My goodness it has been quite a long time my friends.
My life truly is un-entertaining when I don't have rehearsals and shows to fill my time.
Anywho.
Just got back from a lovely vacay in Seaside for Thanksgiving.
Went with the fam and my bestie Shauna.
She comes with us every year for Thanksgiving because she's from LA, so she doesn't have any family here to go hang with.
It was our third together.
And we are getting ready to celebrate our three year anniversary. It's a lovely thing that I have Shauna.
Our relationship is tremendously more fantastic than any I've had with any of my long term boyfriends.
The beach was lovely.
I drank too much wine and ate way too much food.
Speaking of delicious food. I'm not even going to go into the fantastic-ness that was eaten all day on Turkey Day itself....but the food in Florida was so yummy! At this little french bistro we bough these amazing strawberry Parisian macaroons.
Holy lord.
And some other random beach front restaurant had this delicious veggie sandwich with zucchini, roasted peppers, pesto, and fresh water mozzarella that was about 2 inches think.
And the last place Shauna and I went to as sort of our final evening date was this little wine bar, similar to Delachaise, I would say. Everything was supposed to be tapas but it was HUGE!
We had a cheese plate with like six different cheeses, a whole sliced orange, apple, grapes, strawberries, and giant loaf of bread. We also ordered a crepe (Which was two GIANT crepes, BTW) filled with field greens, honey, walnuts, and goat cheese.
And, finally we had sauteed shrimp with tomatoes, onions and a Gorgonzola sauce. Everything was so delicious, and gianormous portions.
We were in quite a lot of pain by the end of the ordeal.
But it was vacay, so it was completely acceptable.
I did not want to come back home and go to work.
But I am very much looking forward to this week.
Very important Saints game last night!
Tom Brady is a little girl.
I'm glad we made him cry.
I almost cried from pure elation.
And very important auditions later in the week.
I'm going to destroy people at those auditions.
I have never been so psyched up for an audition in my entire life. It's like all of a sudden my extremely competitive high school edge has come back.
And I will be on the hunt for weak actresses Thursday and Friday.
November was so fun-filled I don't know how December is going to compete.
I am very much looking forward to Celebration in the Oaks.
But I think that's about it.
Ah well.
I'll just focus all my energy onto my fellas in black and gold!
Especially Mr. Fugita and Mr. Colston. (My defensive, and offensive boyfriends, respectively.)
Monday, November 30, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
WISHES!!!!
Oh my.
Where to begin writing about our fantastical trip to the happiest place on earth?
I had such a blasty in Disney World! I guess I'll just go through day by day and share the magic!
**Let me just being by saying that on the plane ride over there, my seat buddy, Randolph...an extremely charming, charismatic man gave me free drink tickets the whole time and told me all about his wife and 5 kids. And then proceeded to inquire about which bar I would be at that evening....I have a gift, what can I say.**
Day 1: The Universal and Beyond
I got to Orlando Wednesday night, while the rest of them (AJ, Kristin, and Alex) arrived at about 7:30 -8o'clock Thursday morning.
At which point they called and were like, "Let's go to Universal Studios! We're ready to go!!!"
I had only gotten about 5 hours of sleep, as had the three of them between all the driving.
So, we all meet up in our room, where I announce I need to take a bag with me, as to hold my massive amounts of crap: suntan lotion, sunglasses,sweaters, camera, phone, etc.
Alex says I shouldn't take a bag cause it will hold us up trying to get through the lines.
Whatever!
I'm a girl, and I need a bag to carry everything!
(By the by, EVERYONE put crap in the bag that I carried. So there.)
We psyched ourselves up on the car ride over for this brand new ride called Rock It.
It's an interactive roller coaster. You basically pick the soundtrack that you listen to while riding this massive thing. The ride goes from one end of the park to the other and in and out of other buildings in the park. It looked amazing.
We get to the park, and it is almost completely empty.
AND NO BAG CHECK LINE!
We immediately go ride The Hulk.
Then Alex takes us over to the Popeye Ride. Which is like a big raft ride through Popeye world. It would have been pretty fun if the ride had not included about 6 waterfalls which completely soaked all of us.
It literally looked as though we had jumped in a pool.
Not happy campers.
Well, Alex was fine...but Kristin and I were pissed we spent an hour getting ready only to have dirty ride water thrown in our faces.
