Friday, January 18, 2008

Pretty Good Sure As You’re Born!

I love Disneyland, Splash Mountain in particular. To celebrate my 27 years of life I splashed down that mountain 27 times in five days. And I miss it already.

It has been months since my last blog but in my defense I’ve been freaking busy. In November I went to three birthday celebrations, had to go to both California and Arizona for work, and who can forget Thanksgiving. To be fair I love traveling for work, because if you can plan it correctly you get some free time to yourself and get to see things you may have never seen. See that behind me? Yeah, that’s the Grand Canyon. I repeat… I love traveling for work.

December had two more birthday parties, a trip to Seattle for the Dancing With The Stars Tour and an Underground city tour, and Christmas. I think over half of the people I talked to about the tour laughed at me, but jokes on them. It was spectacular. Live band, great dancing, and I got to see Wayne Newton sing Danke Schoen. And yes, that is how you spell it. For anyone that hasn’t done the Underground tour, next time you are in Seattle go on the tour. Chad and I had a blast and now can tell you all about the founding of the city. For Christmas we had a nice relaxed couple of days that involved virtually no cooking or dishes. Glorious. Couple that with the gift of a trip to Disneyland for my birthday and you’ve got one hell of a Christmas celebration.

Which brings us to Disneyland. Wonderful, fantastic, never disappointing Disneyland. Oh we had some memorable moments. Like Chad telling Vasili to “massage” Michael’s back. It turned into him beating him with his ‘tiny ineffectual fists’. I love finding all the random characters not just the popular ones. Plus seeing mom freak out on the Ferris wheel while Eloise sat there like it was a park bench was priceless. Then there’s the continuous trips on Splash Mountain. At one point Chad and I got to just stay on the ride four times in a row without getting off. The ride operators were just laughing at us by the end. We were soaking wet, it was low 50’s outside, and we were laughing hysterically.

Man I can’t wait to go back.

5 comments:

Sarah said...

Glad to have you back. And I'm sooooo jealous. Grand Canyon and D-Land in a couple of months. I went to Trader Joes!!! Ok, I'm not even gonna try...

Mac said...

Welcome back Amy.
Yeah, we're all abit jealous here.
If we had our way, we would live in a condo above the Market House on Main Street USA.
D-Land is in this family's DNA.
Perhaps one of these days......

Haley said...

looks like you have been busy these last couple months but with amazingly fun things!! next time, i go with you to D-land! : )

glad you had a blast!

oh and sarah... nice try! haha

Emily said...

I am more than a little jealous... I actually hate Splash Mountain though - but everything else is absolutely perfect!!!


I do have one question - how in the world did you manage to do no cooking or dishes on Christmas... I need to know for next year!!! :)

Susie Q said...

Glad to have you back with the pack!
I am more than jealous, I have a hankin' to "massage" your back, but my little fists would be way more effective than Vassili's... The hunt for the unknown or lesser known characters cracked me up. Seriously, that's a hoot!
Again, it's nice to see you again!