Grad trip was great. period. :D ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh OKAY. So here goes, (mia if you ever read this, make note i'm really trying to stick those...bleck..*cough*paragraph thingies in there)

So it starts out with Thursday morning, starts out like any other and then we all went to first and part of second. We had a substitute second block and on one of the papers it said meet at 10AM so we all left at 10AM and then about 3 minutes after we leave class, there's an announcement that says all seniors going on grad trip have to stay for all of second block "oops" LoL we just hung out for an hour and stuff. After all of that we got on the buses, that wasn't such a hassle, except for robin, who was upset that she didn't get to sit with the rest of us on our bus. make note that tiffany put her on our list of people who wanted to sit on the same bus, BUT i guess she got left off. so there was some stupid drama there. oi. The bus ride there was fairly uninteresting, they played two movies "the wood" and "shrek" part of bring it on and shanghai noon was playing but it got turned off. By the time we got there we were so antsy, and I guess embassy had made some mistakes so it took a lot longer to get off the bus (about half an hour).

The hotel was so nice :) the way it's set up is, there is a lobby at the front, and then in the middle there's a big pond and small waterfall filled with koi fish some of them were about a foot, foot and a half long! it was so beautiful, there were tropical plants all over the place and the ceiling was glass so during the day it all the sunlight came in. the rooms were okay, there was a front room which had a sofa and tv, and then a back where there was the beds. There was also a balcony we shared it with the room next to us and so all we had to do to get into their room was hop over the small cement divider.

We had about 2 hours to get ready and change and all of that for Disneyland...that part was boring LoL just a lot of going to the bathroom and fixing hair. Getting into Disneyland wasn't as unorganized and chaotic as it could have been, although i did forget to take out my eye drops so they had to take them away and put it in a bag, i got it back afterwards. We entered the park at about 11:30 and then we had to wait for the lands to open, but there was a dj blasting music and people were dancing while we were waiting. At midnight, they opened the lands and the first one we went to was adventureland so we could go on the Indiana Jones ride. We started to get into the line and then we saw people just running under the ropes, so we did that too. There was a bit of a line further ahead, but it took maybe 15 minutes, not long at all, and lines were moving fast, so we jumped into the line for the front of the ride. and then Kyle was the "driver" and then chrissy was next to him and I was next to her and Jeff jumped in next to me. I didn't see them in line, but I guess the got through too because Tiff, Benny, Eddy and Finsen were behind me too. I can do drops and twists, turns, whatever, as long as it's not in the dark. I cannot stand the dark. Needless to say, I was clutching chrissy and jeffery's hand like there was no tomorrow. The only amusing part was when smoke shot out from the walls and then Jeffery freaked out more than I did LoL.
After that ride, we went to New Orleans Square we were going to go on Pirates of the Caribbean, but everyone else that just got off of the Indiana Jones ride had the same idea too, so I suggested that we go to the haunted mansion, not so much farther away and see if that line was any shorter. It was and so we went on that one first. Again I had issues with the dark, and poor kyle had a lack of circulation in his hand LoL. Then we went back to go on to the pirates of the caribbean, by this time Kyle was the group appointed navigator, he was very good at it too. :D From there we went on to the Matterhorn, and I even got chrissy to ride that one. She's not one for rides, but there were no sudden drops so it was generally okay. The line was a little long for that one, but we had fun dancing and messing around in line LoL.

Then we went on the teacups and Kyle, Chrissy, Janice and I were in one cup together, that was fun :) After that we went into tomorrow land and went on Star Tours which was okay, you always seem to get new perspective when going on with friends, just like when chrissy noted how much the ice crystals looked like marajuana leaves LoL :) I think it was about 3:30AM then and the last ride everyone went on was autopia, chrissy was my driving companion :) and then we decied to go shopping for souverniors, that was kinda boring and the lines were long :( I was looking all over for a bouncy ball, but i couldn't find one :( After all the shopping was done, I still wanted to go on more rides like we planned, but a lot of people were tired but Kyle still wanted to go and so he went with me to go the matterhorn and everyone else still shopped or found a place to nap LoL.

This time we went on the other side to see if it was shorter, it definitely was :) and that only took 7-10 mintues or so and it was only 4:45 so we had 30 minutes left so we went on it again since the line was so short. Only this time at the end of the ride, we got pulled to the side and stopped there for a little bit...I still have no idea why...but it was nice, and kyle made for a comfy pillow. Anyhow, 5 minutes later the lady said if we wanted to go for another ride we could so we just went through again. The matterhorn is great even after four times :)

We got back ot main street at about 5:20, but there was some misunderstanding as to where exactly we were suppose to meet, but we eventually found the bus and got on.

