Today was crazy. I loved it.
Well to start, since the Phillies won the World Series on Wednesday, the parade in Philly was today. I, along with basically the rest of my school, skipped and went down to the parade.
It's funny, cause I was thinking earlier about how just a few years ago I wasn't allowed to go trick or treating without a parent, and now I'm taking a train by myself (well with other people my age) to Philly and back. Apparently a lot has changed since then.
Anyway, we got to the train station at 7:15 AM to get the 7:45 AM train into the city. Good plan, getting there early since the parade starts at noon, right. Nope. It was crazy packed. We got our tickets and ended up waiting about 2 and 1/2 hours to actually get onto a train. Plus, it was freezing cold. But whatever. So when we finally got on the 'extra train' that they started running, it was so full that we had to stand the whole way. When we finally got to the city, we I mean my 2 cousins, and basically the whole senior class of the catholic high school in the area, we went to get something to eat. Mmm pizza at 11 AM.
After that we went to find a spot to watch the parade. I loved being in the city. There were so many people. I love just watching people interact with one another and the city is a good place to do it. But yes, we found our way to Broad Street and wanted a good enough view. There were so many people and it was so hard to get through them all. When we finally got a decent spot, it turns out there were only four of us together. I was with Ali, so everything was fine for me. But everyone else had gotten seperated. The cell phone reception was terrible and we couldn't send or recieve texts, or make calls. So we waited for the parade to come by and figured we'd meet up with everyone when people started clearing out.
Well it turns out the that we were on the right side of the newsstand while everyone else was on the left. So once the parade was over they went to City hall, and the four of us went in the other direction. Haha long story short, we eventually got the cell phones to work and met up at City Hall.
So it was about 2 PM and we wanted to go home. First, we got ice cream, then went to the train station to get back home. Well, there was a huge crowd waiting to get to the downstairs area where we board the trains. We waited there for about an hour, probably more, then finalllly went downstairs to find out the train was full. After standing or walking since 7 AM, I just wanted to sit down. So we sat on the ground and waited for the next train.
When one finally arrived, it was already full and we expected to be standing the whole way home. Well, one group of people went in the one side, and my cousins and I went in the other part of the train on the other side. Turns out there wasn't room for everyone, so the whole group we were with had to get off, and the three of us were stuck. So we figured we'd be fine until we heard someone say it was an express train and only making one stop, of course not the stop we wanted. But it all was fine, and we ended up getting off at our stop after all.
So after that incredibly long day, I got home, got a shower and went to my cousins, where I am now. She's asleep on her bed, which I want to do so badly, but for some reason couldn't fall asleep. This day was so long, but so much fun.
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Exactly. I feel like no one but you guys really understand. It seems like you all care more than my friends who are so caught up in their own superficial lives and trying to fit in. No one has been acting like themselves this year. It's weird. My phone call was good. I miss him so much. We used to talk on the phone until 3am every night.
I probably won't get to see him until around Christmas. He usually comes to visit around then. I know what you mean though. If we all didn't live so far apart, we would all be best friends. I am so thankful to have all of you. I really don't know what I would do. I get to see you in 18 dayssss!
Same. I love that no one is fake or bitchy. It's kind of too good to be true, but it's not. Once we're all in college, we can all meet up somewhere. Maybe we'll end up in some of the same colleges. That would be amazing.
Thanks! I'm really glad that I have tour support because the majority of my friends probably think that I'm joking or I'm doing it for attention. It's just the way that Jersey kids are. Everything anyone does always has to have 2 sides to it. I'm serious though. I'm making my friends sound like really bad people, but they aren't. They just think differently than I do. Hopefully I can keep this up. So far so good :)
sounds like it was a good day
glad you enjoyed yourself
Aw, thanks. I think my best friend is gonna be sober with me now. She told me a few minutes ago that after last night, she was done. They all went back to my friends house after the movies and got smashed, and she got alcohol poisening and threw up everywhere. She just told me that her mom had to come and get her and all this stuff. She woke up with bruises everywhere. I feel so bad, but I'm kinda happy that this might scare her out of it. It's funny how I just wrote about how stupid it is last night, and then something bad happens.
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