ParANorMaL ActiVIty

Well, if you're in the mood for a good comedy you could probably check out Paranormal. I honestly laughed more than I shouted, or even held my breath. It was the stupidest movie I have ever seen, and all hyped up. Seriously, I wanted something better for my first R-rated-in-the-theater movie. Yes, I've seen R rated before, just not at the actual theater. It didn't have to leave me breathless, I just wanted a good horror movie. But no, I got slamming doors, footprints, and a missing girl.
Basically the movie is a girlfriend who's bee haunted since she was eight, but it's never been as bad as now, when she moved in with her boyfriend, who was y favorite character out of the FOUR in the ENTIRE MOVIE. There was them, then there was the sister, who appeared for a total of about three and a half minutes, I'm guessing. Then the doctor, who had about a twenty minute segment, then came back two days later and as soon as he walked in, he said, "This ghost doesn't like me here.I can't help you. I'm leaving."
Well, OBVIOUSLY he said a little more than that, but that's basically what he meant. The evil demonic spirit is being mean to me, I'm going home. Have fun getting killed.
Then they spread powder over the floor and found footsteps, which i admit was a pretty good hair-raiser. For a minute or two. Then we found a half-burned picture in the attic. Okaaaayyy.... now what? The Ouija board caught on fire, which was pretty cool. Then it went out and they found out that it had happened before. The idiot boyfriend, who I liked because he was funny, provoked the thing and it dragged his girlfriend down the hall as she slept. She was screaming her head off and the entire theater just erupted into laughter. There were a few more slammng doors and apparently something bit her. Then she got all stalkerish and got out of bed like a zombie and stared at her sleeping boyfriend for an hour, which was fast-forwarded until she moved again. Then she went downstairs. And she SCREAMED. The loudest movie scream I'd ever heard in my life. And the boyfriend woke up and went downstairs to help her.
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MOVIE SPOILER AHEAD so the boyfriend went downstairs and HE started screaming. The door banged open and you see his back fly into the camera lens. Then he's just lying sill on the floor. His girlfriend is in the doorway covered in blood, whose I don't know, she gets on her knees and stares at him. By then I was ready to leave so i didn't see the end, but apparently she lunged at the camera. I thought she ate it, I saw her staring at it, and then she got closer and someone (Gullible, i guess) screamed. But then the screen went blank. we found out then that the dude died and the girl was missing and they never found her. The END.
"That's it?" My Aunt Kathy said, loud enough for everyone to hear. "That's the end? that's bullshit."
And the entire theater laughed. On our way out everyone was trying to convince the people in line for the same show to RUN FOR THEIR LIVES. What a waste.
Those movie people are probably so cocky, laughing at us right now.
"Hahahaaaa, look at all the suckers going in to see our crap!! We paid fifty thousand dollars to slam six different doors by remote control and now we're RIIICHHH!!!"

Yeah.
That's fantastic for them.
I'm gonna see The Invention of Lying. I don't know who the guy is, but he's a comedic genius. Don't believe me?; see Ghost Town.

Washington, DC, part 2

It should really just be DAY two, not PART two, but whatever. I won't stray from my path if I know what it looks like.

We woke up and showered- two of us did. I forgot to mention in part one that only two of us had showered during the night, and this morning two did. So we got woken up by eight different teachers at different times, so i was pretty wide awake then. We just got dressed and got on the move down to breakfast, not much more involved. Demyx had brought a can of Monster, which is apparently a guys' energy drink, which is pretty funny because she brought Monster and beef jerky.
"I'm such a guy," she laughed at herself.
Anyway, she came down with half of one (The other half which I had downed; guys' drink or not, that stuff is AWESOME) and this dude named Andrea was smiling at us. We looked at him weird and he shouted for the whole lobby to hear, "YEEEAH!!! Starting the day of with a can of MONSTER!!! Niiice!!!" And he didn't pronounce it the normal way, he said "Naaiiiiiiiiiiiisssssse!!!" Which was pretty funny. Some of the idiot guys attacked the seniors' breakfast before the teachers told them we were in another room. The food was amazing, but I mostly piled up on bacon =p
Don't worry Mom; Dad. I had a bagel, too. =D
Anyway, we were rushed onto the bus right away and we just whipped right through the Air and Space, Natural History, and American History museums. The other groups got a long time at two, but we had two minutes at each. Lucky, lucky us. As if waking up at six in the morning after staying up after midnight wasn't joyous enough.
After that we grabbed lunch in this enormous food court (Though not as big as the Pentagon's food court, which is part of tomorrow's supremely long story) and visited the WWII memorial and the Korean and Vietnam war memorials.Two amazing things happened at two of these.
First was the WWII memorial. We were looking at the stars, they looked copperish, stuck up on this wall with an engraved marble stone below it reading: the price of freedom
One old man, I think he may have been a veteran though he wasn't wearing any part of the uniform or anything special (Or maybe his brother had just been in it, I don't know), shuffled up to me with his wife (Or so I guessed) on his arm.
"Can you read that?" He pointed at the stone.
"Sure," I said, kind of surprised. And I read it out loud to him. He shook his head in this really slow, sad way.
"Nothing that stars can express," he said quietly, and he just walked away. I was speechless. I don't even know how I felt about that, it was just..... kind of a WOW thing.
Then the mood was sort of spoiled by three of the school's most annoying, most superficial girls started squealing and taking pictures of these two guys.
Girls: Hey, what's up?
Boys: Nothing, you from Ohio? (We had been next to Ohio's pillar)
Girls: Yep. You?
Boys: Europe.
Girls:
OHMAHGAWDDDDDDD!!!!!! EUROPE??? THAT'S SO COOL!!!!!!! CAN WE TAKE PICTURES WITH YOU? *DROOOOOOOOOOL*
Because none of them are willing to believe they're not high school Hollywood stars. they weren't even cute. Seriously. I'm sorry to say it, but they weren't. just the fact that they were from Europe, and the hot movie stars CLAIM to be from Europe- in FICTION MOVIES, might I add- set all that off. It was ridiculous.
And the beauty was lost.
Though that did give us something to mock for, like, three hours! =p
Anyway, after that it was Vietnam. My friends and I, without even discussing it, walked along the wall slowly as read read aloud each and every single name in the middle line of the entire wall. The very last name we read, the only one on the angled slab of marble at the very end of the wall, was Jessie C. There were so many names in just one ling of the entire wall. It made me want to cry, and not many things do that.
We looked up and there was a part of a rainbow hanging in the sky...

