The Road Trip is half the fun!

Wow!!! It has seriously been way too long! I have missed filling you in on every detail of our hilarious stories that you can't help but read. It won't be that long again- promise. I'm sure you were wondering if we survived all the birthday dinner/celebrations/ extravaganzas! And we did, barely, but we did. (Madea was FANTASTIC by the way! Hellerrrr!!!)
 So, here is the anticipated and much asked about New Blog!


Well you all (as I was taught to say),WE DID IT (spoken in my best Northern accent which I'm getting good at by the way!) lol. We went to Chicago and managed to stay out of jail and off a slab in the morgue. If you know us well enough, you know it was a small victory for us!!!!  We may have stayed out of the jail and off the slab, but the stripper pole is not something SOME of us stayed off of. I, however, am the only one who didn't take my "Swing of Shame" around the shiny, dirty, crotch-sweat-rubbed-all-over thing. I didn't know the boys had it in them! But, lets go back to the beginning. Oh, and thanks for taking the warning and not trying to jank our stuff while we were gone! :)


Well, of course we all know the road trip is half the fun. For me, it was loads of fun. I didn't drive a single mile the whole way there and I was a "princess in my palace" as Ant called it on the way. In my defense, I didn't get off work til 7, I DID offer to drive, and heck they should've known better when this girl is volunteering to take the back seat on an 8 hour ride. HELLO! But, I had my 3 pillows, satin blanket, phone charger, drink and snacks all in their perfect little place. It was quite a glorious ride for me! lol. Before I knew it, I was in Chicago- ALIVE! Which is also a big deal since Ant drove most of the way. But, importantly, we made it.


Of course sleep was first on my agenda! Then, it was time to celebrate the 4th! Mother nature seriously hates us I think. It was so HOT. It was hotter there than it was at home in the South. blah!! But, we were troopers! We started the day with a swim which was actually nice. We only "horse played" for about 30 minutes! lol. I have to note that Tracy made us a ridiculously good spread for lunch!!! Geez I wish I lived with someone that cooked all the time. ;).  Then, we spent the day at the neighbors with tons of other people. Let me tell you, they know how to throw a block party. We arrived in our matching shirts Anthony has us all get ;/....us and Tracy and Allen. *Please reference the photo* Boy you know were were cute in our Red, White, and Blue matching Old Navy tees (I'm sure you can feel sarcasm dripping..jk ant). I haven't intentionally matched anyone since I was like 5...but we were still complimented. I guess when you got it, you got it! :)  But,  The sunshine was beatin down on us and I was so wishing I had picked the white shirt instead of the red. Ugh!  I was thinking if I was a skinny little thing I would've made Ant trade shirts since Ant made us get the shirts! But y'all don't fear, we definitely found ways to stay hydrated!! :D 
Then, they asked me to "throw bags". At first, I was thinking I was gonna literally take and throw a bag, and I decided I was gonna use a garbage bag and stuff Kenny and Anthony in it if I was gonna throw a bag! Then, I realized it was cornhole. I about pissed my pants. (Michelle made up a song a while back about cornhole and Chicago. I never thought I'd see the song come true in any form until that moment. The three of us almost died laughin.) I was Anthony's partner since Kenny made him a new BFF while we were there named Pete. *Pete gave Kenny a new nickname. First it was King, but princess wouldn't have let that last long- good thing they changed it- then it was Opie. So, Opie stayed on their imaginary "bus" and I lost cornhole for Ant and me. I seriously don't think I scored a point. Then it was time to eat and THENNNNN, if you couldn't have guessed- I really wouldn't have (legit)- they had me a birthday cake and candle!! Woo hooo!!! Birthday cake on the Birthday trip (for those who are just joining, Yes, the guys spoil me). That cake was some fire by the way. Such sweet new friends ;). We started shooting fireworks and and then shooting other stuff and I don't mean a gun cause they ain't legal in Illinois (no "s" sound of course). Then, it was time for the real fireworks. Kenny and I thought they were so pretty! Anthony on the other hand, he ended up going to bed in the middle of them (aka falling on the couch) . Bless it, just a baby :). Kenny wasn't far behind. Yep, I was the trooper :) Whew!!! That was a long day!


Thursday was the "Tourist Day" I called it. We were your typical sight-seeing, picture snappin travelers with our thick Southern twang. It was seriously a beautiful city. The bean was so neat as well as Navy pier. I was excited about seeing Lake Michigan. We saw all kinds of great stuff!  But boy was it HOTTTTT! There ain't much shade up there and the heat index was 107. I don't want out of my house if I can help it at 100, much less walk around outside if its 107!! And Kenny, well he just KNEW he had walked 10 miles! He stayed about a mile behind us the whole time lol- bless it, just a baby as well. He said that he was skipping walking at night when we got home for 3 weeks since he walked so much that day. ha! I sure wish someone could've followed us with a camera because I'm pretty sure it was like "My big redneck visit to the City"!! Kenny's camo had did make an appearance y'all! I thoroughly enjoyed it. That night, we had dinner and "threw bags" again. Them folks are real good at that! I did a little better this time. Not good enough for them to let me play more than one game lol. Kenny and Ant did pretty good though. I worked on my tan lol. Then it was time to relax.


