I’m pretty sure that none of us woke up on time today. I will give Kristen and Rae the fact that they were up before Erika and I though. Erika and I had to check out of our room this morning because the Justice Center could only pay for days through the conference; and since Kristen had a room through Sunday morning, we decided to just all camp out in that room until 3 a.m. to leave for the airport. After getting all of our stuff together we met up with the two of them downstairs.
We decided that we were going to bail on the panels (none of which sounded interesting) and all go do our own things. Kristen and Rae went downtown to the market for breakfast and shopping, while Erika and I hit up the mall. Unfortunately for me I am unable to purchase clothing goods. Erika shopped shirts/shoes/and every shop she could possibly hit in that mall. She picked out lots of great outfits, and bought some really nice heels. At around 1 o’ clock, we met up with Kristen at the same mall in the food court for lunch, and hit a few more of the same stores so Kristen could do some shopping. Shopping with girls is exhausting. Holy damn!
OH! And a homeless man attacked Erika when she stepped outside to inhale some wonderful fresh air… it was ‘hot in the mall.’ She started to hear screaming that was apparently directed toward her. She was ‘screamed at, chased by, and spat at by a psychotic homeless black man!’ She said it was ‘so scary’ and that it ‘looked like he wanted to kill [her]!’
After the mall Erika and I decided to walk down to the Hockey Hall of Fame. Lots of good stuff in there, let me tell you. I realized just how little I know about hockey (or pretty much any sport) walking around looking at all of the people and reading up on their stats. Both Erika and I got our picture taken with the Stanley Cup before we hit up the gift shop to get some stuff for the people who had asked for stuff.
Erika and I walked back to the hotel room in the pouring down rain. It was ridiculous Juneau status that reminded me of how much I dislike the rain. Getting back to the hotel room we made a plan to go visit The CN Tower. We decided that we were going to go somewhere nice for dinner, which meant that we all had to get all classy in our A game outfits for the night. While we were gearing up to go out we started to hear a loud booming base from a room across the hall which excited Rae because she thought they were having a dance party. After she finally finished getting dressed and putting her face on (something I have been saying all week) and with a little encouragement from us, she went over and knocked on the door to see if she could join; or that is what we thought she was going to do. She told them that their music was SUPER loud and that she didn’t appreciate it. The whole situation ended up to be pretty funny because what she thought was going to turn out into a dance party ended up being five older men in their mid-forties have a dance party for one of their birthdays. One of them, who happened to be pant-less, was asking me about the ratio of women to men in AK and if it was really 3:1… I replied to him “it is as long as you were wearing pants.” He turned red and cracked up. I’m pretty sure that you can assume that they were pretty freaking wasted.
The CN Tower is a communications tower in Toronto that stands 1, 815 feet in the air. The building was started in 1973 and was finished roughly two and a half years later in 1976. Similar to the Space Needle it also has an observation deck at the tippy top of the tower. It only took 58 seconds to get to the top of the tower. In one part of the observation deck you were standing on glass. It was a little nerve racking making that first step onto the glass floor and looking almost 2,000 feet down at the ground. The CN Tower remains to be the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. The girls and I got a table and had a drink while we observed the lights of the city at night. It was very cool to see our hotel all lit up on the strip. Oh, yeah, and before I forget; Erika fell pretty hard inside the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. It was EPIC.
After leaving the CN Tower we went to a Japanese restaurant that had a DJ. We were all super into the beats that were being dropped as we ate our sushi. The food was super amazing and we enjoyed our last night out on the town!
Currently Kristen, Erika and I are sitting in the lobby reminiscing about the trip and the loads of fun that we have had. We are planning on writing some serious thank you notes to all of the people that helped make this trip possible for us. Every bit helped! I might have already mentioned it, but I did receive quite a substantial amount of money for this trip, which made me super happy.
Erika and Kristen were sitting at the hotel bar tonight, having a cocktail before our early morning departure when some older gentlemen, or as I like to call them vultures, swooped into the seats surrounding them and totally started to prey on them. One of them just happened to be a personal liability lawyer who Kristen pretty much told was an awful one after he tried grabbing her in inappropriate places… and walked out on them. Oh, the good times in Canada.
See you back in America! &%$# Yeah!
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