We went to "Boston" and stayed at the Crowne Plaza in Danvers, Massachusetts. The place was up on a hill in the middle of no where off the highway, and we were a little surprised to see a Coco Key water park attached to the building.
Over all, walking into the place was gorgeous. The lobby was very nice and had a few lounges. But the trouble started when we walked up to the desk to check in and were told about a $100 fee for a security deposit on the room. Okay? So we paid it...She told us we should receive the money back on our card after 7 business days... What ever. We walked away after being told our room was ready. She pointed us to a parking lot and said we could access the elevator from over there. The entrance wasn't too obvious and there were no hotel carts around to wheel our heavy luggage up to the 4th floor...Wonderful.
We arrived on the 4th floor and were disappointed to find that our room was the 2nd to last one on the left at the end of the long hallway. Not much to our surprise, the room wasn't ready. We stood around for a minute and looked down to see room service wasn't much far away, so we decided to head back down to the car with our heavy bags and head on over to TGI Fridays for a good lunch.
Considering we had checked in the hotel at 10:30am or so, and it was now past 1 in the afternoon, we figured the room should be ready. It wasn't. Mom got pissed and walked down to the lobby, threw her heavy bag onto the floor and stormed over to a manager. Our problem was finally fixed when the woman gave us a new room that was closer to the elevators. We stepped into our room and tossed our things down.
The room was blistering hot, and it stunk like old feet, of course, so did the rest of the hotel. Oh and what a wonderful view of the roof and parking lot we had! I had to use the bathroom, of course, so I went and and found only one bar of soap for 4 people.
I found the girls at the front desk slightly dumb, to say the least...On the hotel website it said that they had a Starbucks located in the hotel and they knew nothing of it. We just happened to be talking about it and another guest had to tell us that it closed a while ago. Wonderful news again!
At this point my mother and sister just wanted to go to the pool and relax for a while, so Alicia and I stayed in the room and considered going down for a swim. Well, before we knew it, Mom returned with a disappointed little sister because you have to pay $5 to use the pool. Wow!?!
What ever, we got over it. We went to our meeting of Andrew Wommack and had a blast. Sleeping was good, the beds were comfy and I felt like I was on a big marshmallow. And when my iPod died, no one even snored! I was very pleased with the restless night I had.
Morning rolled around and we were hungry, obviously. There was no continental breakfast, (did I mention that when we wanted a pizza delivered, they wouldn't bring it to our room for security reasons? Way to treat your guests...) Anyways, breakfast for 4 cost $50. It wasn't even very appetizing. Fed up, and ready to go home, we left the hotel with very poor attitudes. But it seemed as if they wanted us to stay! We pressed the button for an elevator and waited... waited... waited... over five minutes went by and we laughed and found another one... same issue. What ever! Broken elevators! We bounded down the stairs with our luggage and stormed out to the car while Mom checked us out.
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Andrew Wommack gave us some things to look up in the Bible while we were there. He said a few more but I just couldn't keep up, he shouts them out one after another! Haha!
Luke 16:10-13
Eph. 1:1-4, 14-19, 6-8
Psalms 1:39
Jer. 29:11
Galations 5:22, 2:20
James 2:19
Romans 10:9, 5:8, 10:17
John 6:63
1 John 4:17
1 Peter 2:21-24, 1:23
2 Peter 1:3-4
Proverbs 23:7
1 Cor. 6:17
He also said some inspirational and funny things.
"You're already blessed." Meaning you don't need to ask the Lord to bless you or save you/someone else from sin, that's already happened.
"God's in your belly; that's why you look down when you pray."
"The church is teaching 'The God Father', not God the Father."
"God loves you, stupid.."
"Your born again spirit is identical to Jesus."
(I came up with this one) "Demonic Party: Invite only. Guess what? You're not invited!" he was teaching about how you invite demons into your life, but you don't have to...or something.
"Don't embrace illness. It's not who you are." As in saying something like, "Oh I've been diagnosed with cancer but I accept my illness and I'll live with it....." so on and so forth.
"What a stupid prayer..."
"Some people may think I'm weird....But hey, I think you're weird."
