the happiest place on earth
so first of all, can i just say: snackbreak is the most AMAZINGLY EPIC PERSON IN THE HISTORY OF EPICNESS. not even kidding, you guys, kim is just, like, totally awesome and also THE MOST EXPERIENCED DISNEYLAND PLAYA EVAH. i'm talking, like, crazy, crazy levels of awesomesauce, okay, i cannot even tell you. the past couple of days have been unbelievably fantastic. and guess what?
disneyland really is the happiest place on earth.
the people/staff are just, like *____________* and XD all the time and it is just SO nice to be around people who are that happy and upbeat (or at least pretending to be). you just want to soak it in and BATHE IN HAPPINESS AND UNICORNS AND SUNSHINE. aldnfrehgifafjg. i don't even have the words. i just want to beam at shit all day and randomly go, "I LOVE YOU DISNEYLAND!"
we had 3 days to cover disneyland basically, but we pretty much - thanks to kim's MAD MASTERMIND PLANNING SKILLZ - finished the big stuff (and also most of the small stuff) in the first 2. our first day was PHENOMENAL. like, we got to the park at 9 in the morning and just WENT FOR IT. space mountain - which is SO. FUCKING. AWESOME. OMFG. especially the first time! - indiana jones, splash mountain, big thunder mountain railroad, haunted mansion (which was totally one of my favourite rides, hi), pirates, THE ENCHANTED TIKI ROOM (OMG ♥ ♥ ♥) the jungle cruise, captain eo, astro blasters, pretty much everything in fantasyland - MY. FAVOURITE. FOREVER. AUGH. probably because i am, like, 4, and i ADORE the kiddy rides. but seriously, seriously, peter pan is the most RIDICULOUSLY FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC RIDE EVER, OKAY, the constant 50-minute line or whatever is totally worth it. and snow white is so freaking CREEPTASTIC, what up. and also that's where storybookland is, which is basically a boat ride that takes you to see miniature versions of all the disney princesses kingdoms and shit (and remember this ride, because IT WILL BE RELEVANT TO YOUR INTERESTS IN THE FUTURE OF THIS POST) and just, SO MUCH LOVE - and also we saw the parade (hoshit, more on this later) and the fireworks show, which ASOIDFKJSNJGIHSUIAJLKDMFNGJFIHDSKLDNF FIREWORKS. I ♥ FIREWORKS. idk if it's because they're so rare (and puny) back home or what, BUT FIREWOKRS. MAKE. MY LIFE. and disney runs it for, like, 20 minutes straight or something. 20. GLORIOUS. MINUTES. THAT WILL LIGHT UP (LITERALLY) AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER, NOT EVEN LYING.
and then the celebrate today parade, right. THE PARADE. JUST - I WANT TO LIVE IN DISNEYLAND, OKAY. talk about pure, unadulterated high-energy FUNTIEMS. just, like, they make you want to dance with them and wave like a crazy person and SING AT THE TOP OF YOUR TONEDEAF LUNGS. i cannot even explain the high you get, it's like emotional osmosis or something.
DISNEY MAGIC FOREVER.
and that's only day 1.
day 2 we got magic morning passes, where we could get into certain parts of the park an hour before official opening time (aka 7am). not that we made it. BUT WE WERE CLOSE. it was like 8ish when we got there, and then we took the disney train for the hell of it, before walking through toon town (which took all of, like, 20 minutes, lmfao. man, that place is so adorb but there is NOTHING TO DO/SEE IN IT). by that point it was 10, so we headed to california adventure - which, hi, SO EXCITING AND FULL OF FAMAZING RIDES (i guess that's the purpose since it is apparently the adult-geared park) - but it is no disneyland, lemme tell you. it's only the neighbour of the happiest place on earth, and you totally feel it.
but the RIDES. THE RIDES. hoshit, okay, CALIFORNIA SCREAMIN' = BEST ROLLER COASTER OF MY LIFE. it's so freaking FAST - i have never been on anything that fast in my life, i donut think - and there are drops, and a loop-de-loop, BUT WITHOUT THE FEELING LIKE YOUR STOMACH IS ABOUT TO FALL OUT OF YOUR MOUTH. WHICH = ♥______________♥ WORDS ARE INADEQUATE; FIRSTHAND EXPERIENCE IS NECESSARY, TRUST ME.
