took bout 10 of us to the movies it was so funny. He fucked up the cahsier by trying to order 10 tickets then have everyone hand in money and pay for it. But then he had to try and give everyone the right amount of chnage it was hilarious. Then Steere and Master tickets in hand lookign all serious and stuff both walked straight into a door We got told Thank you Please dont come back.. We watched Anger management. Great Movie
So afterwards while we were waiting for the bus to come pick us up my dumb friends accediently told Masters that Kev bit me and he got all mad. So of course he had a talk with kev. Kev returned to our rooom pissed off to all hell and started beating on me cuz he thought I told Masters on him. I couldnt tell him my friends did cuz then they woulda got hit, So i jsut layed there for awhile then he stopped and I went to bed. Patrick and Andrew sat with me again making sure teh door was shut so that kev couldnt see us. I dunno which one but one of them was rubbing my bakc and head while I drifted off to sleep. I can safely say I have never been in a fight and still haven't. After that kev didn't spend much time in our room basically only to sleep. He spent his whole time smoking down stairs.
Day 3 and Day 4 to come Tommorrow I need sleep now
Peace and Trees
~AnDy
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Oh man, that's not cool at all. Usually Goths aren't like that. They'd rather have someone hit them than go around biting. And while your friends are good for sticking by you, they needed to have pulled that jerk off of you. Someone should have taken his key and made him sleep in the hallway.
I hope the rest of your trip goes better. Ditch the bitch-boy though. I don't know what his damage is, but he's definitely a freak in need of a leash.
Keep your chin up, kiddo.
D'Artagnon
It's not the wolf you see you should fear, but all the ones he howls with. Don't be afraid of the song, but don't piss off the choir.
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You guys did some fun stuff, and some boring stuff it seems. At least it's a break from the boring routine. Congrats on doing better than usual in the competition!
You should report Kev to the friggin police man. He can't go around biting and beating people without being told it has consequences.
Take care lil treehugger. Next time Kev tries to give you a hard time, you kick him in the nuts okay?
Hugs:
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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I really like D'Art's idea about the leash...you shoulda kept him leashed up in the corner. One of those big doggie cages would work just fine, if somebody remembered to feed him occasionally...
Stroudsburg is still that good, huh? Back in the 80's I worked near there, and they were terrific even back then. Huh!
I like your friends. They took good care of you when you were alone together, for sure.
What music do you have on your sleepy time cd, by the way?
Can't wait to hear about the rest of the trip.
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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Ok Just want to apoligize for how badly written the first half was. I was very sleepy. If ya guys have nay questions about my trip or want to know anythign just IM me or send me an e-mail and I will get back to you. Ok and my sleepy time cd, I have two of them, One is Belle and Sebastian: The Boy with the Arab Strap. Which is a really good cd. The other is one my bro mixed together and its a lot of kinda relaxed techno I don't know who it's by but it's not loud like most techno its really quite calm. (Speaking of belle and sebastian thats who im listenign to now)
DAY 3
Woke up at an ungodly hour of the mornign. I think it was 6:30 AM Dragged myself down to breakfast ate my normal box of froot loops I love those things sooo much. After breakfast I went up to my room to get ready to go to Cedar Point that day. Took some Dramamine and packed my backpack, (no bathing suit it was sooo cold). So me all dressed in my Black pants and a Blue God shirt (won it at a retreat last year). So we get to cedar Point and it is opening day and I was looking at our map and I saw this cool wooden rollar coaster all the way at the other end. I don't liek rollar coasters but I make an exception for the wooden ones. So I dragged Andrew and brenda down there. The ride wasnt open yet we thought they were jsut doing test runs on it.. So I made us all stand there staring at it for like an hour
So we kept watching them run the cars while people are jsut crawling all over the track trying to repair it I guess. At one point I look up and the yellow car is stopped half way up the first ramp that it gets pulled up. So I look up and then back at my friends and nudge there shoulders while I keep poiting at the car, once they look I say ok... I think I am ready to go now. Then start walking away, Brenda went on a few rides and all of us went on the little mouse like rollar coaster, that was a lot of fun lol. When we got off the ride Andrew and I looked at each other and said, "Ok thats enough rides for one day" And we went and laid down on the sidewalk to catch some sun.
