One Time, We Went to San Diego

So, obviously from the last post Marcie was here this past weekend.  We always tend to try to spend holiday weekends together.  Even if we don't necessarily get the holiday off of school....it reminded me of the time we struck off for San Diego, CA for the "weekend" a few years ago, 2006 to be exact.  It was near Columbus Day weekend so Marcie may have had some time off of school but I'm pretty sure it involved me telling my college professors I was getting my wisdom teeth out (again).  Since, we're documenting our fun times together in our anything but ordinary life on here, let me try to remember this venture out west....

At Hard Rock Cafe - clearly no one cared enough to tell me the curls and length of my hair did nothing except make me look like the Sphinx, thanks friends

Andrew was in San Diego for a few months playing Coast Guard so what better time to visit.  We flew to CA on a night flight from Atlanta to San Diego.  We sat with an elderly gentleman who drank a lot of gin and told us about his love for Jennifer Aniston.  We then went to a hotel that we had convinced Mama to book for us.  I guess since Andrew was with us she thought that meant we needed the "family suite".  Family suites are not made for siblings and their friends, they are made for parents and children.  Marcie and I opted for sharing the king size bed and gave Andrew the "not much bigger than a toddler sized" bunk beds.  Sorry, remembering that made me laugh out loud....

Sea World San Diego!  We saw Shamu

Okay so on this trip we walked all over San Diego, went to Sea World, the San Diego Zoo, Hard Rock Cafe, and ate dinner at the Yacht Club.  I distinctly remember dinner at the Yacht Club.  It was actually in the bottom of a hotel I stayed in the summer before when I went with FCCLA and ran after 2 precious girls for the week so that hotel was my point of reference for navigating us around the city.  All I really remember is they had really good Chicken Caesar Salads and if you order Andrew enough martinis he will pay for anything....

Petting Zoo in the San Diego Zoo

Petting Zoo again

Learning to drive Andrew's boat...

We flew home after a fun weekend on Sunday or Monday, not sure which day....I just know the stewardess was very adamant that we read the airplane safety instructions for how we could help if the plane went down.  I mean, seriously, we knew what to do, it was not our first rodeo on a plane.  Open the door, get your seat cushion (why in the heck we need a flotation device travelling over land is beyond me), and take the inflatable slide down.  We wanted to try and take the slide out when we landed in Atlanta however The Chief (Marcie's dad) doesn't usually laugh when we threaten to do things like that (because he knows we're serious) and seeing as he would be the next person we saw, we opted to just walk off the plane the normal way.

Marcie with those blessed instructions!!

All in all it was great fun.  Maybe Marcie remembers more details and can follow up.....or maybe she'll just tell you about another one of our weekend jaunts!!

A Weekend Full of Birthday Fun

This weekend we gathered in Southeast GA to celebrate the beginning of Megan’s 27^th year on Earth. If you know us at all, you know this was a good excuse for some new adventures!

There’s no way I can explain all the laughs, inside jokes, conversations, and outings so… Here’s a snapshot of our weekend:

1. Karaoke will never get old, especially when there are dancing Philippinos in the background at 1:00 in the morning! It’s fun for every musical genre right down to all the Disney classics. And… let me add that I am the reigning champion! ;-)

2. Some beaches have stupid rules. We are comfortable with the adage ‘rules were meant to be broken’ but for a $200- 400 fine, we had to concede. (Afterall, we have to save our money for speeding tickets!) However, I’m contemplating staging a beach boycott to fight the injustice toward our dogs.

3. One order of fries at Five Guys will ALWAYS be enough, regardless of the number of people in your party. Don’t question it.

4. Group text messages are an awesome way to get input from all your closest friends on ugly clothes and tacky pictures.

5. If you don’t have an IPhone, you’re missing out. Just ask Joe. The joy that comes from being able to “bump” pictures is a good enough reason to go purchase one immediately.

6. If there is a football game on TV, apparently all socially accepted seating rules for a restaurant are thrown out the window. Couch, anyone? Or, could you just serve my salad on the floor in front of the TV?

7. Outdoor restaurant heaters in our rare 30 degree weather are amazing… if they’re working. “For a $16 piece of cake, you would think they could keep the heaters working!”

8. Nothing says weekend fun like a cheese platter, cupcakes in a jar, balloons, martinis, red shoes, and a few dozen doughnut holes!

9. Vocabulary games are awesome but, NEWSFLASH: ‘Pht’ is not a word. It never will be, despite our attempts to use it in a sentence. ‘Threep’ however might have merit.

10. Lastly… HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEGAN!!! It was a great weekend full of lots of food, laughter, fun, and mockery!

How It All Began, Megan's Take....

I honestly can't say where it began....I have no idea.  I remember getting some new tennis shoes in middle school and at church one night Marcie said "oh, Megan got some new kicks" and it was awesome because one of the high schoolers had noticed my shoes.  Then it becomes blurry....things like seeing who could hold the most Alka Seltzer and Sprite in our mouths the longest, putting quarters in jars for 4 letter words, and riding places on the church box all seem familiar though.  Yes, we had good, wholesome upbringing thanks to First United Methodist Church of Moultrie, Georgia.  In 9th grade I remember being proud for getting Marcie's Algebra II book, little did I realize then that Math was one of our only weakness.  

Really though, it all started my Junior year of high school.  Marcie said when she started teaching I could do her bulletin boards then that year she graduated from Georgia Southern and moved back to Moultrie.  She. had. her. own. house.  Yes, that's right.  I used her for her house.  I also used her for the fact that regardless of what we were doing my mom trusted Marcie therefore if I was with her, I had no curfew and no questions were asked.  That summer Jena and I all but moved in and the rest is history.

History that we plan to write about here.  History of weekend jaunts across the country, graduations, treks across cities, car rides, spur of the moment plans and long range plans, trying to figure out who Becky is, shopping excursions, harassing others, playing handbells, and all those other things we like to call life.  Feel free to follow us and read about our adventures, or don't.  But if you don't, you're missing out.  We love each other and what we've brought to each other's life.  We think we're busy people but we'll make time for this.  Far too much time has passed and too many things have gone undocumented about our "Anything But Ordinary" life!!

Starting off...

After some deliberation and questions as to whether we could keep up with the fast pace of our lives... we have decided to embark on an adventure into the blogging world... hold on, it's going to be a wild ride!!!

To begin this blogging adventure let me tell you a little about us... We have history. It all started many years ago at church. Youth group, to be exact. Looking back, I think that Megan just envied my ability to drive a car (yes, I'm older and thus have been blamed for much of her corruption) but, nevertheless, a lifelong friendship began from my roots as a chauffer. During the early years our friendship was mostly centered around church activities such as Jell-O wrestling, scavenger hunts, and talking in the balcony but those meager beginnings were the start of a great friendship! We have an entire blog to devote to the escapades of the two of us (and those that we drag along with us) but for now let's just say this... since the early days of our friendship we have had LOTS of adventures (including one with some nuns and a "fren fry"- more on that one later, I'm sure) and many more laughs! For more than 15 years now we have celebrated holidays, birthdays, shared some near death experiences in both cars and bouncy houses, been serenaded at Disney World and made some pretty staunch enemies on a water taxi. In short, we have learned to love life and live it to the fullest and most importantly to laugh at ourselves (and others) as we travel along this road!