"Thank you Father that You have already saved them." As in, you must thank the Lord for your healing, it may not be visible (yet) but you're healed.
"If God could be confused, he would be confused."
"You don't have to speak in tongues, you get to."
"Don't pray heaven down, pray heaven up!"
"Most Christian music is sorry, it's terrible...It will kill you!"
"If I was God, I would just dropkick us off the Earth...Right into space!"
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Grand Theft Auto 4
So far I've been playing GTA 4 for a few days. I find that I like this game better than the others.
The graphics are amazing even though I don't have a high def. TV. The only thing was is that when I popped in the game it was so dark I couldn't see anything, but thankfully under pause and then display- I was able to use Brightness, Contrast, and Saturation to make it so that I could actually see the game.
I'm still not happy with the text on the game. When I get a text message, or a phone call from someone, or a little hint box appears in the top left corner- I can't read it. I'm not sure if this is because I don't have a hdtv, or if it's because my tv is just so small- all I know is that I'm not happy with it.
CARS:
I love the way the cars are in this one. When you crash into something, the car dents as if you ACTUALLY hit something! I think how you turn on and off the radio is nice as well, you don't have to flip through a million stations just to find the 'off' station, you just hold down the left arrow and it turns off, leaving the radio at the same station that you'd left it on.
I think it's kinda neat that if you're speeding and crash, you get thrown from the car. But I must say that this isn't always cool, especially if you're running from the police.
I found it very amusing that we can get into locked cars by breaking the windows and hot-wireing them.
One thing I don't like about the cars is that when you try and take off, it's slow. I'm used to games where car's take off and go really fast. I noticed that the cars fishtail a lot, and when you try and take a corner (even at lower speeds) you normally crash. Another thing is that when you go to break, it takes forever to come to a stop. I don't enjoy that.
POLICE:
I like how you avoid the police in this game. Driving out of the flashing area is nice. Not much of a challenge, but that's good.
It is hard to tell the police from regular people sometimes on the streets, their uniforms blend in with the crowd. I suppose that is like that for a reason, but even still...I would like to know where a cop is so that I can snag a car.
The computer in the police car is really cool and I'm not only glad that they installed that feature, but that it's actually put to use.
GIRLS:
I like the girls in this game much more that I do in the others. They are more realistic and attractive. The strip club is amusing and more like a real one at this point. You can't go on stage, you can't touch the girls, and you can't even peep outback in their dressing room.
The strip dance could be a little better, I'd like to be able to angle the camera and looked at them from behind or from the other side of Niko. Other than that, no complaints.
When picking up hookers, I noticed that they normally only hang out under bridges and down roads that most cars don't drive through. This game, instead of them walking up to you, you honk your horn for them.
I'm glad that I don't have to go off into the middle of nowhere to have 'relations' with a girl, rather, I can be closer to people than the other games. I'm sure many people complain about the sexual scenes in the car, but I've always wanted the sexual scenes to be shown because it adds an extra touch to the game. If you don't like it, don't play it, it's rated M for a reason.
First girlfriend, Michele. I don't like her, I want to shove her off a bridge. Back to sex- it's totally lame with her. She yells weird things, and they don't even show it. Niko is too quiet and if he's saying anything at all, her weird yelling is drowning it out. If they show sex with the hookers why don't they show sex with Niko and Michele? Just an FYI this is odd writing about sex with Niko and Michele- Niko is my best friends name and Michele is my mothers name. Then when Niko had to chase down a guy named Ivan it got weirder. Ivan is my best friend, Nikos brother.
JACOB:
I can't understand a damned word he's saying! Normally, I'm pretty good with dialect and accents...But I just can't understand this man.
So, unfortunately, I found myself turning on the Subtitles.
MISSION- BLOW YOUR COVER:
I was not happy with this mission. It took me 5 tries to get it right, and even still, when I tried to evade the police I couldn't for a long time. I realized after 3 times of dying that I had to go to the ammo place, get some armor and then continue with the mission. Once on the roof, I refilled with life and armor but then, I died as I tried to escape the building. On the 5th time, I didn't waste my armor and I actually made it out of the building and into a car with some life left. I wasn't even in the red!!! Finally I was able to proceed to the 2nd island with Playboy X.