and also we did the tower of terror - which was so fun, but is possibly the one ride that tokyo does better - the silly symphony swings (HAHA), mickey's fun wheel (which is like the viking ship and the ferris wheel combined, and it may not SOUND like it would be THE MOST TERRIFYING SHIT ON THE PLANET, but when you are a GAZILLION feet up in the air, and freezing, and SWINGING LIKE A MONKEY IN A METAL CAGE, IT TOTALLY IS). we also did soarin' over california, which is like a paragliding-ish ride that BLEW. MY FREAKING. MIND. OH MY GOD. HOW SO GODDAMN AMAZING, DISNEY. and we went on a bunch of other rides, too, like mulholland madness, which is a sad, tiny-looking excuse of a mini-coaster, but all that is just a front to hide the fact that IT IS ACTUALLY SCARY. like STOMACH-FLIPPING SCARY. and also AWESOME. and we also finished all the kiddy rides in a bug's land, and had the most incredible 4-d viewing experience EVER with it's tough to be a bug (and i still get chills just thinking about it, holy shit), and also looked at the a whole bunch of disney animation stuff, and also TALKED TO CRUSH FROM FINDING NEMO (YOU ARE SO TOTALLY AWESOME DUDE). we even managed to catch the parade on top of that, which was kind of meh after we'd seen the AWESOME that was the celebrate today parade in disneyland. still. we only managed all that because we always got, like, crazy short waiting times, which was SO GREAT, and also kim's masterminding of our fast passes and stuff, SCORE. (seriously, for the optimal disneyland experience, YOU NEED TO HIT UP SNACKBREAK.)
oh! we also went on the grizzly river run, like, twice, which is basically the water ride essential to the survival of every theme park in the history of ever, and - funny story that doesn't actually happen till day 3 but will be recounted here - apparently i attract water and christine1411 repels it. the weather was pretty chilly, so i was kind of hesitant about going for any of the water rides, but i went anyway (AGAINST MY BETTER JUDGEMENT. LESSON OF THE DAY, KIDS: NEVER GO AGAINST YOUR GUT.) and got SOAKED. both times. the second time i kind of wanted to kill myself a little bit, but it wasn't until the third day, when i was SERIOUSLY like, okay, i really don't know if i want to do this but what the heck, it wasn't so bad yesterday and third time's a charm, that i got SOAKED. THROUGH. not even joking. i was ENGULFED IN A WAVE. AND THEN CAUGHT IN A SPRINKLER. WHICH I DONUT THINK WAS EVEN SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN, SINCE IT HADN'T THE PAST TWO TIMES WE'D TAKEN THE DAMN RIDE. and of COURSE christine is, like, practically DRY. fml. BUT ANYWAY. back to day 2.
so after all that excitement we headed back to disneyland - dead on our feet, i might add - and decided to just hang out to watch fastasmic (TWICE, omfg, and you can say what you want about disney, THEY KNOW HOW TO PUT ON A FUCKING SHOW. dragons! fireworks! PROJECTION SCREENS MADE OUT OF FUCKING WATEr, WHAT THE FUCK. ARSDGHSHFJF AUGH. WORDS FAIL TO CONVEY MY AMAZEMENT.) and the fireworks show again (STILL AWESOME) before heading back to the hotel.
day 3 we figured we'd take it easy. for one thing, we'd finished pretty much every ride worth taking in both parks (no lie, we had, like, 4 rides and shows left to complete on our agenda. FOUR. out of, like, A MILLION. we did so good.) so we woke up late and then stopped at IHOP for breakfast brunch (IHOP!), om nom nom, before getting to disneyland. we caught 2 animation academy shows, where we learnt to draw daisy duck and chip (CHIP! ONLY MY FAVOURITEST CARTOON DISNEY CHARACTER EVER), before going for the monsters inc. ride and catching the muppet 3d show (which was cute but possibly the least exciting show we saw, sadness) before going to line up for toy story mania, the 3-d buzz lightyear shooting game thingy (which, incidentally, LONGEST LINE EVER AT 50 MINUTES, WTAF, it was longer than PETER PAN) and it was fun, but since i'm not quite a shooting game person (because i suck, okay, I ADMIT IT), i found just okay, given the wait.