We had to check in with our chaperones at 12:30, so we went there and said hi then told them we were going to lunch. Andrew, Laura J, and I went to TGI Fridays, while Samantha and Brenda wen to ride all the rollar coasters our respective buddies' hadn't let them go on . After walking around in circles for twenty minutes the three of us finally found our way out of the park. Then we wlaked along the beach (Lake Erie) untill we reached the restraunt. We spent like 2 hours ! eating it was crazy. My friends are so funny. Laura wanted a souuvener form there so she took the bottle of ketchup and put it in the pocket of her shirt. It was sooo funny. Then we proved how dumb people from New Jersey are. While we were walkking along the beach it was a windy day and I looked out at the water and said, "Hey I didn't know we were near an ocean.." Andrew: "Thats not the ocean it's Lake erie" Laura: Why are there seagulls here then? Andy: "Why does it seem like salt water." Andrew: The seagills must be from jersey too... All the while there are these two people walking in front of us laughing there heads off at the converstaion we were having. When we were ready to order laura said: Fried Mozzerella, would that be mozzerella sticks? Thw waiter stared at her as if she was insane and just went : Yess... of course it is would you like them? Laura: Oh no I owuldnt I was jsut wondering!
So two hours later we meet up with Brenda and Sam for a bit, then they hesad off to go on more rides cuz they weren't done. laura and I at that point discovered this little steam train that runs around Cedar POint and immediatly hopped on. Silly us rode it 4 times with out getting off. Everytime we went through one of the 'stations' this guy would smile and wave at us (he worked at the park) so we took turns screaming out We love you to him. It made him smile so we were happy. He had a broken arm and looked all sad so we cheered him up. We got off the train about 3:30 we had to meet up with the chaperones at 4:00 to leave. So we spent our last half hour at the Snoopy store that was lots of fun! I bought a snoopy shirt while I was there, and we foundled all the stuffed animals.
Two guys from my group had bout Fake swords, (Patrick and John) They were pretend fghting when this group of college kids came up to us with a video camera and asked if they could record the two of them doing a sword fight. Well Patrick besides beign a dancer is also an actor... So he got all into ti and 'killed' John who actually ended up dead on the ground becuase he got knocked over during the fight. The guys with the camera then shook patricks hand and waved good bye. IT was super funny. A few of the guys bout wide straw hats and wandered around pretending to be hicks that was also kind of amusing. I sat with Andrew for the ride home and fell asleep on his shouldder. I was super cold and woke up he had his arm around me which was ncie beucause I was shivering and he was all warm.. When he realized I woke up he took his arm away but I just leaned against his arm and shoulder dozing till we got back to the hotel.
That night we had a semi-formal (uggggg) awards banquet for the competition. So as our band director said he though we should eithe rbe in suits or shirts and ties and stuff. He laughed his head off as I walked down with a group of girls in formal dresses, me I wore a pair of white jean (nice and tight it was a dance lol A white t shirt that was all itght, and then a green button down shirt over it, over my shoulder I slung my packpack and I wore a pair of tevas) When I came down everyone was hsowing off there clothes and shoes, masters came up to me and was like ok Andy start explaining. Me being the wise ass I was irght then Ran my hand down my body and said this is my sexy formal wear, i picked up a foot and pointed at my sandals and said these are my polihed dress hsoes. then gestured towards my backpack and said this is my wallet, I am just soo sexy aren't I then I stuck my tongue out at hima dn wlaked over to where Brenda laura and Andrew were hanging watching patrick play pool *drool*. So the banquet was really lous. Originally master said we had to stay through the awards ceremoney after dinner then we could leave. So after we got our awards and had been fed and watered Laura brenda Sam and I walked to the chaperones table and asked to be allowed to leave. They said we couldn't so we all trudged back to our table and sat down. Out of my trusty backpack I pulled my homework and a pad of paper. I then gave the three of them each a piece of paper and began to work on my homework (Andrew was off dancing with some check *yuck*) So Brenda began doing origami making a swan, same made a paper airplane and laura laid down in a dress across three chairs and procedded to try and fall asleep. After half an hour Mr. masters had a head ache and wnated to go get tylenol and Mrs. jennings had a Migraine was wnated to go to her room (which was connected to Laura and sams) They told us once we left we couldn;t leave one room that we all were in so we agreed and all climbed onto the elevator. First we all went into My room so I oculd change into short and a t shirt and grab a bag of junk food and soda. Then we wnet to brendas so she could do the same.
We sat around bored for about an hour or so before I started to build a pyrimid out of soda cans. well my pyrmid evolved into a clock tower. And soon we had built an entire city out of soda bottle and various food stuff we had lying around. Then to make fun of laura and I we made an 'ocean' using sam's blue skirt as the water. Then we put a 20 oz bottle under it and called it a submarine. Of course we had to make a beach so we dumped Alphabitz cereal onto the floor to make it into a beach. Our city was complete with a UFO and everything. (Which was strung across the room with the helf of soem rope we made out of plastic bags i cut into strips. All in all I say we were very creative. if you really wanna know what it looks like I can scan the like three pics I have of our work. But the pictures dont do it justice.... So after that while we were cleaning up I decided to play spoin the bottle with myself. dumb hotel gave us glass soda bottles what on earth were they thinking!!! So i started spinnign the bottles into each other. God there was borken glass everywhere that they made me clean up. Surprise Surprise. Then we went to bed (I was in my sleeping bag asleep before Kev got abck (thank god I hear he was pissed off. But Patrick adn Andy wouldn't let him come into the bedroom while I was sleeping ( I had to hug them both in the mroning for that I got a great nights sleep).
