Exciting topic number one: My romantic Spring Break weekend getaway with … my friend Kari.

This is kind of a saga actually because we were originally planning to go to Mexico. Kari’s dad has free vouchers for a three night stay in either Puerto Vallarta or Cancun and one day she IMs me casually all … so, wanna go to Mexico.

Um, YES!

But then the practical side kicks in and I’m all what about airfare (expensive!) and we’re all, passports? (expensive! And time consuming!) or driving? (Loooong!) So it got more and more complicated and I emailed my poor mother about eight different times with eight different versions of where we were going and when. Finally, after all that, it turned out that, despite the fact that the vouchers were supposed to be transferable, the hotel was saying that they weren’t transferable and, oy, no Mexico.

“… Kari? I still want to go somewhere.”
“Me too. Somewhere resorty.”
“Ooh, we can drive, and we’ll just spend what we would have spent on airfare anyway.”
“Totally”
“Ok, where can we drive that’s resorty?”
“…”
“…”
“Big Bear!”
“Disneyland!”
“Yeah, my apartment is like fifteen minutes away from Disneyland. Not so much of a vacation.”
“Damn. Palm Springs?”
“Ooh, good one.”
“Hey … did you know that Palm Springs has lots of, um, " clothing optional resorts?”
“No. I didn’t”
“Hee. Now you do.”
“How on earth did you find those.”
“It was innocent, I swear! I was just at the board of tourism site and I clicked on a link.”
“Suuuure”
“Ok, damn, Palm Springs is getting expensive.”
“Yeah, lots of extra sunscreen”
“Shut up.”
“Ok, Anne, I can’t stop looking at these hotels.”
“Back away from the nudie sites.”
“Man, I think we need to go somewhere else.”
“No kidding, but where?”
“…”
“…um, close enough to drive…”
“Not too expensive.”
“Resorty”
“Must have a spa…”
“…”
“Oh! My! God! The Madonna Inn!”
“Dear god. It’s horrible. And perfect.”
“Yesssss”

So we’re going to The Madonna Inn for a few nights. This Central Coast landmark is a monstrosity of unparalled proportions. You know that line in A Christmas Story “He looks like a Pink Nightmare.”? Well, I can’t think of a better way to describe this place. There are 109 theme rooms and a good 90 of them are the most hideous things you have ever seen. Kari and I spent a hilarious couple of hours just looking at all of the rooms and laughing ourselves silly.

Some of the best (worst):

The Buffalo Room
The Crystal Room
Kona Rock
Love Birds
Old Mill
And (dun dun dun) The Pony Room

If you want to waste a good half an hour withstanding blows to your good taste I definitely recommend checking out some of the others. There are way too many bad ones to list.

As for us, we wanted to stay in Jungle Rock just so that we could make stupid animal noises all weekend, but it was booked solid (!) so we’re in Spring Flowers aka the crazy blue floral room. It has twin beds, there’s a Spa, it’s not too far from Santa Barbara. It'll be just us and all the other couples in love. Perfect.

Aren’t you jealous?

10:38 a.m. February 21, 2005

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“Y’all aren’t from around here, are ya.” - August 21, 2005
1:20 – 2:30 – 5th period. My Waterloo. - June 29, 2005
You know I love you. I’ll never hurt you again, baby, I swear. - May 18, 2005
Don’t be jealous. Not everyone can be us. - March 13, 2005
Conclusion: Albertsons is hiding the good Ice Cream from me. - March 08, 2005

The Many And Scary Ways They Get Here
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"They have lots of disturbing cross sections of animal reproductive organs"

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