cheers to my escapades!

My weekend was a blast! My cousin Sherrein arrived from Talahassee just this Saturday, and right then we began clubbing in Downtown Las Olas, Fort Lauderdale with our common friends. I was like being freed from my cage. Hahaha! Imagine, I have not gone to the clubs since April! Yes, the last time I had a night out / gimik was still in Manila with my batchmates, and I had really missed going out. Not exactly drinking, but just going out with friends and have a good time. Four months of being stuck at home had not been funny, not at all. It sucked! So there, I had a good time last Saturday in Downtown!

Sherrein and I in Art bar while waiting for our other friends. We crashed there because there's free admission plus one free drink per person. Cool!


That's Kristina, one of our friends.

One highlight for that night too was meeting my long lost friend Katrina. We have the same name obviously. She was my classmate in elementary (grades 1 to 3) back in South Cotabato. The last I time I saw her was in 1993. Yes, we were in grade 3 that time, because she and her family moved in New Jersey since then. We just kept in touch thru Myspace and friendster.

Anyways, she and her friends were having a vacation in Fort Lauderdale for 4 days and 3 nights. Her brother gave her number to me in Myspace, and told me to call her right away. So there, we planned to meet up in Las Olas and hang out. It was so fun meeting her after all these years. We didn't get that much time to talk however, because we're in the club and it was too loud in there, so we were like shouting. But still it was nice to meet her again, and she looked really dazzling! I was shocked too that her friends were all pinays! How I wish I can have that much pinay friends here too in FL, and how I wish we live closer so that we can go see each other more often.

Katrina of New Jersey and Katrina of Florida... after all these years!!! YEY!


with Kat's friends, Sherrein and Kristina
See? Pinay beauty still reigns! hahaha

Kat and her friends went home earlier than us, because they have a flight back to New Jersey the next morning. So the rest of us went barhopping still. My feet hurt coz I was wearing heels and my companions were on flip-flops. haha! For the whole night I got 3 different drinks. I got a tequilla sunrise, a Smirn-off and a Miller lite (a beer). I'm a good girl, so three drinks were enough, and I am not used in drinking anymore. I swear, I got a bit tipsy already after my two drinks. haha! We already went home like past 3, and we arrived home at 4:30 AM and we grabbed some snacks at home coz we're so hungry. My cousin slept over at our house.

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The next day, we were off to Southbeach Miami! Yes, another escapade! We just had 6 hours of sleep, but it's alright. Luckily we have no hang-over! We went there because Kristina was going to meet her bestfriend Marina from New York, who's having a vacation there, so we joined her and Michael, her boyfriend. It was really exciting, because I was going to Miami for pleasure, and not for a job related matter or lawyer stuff. hihihi.

We went to meet her friend in a hotel, which was in front of Miami beach. WOW!!! Hell yeah! Then we're off to the beach itself! We just crossed the street. At last!!!

Then we laid down our mats. The weather was good! It was not that crowded because it was a Sunday, and the water was tempting. So we put our tanning lotion and got in the water. There were killer waves so it was pretty annoying if it gets bigger coz we're thrown off the shore, but at the same time it was exciting coz we gotta fight against the waves and pretended to do surfing without a surfboard. haha. How weird was that?! But we had fun! Then we did sunbathing and what would you expect? But of course, picture time! *wink*

That's me, Kristina, Marina and Sherrein. Sherrein and I were so little huh? hahaha!

We left the beach at around 7pm already. It was still sunny that time so we did not really notice that it was getting late already.

Last shot at the beach! we got a lil darker...

We went back to the hotel, then we waited for the others to shower and fix themselves. Marina had two other friends with her. We had dinner afterwards in front of the beach and it was awesome. It was like Key west too, and I actually missed Boracay because the bars were lining up the street and the ambience was more like it, coz yeah it's the beach. And they played good music too. But don't ask the price of the food and souvenirs, coz they're expensive, since Miami's tourist spot.

We had dinner in Cleveland.

We sat ourselves outside enjoying the cool air of Miami. We were 7 all in all, and Michael (Kristina's boyfriend) was the only guy. Sherrein and I shared in their clubhouse sandwich because it was hella big (and expensive haha), and we got ourselves a cocktail drink. Mine was Miami Vice. (I should have taken a pic of it!) It was really really good and fruity!!!

Here are some pictures from the dinner...

The cousins!!!


Marina and Kristina


"I forgot her name" and Nicola


Kristina and Michael (the couple)

All of us were 21 and 22 except for Nicola (who was 20) and Michael (who was I think 30). Well people here in US do really look mature huh? The first time I saw them I thought they were older than me, yet I was older than them.hehe. But these people were so nice and friendly. They knew how to have fun and they loved to talk. As a matter of fact, I was fond of their expression for the night, which was "Oh my God!" New Yorker style! It was uttered in different ways, it can be faster or slower, high or low pitch! haha. They were really funny!!!

We went back to the hotel and got our things from there. Then we went home in Coral Springs. I was really tired. I got home at 1 AM, because I drove my cousin Sherrein home after Kristina and Michael dropped us both in my house. But I had two days that were really fun! More to come while Sherrein's off here for her summer vacation!