Friday was the hot dog day. We went and ate a FABULOUS hot dog! Then, we went to a candy store in Indiana. Oh my....like I needed to be in a candy store. Anthony and I went candy crazy- poor Kenny...we are a handful! lol. Then we had to get ready for dinner. We went to this verrrrry nice restaurant, "The Lighthouse", which was seriously gorgeous and their food was amazing! We couldn't go without laughing at the "special" attention Ant's drinks were getting. His beer was never even halfway empty ;). The BEST part was when Kenny asked the server for Country Bobs!!! Lawd, he looked at Kenny like he was crazy! This is like a 5 star restaurant in Chicago and Kenny's gonna ask for some Country Bobs! Whew, the 3 of us almost didn't recover from that laugh. We were all seriously pissin. It was great! That really would've been a great moment to record! haha I'm laughing just thinking about. Then it was karaoke time!!! Well, the karaoke guy ended up not being able to make it which was such a disappointment after some of us had the bartender thinking Ant was on a terrible blind date. But, time for plan B. We went to another bar that was suppose to have karaoke. They had a dj instead, and becuase they told us wrong, we got free shots! I should've known that was a bad sign.....actually the stripper pole should've been the first sign. lol. But we were having a great time! Our big group was about the only people there....good thing! We didn't really need karaoke or microphones as loud as we were singing! And of course we were dancin!...GET IT!... Then someone tried to take my cowboy's (my husband) hat and I thought I was gonna have to rope her like a pig (I have been to Texas a time or two!). But I took it off her head and didn't hear from her again. And out of no where, "Easy A" came alive! Thats Anthony's stripper name. That kid had moves we didn't even know he knew about. He was so good, someone asked me if he does it every weekend. Then, Kenny wanted his "not so graceful" turn- the arrival of "BK"- Kenny's stripper name. As Anthony was swinging to the bottom and fell on his butt in a graceful manner, Kenny came and was swinging around the top and in a not so graceful moment, fell on Anthony!! It was seriously priceless!! Easy A ended up with a few stalkers and one poor older woman was stalking both the guys! I couldn't do anything but laugh!!!! She was in a red shirt, denim shorts with a visor on and when she smiled, she could've fit a sign in there that said "Next tooth one mile"!!!! She would chase little Anthony all around that pole and run behind Kenny. Anthony swung around the pole and knocked her flat on her rear on accident one time! Bitch should've moved! lol. But, she still jumped up and ran circles around him like a dog in heat as he was swinging around the pole. I didn't have the heart to tell her one was married and one was gay. She even had her money out! I will inform you, Easy A did make some dollars! Holla for a dolla!!!!! Tracy and Allen as well as the rest of our new friends were a HOOT!!!! Poor Allen drove us home while Kenny was cryin because he had to pee and Tracy was seeing fireworks!!! I almost felt bad for the McDonald's worker until I thought about poor Allen, and then I did feel sorry.  Ahhh, it was for sure a good time! 


After rolling in at 3 something that morning. Sleep was on my agenda once again. We decided we needed a more relaxing pace to the day. So, it was ice cream and movie time!!! We finally got to watch TED, and that was hilarious! I realized I needed a thunder buddy! hehe. Then we went to a brewery which was pretty cool. They guys ordered some nasssssty beer. vomit!!! Then, it was home for supper and some cornhole. By this time, my brain felt all bassakwards! It was cold outside!!!! I was in need of a dang blanket. Cray cray! They played for a while (Hell I didn't even try this time lol) Then we wanted to watch step brothers. Princess Anthony chose to stay on his throne and let Kenny and I find the movie store. Well, let me tell you that the store was maybe 3 minutes away IF THAT. We drove around the damn subdivision for 20 trying to figure out how the hell to get out!!!!! LOL  But, we eventually made it there and of course got lost coming back...in the subdivision, but we made it. And we actually remembered the movie lol. Such a good, quality movie. No really, I do like that movie a lot! Everyone fell asleep but me and Ant- troopers. :)


Then it was Sunday- home day :(. But we were stopping at Lambert's so that made it a little better. The road trip home was a good time! You would think 3 people who lived together, have been best friends this long, and spent this much time together would run out of new thing to talk about....boy is that wrong!!! Those were some priceless conversation to Lambert's. We finally made it there, and waited out hour and 45 mins to catch some rolls! I actaully caught one!!  :D Our food was great and then it was time to travel on...homeward bound. They decided princess should drive. That wasn't the best idea, and I wasn't happy about it....but I did it! And we made it home safe!!!!!  It was a wonderful trip!!!!!


Well, today is Thursday, but you haven't missed too much other stuff. All 3 of us have been working mostly. Anthony started his job- which is going great! and K and I have been working away. We finally got to see our long lost friends for dinner, Becky and Micah, on Tuesday! *Reunited and it feels so good* was playing in the background haha! We caught up on our tv shows, PLL, Pawn Stars, etc. Last night was probably one of the funniest moments we have had since we have been home. Kenny, Ant and I sat around talking for a while. Then, Anthony discovered "flippy floppy" and I discovered "wandering warrior". We literally pissed laughing so hard! The boys both had to be up at 5 this am, and princess made an unsuccessful attempt to sleep. But, of course I fell asleep right before the damn alarm clock woke me up. I'm beginning to realize why shouldn't put a song as the alarm on your phone. I realize I hate them 10x faster that way!!! But I guess the guys got the early bird worms, and I got some sleep! Works for me!!! :)


WHEWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!
That should bring everything up to speed, hopefully!!! This no doubt a shortened recap of our last week or so. It has been great!! It won't be this long again in length or time that we post. 
Hang on tight because it feels like we are traveling at twice the speed of life!!!!!


Until next time-


xoxo BY