Washington D.C. pt. 1

Can't believe I'm already home. I mean, it's been three days, but it was non-stop moving forEVER. I thought it would never end, yet it was over all too quickly.
First thing we did was wake up, obviously. The adventure part? We HAD to be there at five thirty in the fricking morning!!!!!!!! It wasn't as bad as we expected, though, as we had originally be told it was just.... FIVE. Oh God, shoot me now, was what I was thinking. My friends know I love my sleep. I told them nobody was allowed to talk to me until I talk to them first, unless they had a good reason. I didn't want to murder them, but if it was an emergency, like they thought I was dead, which I might have been.... different story altogether.
First ACTUAL thing we did was on the bus, when they put a movie in. I think the first one was The Sandlot, but I can't remember it all too well because I only watched bits and pieces of each movie. Except for Remember the Titans, which I believe was next, because I just love Sunshine. We rotated seats every rest stop, which gave us each two turns by each other person (there were four of us: Andrea, Emily, me, and another friend, Amanda). I think I sat first with Amanda, which was fine but I felt bad because Amanda must have been bored- I was too tired for anything else. But then I sort of woke up and sat by Emily, which was awesome because we just talked and listened to her music. That's a big point in our friendship, I think, the music. She's more of a die-hard country fan, though./I LOVE country, but I also expand a little more than she does. Just no screaming rock and hard-core rap. Eccchh.
BTW: NEW SONG OBSESSION: You're Gonna Go Far, Kid- The Offspring. listening to it right at this moment.
With Andrea, we had some great cosplays. Then we went through Gettysburg with her as my seatmate.
God, Gettysburg was AMAZING. I leanred so much from the guide, and we had so much fun. From the Civil war, we saw lots of monuments and original buildings with bullet holes in the sides, the house of the only civilian who died, whose name was, scarily enough, Jennie, and even a barn that had a huge cannonball hole all the way through. You could look and see light coming through the other end of the barn!! We saw Little Round Top and the field where Pickett's Charge took place. it was too cool.
The best part EVER was the Pennsylvania Monument, which was enormous and huge and just too cool. We got to go in and run up this tight little spiral staircase that went on FOREVER! When you get to the top there's this huge room, the inside of the dome. it's pretty much empty and blank but for a few engravings in the walls, and a door to the left of the staircase. You go through that and OH MY GOD The wind and the view were unbelievable, amazing and simply indescribably beautiful. I thought I was going to be blown over the wall the wind was so strong!!! But the scenery was incredible.

So, when Gettysburg was through, we went down to the bus again and drove for the LONGEST time of my life until we got to GOLDEN CORRAL, the HEAVENLY buffet of the GODS. Or GOD. WHATEVER.
But anyway, after that we drove and we drove and we drove and we drove and we stopped and we drove and we stopped and GOT OFF. The hotel was the Clarion Hotel, just outside DC I think, and it was very nice. Elevators were messed up though, so we pretty much KILLED everybody's ears with the racket the entire eighth grade made running and souting up the staircase. Luckily my roommates and I were on the second floor, so we only had to deal with it up two short flights of stairs. The room was pretty basic, so we showered and broke out the candy and Monster, which is better than Red Bull in my opinion, and we watched NCIS and Fifty First Dates until two of us four fell asleep (Emily and Amanda), and then we (Andrea and I) just put everything away and fell asleep listening to the movie. It was a good day.