When anyone's in love, the crickets sing a very happy song

Alright. Unexpectedly awake this early, with nothing to do. Finally got Sin City. Fantastic movie. I was really surprised that Rose hadn't seen it. Definitely right up her alley.

So anyway.

Yeah, so right as I sat up and opened up my sprite, the alarm went off. A very *loud* alarm. After that, an automated voice said something along the lines of "Please evacuate the building. Do not use the elevators." I can't remember exactly what it said. But the alarm sounded immediately after, and the whole thing looped. Fun times. The girls woke up, we poked our head outside the room, and eventually headed down. Oh yeah, we were on the ninth floor, so that was fun. We were joined by a number of other people on our way down. We eventually got down to the first floor and exited through the lobby. The front desk guy was still sitting there, as if nothing was happening. We went outside and, as will happen, all of us crowded outside started talking to each other, seeing if anyone knew what was going on.

Of course, no one did. It started to filter down that it was just a malfunction, and we all headed back to our rooms, thinking that was that.

It wasn't that. It wasn't even this. I don't know what it was, other than really, really annoying. We went back to our rooms, hoping to resume our night's sleep

Those of you who are familiar with literary foreshadowing already know that that didn't happen.

Here's what did happen. We went back to our beds, got all situated, and got ready to go to sleep. And the alarm went off again. And again. And again.

It proceeded to go off every ten-twenty minutes for the next... eight hours (3 - 11). Yeah, we didn't get a whole lot of sleep. Well, I didn't. I'm usually a really heavy sleeper that isn't bothered by noise, but for some reason, it just wasn't happening. Jenn and Kassandra slept just fine; I don't know about Ambra. The alarm finally stopped going off around eleven, right when we getting up. We went to the command center and checked out, finished up all the details. They gave each of us hard hats, which was pretty cool.

We drove around a little bit before we headed out, saw some of the damaged areas. Drove home without any real incident. I slept the first half or so. We decided to stop at the Salt Lick for dinner, which was delicious. Came to over a hundred dollars for the four of us. Got back before midnight, said hey to Felicia at Seguin, then Ambra and I drove back to San Marcos. So yeah, that was that.

Fun times.

Emma Bunton -- Crickets Sing For Annamaria