Cameron, Cops, Czech Stops and ChaCha's
Ok so before I dive into the ridiculousness of our day, let me start off by saying it was literally perfection at first. I got to sleep in and I woke up had brunch with Kaitface and then Allie's parents came over. She's in Connecticut at the meet (Go A!) and they were just here to fix her car. They took me and Kait out to lunch though, and it was really fun! I love me some Momma Williams. So then, me and Kait just laid around the room- well at first we were looking for hammocks (to go hammocking) or roller blades (for rollerblading) but alas, there was NOTHING. Sooooo, we decided to go for a nice stroll to Cameron Park.
I had never been before and when I tell you that it it's one of the most beautiful places I've ever been too. Like it's gorgeous. Also fun fact, it's like the second biggest park in America. Anyway we were hiking and taking pics and looking at the pretty scenery, Kait peed in the woods and so she's officially a thot in my book.
Also,before I go any further, it low-key upsets me that I'm not the only reading these anymore. I feel like my private blog have been sullied and violated by eyes that are not mine, so uh, I'd like to thank Kaitlyn Elizabeth Pecue for that.
Anyway back to Cam Cam P (aka Cameron Park, aka the Park of Death, aka you-might-die-here-but-at-least-you'll-die-among-great-scenery) So me and Kait dug deep and found our inner Curtis, and took some great pics and enjoyed life and scaled some mountains (aka small cliffs).
Let me just take a second to point out this new music group I recently found, called Walk Off The Earth. Like they are seriously perfection, I'm in love with Red Hands and right now I'm listening to they're other popular songs and let me tell you, if you aren't clicking off my tumblr right now and finding them, I'm judging you real hard.
So at 5:45 I looked at my weather app to see what the weather was (obviously) and noticed that it was 72 degrees, which if you didn't previously know, is the perfect weather. Like 73 is too hot, 71 is too cold, not to mention that they are both odd numbers. Like 72 is where it's at. If I were a number, I would be 72. I'm not kidding even a little bit. See if my Acro number isn't 72 next year. While checking the weather, I noted that the sun would be setting at 6:15. Me and Kait were like "That gives us plenty of time to finish our hike and find the car" Because everyone knows that you do not go in Cam Cam P alone after dark. Matter of fact if you're anywhere in Waco after 7 P.M. and you aren't safely in the Baylor Bubble, you're pretty much asking to be raped, mugged, harassed, shot. Like Waco is a sketchy place.
So at around 6:30 we found a map and knew that we would need to go south to find our car. No big deal. Piece of cake. We got this. BTT. Right? WRONG. So very wrong. Somehow, our dumb selves end up walking north for about twenty minutes and the entire time, there's a couple walking behind us and we're mentally freaking and wondering if they were plotting our murder, which I'm pretty sure they were. So we kinda just let them pass us.
So we were officially alone and had no clue where we were. It was so great... Even better, our team was over 2,000 miles away at a competition, MCC (our trio of guys, Marcus, Collin and Curtis) were also gone. Tyson and Jamesy Poo were gone. Like everyone who could've left was gone. Luckily, thanks to Line Camp 2013, I still knew I could count on my ChaCha (Edgar Chavarria). We called him and he taught us how to drop a pin on our phones and send it to him so he could find us. Cool right? Nahh. Kait dropped the pin, sent it to him and we waited, under a tree, away from one of the 12 streetlights in that entire park. ChaCha called back and told us her was on there... which was funny bc, we didn't see him at all. He tells us where he was, which was ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF WACO. How? Why? We'll probably never know. So we continued to sit there and call all of our friends and family and tell them our last words. Jk but looking back, that would've been kinda smart. It looked pretty dicey there for a minute.
I called my brother Ralph, Kait facetimed Allie, we called Marcus, Kait snap chatted (fyi, my snapchat is Mikea.Estelle) and we sat there for fifteen more minutes, freaking about every small sound we heard. When I tell you that every tree was a rapist, every bird was a murderer and every shadow was the Grim Reaper, I'm not exaggerating.
Edgar calls us back and tells us that he can't get into the park, that there's a gate closed or something and then we really start panicking. Well everyone was telling us to just call the park rangers, which was funny, because there was not number to contact them! At all! And I think someone needs to fix that. Even more disturbing was when I searched for the Cam Cam P Ranger articles came up from the end of January about two young women being harassed in the park. Don't believe me? Google that ish. Finally, after exhausting all other resources, we called Waco PD. Thank God right?!......
