My Vacation

This is a picture of Ned Brower who is the drummer for Rooney. I had never heard of Rooney before but I met him on my vacation and thought he was kinda hot, so figured I'd put him on my blog.

Day 1:
I got up at way too early of an hour to fly from South Bend to Minneapolis to Orange County, but since my head cashier had told me she was quitting at 4:45 the afternoon before, I was happy to go anywhere that wasn't work. When I was sitting in the airport in Minneapolis, eating a Cinnabunn and chatting with some of my dad's coworkers, an annoying coworker named Lori who turns out to only be like a year older than I am asked me if I was still in high school. "No, I graduated college three years ago." "Oh," she replied. "I'm really bad with ages." Obviously! We went to the hotel and I went swimming outside in weather that probably really wasn't warm enough to go swimming in which may be the start of issues later on in the vacation, and then bummed around pretty much the rest of the afternoon.

Day 2:
I woke up with a sore throat (possibly from the swimming and possibly from circulated germy plane air). My mom and I went for breakfast where I had waffles with strawberries and whipped cream (my new favorite dessert). Then for the rest of the day we went to Downtown Disney and went shopping. I bought lots of Alice In Wonderland stuff that I don't need, because that's what I do. That didn't really take as long as we thought it would so we went to see the movie Glory Road. You know that feel good basketball movie they've been plugging. It was pretty good, a little too unbelievable though. Leaves you wondering how much of the true story is actually in the movie.

Day 3:
Disneyland
Still have a sore throat. It was crazy how uncrowded Disneyland was. We went on almost every ride. The longest we had to wait in line was for 20 minutes for Peter Pans flight...not worth it. We even saw the Tiki Room which was way cool though I still have the song in my head. Haunted Mansion (my favoritest ride ever) was closed. We ate dinner at the restaurant that is inside Pirates of the Caribbean.

Day 4:
California Adventure
Increasingly sore throat. Still not busy, first time there, not as cool as Disneyland. I got to ride an otter on their sea merry go round. There was a pretty cool roller coaster, but the scariest ride was the ferris wheel...yes, I said the ferris wheel. I am never going on that thing again! They had certain cars that were "rolling" cars and others that were "non-rolling" cars. Of course we had to get on a rolling car. They're on tracks that are kinda shaped like flower petals so when you reach a certain height on the ferris wheel, the car rolls down the track and then rocks back and forth (so that the riders are looking straight down either onto water or the middle of the ride) until is loses momentum. My parents ditched me for some business dinner, so I went to ESPN Zone to watch Marquette squeak one by Notre Dame in basketball (which could've been predicted). I got to sit in one of their lounge chairs and eat dinner in their screening room. However, feeling bad for my waiter that I was taking up one of his seats for 2 + hours during the basketball games I decided to order several of a certain mixed drink that he had recommended only to find out too late that they were $9 a pop and were in fact 1 part tequila, 1 part vodka, 1 part light rum, 1 part gin and 1 part Chambord. I stumbled back into Disneyland, rode the Alice in Wonderland ride 1 final time which was infinitely better for some reason, and watched the fireworks by It's a Small World while I sobered up enough to find my way home.

Day 5:
NAMM
Sore throat, stuffy nose. For those of you who don't know, NAMM stands for the National Association of Music Manufacturers, which includes anyone who produces anything having to do with music from guitar strings, to musical gifts (ties, pencils, bookends, etc.) to sheet music to people who actually make instruments. And there are all kinds of people from your music nerdy people (people I know from high school picture Mr. Martin, people from college picture Daniel Stowe the glee club director) to the people who are actually in rock bands with mohawks and pierced noses and thigh high boots. I went to meet some of the famous drummers that my dad's company was bringing in and get autographs. Besides Ned, there were other various people who I had never heard of but then there were a couple I had, or at least had heard of their bands Bryan Hitt from REO Speedwagon, Ronnie Vanucci from the Killers (who said my Kate Spade knock-off was cute), and Patrick Wilson from Weezer. The rest of the day I watched basketball games in my hotel room and crashed..trying to fight off the impending illness

Day 6:
Full blown sickness. We travel home. I'm miserable the entire way.