What's becoming AJ's and my annual Disneyland trip happened yesterday. We went with some friends and got park hoppers so AJ could finally experience California Adventure and we could all drink!
In my head, Disneyland still exists in that early 2000's era. It was when I had my annual pass and went obsessively. It was generally less crowded, less stringent FastPass systems, and waaaaay fewer Minnie ears everywhere (which all the girls wear like skin). Still, it was a good time!
Jessica had to leave the earliest, and Iris left us before dinner. AJ and I stayed on to have dinner at the Jazz Kitchen and then head back into the park for some nighttime festivities and caught a lot of the fireworks. I have to say, I know it's set up to view like in front of the castle or off of It's A Small World, but if you stand in the back of Fantasyland, you can see all sides, it's wide open and you can sit or walk freely around. I enjoyed it!
We are dead today. Over 25,000 steps in a day and too old to stay out that late! I also didn't count calories and went to town on churros, pineapple Dole whip, pretzels, Gibson Girl ice cream, Starbucks coffee and yes... typing this out is making me ashamed. I'm definitely paying for it this morning and back to reality.
No, not my wedding sillies, Prince Harry's wedding to Meghan Markle :P
I'm a sucker for this stuff (duhhhh I had the insane fever in 2011) and I'm lucky that one of my friends is an insane Anglophile obsessed with England and all of Europe's monarchies and we indulge each other in this nonsense. She even came across a notebook in HomeGoods that I made her get for me haha (I reimbursed her!).
In preparation for Saturday, I spent the night at her place on Friday to better make the 3am wake up call for the starting coverage. I was unprepared for that nonsense since for the last royal wedding in 2011 I lived in NYC and only needed to get up at 6 like normal for work.
We had a great time watching and commenting on everything going on, all the people, all the hats, all the outfits. We popped some champagne which was also fun, and concluded with some eggs and toast.
Yes we had multiple channel up since they were both being fussy at times
My opinion is apparently unpopular, but I will say, watching that wedding, I was appalled. She looked frumpy and lazy with that loose hair everywhere and that baggy wedding dress. In some angles, yes, it looked nice, but from what you could see on the screen, it looked... bad.
There was even a moment the camera caught of Harry completely side-eyeing her loose hair! But, I digress.
In other news, yesterday was Anana's birthday... 11 years old! She had a nice day... non-stop treats, a trip to the park, and her usual steak birthday dinner.
I promise she was happier than she looks here, contemplating her 77 years of life...!
I have a semi-long engagement, so it's just always felt like everything is so far away and it's so far out there on the horizon. But I guess, now that we're less than 7 months out, we really can get into planning...? It's closer than it's ever been, but it still feels pretty far away.
At any rate, yesterday I had the day off work and went up to LA with my mom to go ransack the Arts District for random odds and ends for supplies and some DIY crafts for the wedding.
Gassing up before hitting the road
Our snapmojis in DTLA. Apparently my mother is shopping but I am not
Only in the Flower District in LA I suppose
It felt nice to get stuff (not so nice to spend the money but whatcha gunna do?) and it was great to cross stuff my off my list, but I swear as soon as you do that, another 5 things pile right back on...
Once upon a time, there were two old ladies who used to stay up late, go out anywhere and everywhere no matter the time or place, be able to crash at home at 4am and be up at 6am for work. After a few years, these two old ladies decided to go a concert nearby on a Tuesday night for a sweet NYC band LCD Soundsystem.
When the Tuesday came, both the little old ladies felt tired, and exhausted, and the thought of a concert that night was a lot to handle. Still, after work, one little old lady went to the other's. She had a box of wine left over in her car that she brought. Instead of making them feel adventurous, they got sleepy on the couch with Mulan on. They cuddled the dog and wondered how they would get to the concert.
The first little old lady finally got dressed and made a pot of coffee for them and the second little old lady drove them to the concert late, after the opening act and just in time to get a drink and squeeze into the middle of the crowd.
In the end, the concert was amazing, they woke up, they danced, they drank, they had a great time on a Tuesday night and remembered why they used to go out during the week. Plus, James Murphy is incredible and LCD Soundsystem plays so great liveeeee!
All the same, the first little old lady still had to take off the next morning from work to sleep because she was still too tired.
