Thursday, March 1, 2012

The Happiest Place on Earth

My baby sister is turning the big 1-0 this week, I had to do a double-take because I sure didn't see those years go by. We may not always get along, but it makes me smile to see her start to find herself in the big wide world.

All sappiness aside, one thing she hasn't seen in her ten long years of life is Disneyland, so it was fitting that my parents graciously provided park hopper passes for us to take a nice mid-week vacation Wednesday. Which was convenient, because from now until April my school days are long and uninterrupted so a day off was much appreciated. And of course, we rode all the rides, wore out all the muscles and bones in our feet and ate all the cotton candy and kettle corn. I am also proud to announce that with the help of Space Mountain, California Screamin' and the Tower of Terror, I have successfully overcome my fear of rollercoasters. {Heights, spiders and zombies, you have yet to be conquered. Be very, very afraid.} OH, and one special little suprise treat we got to enjoy - we got to catch a glimpse of the cast of Modern Family that just so happened to be filming on site that day :)

When I say Disneyland was packed that night, I mean so-bloody-packed-that-the-crowds-looked-like-ants-swarming-a-picnic packed. PACKED. FULL. ABSOLUTELY STUFFED with humans. The happiest place on Earth was apparently the place to be Wednesday night. I had a lovely time, and I'm glad my sister got to enjoy it too.

On another note, despite all the stress and hard work, high school seems to be my "happy place" these days. I can always walk into the CoSA room and shrug off all the drama of the day and just have a good laugh with good friends. Eating cheap junk food after class is fun too :) I'm really proud to call myself a CoSA queer, our annual art gallery exhibit tonight went splendidly and I can't wait until I'm a junior next year.

I realize I'm blogging less often these days, do forgive me. I have early developing Alzheimer's disease and sometimes I forget I have homework to do instead of wasting time on 9GAG.

Happy end-of-week to you all, congratulations if you've made it alive this far.

love,
nat