life: 2010 vay-cay @ the dells. day 1.

we've been back from the dells for a week now almost, but i'm only blogging now... i don't kno why.

but here goes.

so this time, we were gonna go 2 the dells. again. for the 6-gazillionth time. @ the same hotel. playing in the same waterpark.

except this time, keni+jim aren't going cause of stupid high school stuff. ah... to b a freshman again.

but it's beyond stupid: jim has 2 go 2 summer school 2 get credit into higher math & skip health class and keni has this UN-mandatory freshman connection thing @ young.

but keni's mom still "made" him go while kate got 2 come w. us.

LINE UP FOR THIS YEAR: filled w. many firsts (jim's mom, both his grandparents, dan+ivy, anthony's family....lack of jim, ken, alice (as always), rest of kate's family)

-JIM'S FAMILY (BOTH his parents--surprise surprise! his mom could actually get 2 days off!, his grandmother, AND his grandpa. wow. his grandpa doesn't go any-where. like mine. but 3rd grandma convinced him 2 go, so he did.)

-KATE by herself. her family is additionally going 2 a cruise since dan, ivy + nate already went earlier in the year, and they got pretty cheap tix. kate's ma was convincing us all 2 go, but my ma+grandma sincerely hate cruises.

-DAN+IVY. another first. they actually were able 2 go this year. w. nate.

PLAN: stay in dells for 2 days, 1 nite.

the car ride wouldn't be really pleasant since nate will probably cry for getting stuck in the car for 4 hours, and dan will most likely short circuit from that, or the fact that grandma will nag him about something.

but it was surprisingly not so. grandma+ivy agreed over a lot of things and they caught up on gossip.

we met up @ a McD's off 90/94 and had breakfast. i ate like i was starved even though i made sure 2 eat a cup of strawberry yoplait w. blueberries b4 we left.....

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when we got there, the condo wasn't ready yet, so we went 2 play in the water park. as always. we left our stuff w. the adults, and went on our merry way.

after a little while, nita decided to go 2 the other waterpark that was supposedly only 5 min. away by foot (as told by the help desk). she had been pining 2 go 2 the other 2 water parks since we thought that we only went 2 one of them. but truth was, we've been to both already. we just didn't kno it.

so we decided 2 leave (we told the old ppl, who told us 2 be back in half an hour.) (they also brought sew lapp this time 4 food.... roast duck [decent], bbq pork [which was too salty], and roasted pig [none was left when i came]....but it didn't really matter how the food tasted. we were ravenous.

so we left. and walked across the hotel, past the parking lot, barefoot, and in our bikinis.

did u actually know that thin black stuff they use 2 fill up cracks on the road is actually quite soft? it's actually quite like moosh. it was fun stepping on them...

thank gosh the black paved lot wasn't too hot. it was bearable.

so we found it, and we found out that we've been there before. so we played. i told them half an hour has probably been up by now [whenever "now" was], but they ignored me, so we kept playing till they gave in, and we walked back.

but we couldn't find them!!

they abandoned us!!

so we were still in shock [no one was hyperventilating, so i guess we were in disbelief].

we asked this couple at the [now old-ppl-less table where they used 2 sit @] 2 borrow their phone. i mean EVERYBODY there had a phone. not only b/c i know it, but i SAW it. EVERYWHERE you looked, someone was texting on their phone.

so we called. and called. and no one picked up, so we had 2 give the phone back before we used it for longer than polite.

so we looked. all over the place. and it did not help that all 4 of us [kate, blendi, nita, and i] were wandering around looking for someone we knew when all 4 of us digbats needed glasses. which the adults had.

niiice right?

so we continued 2 look. i mean, i am NOT stupid. i could call front desk. but would they give us ivy's room? all i knew was that the condo was under ivy's name (it was pouring when we arrived, and the assistant out in the lot checked us in, and directed us). i mean, if they DID give it 2 me, i would be mad.

i could be a serial killer! or a stalker! so we gave up on that idea. i mean i had it when we first made calls, but i doubted it would work.

so this was our plan:

1. call them. [phail]
2. look [phail: all 4 of us needed, but didn't have, glasses!]
3. go 2 front desk [last resort]

so now that steps 2&3 were proven phails, we went 2 the lobby.

so i of course right off the bat asked 4 the room #, which, 2 the receptionist's credit, denied me.

i didn't kno whether 2 be happy or mad. or frustrated.

i gave her ivy's name.

i asked did she check in yet.

she said yes.

i asked her when.

she said she could not tell me that.

so we asked 2 use the phone.



she asked 4 an ID, which i of course wouldn't have either way even if i did have one (#1--i'm underage; #2--i would have left it w. the adults, which they would have then taken w. them)

i mean, all we had was the bikini on our backs.

but either way, i told her, it didn't matter b/c [we had different last names, and] i didn't kno her address, but she lived in ___e, IL. [which was still a stretch, b/c i didn't kno if she technically live in lin____. the one thing i'm sure of--she lived in IL...]

it was a match [thank josh], so she happily gave us a room number AND a key. AND offered us a shuttle 2 the condo. [how nice of her!]

[but i'm still sorta mad @ her... all i knew was ivy's name and the city where she lived. i mean, yea, we were 4 teens w. only our bikinis on [sorta helpless?], but still! we could be doing some serial killer's work for him!]

but she finally got around 2 calling the room, and they were actually there!

[i would have bet $50 they went out; the many times we've been there, we didn't spend much time actually IN the condo. it was only a place 2 wash properly and sleep.]

so ivy picked up, and we told them we were in the lobby, and dan was coming 2 pick us up.

in 30 seconds, dan was there, and he said, "now we have 2 find ur [my] dad."

we were like, "he was looking for us?! we didn't see him."

so we sat in the lobby. i dunno how long we waited, but it was fairly quick. dan came back w. my dad in tow, and we left for the house.

we washed up, and ate. it would be the only dinner we would eat there, and we decided to shabu shabu.

the old ppl, as expected, brought a rice cooker, and some lap yukk, & lapp cherng.