We piled into the car like a bunch of sailors on shore leave. We were as excited as a five year old boy during his first Christmas. We raced up the interstate like fireman on their way to a fire. If we went any faster I swear the paint would have peeled off the car. It was dark and snowy, so it felt like we were on a speed boat out in the ocean racing for shore, but we just kept driving because we knew that we were heading for more fun playing a board game of chutes and ladders!

The border guards can be tough as a nail, so as we approached the border our excitement was replaced with nervous. We felt like a bunch of brides on their wedding day as we waited in line to have our I.D.S checked. The tension was so thick you couldn’t even cut it with a knife. We were all doing our best to hide our anxiety by putting on smiles as big as a slice of watermelon! They probably could hear inside the car because our hearts were pounding like drums and our knees knocking sounded like someone playing bongos!

The anticipation was like waiting for the ketchup to come out of the jar and land on your French fries! My friend wanted to make a pit stop to use the bathroom. she said she had to pee like Niagara falls, but we all told her to put a cork in it and to make like Hoover dam and hold her water! I know that may sound like I was being mean as a junkyard dog, but we all knew she exaggerated like an old fisherman telling everyone about the big one that got away. She said it felt like her bladder was about to burst, but we know if we stopped she would only make a trickle, so we just kept driving and she clamped her legs like a vice.

There in the doorway was the doorman, who seemed as big as a mountain, with a head as bald as a cue ball! His arms were so massive they looked like he had a couple of torpedoes stuffed up his sleeves, and his neck was so thick that it looked like a redwood tree! He was HUGE! This doorman was going to eat us alive!! But wait, what was that in the middle of that huge pumpkin of a head that sat majestically on his granite like shoulders...it was a smile!

The doorman was a big teddy bear! He was as happy as a student who found out that the test was open book! He was as jolly as St. Nick after he drank a keg of eggnog! He was a sweetheart! Not only did he usher us right into the club, he escorted us to the best seats in the house, the table located right there at center stage! This was better than giving a clerk a ten dollar bill and getting change for a hundred!!

As the lights of the city were getting nearer and nearer, we became even more excited! The lights in the distance looked like a million fireflies dancing on a lake! We were so excited I thought our heads were going to explode. I hoped we would get there soon because I wanted some fun as badly as a person crossing the desert wants a glass of water. As I looked over at my friend who had to pee, she looked

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