DAY 4
Noone woke me up for breakfast the next morning. Patrick got me up after they came back. He has a unique way to do it. Kinda funny really, he sits next to me adn starts unzipping my sleeping bag if the col air doesnt wake me he starts taking ofrf my clothes and removing my bunny till I start moving. If all else fails he pours cold water on me. veyr evry unique way. Most people just shake me... So I packed up my gear Anddrew and I were down before Brenda and snagged three seats near each other on the bus for once. I took my dramamine and soon we were on our way home to jersey.
I put on my sleepy music and curled oup on my side putting my head in Andrews lap almost immediatly falling asleep. I slept about an hour then woke up changed Cd's re positioned myself on Andrew then fell asleep again. At one point I was asleep on his lap and I woke up and felt him lightly rubbing my back with his hand then restign his arm on top of me as soon as I moved he pulled his hand away so fast it made me wonder if it ahd even really been there. So After a few more times of waking up with him rubbing myback and head. i decided that lying like that wasnt a good idea becuase I didn't wnat to lead him on or aythign I just wanted a pillow. So I sat up and used Bunny as a pillow leaning against the window.
Whatd oes Andrew do! he repositions himsefl so the his head is now on my shoulder and my hand falls on his leg. I moved my hand to my lap but let him lean there figuring it was only fair since I had just slept on him for like ever. After awhile we pulled into a gas station and I was like ok.. we need gas. Noped that was definitly not the case. What we needed to do was fixe the bus. Aparently while I was sleeping the bus had begun leaking and they had originally 'fixed it with tampons towels and plastic bags... but thats failed. So then we tsopped and they picked up diapers and duck tape!!! I come back to the bus after going ot the bathroom to find mr. Dennison sitting on the roof of the bus 'fixing' it. It was funny as hell to say the least. while we were cruising down the ighway again one of the diapers came loose *doh* So the bus began to leak again..
Well the next few hours were fairly uneventful. The only amazing thing that happened was kevin (not Kev! kev plays clarinet Kevin plays Sax) Came up to Mr mastes turned around and pulled down his pants and boxers exposing where on his ass he had writtin "your name" in cursive inside a heart. It was funny. I thought masters would flip out for sure but he just hit kevin on the ass and said I've seen better!!! Unreal right!
So next we came to jersey... Got all our stuff off the bus. Ohh The last 1/2 hour I got a very nice relxing thing from Ana. She evicted Andrew from his seat sat down and pulled my head into her lap and jsut stater runing her hands through my hair. Wow is that hevanely I was so calm by the time we got home it was insane Ok back to everything else you guys were doing before I interrupted to make you read this
peace and trees
~aNdY
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So glad mean Kev didn't get to hurt you again. That one needs to be put in place.
I laughed to myself as I read about your encounter with the ocean known as Lake Erie, and the swordfight and all the stuff you did at the amusement park. It's cool you remember dialog and stuff like that so clearly, it makes for an even better story. And yes, please show us those pics of the city you built, that sounds awesome.
You bought a shirt at a Snoopy store huh... Now I understand why Charles M. Schultz is the second-most most-earning dead person in the world, only losing to Elvis Presley. I read that in the paper yesterday as a matter of fact.
Bet you looked really nice in your banquet clothes too. Fat Kev was probably really jealous of you. Serves him right.
Andrew sounds like a really nice boy btw. And what did the bus leak by the way? Rofl!
Thanks for an incredible tale of a trip that can't have been that horrible after all?
Hugs:
-L
PS: It's duct tape, mate. LOL!
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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all in all it sounds like a pretty good trip. except that little misshap with kev. it sounds like you had a pretty good time lots and lots of fun.
luv ya
derek
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all this talk about cages and leashes got me worried i was on one of the other MBs i have read.
i am the resident BDSM Master freak here.
peace
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tim...of USA
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I was surprised you ahdnt responded sooner lol. Oh wells see you need to keep on top of thing or everyone tries to do your job. *looks suspisiously at everyone* none of you better take mine as the tree hugger! I will track you down..* gazes with shifty evil eyes* No Just joking
peace and Trees everyone
!aNdY!
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I love Cedar Point!!! I used to go there when I was growing up. The wooden roller coaster you wanted to ride, is it the one that looks like an old mine car? That was always my favorite. Your city that you guys built sounds cool. Lake Erie is almost an ocean, or at least it seems that way. Big enough to fool the sea gulls anyway. And no more hassle from Kev, YEA!!
Think good thoughts,
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Hiya, NJ! Are ya back from Cleveland yet? 
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