Since we were all completely drenched we went to the Dudley Do-Right ride next...which only furthered our shivering cold wetness.
On to JURASSIC PARK WORLD!
Ahhh it was so glorious, and so much fun to just walk around being way to excited about fake dinosaurs, and quoting the movie non stop.
Up next, Dueling Dragons! The roller coaster with two tracks and two separate cars riding at each other. Literally looks as though your going to A. plummet into the ground and B. hit the other car dead on.
Awesome!
As we were walking over to the other half of the park we noticed the massive new ride Rock It was not running. Highly disappointing. Shut down for the only day we could ride it.
From there we rode The Mummy, Jaws, Men in Black, and the hilarious Simpsons' Ride. The detail for that ride is so fantastic. It's probably my favorite thing in the whole park. AJ's head nearly exploded with happiness since that is his favorite show on the planet.
We left at closing time, went and ate dinner and then we all passed out at around 7:30 that night.
We didn't wake up till 8 the next morning.
Stellar first day!
Day 2: The Kingdoms
Animal Kingdom was up first.
Of course we hit up the Dino Land right after The Bug's Life Show. We had built up how scary this one ride was for Kristin that she just covered her face the entire time and the picture was the three of us laughing hysterically and Kristin's head in her lap. The ride isn't even bad at all...it was just fun to make her nervous.
We rode that one twice so we could get a good photo to buy...the second one involved Alex just staring and laughing at Kristin, her looking stunned by the giant dino and AJ punching me in the face. Memories.
The Mount Everest roller coaster starring the Yeti is uber fun.
We decided to skip the Kali River Rapids ride, since we had gotten sufficiently soaked the day before.
From there we took the monorail to the glorious Magic Kingdom!
So many rides to be ridden: Peter Pan, It's a Small World, Splash Mountain, Thunder Mountain every other mountain you can think of. AJ and Alex even made us go to the Hall of Presidents. I thoroughly enjoyed how each of the four of us separately cheered for our fave presidents, mine being Rutherford B. Hayes....c'mon...who names their kid Rutherford? (Trina, maybe you can start a new trend...)
One of the coolest things that happened was the first entrance of Princess Tiana. She is the first black princess that Disney has created and her movie is coming out in November I think...called The Princess and the Toad. And the whole thing is set in New Orleans! So for her first entrance into Disney they had this massive second line, and the big River Boat all decorated in Mardi Gras colors and she was on the ship with her interracial boyfriend Prince (another first for Disney). And all the music is jazz from New Orleans in the 40's because that's when the movie takes place. It was pretty fun to see and hear all of that.
Finished off the night truly running through Magic Kingdom to the buses trying to beat the mad rush of people who would be flocking that way after WISHES the magical fireworks show was done.
That night we went to downtown Orlando...the very spot a crazed gunman was on the loose, but 6 hours prior to our arrival there.
No worries, they had caught him earlier in the day after her shot 6 people.
We went to a very yummy sushi place where they had created rolls such as: Chicken Teryaki Roll, Cream Cheese, Avocado & Cashew Roll, and Sweet Potato Tempura Roll. Yum.
On to Orlando Nightlife....ugh.
We walked into a bar and sat down and I said, "I'm wearing glasses and vintage clothing...I'm clearly in the minority."
AND they served me "Jameson" in like a plastic condiment cup.
This was NOT Jameson....the bottle had a WHITE label.
I was unhappy to say the least.
But, then we found a little hole in the wall with a lovely bartender and the night was redeemed.
DAY 3: Hooray for Hollywood & The World Showcase
At long last, my favorite part of the trip.
Hollywood Studios and Epcot.
We immediately got in line for The Tower of Terror. My absolute favorite ride in all of Disney. I love the setup for the ride. The creepy old hotel, the 40s music playing the entire time.
Yay! The best.
Hopped on over to The Rock n Roller Coaster! (The Aerosmith ride as everyone calls it.)
Then, Muppets 3-D, The Great Movie Ride (AJ nearly had convulsions because the tour guide was so god awful), and then the tour through Walt Disney's life.
Boat ride over to Epcot and the fun really began!
It was Food and Wine Festival in Epcot the weekend we were there. Which means in addition to all the countries they already have set up in Epcot, they add about 15 more booths from different cities and have wine and food to try from all of them.
Quite delicious and fun.
Soarin' which is one of the most pleasant rides created had a 70 minute long wait, which Alex really wanted to join so Kristin went along as well.
