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Our story left off just before the long May weekend... but that was a long time ago and i'm not going to go through everything that happened.
Just to recap: Chris and i were planning to go away for those few days but our plans got derailed. Happily, we got new plans that very day when we went to meet our friends for pizza and beer...
Rudy said,
- "come stay at my house, my brother is there with his friends but no one else."
and so we all jumped into his car and he drove, one by one, to our houses. We timed who would pack their stuff for 5 days the fastest. [it was Chris, but his dad helped him and told his mom not to ask him questions, still, we acknowledged his speedy packing skills].
We drove out of town, into the forest, through the night, listening to some radio station with some American dj playing midnight funk. oh the hilarity. And so began our 4 or 5 days of sleeping, drinking, smoking, eating, watching endless movies, eating, wandering around, drinking and eating. and eating. We also went on a day trip to a town an hour or so away. It was packed full of tourists; we got there, ate some food and drove back. This was also the day Rudy's parents were coming back from their relaxing trip to the Canary Islands, and he was to fetch them from the airport, and he wasn't supposed to take his dads car out of town, we felt like we were 17 again.
Of course there was too much traffic and of course their flight was over an hour early (! when does that ever happen?!) and of course there was mild panic. It ended up with Rudy and Jula dropping us off somewhere out in the countryside, not too far from his house, and speeding off to the airport. And Adam, Chris and i walking through the soggy but relatively warm evening, trying to get back and wondering how pissed off his parents will be that we are at their house. Good times people, good times.

[[(they weren't pissed off at all, they ordered huge amounts of pizza and talked to us about the schooling system before sending us back into the basement.)]]