Vandalia???

Jorge's favorite aunt lives in Vandalia, IL like an hour east of St. Louis.  I am about over the family reunion but he insists we stay for one night.  So we get to this small mid-western town and pick up his hot 16 year old cousin from high school and go to their house.  Nobody is home so we give her a ride to work where i meet angel, her older brother works there as well.  It's a pizza/pasta place so we decide to come back and eat there later along with another younger cousin.  So with nothing to do and nobody home we go find a basketball court and start a game of 21.  This meth-head looking guy asked to join in so we let him and i really think he was on meth, he was running around so fast.  So after he won it was so hot we could only play one game.  We go back to the house and his aunt is home from work i take a shower and let them catch up.  Then we take the 7 year old up to the pizza place and get some food.  It was pretty good and we got some leftovers for later.  The mom goes to bed early and we haven't smoked all day so we go to wal-mart to get a redbox and blaze on the way.  When we get back angel is about to go to friends house and invites us to ride with.  Now this kid seems like a good kid so jorge doesn't want to ask him if he smokes but right when we get to the friends they are rolling blunts from some home grown shit.  We smoke out in their garage and chill out.  Then back to the spot we watch our movie and i get to sleep on the couch. 
Next day we pack up, eat some leftovers, say our goodbyes and head out to Chicago!

East Saint Louis, IL

Right across the Mississippi river is east saint louis where jorge has more family.  So head over to his aunts house, where he has 4 girl cousins.  She invited us to stay the night, said yes.  Then we went to see his uncle who is more our age.  The two older cousins came with us. We chilled with his wife and daughter, a 7 year old cousin jorge has never met.  When he got home from work the corona's came out and then of course the tequila.  The oldest cousin who was 19 started drinking with them and ended up getting wasted with a little cousin pressure from Jorge.  Then a round midnight their dad is banging on the door.  He comes in yelling at the girls.  Then he starts in on the wife and says someday when you have kids you will understand, his dumbass didn't even know they had a kid.  So we go back to jorges aunts chill a little and hit the couch.  Next day we go up to the mall where the oldest cousin, Jenifer works got some food and talked about how her parents are way to overprotective.  Then we went over to the ghetto where the younger uncle works at top metal.  We drank some beers there found a little dime midwest dirt weed.  Then went over to some other family of his started really drinking some coronas while playing the washer game.  It is kinda like hourse shoes but u play with a washer and a box.  This house had a cross eyed pit bull and a garden with some nice nugs, turns out we didn't need that dime.  Smoked and drank all night then crashed at the younger uncles house.  Next day we hit the road again.  Good stop jorge saw more family then he has seen in 10 years and i was immersed into mexican american culture, wish i knew spanish!