Allegra and I decided sitting on a bench in France drinking was a much better route. So we just sat and chatted for about 2 hours while I proceeded to get pretty drunk off of 4 Frozen Greygoose Lemonades.
We all went and had dinner in China, jumped on the absolutely wonderfully terrible Norway Troll ride, and then walked around the countries.
Whiskey in the UK, pina coladas in Mexico, more Greygoose in France, Spumanti and gelato in Italy, and PURPLE HAZE in the New Orleans booth for USA.
$6.00 tiny Purple Haze, but hey, we were supporting local even from out of state!
We stayed for the fireworks in Epcot, mainly because we were all far too intoxicated to outrun any crowd. It was lovely.
And such a good ending to our vacay.
On my plane ride home the next the pilot played the last ten minutes of the Saints game on the radio for everyone on board.
8-0
Such a good ending to our wonderfully awesome vacay.
So much ridiculously, hilarious things were said and done, but I'll leave you with my three favorite quotes of the trip:
"It's vacation, just pee!"--Alex
"We have to leave Norway so I stop talking like a vampire"--AJ
"If you do not stop I am going to take you home! AND I MEAN NEW JERSEY!"--angry parent
Where to begin writing about our fantastical trip to the happiest place on earth?
I had such a blasty in Disney World! I guess I'll just go through day by day and share the magic!
**Let me just being by saying that on the plane ride over there, my seat buddy, Randolph...an extremely charming, charismatic man gave me free drink tickets the whole time and told me all about his wife and 5 kids. And then proceeded to inquire about which bar I would be at that evening....I have a gift, what can I say.**
Day 1: The Universal and Beyond
I got to Orlando Wednesday night, while the rest of them (AJ, Kristin, and Alex) arrived at about 7:30 -8o'clock Thursday morning.
At which point they called and were like, "Let's go to Universal Studios! We're ready to go!!!"
I had only gotten about 5 hours of sleep, as had the three of them between all the driving.
So, we all meet up in our room, where I announce I need to take a bag with me, as to hold my massive amounts of crap: suntan lotion, sunglasses,sweaters, camera, phone, etc.
Alex says I shouldn't take a bag cause it will hold us up trying to get through the lines.
Whatever!
I'm a girl, and I need a bag to carry everything!
(By the by, EVERYONE put crap in the bag that I carried. So there.)
We psyched ourselves up on the car ride over for this brand new ride called Rock It.
It's an interactive roller coaster. You basically pick the soundtrack that you listen to while riding this massive thing. The ride goes from one end of the park to the other and in and out of other buildings in the park. It looked amazing.
We get to the park, and it is almost completely empty.
AND NO BAG CHECK LINE!
We immediately go ride The Hulk.
Then Alex takes us over to the Popeye Ride. Which is like a big raft ride through Popeye world. It would have been pretty fun if the ride had not included about 6 waterfalls which completely soaked all of us.
It literally looked as though we had jumped in a pool.
Not happy campers.
Well, Alex was fine...but Kristin and I were pissed we spent an hour getting ready only to have dirty ride water thrown in our faces.
Since we were all completely drenched we went to the Dudley Do-Right ride next...which only furthered our shivering cold wetness.
On to JURASSIC PARK WORLD!
Ahhh it was so glorious, and so much fun to just walk around being way to excited about fake dinosaurs, and quoting the movie non stop.
Up next, Dueling Dragons! The roller coaster with two tracks and two separate cars riding at each other. Literally looks as though your going to A. plummet into the ground and B. hit the other car dead on.
Awesome!
As we were walking over to the other half of the park we noticed the massive new ride Rock It was not running. Highly disappointing. Shut down for the only day we could ride it.
From there we rode The Mummy, Jaws, Men in Black, and the hilarious Simpsons' Ride. The detail for that ride is so fantastic. It's probably my favorite thing in the whole park. AJ's head nearly exploded with happiness since that is his favorite show on the planet.
We left at closing time, went and ate dinner and then we all passed out at around 7:30 that night.
We didn't wake up till 8 the next morning.
Stellar first day!
Day 2: The Kingdoms
Animal Kingdom was up first.
Of course we hit up the Dino Land right after The Bug's Life Show. We had built up how scary this one ride was for Kristin that she just covered her face the entire time and the picture was the three of us laughing hysterically and Kristin's head in her lap. The ride isn't even bad at all...it was just fun to make her nervous.