So, this lady answers the phone. Very calmly I tell her the situation, We were hiking, got lost, it's pitch black AND WE'RE FREAKED THE EFF OUT. She asks where we are, I tell her. She asks where the car is, I tell her. She talks to someone else and then proceeds to GIVE US DIRECTIONS TO OUR CARS. This nigga wanted us to WALK in the DARK back to car. Whaaaaaa? Like, it pissed me off so much at first, but now that I'm thinking of it, it's really offends me. But I digress. So I get off the phone with her and me and Kait decide that it's either walk to the car or sit there under our safe haven of a tree.
So because the City of Waco utterly failed us- like let me take a moment and walk you through this. They literally told us to walk through a park in the dark that is KNOWN to be unsafe after dark. KNOWN to have rapists, they knew we had a long walk back to the car, they knew we were two girls- because of that, we started walking.
Kait had a death grip on me from the moment we got up and I was so freaked I had to call my mom. While I was on the phone with her, I think John called Kait. She was trying to send him a pin and see if he could find out where we were. My mom, of course was just mad at the situation that we got in (oh oh oh, before I forget, the texts I sent my mom today were hilarious) and Kait was freaking because she couldn't get her phone to work. She started crying for two seconds, which is commendable because I actually expected her to start crying within the first minutes of it getting dark. I'm too proud of that girl (Yaaaass Kait)
So I get off the phone with Momma Knox and John calls me to figure out the GPS thing. All of sudden Kait turns to me and says "Car" I look back to see headlights coming at us. Mind you, we are in the middle of the street. I didn't know what Kait was doing, but I immediately went for the woods. I didn't take in consideration of the guardrail that was separating the woods and the road. So, I hopped it and fell straight to my stomach. Kait, somehow, made it with me and the car passed. I'm not sure why but for some reason I was making very creepy noises, laughing, crying, Idk. Kait dropped her phone, We were both scraped up and It was all just ridiculous. But I didn't want to be on the side of the road and have a creepy car see us. Absolutely not.
We dodge two more car attempts and by that time it's been twenty five minutes since we started walking. We still hadn't seen anymore streetlights (another thing that need to be addressed about that park) and me and Kait were too irritated for words. After the third car passed us, I was taking inventory of my body parts when Kait said we should call the cops again. I looked where we were on the map and I told her that we were right near the car. She screams at me, "WELL GET UP AND TAKE ME THERE!" I'm like, Oh dang, ok, we should go, you're right. I get up, shake myself off and turn around........ Kaitlyn is STILL on the ground. Tf?
So John calls again and asks us where we are. I see an Intersection and run to it, and Kait runs after me, because there was a truck by the intersection and it freaks her out. I see that the sign says Cameron Park and Lawson. Lawson was where we parked our car! We were standing in the parking lot. We ran to the Kia and made out getaway, maniacally laughing the whole time.
After an ordeal like that, we had to go somewhere to calm our nerves. Where better to go than the Czech Stop. If you haven't heard of the C.S. its this bakery/expensive as heck gas station that sells all of these kolaches and danishes and omg when I tell you the twenty minute drive is 100% worth it, that's exactly what I mean. You haven't lived until you've gone to the Czech. So that was a treat, even though we went in looking like we might have spent two hours lost in the woods..
We came to the room and just kinda chilled the ChaCha invited us over for some pong (juice pong, duhh) and so we went there and ironically, met a guy named Marcus Franklin. It's funny to be because he's black. I have a Marcus, and he's also black. I also have a Curtis who reminds everyone of a turtle, Franklin, who's also black. People get Marcus and Curtis mixed up.. and they all kinda look alike.. like they have the same body types. It's pretty comical.
Also at this very second, Kait is typing a message to Waco PD so future Cameron P patrons will have some help if they find themselves stranded in the dark. #StopWacoPD2k14 #Speakuptodayforabettertomorrow #Ihaveadream
Anyway, at 6:30 AM this morning, me and Kait are going back to Cameron Park to watch the sunrise together! Something about that just sounds so relaxing and zen like. This weekend, was the best weekend of my freshman year though. Photoshoot, ZZZ, Lunch with momma and papa Williams, Hiking with Kait, Almost dying with Kait, Czech Stop, hanging out with new people, and the sunrise on a sunday morning? Honestly couldn't have been better. The Waco PD could've been better on their game but whatever....
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