happy new year!!!
well i got on the train to new orleans the next morning... got off the train in new orleans at about 10pm on new years eve, fixed myself up in the bathrooms at the station, put my luggage in a locker and went straight to bourbon st from amtrak. stayed out all night and got outragously drunk. i went back to coyote ugly and when the bartenders made the bouncer wave my cover charge i knew it would be a good night. while we are here can we all pay tribute to the coyote girls please as thanks to them i drank 3 times as much as i paid for, if she wasn't handing me a free shot she was getting the nearest guy to buy me a drink... much to the horror of his girlfriend standing next to him...
so there was more drinking, more dancing on the bar, there were no fireworks cos it was foggy and drizzling rain which sucked, there were hats and feathers and beads and cute men and all the joys that goes with that. so at 6am i head back to the station, stumble in at 6:30, ring my dear friend whilst still drunk from the station and then board the train at 7:20am still drunk for a 26 hour trip to washington DC. needless to say i ended up with a hangover somewhere between mississippi and georgia.
so i get to washington and once i've found my way to jamies house i pat myself on the back for remembering the trains/bus/stops and then walk 15 blocks to the nearest grocery store and proceeded to prepare a surprise dinner for jamies husband who was coming home that night from LA. i made a really nice rack of lamb and got many brownie points. i did manage to burn myself so badly on the hand that i slept with it on a towel covered in ice. its all fine now though.
today i went to the air and space museum which i had attempted to do 3 times last time i was here and when i finally got there today it was so cool cos they have a flight simulator in there. you get to be a fighter pilot. you sit in this capsule with a massive screen in front of you. they put a seatbelt and a thing over your head like you are on a massive rollercoaster. they shut the door and you have a control for the speed and a control for flying/missiles/bullets and you have 3 mins to go nuts. i made that thing do barrel rolls and do a 360 roll upside down. i shot tanks and other planes and everytime i got one (which was a lot) it goes "target destroyed" and i laughed and made it do another barrel roll. you literally flip upside down in the thing though, your stomach is left somewhere on the ceiling but its too much fun to care. when i came out you could get dog tags made up and so i got a corny set for me and one for my brother as well... he always wanted to be a fighter pilot. and i also got freeze dried icecream which is more on the strange than good side of things. then i went to dinner in a 'soul food' restaurant which is just southern food, like in new orleans. i'm craving that city again so i did the next best thing... ate jambalaya and bread pudding.
so tomorrow im off to boston, after that miami. hope you all had a good new years, write and tell me, i'll be able to check e-mail easily while im in the states but not sure about europe.
so there was more drinking, more dancing on the bar, there were no fireworks cos it was foggy and drizzling rain which sucked, there were hats and feathers and beads and cute men and all the joys that goes with that. so at 6am i head back to the station, stumble in at 6:30, ring my dear friend whilst still drunk from the station and then board the train at 7:20am still drunk for a 26 hour trip to washington DC. needless to say i ended up with a hangover somewhere between mississippi and georgia.
so i get to washington and once i've found my way to jamies house i pat myself on the back for remembering the trains/bus/stops and then walk 15 blocks to the nearest grocery store and proceeded to prepare a surprise dinner for jamies husband who was coming home that night from LA. i made a really nice rack of lamb and got many brownie points. i did manage to burn myself so badly on the hand that i slept with it on a towel covered in ice. its all fine now though.
today i went to the air and space museum which i had attempted to do 3 times last time i was here and when i finally got there today it was so cool cos they have a flight simulator in there. you get to be a fighter pilot. you sit in this capsule with a massive screen in front of you. they put a seatbelt and a thing over your head like you are on a massive rollercoaster. they shut the door and you have a control for the speed and a control for flying/missiles/bullets and you have 3 mins to go nuts. i made that thing do barrel rolls and do a 360 roll upside down. i shot tanks and other planes and everytime i got one (which was a lot) it goes "target destroyed" and i laughed and made it do another barrel roll. you literally flip upside down in the thing though, your stomach is left somewhere on the ceiling but its too much fun to care. when i came out you could get dog tags made up and so i got a corny set for me and one for my brother as well... he always wanted to be a fighter pilot. and i also got freeze dried icecream which is more on the strange than good side of things. then i went to dinner in a 'soul food' restaurant which is just southern food, like in new orleans. i'm craving that city again so i did the next best thing... ate jambalaya and bread pudding.
so tomorrow im off to boston, after that miami. hope you all had a good new years, write and tell me, i'll be able to check e-mail easily while im in the states but not sure about europe.
posted by nat at 1:28 pm
1 Comments:
Hi Nat!
Sounds like you had a really good night!
Unfortunately, I was a bit 'under the weather' so Ann, lou, Macc, Joe, Jazz and I all stayed at home!
We were going to be going into the city, as work open up an area right smack bang front and centre to watch the fireworks. We have done this before, so it wasn't a complete let down, but perhaps we will do it next year!!
Other than that, you can read all about it in our blogg!
Hope that you are having a great time, and enjoy Europe! How long are you away for??
Regards
Bernie
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