this is where we then went to grizzly river run the third time, and i was soaked to the bone. following that we decided to get a turkey leg each (THE MOST MONSTROUS, AMAZING PIECE OF MEAT I'VE EVER HAD IN MY LIFE, HOLY SHIT). IT WAS LIKE BEING IN (BAD) PORN. kim summed us up as soaking wet girls tearing into huge chunks of meat. classic wet dream. you should have seen the looks we got as we walked back over to disneyland. then we started retaking the rides we liked from the first two days, like indiana jones (wherein, in our turkey high, we thought the old woman who was humming the theme song behind us in the line was, like, mood music coming from hidden speakers or something, and then proceeded to LOL all over ourselves when we figured it out, and THEN decided to provide our own mood music by singing the theme song to winnie the pooh. ...you had to be there). we also went and took the casey jr. circus train (and picked the monkey cage so we could shriek like monkeys to our hearts' content and scare the people we passed by) which happened to pass by storybookland, WHICH IS HOW WE SAW OUR GUIDE (or a doppelganger, there is still much debate on this) FROM THE FIRST TIME WE WENT ON THE RIDE.
so, being the stalkers we were (he was cute, okay, and funny, DONUT JUDGE US), we went back for the ride a second time. and planned to stage a rebellion if we were herded onto one of the boats without him in it. and then, because we were arguing over whether it WAS him, i was all, well we should just ask if he was working here the other night then, AND THEN HIS BOAT DOCKED, AND CHRISTINE ACTUALLY LEANED OVER THE RAILINGS TO ASK HIM, LMFAO FOREVER, BEST AND WORST MOMENT OH MY GOSH. and he was all, like ...are you guys stalking me? and i was like, um, sort of. AND KIM WAS LIKE OH MY GOD YOU GUYS *HEADDESK*--
AND THEN OF COURSE WE GET USHERED ONTO HIS BOAT. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. i am still not entirely sure it is him, but. you know. at the end of the ride as we're getting off, he's like (as they all are), "i like this ride so much i'm going to do it again."
"and again, and again," i say.
"yup," he says. "in fact, i'm going to be doing this all week. but you already knew that."
AND I AM LIKE, "WELL WE'VE BEEN STUDYING."
IDK WHY I WOULD DO THAT, SIGH. but he was adorable, so whatever. i will probably never see him again.
we went for space mountain after, pretty sure it would be our last ride at 11.30, BUT THEN! there was time to go on astro blasters again! TWICE. yay! and after, christine and kim got ice cream and pins from city hall with, like, 1st time visitor! and honorary citizen on them, so our last night ended on a definite high.
which is sort of similar to vegas, ha. the second day we were there we just hung out in the hotel room, mostly, and then i went for my helicopter tour of the grand canyon. it was seriously amazing, a once in a lifetime experience, and i am SO glad i went for the sunset tour, because the views (of the canyon, and the post-sunset lit vegas strip both) were breathtaking, but i also realized that i get crazy, crazy airsick. WHICH IS SO NOT FUN. i got through the first half of the trip fine, and then i was all ......oh this is so not good. i managed to hold it in all the way till we were back on the strip, and we are LITERALLY SECONDS FROM LANDING and the nausea is getting SO bad at this point, but i'm like, no, no, this is totally going to work, i can SO hold out TWENTY SECONDS, and then the pilot makes these last two huge swerves--
and i am done. it is RIDICULOUS. i am throwing up (into the air bag, because i am AWESOME at being sick like that) literally AS THE PILOT LANDS. and i'm so thankful for the italian lady beside me (whom i made friends with on the limo ride over, ha, and can i just say that limos are SO the way to travel, hi) because she was rubbing my back and taking out wet wipes for me and touching my forehead and fussing, and it helped to feel cared about. i ♥ her. her and the other lady i met in the limo, joann (who's a psychologist from canada, go figure, lmfao) were incredibly nice and made me feel right at home. we were calling ourselves the three musketeers ten minutes into meeting each other. you gotta love that about travelling.
the third day was the real high note, though. we got off to a late start with lunch at burger bar (HUBERT KELLER, ILU. i love your burgers a little less, but still. my own fault for not eating beef.) and then headed over to treasure island for cirque du soleil's mystere. it was SO COOL. the acts were AWESOME, and it was just so much fun, and so good, and i'm really glad i didn't let the disaster that was banana shpeel deter me from seeing another cirque du soleil show. i should have seen ka, according to snackbreak and a couple of other people, but that just means more reason to come back to vegas again! :DDDDDDDDDDDDD
we ended the night off by catching the volcano show at the mirage, and the sirens of treasure island after (which was totally disappointing, what), and now here we are, in san diego! which--more on that later, when i haven't just spent two hours talking about my life.
time to settle in for a viewing of beauty and the beast. :D
ETA: SPEAKING OF DISNEY, IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN BAMBI 2, YOU TOTALLY SHOULD. BECAUSE I DID YESTERDAY, AND I WEPT MY WAY THROUGH IT, AND IT IS NOW ONE OF MY FAVOURITEST DISNEY MOVIES EVER, NOT EVEN KIDDING. I LIKE IT MORE THAN I LIKE SLEEPING BEAUTY.
