July 5, 2008
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4th Of July
For the fourth of July I woke up at the Great Wolf Lodge because I spent the night over. I woke up early to finish up my quest thing from the night before. My sister was too sore to help me out because we were pretty much running up and down the stairs for about four to six hours. I blew some time waiting for the game to turn on by eating breakfast; I had a lovely bagel which was served by a really nice cheerful lady.
I finished up all my quests when the game turned on at nine o’clock but I didn’t finish all the hardcore adventure quests, or slay the dragon at the end which is kind of bummer but I will be going back again sometime before summer is over. My auntie Mila invited me and Cathy but we will see if I can make it.
It took about two hours to drive home, surprisingly I didn’t fall asleep in the car and I wasn’t doing anything to keep myself entertained. The first thing I did when I got home was to get ready for the Fourth of July party; I was expecting a couple of my guy friends over that I haven’t seen in forever.
We didn’t buy as much fireworks as we did last year, because of money shortage and the recession but we did the same thing we did last year. We had a potluck of food and fireworks, so even though we didn’t have that much separately, we had a fairly good amount all together. I had so much fun! I invited Cathy, Jordan, Chase and he brought his boyfriend Jared, which was cute. They aren’t gay, that’s just an inside joke we have together. Paul came over too which really surprised me, I haven’t seen him in ages!
We talked, ate and messed around singing really weird songs on karaoke. It was Cathy and I verses Jared and Chase but the guys were losing so badly that Paul had to step in and help them sing to get higher points than us, but failed. It was funny because Cathy and I sang Reflection from the Disney Mulan movie in Chinese. Cathy and I know nothing of Chinese what’s-so-ever but we took Japanese and we really winged it, we did pretty well too! We also sung I’m too sexy, by MC Hammer.
After we blew so much time waiting for it to become dark enough, we brought out the fireworks. This year was very interesting, because instead of just our family and friends lighting fireworks and the neighbors across the street, Cathy’s uncle, who lives just right next to me had a party at the same time. So you have three houses so close to each other constantly lighting fireworks. We have unspoken competition against the neighbors, who has the best fireworks. I’d have to say, hands down, that Cathy’s dad rocked socks this year. Even though this was his first time joining the fray, he was pretty hardcore for his first time. He got this really expensive firework that he got from the Indian reservations, called the Viper. It is worth about one hundred or so bucks but he somehow got it for twenty. It was those reloadable ones and it made the biggest and most beautiful displays compared to everyone that was there. I was so impressed but I think it is illegal it take it out of the Indian reservations but everyone does it anyways.
The neighbors across the street looked like they had quite a bit of some fireworks from the Indian reservation too. They were extremely reckless and there were way too many close calls. I was worried for the safety of the people and property. We were lucky this year.I ended the night very happy that everything worked out, all my friends helped clean up the huge mess of fireworks and my mom’s friends help clean up indoors. I hugged everyone goodbye and thanked them so much for coming. I don’t think I could have asked for a better night than that.
