June 9, 2001 : Prom

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I went to my Senior Prom and I had a complete blast the whole day! I had my hair done (yes it's real color)

After getting ready, Mike and his brother picked me up, my parents took pictures of us, we went to Mike's house, his dad took pictures of us, and then I drove the Cadillac to Ades' house.

We left at around 4:45PM to go to early bird pictures at the hotel. We got lost because of stupid directions (use mapquest next time, you tards). We got to pictures at 6:10PM, called Top of the Cove to see if it was alright to be late. It was.

Got pictures, headed over to Top of the Cove, promptly got lost. We got there at 7PM, half an hour late. Needless to say, our table turned out to be crappy, away from the main dining room. Dinner took 2.5 hours. When we were ready to leave, we saw some firemen walk by. That was pretty amusing, but then it was very un-amusing when we saw that they were getting this dead-ish person off of the floor.

As a result, we were late. The prom was supposed to close doors at 10. That was bad. It was now ten 'til 10. Thankfully, we got lost *roll eyes*.

I made a pseudo time line for you:

10:17PM - Seventeen minutes after deadline and we're trying to find the place again at night. Here are Adrian and Ko in the front, Mike and I sat in the back. The middle picture is of Adrian flashing "the signal" to Sean who was following us in his car. Sean broke his pants before we left the restaurant.

10:23PM - "Oh this is great. Don't worry guys, we can tell them we were late to Prom because my pants broke." Yeah, you looked like a pervert fiddling with yourself in front of the restaurant.

10:27PM - We got to the lobby and I was happy to see that Lexus and Jeanette made it!!! We smuggled them in.

10:33 - We were able to get into the prom. We told Mr. Swift about the heart attack/seizure/death thing at the restaurant, and about Sean's pants breaking. In the first picture, I'm with Ken and Sean. He was in coat and tails, which was ultra-original. In the middle picture, Crystal Texas is with my best boy Kyle. ^_^

10:44PM - I saw more people in the lobby. Bree made her cammy dress. Here she poses with Mike. Mr. Banatao and I are in the middle picture. He is one of my favorite adults, and I consider him one of my friends. The last picture is of Karen, Reuben, and I at our jazziest. Asian Avenue got together for a professional group picture.

11:05PM - We finally got in the ballroom and practically everyone was on the floor.

11:06PM - I found the Koreans and reconvened with my group nearby. Jen and I are in the first picture, Yoshie and Cristian are in the third, and Evan is busting it in the last picture.

11:08PM - Karen and Jon let out another barbaric yawp (see Morp). Kyle and Karen are dancing in the second picture.

11:13PM - Bob joined us and is seen here dancing fruitfully with Karen. They pose with Denise and her $640 dollar dress (no joke!). The Koreans pose with her, too. Yoshie is sticking her head up back there. Chris is in the last picture with Denise.

11:30PM - Half an hour left. I get a snapshot with Alexis and Kyle.

11:55PM - The last songs are being played. Ironically, everyone gets a little more comfortable and we all start having a blast. Even Jeff!!!

11:56PM - You know Elliot's comfortable when he starts turning ghetto. Even Adrian loosened up and started dancing more. That pleased Ko, who had been trying to get him to dance all night.

The last two songs were slow, which gave us time to get close to the ones we loved. I slow danced with Mike for the first time. That was really nice. As important as it was, I felt the best part of the night was when I got to dance with my boy Kyle. He's a dog ^_^ My dawg. I cried ;(

12:30PM - After the dance ended, the lights were up, and the centerpieces stolen, we headed home. Yay for traffic! So as not to break tradition, we got lost.
(1:02PM) Here Mike and I are waiting at Bonita Jack In The Box to go to Josh's house for afterparty.

1:29PM - We finally got to the house. We got to relax! But that was after the boys showed us the tap routine they worked on in the La Jolla bathrooms. Afterwards, everyone pretty much crashed out. We changed into more comfortable clothes. Ms. Hernandez served us cheeze and sushi and fruit and cake and other yummies.
(3:11) Michael came along, too. We were still up (most of us) and messing around, as you can see.

Special thanks to Josh's mom for providing us with good food and the use of their beautiful house, Mike's dad for letting us use the Cadillac, and the La Jolla Fire Department and Paramedic, for giving us a bittersweet memory. The whole Prom experience was great!