I have just one more day left of being 37 years old. I remember when I was youg and my parents were in their thirties. I thought that was so old, but now it doesn't seem so bad. I still feel young and I think I can credit my teenagers for keeping me that way. I know all the cool songs and I am keen to all the new fashions, which by the way is a blast from my past. The old Madonna look is back. I see my daughter ripping her shirts and having one side hang off the shoulder along with lacy bows and tighter pants.
Anyways, here I am on the last Monday I will ever be thirty seven. Last Thursday began a countdown to birthday activities that have been fun, fabulous and heartfelt with a pinch of pain...more on that later.
Thursday, September 23-My BFF Frankie and her wonderful neice hooked me up with a free visit to the happiest place on earth...Disneyland! We both took the day off, sent the kids to school and ventured to Anaheim. Frankie is a regular there and she knew exactly when to get there, where to park and everything we needed. We got there early and walked into this wonderful gift shop that had pretty much everything a person could ever want for a souvenir from Walt Disney and his friends. She kept asking me what I wanted to do and I was just so happy to be there I told her whatever she wanted. By the end of the day we were cruising around without a care in the world. We ventured to get on Pirates of the Caribbean only to be told that it was temporarily closed which happened to us more than once that day. We went on Haunted Mansion and I was so amused at how they changed it to match Nightmare before Christmas, it was all decked out in Jack Skellington and friends. Oh I did forget to mention one very important thing. Frankie made me go to Guest Services to get a Happy Birthday pin. Our Disney rep put my name on it and hooked up the letters of my name with disney ears, so cute. It was like I was Disney royalty. Everywhere I went people said Happy Birthday! We went on the Winnie the Pooh ride and before we stepped on the ride they gave me a birthday card signed by Winnie the Pooh-I swore Frankie had something to do with it, but it was actually from Winnie...OMG!
We even Met Winnie the Pooh and he let me rub his nose...no people stop thinking dirty thoughts, it really was his nose. We met Tigger too! We crossed over to California Adventure and Frankie bought me lunch and then we soared over California. She introduced me to new things like the drawing academy where you can go to a session to draw Disney characters, it was so cool. We drew Jack Skellington and Daisy Duck. We got to see what Disney character we were most like. I was the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland. Then we acted and sang and had such a blast!!! Tower of Terror freaked us both out and I clung to Frankie as we fell to what I thought would be our death...whew! On Thunder Mountain or Big Thunder or whatever that ride is called we laughed our butts off. We sat in back of some guy named Kyle and we screamed whenever we could and he yelled at the people waiting for the ride to "Don't get on this ride". Splash Mountain, Matter Horn...we got on all we wanted. We went to see Captain EO and it made me miss Michael Jackson all over again. While Michael Jackson was singing and the music was pumping all the seats were bouncing up and down and we laughed. We had a pumpkin muffin and ate a chocolate Mickey head. Then...we were content. We left the park, went to the gift shop and topped off our trip with El Pollo Loco. Thanks Frankie and Melissa for a wonderful day!!!
Friday, September 24th-
My husband as I have told you writes for a local weekly newspaper. One of the perks is going to endless events free of charge. One of my favorite this time of the year is at Universal Studios. On the opening night of their annual Halloween Haunt they have an award show in the Globe Theatre that features red carpet, scary movie royalty and fun appetizers...oh, did I mention free alcohol??? Yeah you heard me right. Whatever tatsy drink you can ever want they have...mmmm. This is great because after the awards we get access to scary mazes and rides and there are people dressed as monsters everywhere. The alcohol makes the monsters fun and strikingly handsome and beautiful. When a drunk me tells the monsters this, they get all pissed at me because I'm not scared! We went through mazes, got on the scary tram and all together had a nice time...but then we were done. We ended up on Citiwalk, strolled by one of our favorite clubs The Rumba Room. Let me just say cha cha ho's everywhere. It was a guys fantasy come true! We went to Starbucks and watched people walk down City Walk. It was a nice evening and he and I had a good time together.
Then came Saturday...but that's my next blog...
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