So, just as I start to get used to the first island, I move on over to the 2nd and have to get used to that one as well. I hope that my missions for the next 3rd of the game are just as easy as the missions for the first 3rd.
I'll be back with updates very soon!!!
The graphics are amazing even though I don't have a high def. TV. The only thing was is that when I popped in the game it was so dark I couldn't see anything, but thankfully under pause and then display- I was able to use Brightness, Contrast, and Saturation to make it so that I could actually see the game.
I'm still not happy with the text on the game. When I get a text message, or a phone call from someone, or a little hint box appears in the top left corner- I can't read it. I'm not sure if this is because I don't have a hdtv, or if it's because my tv is just so small- all I know is that I'm not happy with it.
CARS:
I love the way the cars are in this one. When you crash into something, the car dents as if you ACTUALLY hit something! I think how you turn on and off the radio is nice as well, you don't have to flip through a million stations just to find the 'off' station, you just hold down the left arrow and it turns off, leaving the radio at the same station that you'd left it on.
I think it's kinda neat that if you're speeding and crash, you get thrown from the car. But I must say that this isn't always cool, especially if you're running from the police.
I found it very amusing that we can get into locked cars by breaking the windows and hot-wireing them.
One thing I don't like about the cars is that when you try and take off, it's slow. I'm used to games where car's take off and go really fast. I noticed that the cars fishtail a lot, and when you try and take a corner (even at lower speeds) you normally crash. Another thing is that when you go to break, it takes forever to come to a stop. I don't enjoy that.
POLICE:
I like how you avoid the police in this game. Driving out of the flashing area is nice. Not much of a challenge, but that's good.
It is hard to tell the police from regular people sometimes on the streets, their uniforms blend in with the crowd. I suppose that is like that for a reason, but even still...I would like to know where a cop is so that I can snag a car.
The computer in the police car is really cool and I'm not only glad that they installed that feature, but that it's actually put to use.
GIRLS:
I like the girls in this game much more that I do in the others. They are more realistic and attractive. The strip club is amusing and more like a real one at this point. You can't go on stage, you can't touch the girls, and you can't even peep outback in their dressing room.
The strip dance could be a little better, I'd like to be able to angle the camera and looked at them from behind or from the other side of Niko. Other than that, no complaints.
When picking up hookers, I noticed that they normally only hang out under bridges and down roads that most cars don't drive through. This game, instead of them walking up to you, you honk your horn for them.
I'm glad that I don't have to go off into the middle of nowhere to have 'relations' with a girl, rather, I can be closer to people than the other games. I'm sure many people complain about the sexual scenes in the car, but I've always wanted the sexual scenes to be shown because it adds an extra touch to the game. If you don't like it, don't play it, it's rated M for a reason.
First girlfriend, Michele. I don't like her, I want to shove her off a bridge. Back to sex- it's totally lame with her. She yells weird things, and they don't even show it. Niko is too quiet and if he's saying anything at all, her weird yelling is drowning it out. If they show sex with the hookers why don't they show sex with Niko and Michele? Just an FYI this is odd writing about sex with Niko and Michele- Niko is my best friends name and Michele is my mothers name. Then when Niko had to chase down a guy named Ivan it got weirder. Ivan is my best friend, Nikos brother.
JACOB:
I can't understand a damned word he's saying! Normally, I'm pretty good with dialect and accents...But I just can't understand this man.
So, unfortunately, I found myself turning on the Subtitles.
MISSION- BLOW YOUR COVER:
I was not happy with this mission. It took me 5 tries to get it right, and even still, when I tried to evade the police I couldn't for a long time. I realized after 3 times of dying that I had to go to the ammo place, get some armor and then continue with the mission. Once on the roof, I refilled with life and armor but then, I died as I tried to escape the building. On the 5th time, I didn't waste my armor and I actually made it out of the building and into a car with some life left. I wasn't even in the red!!! Finally I was able to proceed to the 2nd island with Playboy X.
So, just as I start to get used to the first island, I move on over to the 2nd and have to get used to that one as well. I hope that my missions for the next 3rd of the game are just as easy as the missions for the first 3rd.
I'll be back with updates very soon!!!
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