happiest place on earth

from august 28th until the 31st my family ventured to disneyland. naturally it was quite an interesting trip, seeing as my family is nuts and does not spend time together often, especially not this much time. day one we drove down to LA which was a less-manic-than-expected car ride. once arriving we ate some really interesting Vietnamese food [because my father is a food critic and looks up restaurants on the internet], and went to downtown disney for the first round of shopping and headed back to our ghetto hotel. day two we actually went to disneyland. of course we went on basically every ride and you know all the rest. lines were fairly long, it was sticky-hott, and there were millions of people around. but i did have the pleasure of riding the new finding nemo submarine ride. as a child the old submarine ride was my favorite and was sadly closed down. now it is reopened as a similar variation with a finding nemo theme. a win-win i think. [i'll have a webisode about disneyland to give you my further opinions coming soon].

[more pictures later]
day three we went to california adventure for a little while. i got to go on the new toys story mania ride, which is by far the best ride ever. you sit in a little car type contraction and wear 3D glasses while you play virtual carnival games, competing with the person sitting next to you. after CA adventures we moved into our second hotel, the disneyland paradise pier hotel. it was one of the most amazing hotels i've ever been in.

that night we hit up some obscure, and super authentic italian restaurant for pasta so that my mom could load up on carbs for her marathon the next morning. after that we headed home to sleep because i had to wake up at 5 in the morning to escort my mother to the starting line of her race. after she finished we ate breakfast at the PCH grill, which ended up being one of those character breakfasts. i was very pleased with that, other than the fact that my father ran out of cash so i had to put in some of my own stipend. [pictures also coming soon]
all in all, it was a nice trip and despite a few disputes and the annoyances i enjoyed my time and i still love disneyland just as much as ever.

p.s. i started working at freeport bakery yesterday. it is kind of hard work because there are a lot of new things to remember, but i'm sure i will get it eventually. everyone was really nice and i'm sure they will help me with things until i really get a hold of my job.