We rode back to the hotel and showered and some people ate. Tiffany and I ate first at 6 ish while janice and chrissy took showered. I've got a good straight face in the morning and tiffany's real gullable. "coconut muffin" ;) I went up and showered and then took about an hour nap and got ready to go to the beach. The beach wasn't the one we were orignally going to go to I think because they told us there would be shops, and there weren't any :( but I still waded in the water a bit and then laid down on the beach. There was lunch there, but it wasn't all that, hot dogs potato salad and some cookies, it still wasn't unedible :) I took some pictures, hopefully some good ones :) and built a sand castle with kyle, it was pretty good, it stood up to some pretty strong water assults :) (we left the beach at about 3:45)

After the beach, we went back to the hotel to wash up and get some rest if we felt like it. Poor tiffany had sand...where the sun don't shine :( So she showered first and then the rest of us went. Janice is a MASTER at french braiding, she actually made my hair look super cool. They were giving out free drinks, and so I got a virgin mai tai, and a shirley temple. :) We weren't exactly ready to go to sleep so were were irritating the boys. We couldn't visit their room, so we just called them on the speaker phone and irritated the heck out of them LoL :) At about 5:45 or so we all got ready to go to Medieval Times. We all got in lines and then we went into the lobby-ish, where there was a bar and gift shop. I bought a magnet and a little crown thingie :) They need to organize a better way to get out because for about an hour, hour and a half, we were shoved to one side and it just got really stuffy and hot and the mic system was really messed up and it was just really difficult to hear. After a bunch of blah blah blah traditional stuff, they let us in and we were cheering for the red and yellow knight! I was yelling and cheering so much, our knight in the end didn't win :( but it's okay it still was pretty fun, and our waiter was really good and quick we got our food first :D they served a half chicken, 1 rib, half a small potato, soup, bread and a strudel, it was all okay, but the chicken was a LOT i only had the soup, part of the chicken, and the potato. The horses were so talented, and it was very entertaining, the only cute guy was the falcon dude though, and he was only out for about 5 minutes :( LoL :D

After that, it was 11 or so and we got back to the hotel, the plan was to go to the hotel and sleep and get up the next morning to pack and leave. that plan worked okay...except for the sleep part...we didn't sleep until 2am :) There was a very long and intensive talk discussing relationships. and then it came from my point of view...i didn't have much to say except for that it sucks being single and i constantly doubt whether my standards are too high. but that discussion lasted for a while. Chrissy and I shared the bed that pulled from the sofa. only we were in the outer room which was FREEZING because we forgot and left the AC on and one measly blanket does NOT do it. oi. We got up a little later than we thought at 7:15 and then chrissy and janice showered and Tiff and I went to breakfast. (breakfast consisted of eggs, sausage or links, seasoned shredded potatoes, pancakes or french toast, cereal, yogurt, fruit, muffin, juice or coffee. it was a really good meal) Then we packed up and left for Six Flags Magic Mountain.

We got there at like 11, and the lines were INSAAAAAANE! Getting in was okay, but all of the lines were at least 2 hours. We went on Goliath, which is a roller coaster, that goes super fast and it was pretty cool; viper, another roller coaster but that one was really bumpy; scream, which is like top gun but better :) and X oh man, that was the greatest rollercoast i have ever been on... and i've been on a lot, it's different than everything i've ever been on before. It's so cool. the line was 2 hours, which was long, but i mean it was better than the orignal four hours. It was broken for about 45 minutes, and in that time a lot of people left, which was a good thing. I can't even explain it, it was just super cool and i was just like woah. but i don't think i would have wanted to be the first group to go on after they just fixed it LoL. The only thing was at the end I was just getting really cold. I was in shorts and a t-shirt and it was like 55 ish weather with the wind and all.

The only bad thing...and it wasn't even a bad thing since it didn't really happen to me, but one room got sick. I really hope they don't pass it to any of us, but they were on the same bus as us...:( anyways the girls were all sick this day and yesterday and then on the bus the were retching too. it was really gross. I hope I don't get anything, although she did say it was like a 24 hour virus type of thing. not good. It was a horrible noise, but surprisingly it didn't smell. thank goodness, i don't think i could have taken it, and i think a lot MORE people would have just gotten sick from smelling it.

overall? greatest trip. I mean Convention was a great trip for hanging out with friends, but this was the most fun EVER! :D


Overall this was just a great trip.