disneyland really is the happiest place on earth.
the people/staff are just, like *____________* and XD all the time and it is just SO nice to be around people who are that happy and upbeat (or at least pretending to be). you just want to soak it in and BATHE IN HAPPINESS AND UNICORNS AND SUNSHINE. aldnfrehgifafjg. i don't even have the words. i just want to beam at shit all day and randomly go, "I LOVE YOU DISNEYLAND!"
we had 3 days to cover disneyland basically, but we pretty much - thanks to kim's MAD MASTERMIND PLANNING SKILLZ - finished the big stuff (and also most of the small stuff) in the first 2. our first day was PHENOMENAL. like, we got to the park at 9 in the morning and just WENT FOR IT. space mountain - which is SO. FUCKING. AWESOME. OMFG. especially the first time! - indiana jones, splash mountain, big thunder mountain railroad, haunted mansion (which was totally one of my favourite rides, hi), pirates, THE ENCHANTED TIKI ROOM (OMG ♥ ♥ ♥) the jungle cruise, captain eo, astro blasters, pretty much everything in fantasyland - MY. FAVOURITE. FOREVER. AUGH. probably because i am, like, 4, and i ADORE the kiddy rides. but seriously, seriously, peter pan is the most RIDICULOUSLY FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC RIDE EVER, OKAY, the constant 50-minute line or whatever is totally worth it. and snow white is so freaking CREEPTASTIC, what up. and also that's where storybookland is, which is basically a boat ride that takes you to see miniature versions of all the disney princesses kingdoms and shit (and remember this ride, because IT WILL BE RELEVANT TO YOUR INTERESTS IN THE FUTURE OF THIS POST) and just, SO MUCH LOVE - and also we saw the parade (hoshit, more on this later) and the fireworks show, which ASOIDFKJSNJGIHSUIAJLKDMFNGJFIHDSKLDNF FIREWORKS. I ♥ FIREWORKS. idk if it's because they're so rare (and puny) back home or what, BUT FIREWOKRS. MAKE. MY LIFE. and disney runs it for, like, 20 minutes straight or something. 20. GLORIOUS. MINUTES. THAT WILL LIGHT UP (LITERALLY) AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER, NOT EVEN LYING.
and then the celebrate today parade, right. THE PARADE. JUST - I WANT TO LIVE IN DISNEYLAND, OKAY. talk about pure, unadulterated high-energy FUNTIEMS. just, like, they make you want to dance with them and wave like a crazy person and SING AT THE TOP OF YOUR TONEDEAF LUNGS. i cannot even explain the high you get, it's like emotional osmosis or something.
DISNEY MAGIC FOREVER.
and that's only day 1.
day 2 we got magic morning passes, where we could get into certain parts of the park an hour before official opening time (aka 7am). not that we made it. BUT WE WERE CLOSE. it was like 8ish when we got there, and then we took the disney train for the hell of it, before walking through toon town (which took all of, like, 20 minutes, lmfao. man, that place is so adorb but there is NOTHING TO DO/SEE IN IT). by that point it was 10, so we headed to california adventure - which, hi, SO EXCITING AND FULL OF FAMAZING RIDES (i guess that's the purpose since it is apparently the adult-geared park) - but it is no disneyland, lemme tell you. it's only the neighbour of the happiest place on earth, and you totally feel it.
but the RIDES. THE RIDES. hoshit, okay, CALIFORNIA SCREAMIN' = BEST ROLLER COASTER OF MY LIFE. it's so freaking FAST - i have never been on anything that fast in my life, i donut think - and there are drops, and a loop-de-loop, BUT WITHOUT THE FEELING LIKE YOUR STOMACH IS ABOUT TO FALL OUT OF YOUR MOUTH. WHICH = ♥______________♥ WORDS ARE INADEQUATE; FIRSTHAND EXPERIENCE IS NECESSARY, TRUST ME.
