Mal's Bday and Creepy Schiller

(besties <3 and Mal's new hat)
(at The Wellington)

Birthday festivities were a blast! Dr. Sharon and Prof. Angus got Mal a 21st birthday hat to wear for the evening (seen above). We started out the night at The Wellington, which is a hotel about two blocks away. They have a nice bar downstairs where we (the theatre kids, Evan, Ricky, Carrie, Jess, Rachel, Dr. Sharon, and Prof. Angus) spent a couple hours. It was a lot of fun! The girls sat and talked with Dr. Sharon for a while and the guys stood up at the bar. There was an extremely intoxicated woman sitting near us who started talking to Greta, which was pretty funny. After a couple drinks and goodbyes to Dr. Sharon and Prof. Angus we made our way (a very very long way) on foot to a club called the Roxy. Kurt, Mal, Noelle, Trevor, Carrie, and I ended up going in the club and danced until about 2:00. They played great music: Oasis, Madonna, Beach Boys, Spice Girls, Hanson, Tiffany, Offspring... everything from oldies like "Twist and Shout" to a few crazy European techo songs. We had a really great time. Amanda and Jackie even ended up showing up. Kurt and Noelle made the long trek back to Schiller once we left, but Mal and Amanda were in heels so the rest of us took a bus back, but only after Trevor spent an hour trying to figure out the bus system (good thing... because we didn't get it at all) and a stop a McDonald's. We went on the computers when we got back and then decided to go on our own tour... of creepy Schiller International. The night before, Trevor and I had taken a walk around Schiller and got the crap scared out of us. There are little wooden staircases that lead to nowhere, weird noises, doors that are creepily left ajar, and at one point Trevor turned a corner and saw a door at the end of this dark hallway. There was a glass window on this door that had this smeared handprint that look like blood from a horror movie. We ended our walk after that. So last night we decided to take Kurt, Mal, Noelle, and Carrie with us to do another creepy Schiller walk. With Kurt in the lead, it wasn't as bad. We concluded that the smear was not blood and that at least one of the scary little staircases lead to the roof. Schiller used to be a hospital back in the day and the IT office in the basement, which we sit right outside of to use our laptops used to be the morgue. So, although our fears involving the creepy handprint were put to rest, we're still completely creeped out by this building.