Stev, your dreams are soon reality.

Hello Readers!

Well, last night we stayed in the sketchiest (and cheapest at $42) hotel to date. The boys checked us in. They talked to the receptionist through a double sided mirror and slid the money through a slot. The room had one working light and as I sit here writing to you, still warming up from the frigid shower I just took, I am noticing some sort of unidentifiable staining on the box spring where dear Kimberly rests her head. On the flip side, we found a pair of lumos-lovely calvin klein jeans circa 1992 in the dresser and a little package of sample items (asprin, tampons, deodorant) on the counter.

I'm going to just give you bullet points, okay?

- We're in Roswell, New Mexico and are about to go investigate this cities UFO claims. There's a free museum and hopefully some locals willing to give us their insight. Real Blair Witch style stuff here, except aliens.

-Saturday we left San Diego and spent one last day at the beach in Encenitas with Allie, Shaunna and Katie, Allie's roomie. It was a lovely day. Sean had his best surfing day AND he and I had the best swim with the warmest water to date.

-Saturday night was VEGAS! We found free parking, which in itself was like winning big, we felt. We wandered around the strip and were surprised by just how, what's the word I'm looking for, trashy vegas was. I mean, most of the people there that were our age were hoochie mamas and papas. We stayed for about 4 hours just wandering aroud casinos, playing nickel slots and enjoying the absurdity of things like old woman with full ashtrays and a pile of change perched for the night in front of a machine. I lost about $7 and had a rip roaring good time all night. Mikey lost about the same, Seany won $5 on a slot machine, but also spent $11 on a hero from Subway. Kimberly was a big player and played some black jack and a neat dice game (zonked-friends, obviously she played all 1s and 5s). She was up, she was down, she was allowing makin' friends and learning the rules. It was lovely. Guys, if you ever want a naked girl to your house in twenty minutes, there's no place to go like Vegas. When walking down the street, we couldn't go more than a few steps without being given a flyer.

-So, we left Vegas at around 2am. Mike and I, having slept all afternoon, geared up for the overnight drive to the Grand Canyon. About fourty minutes into the trip we realized we would be driving right across the Hoover Dam! What an unexpected surprise that was! It was so dark, so we didn't see much. However, their were some ginormous spot lights on this bridge that they are building and that was a-mazingly cool. Just this HUGE bridge not connected through most of the center. There are pictures. It was neat.

TO BE CONTINUED...