and also we did the tower of terror - which was so fun, but is possibly the one ride that tokyo does better - the silly symphony swings (HAHA), mickey's fun wheel (which is like the viking ship and the ferris wheel combined, and it may not SOUND like it would be THE MOST TERRIFYING SHIT ON THE PLANET, but when you are a GAZILLION feet up in the air, and freezing, and SWINGING LIKE A MONKEY IN A METAL CAGE, IT TOTALLY IS). we also did soarin' over california, which is like a paragliding-ish ride that BLEW. MY FREAKING. MIND. OH MY GOD. HOW SO GODDAMN AMAZING, DISNEY. and we went on a bunch of other rides, too, like mulholland madness, which is a sad, tiny-looking excuse of a mini-coaster, but all that is just a front to hide the fact that IT IS ACTUALLY SCARY. like STOMACH-FLIPPING SCARY. and also AWESOME. and we also finished all the kiddy rides in a bug's land, and had the most incredible 4-d viewing experience EVER with it's tough to be a bug (and i still get chills just thinking about it, holy shit), and also looked at the a whole bunch of disney animation stuff, and also TALKED TO CRUSH FROM FINDING NEMO (YOU ARE SO TOTALLY AWESOME DUDE). we even managed to catch the parade on top of that, which was kind of meh after we'd seen the AWESOME that was the celebrate today parade in disneyland. still. we only managed all that because we always got, like, crazy short waiting times, which was SO GREAT, and also kim's masterminding of our fast passes and stuff, SCORE. (seriously, for the optimal disneyland experience, YOU NEED TO HIT UP SNACKBREAK.)
oh! we also went on the grizzly river run, like, twice, which is basically the water ride essential to the survival of every theme park in the history of ever, and - funny story that doesn't actually happen till day 3 but will be recounted here - apparently i attract water and christine1411 repels it. the weather was pretty chilly, so i was kind of hesitant about going for any of the water rides, but i went anyway (AGAINST MY BETTER JUDGEMENT. LESSON OF THE DAY, KIDS: NEVER GO AGAINST YOUR GUT.) and got SOAKED. both times. the second time i kind of wanted to kill myself a little bit, but it wasn't until the third day, when i was SERIOUSLY like, okay, i really don't know if i want to do this but what the heck, it wasn't so bad yesterday and third time's a charm, that i got SOAKED. THROUGH. not even joking. i was ENGULFED IN A WAVE. AND THEN CAUGHT IN A SPRINKLER. WHICH I DONUT THINK WAS EVEN SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN, SINCE IT HADN'T THE PAST TWO TIMES WE'D TAKEN THE DAMN RIDE. and of COURSE christine is, like, practically DRY. fml. BUT ANYWAY. back to day 2.
so after all that excitement we headed back to disneyland - dead on our feet, i might add - and decided to just hang out to watch fastasmic (TWICE, omfg, and you can say what you want about disney, THEY KNOW HOW TO PUT ON A FUCKING SHOW. dragons! fireworks! PROJECTION SCREENS MADE OUT OF FUCKING WATEr, WHAT THE FUCK. ARSDGHSHFJF AUGH. WORDS FAIL TO CONVEY MY AMAZEMENT.) and the fireworks show again (STILL AWESOME) before heading back to the hotel.
day 3 we figured we'd take it easy. for one thing, we'd finished pretty much every ride worth taking in both parks (no lie, we had, like, 4 rides and shows left to complete on our agenda. FOUR. out of, like, A MILLION. we did so good.) so we woke up late and then stopped at IHOP for breakfast brunch (IHOP!), om nom nom, before getting to disneyland. we caught 2 animation academy shows, where we learnt to draw daisy duck and chip (CHIP! ONLY MY FAVOURITEST CARTOON DISNEY CHARACTER EVER), before going for the monsters inc. ride and catching the muppet 3d show (which was cute but possibly the least exciting show we saw, sadness) before going to line up for toy story mania, the 3-d buzz lightyear shooting game thingy (which, incidentally, LONGEST LINE EVER AT 50 MINUTES, WTAF, it was longer than PETER PAN) and it was fun, but since i'm not quite a shooting game person (because i suck, okay, I ADMIT IT), i found just okay, given the wait.
this is where we then went to grizzly river run the third time, and i was soaked to the bone. following that we decided to get a turkey leg each (THE MOST MONSTROUS, AMAZING PIECE OF MEAT I'VE EVER HAD IN MY LIFE, HOLY SHIT). IT WAS LIKE BEING IN (BAD) PORN. kim summed us up as soaking wet girls tearing into huge chunks of meat. classic wet dream. you should have seen the looks we got as we walked back over to disneyland. then we started retaking the rides we liked from the first two days, like indiana jones (wherein, in our turkey high, we thought the old woman who was humming the theme song behind us in the line was, like, mood music coming from hidden speakers or something, and then proceeded to LOL all over ourselves when we figured it out, and THEN decided to provide our own mood music by singing the theme song to winnie the pooh. ...you had to be there). we also went and took the casey jr. circus train (and picked the monkey cage so we could shriek like monkeys to our hearts' content and scare the people we passed by) which happened to pass by storybookland, WHICH IS HOW WE SAW OUR GUIDE (or a doppelganger, there is still much debate on this) FROM THE FIRST TIME WE WENT ON THE RIDE.
