D a y 1 - the ten hour drive down to western 11:20 am - after waking up i just received a phone call from paul telling me to get ready to go by 12. i head to the atm to pick up some cash for the trip. i return home and get ready for what should be a 3 hour 45 minute trip from chicago to dekalb to macomb. 12:00 pm - paul arrives right on time and we pack up my belongings to go pick up siv on 58th. we make pretty good time heading down 87th instead of 95th. 12:30 pm - we grab siv and head to dominkick�s to pick up those great mexican chips for one of siv's macomb buddy's. paul hits up the atm and we are off to pick up mary in oak lawn. 1:00 pm - siv walks through mary's front door since it was partly open. after a few minutes of calling for any flanagan family member mary comes down from upstairs. it takes her a little time to get ready which we all anticipated she would be on mary time, but it was not to bad. we start packing the car and call up timmy to tell him we will be a little late. 1:45 pm - the two cars make it as far as 7 blocks to hit up mc donald's before we the drive to dekalb. the weather conditions were bad with snow falling and salt trucks out all over town. after eating it was time go north on i-294. 3:00 pm - paul, siv, mary, and i pull up to the blue gray apartments where timmy lives. over a course of the trip up siv finds time to sell his first home and all is good. tim is ready to go with his acdc shirt on, ready to rock. paul needs some gas and mary needs some windshield fluid before we continue on the last leg of the trip. 3:15 pm - both cars pull up to the road ranger gas station. paul starts to pump gas while siv goes to fill up mary's windshield fluid. timmy came over to talk to me in mary's car about a song on a cd he made. slowly paul walks away from the gas pump with his hand over his mouth, something is not right. tim, mary, siv, and i see blood all over paul's mouth and chin. all of us rush him inside the road ranger to stop the bleeding. after closer inspection paul had a few chipped teeth and it appeared he bit through his lower lip. the road ranger employees give us some advil, water, and a towel for free to try and stop the blood. we all make the decision that paul needed some medical attention, it was time for the emergency room. 3:50 pm - we pull up to the emergency room and check paul in. in order to keep spirits high we decided to crack jokes. we had the waiting room laughing like it was a comedy club, well we were laughing like it was. after about a half hour paul is finally called to get checked out before going back. for some reason the nurse thought something else was up and asks us what really happened. we tell her the same story and paul is ready to go back. 5:00 pm - mary, tim and i head over to the quizno's to get some food for dinner. siv stays back in the waiting room for any sign of paul to get out. 5:30 pm - we return from quizno's where tim got the wrong sandwich, but it was still pretty good. paul is still in back getting checked on. we call up fech since he lives in dekalb and wants to see how paul is doing. 5:50 pm - fech pulls up and paul is released, perfect timing. paul had about 18 stitches put in his lip, while some of the chipped teeth were pulled from his lower lip. in celebration and against all of our advice paul starts smoking a cigarette as he walks out of the emergency room. fech has also agreed to go with us to western. 6:00 pm - we get to jewel for paul to fill his prescription. they give him an antibiotic for sinus infections since he is allergic to penicillin. it takes for ever to get the prescription filled and we leave jewel a half hour later. 6:40 pm - the two cars pull up to fech's apartment to pick him. we are finally all patched up and ready to go. 9:45 pm - after a hospital visit, a few vermin becoming road kill, a stop at casey's general store, and fech pouring stuff out of paul's car on the highway we arrived in macomb. in triumph paul pulled the computer tower out of his trunk and started bashing it in the street. total time on the way down, roughly 10 hours. D a y 1 - the western nightlife sheila and her friend came up from quincy to party for the night. so after the long trip down it was time to drink. fech forgot to pack some pants so he had to cram into a pair of jim's old jeans. they were so tight that when he sat down you could hear them ripping. i picked up my sis and her friends and we went to the change of pace. siv's friend was a bartender there so he was able to get us in the entrance of the beer garden since the front door was packed. after a few drinks i dared siv and timmy to get up on stage and booty dance with a large black woman. within 5 seconds we all see siv on climbing up to the highest level to start grinding with this gal. it was priceless and of course we took pictures. everyone was pretty wasted and dancing, it was a good night. i took off with some of katie's(sis)friends, the rest of the gang went to catch a cab. turns out while waiting for the cab sheila's friend starting to feel a little under the weather. right when they got onto the cab she started to puke into a pitcher that paul carried out of the bar. i guess she was ill for about 2 hours. D a y 2 - the morning after mary left with shela and her friend back down to quincy for the day. i woke up at mkb's house and had some pancakes, thank you very much for cooking mkb. katie and i went to the jackson street pub to meet up with the guys for some lunch. they spent the day at walmart looking for new pants for fech. some were purchased but they still did not fit. D a y 2 - high noon in macomb after lunch it was time for football. tim and i took on siv and fech while paul was the punky qb. paul had a few interceptions which turned into touchdowns. i was playing in siv's gym shoes that didn't fit me so i was running a little slow. every pass was a touchdown either by interception or reception. lets just say the defense was lacking. siv and fech beat us and we headed in. one of my sister's friends said it was about 44 degrees outside, it was more like 4. D a y 2 - cup a palooza katie and mkb meet back up with us to head to a house party that siv new about. i guess some ra's were thrown out of the dorm so this was their first house party in their place. the name was inspired by the movie old school and a guy was dressed up as robert goulet. after a few drinks the southside kids took on the western students in a game of flippy cup. representing the southside was siv, mkb, and timmy. they were kicking ass until they had to switch up the order. mkb fought hard but was under to much pressure. after a threat that the cops were coming we headed to the bars. D a y 2 - the pace reloaded another night at the pace was a good time. there was no booty dancing with large black women on stage but there was siv dancing. he was not to bad but it was still entertaining to see him out there. the rest of us took our vip places in the balcony over the dance floor. most of the photos are from the second night at the pace, so i won't write much. D a y 2 - after the show its the after party after a nice night at the pace we went to mkb's house for a little after party. everyone crammed a bunch of booze in their pockets and walked from siv's friends to mkb's place. it was a good time, jessa and kate (mkb's roomie) got into a discussion with tim about whether penguins can fly. timmy also drank some water with bisquick mixed in it. all in all it was pretty entertaining. D a y 3 - time to go home again mkb cooked pancakes so it was a good start. everyone meet up at siv's friends house and mary came back from quincy. it was time to leave macomb and head back to chicago. it was a windy ride and after a few hours on the road mary notices that she is getting pulled over by the state police. while listening to damn it feels good to be a gangster on cd we failed to notice the cop was behind us for 2 miles. bad news bears, mary got a ticket after the cop did a little dance for us. after that the ride was pretty boring. paul and the other car went to the police station to file a report against the road ranger. the cops laughed a little and told him not to since two days had gone by.

.:. danny � 2004 .:.