We rode that one twice so we could get a good photo to buy...the second one involved Alex just staring and laughing at Kristin, her looking stunned by the giant dino and AJ punching me in the face. Memories.
The Mount Everest roller coaster starring the Yeti is uber fun.
We decided to skip the Kali River Rapids ride, since we had gotten sufficiently soaked the day before.
From there we took the monorail to the glorious Magic Kingdom!
So many rides to be ridden: Peter Pan, It's a Small World, Splash Mountain, Thunder Mountain every other mountain you can think of. AJ and Alex even made us go to the Hall of Presidents. I thoroughly enjoyed how each of the four of us separately cheered for our fave presidents, mine being Rutherford B. Hayes....c'mon...who names their kid Rutherford? (Trina, maybe you can start a new trend...)
One of the coolest things that happened was the first entrance of Princess Tiana. She is the first black princess that Disney has created and her movie is coming out in November I think...called The Princess and the Toad. And the whole thing is set in New Orleans! So for her first entrance into Disney they had this massive second line, and the big River Boat all decorated in Mardi Gras colors and she was on the ship with her interracial boyfriend Prince (another first for Disney). And all the music is jazz from New Orleans in the 40's because that's when the movie takes place. It was pretty fun to see and hear all of that.
Finished off the night truly running through Magic Kingdom to the buses trying to beat the mad rush of people who would be flocking that way after WISHES the magical fireworks show was done.
That night we went to downtown Orlando...the very spot a crazed gunman was on the loose, but 6 hours prior to our arrival there.
No worries, they had caught him earlier in the day after her shot 6 people.
We went to a very yummy sushi place where they had created rolls such as: Chicken Teryaki Roll, Cream Cheese, Avocado & Cashew Roll, and Sweet Potato Tempura Roll. Yum.
On to Orlando Nightlife....ugh.
We walked into a bar and sat down and I said, "I'm wearing glasses and vintage clothing...I'm clearly in the minority."
AND they served me "Jameson" in like a plastic condiment cup.
This was NOT Jameson....the bottle had a WHITE label.
I was unhappy to say the least.
But, then we found a little hole in the wall with a lovely bartender and the night was redeemed.
DAY 3: Hooray for Hollywood & The World Showcase
At long last, my favorite part of the trip.
Hollywood Studios and Epcot.
We immediately got in line for The Tower of Terror. My absolute favorite ride in all of Disney. I love the setup for the ride. The creepy old hotel, the 40s music playing the entire time.
Yay! The best.
Hopped on over to The Rock n Roller Coaster! (The Aerosmith ride as everyone calls it.)
Then, Muppets 3-D, The Great Movie Ride (AJ nearly had convulsions because the tour guide was so god awful), and then the tour through Walt Disney's life.
Boat ride over to Epcot and the fun really began!
It was Food and Wine Festival in Epcot the weekend we were there. Which means in addition to all the countries they already have set up in Epcot, they add about 15 more booths from different cities and have wine and food to try from all of them.
Quite delicious and fun.
Soarin' which is one of the most pleasant rides created had a 70 minute long wait, which Alex really wanted to join so Kristin went along as well.
Allegra and I decided sitting on a bench in France drinking was a much better route. So we just sat and chatted for about 2 hours while I proceeded to get pretty drunk off of 4 Frozen Greygoose Lemonades.
We all went and had dinner in China, jumped on the absolutely wonderfully terrible Norway Troll ride, and then walked around the countries.
Whiskey in the UK, pina coladas in Mexico, more Greygoose in France, Spumanti and gelato in Italy, and PURPLE HAZE in the New Orleans booth for USA.
$6.00 tiny Purple Haze, but hey, we were supporting local even from out of state!
We stayed for the fireworks in Epcot, mainly because we were all far too intoxicated to outrun any crowd. It was lovely.
And such a good ending to our vacay.
On my plane ride home the next the pilot played the last ten minutes of the Saints game on the radio for everyone on board.
8-0
Such a good ending to our wonderfully awesome vacay.
So much ridiculously, hilarious things were said and done, but I'll leave you with my three favorite quotes of the trip:
"It's vacation, just pee!"--Alex
"We have to leave Norway so I stop talking like a vampire"--AJ
"If you do not stop I am going to take you home! AND I MEAN NEW JERSEY!"--angry parent
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