so, being the stalkers we were (he was cute, okay, and funny, DONUT JUDGE US), we went back for the ride a second time. and planned to stage a rebellion if we were herded onto one of the boats without him in it. and then, because we were arguing over whether it WAS him, i was all, well we should just ask if he was working here the other night then, AND THEN HIS BOAT DOCKED, AND CHRISTINE ACTUALLY LEANED OVER THE RAILINGS TO ASK HIM, LMFAO FOREVER, BEST AND WORST MOMENT OH MY GOSH. and he was all, like ...are you guys stalking me? and i was like, um, sort of. AND KIM WAS LIKE OH MY GOD YOU GUYS *HEADDESK*--
AND THEN OF COURSE WE GET USHERED ONTO HIS BOAT. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. i am still not entirely sure it is him, but. you know. at the end of the ride as we're getting off, he's like (as they all are), "i like this ride so much i'm going to do it again."
"and again, and again," i say.
"yup," he says. "in fact, i'm going to be doing this all week. but you already knew that."
AND I AM LIKE, "WELL WE'VE BEEN STUDYING."
IDK WHY I WOULD DO THAT, SIGH. but he was adorable, so whatever. i will probably never see him again.
we went for space mountain after, pretty sure it would be our last ride at 11.30, BUT THEN! there was time to go on astro blasters again! TWICE. yay! and after, christine and kim got ice cream and pins from city hall with, like, 1st time visitor! and honorary citizen on them, so our last night ended on a definite high.
which is sort of similar to vegas, ha. the second day we were there we just hung out in the hotel room, mostly, and then i went for my helicopter tour of the grand canyon. it was seriously amazing, a once in a lifetime experience, and i am SO glad i went for the sunset tour, because the views (of the canyon, and the post-sunset lit vegas strip both) were breathtaking, but i also realized that i get crazy, crazy airsick. WHICH IS SO NOT FUN. i got through the first half of the trip fine, and then i was all ......oh this is so not good. i managed to hold it in all the way till we were back on the strip, and we are LITERALLY SECONDS FROM LANDING and the nausea is getting SO bad at this point, but i'm like, no, no, this is totally going to work, i can SO hold out TWENTY SECONDS, and then the pilot makes these last two huge swerves--
and i am done. it is RIDICULOUS. i am throwing up (into the air bag, because i am AWESOME at being sick like that) literally AS THE PILOT LANDS. and i'm so thankful for the italian lady beside me (whom i made friends with on the limo ride over, ha, and can i just say that limos are SO the way to travel, hi) because she was rubbing my back and taking out wet wipes for me and touching my forehead and fussing, and it helped to feel cared about. i ♥ her. her and the other lady i met in the limo, joann (who's a psychologist from canada, go figure, lmfao) were incredibly nice and made me feel right at home. we were calling ourselves the three musketeers ten minutes into meeting each other. you gotta love that about travelling.
the third day was the real high note, though. we got off to a late start with lunch at burger bar (HUBERT KELLER, ILU. i love your burgers a little less, but still. my own fault for not eating beef.) and then headed over to treasure island for cirque du soleil's mystere. it was SO COOL. the acts were AWESOME, and it was just so much fun, and so good, and i'm really glad i didn't let the disaster that was banana shpeel deter me from seeing another cirque du soleil show. i should have seen ka, according to snackbreak and a couple of other people, but that just means more reason to come back to vegas again! :DDDDDDDDDDDDD
we ended the night off by catching the volcano show at the mirage, and the sirens of treasure island after (which was totally disappointing, what), and now here we are, in san diego! which--more on that later, when i haven't just spent two hours talking about my life.
time to settle in for a viewing of beauty and the beast. :D
ETA: SPEAKING OF DISNEY, IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN BAMBI 2, YOU TOTALLY SHOULD. BECAUSE I DID YESTERDAY, AND I WEPT MY WAY THROUGH IT, AND IT IS NOW ONE OF MY FAVOURITEST DISNEY MOVIES EVER, NOT EVEN KIDDING. I LIKE IT MORE THAN I LIKE SLEEPING BEAUTY.