I Heart California

This is all I have done today, set up a blogging account. I set it up in attempt to try and write a few times a week. Write about what? Oh, I don't know. My life, my friends, my family, movies, books, whatever I feel like that particular day. Hopefully I can keep myself motivated enough to keep it up. But I'm sure I will, since my mom blogs everyday, and she will be continuously reminding me to write everyday.

Supposedly, today is "show and tell Friday". But I really don't have anything to show and tell about. So I will briefly "tell" about my recent trip to California.

I was in California for almost 2 full weeks. I went out a week earlier to spend time with my grandma, and to work in her classroom (she is a pre-k teacher). It was nice working and helping out in a classroom. Since I want to be a teacher I thought it was a perfect opportunity to start getting involved in actual classrooms. Even though it was nice to get the experience, it was definitely not relaxing! Kids are not always sweet, cute, and innocent. There were a few challenging times during the week where I questioned if I really wanted to be a teacher. But even though it was hard, I think I am still up for the challenge! All together, it was a really great week, being alone with my grandma all week, but it went by too fast! Before I knew it, we were at the airport picking up the rest of the family.

The second week was fun as well. It always is when there are more people there. The rest of the family came out, along with my brother's (Jake) girlfriend. We got to meet up with my dad's siblings to take some family pictures, which came out really nice! My aunt and baby cousin got to come stay with my grandma and us for a few days after that. I had not seen her so grown up, so it was very enjoyable to see her at this new age! Visiting family is always great, especially if you live in Colorado like us, and the whole family lives in California. So it was nice for our family to see everybody and catch up. But nothing can beat family EXCEPT for...of course...DISNEYLAND!

I won't go into much detail, because I know it's already a long blog. But Disneyland was one of the highlights of my week! It was great to go on all those fun rides again, and be back in the Disney atmosphere! The only disappointing thing was that the new Finding Nemo submarine rides had just opened, and the wait was somewhere around 3 hours. Next time I go back to Disneyland, I will definitely make it a priority to go on that ride!

The beach was really great too. Being in Colorado, and then visiting California, the beach and ocean is always a marvelous thing to see. My grandma told me while I was out there that sometimes when she looks at the ocean, she wonders how it is that people don't believe in God. I have to agree with her. There are just some sights that you look at, and see God's beauty all around. The ocean definitely being one of them.

Just a quick final note. The whole week I was trying to find a celebrity. I didn't care who it was, I just wanted to see somebody famous! We even took a trip to Hollywood, but found nobody. I was REALLY wanting to find Adam Brody, but I guess he just wasn't ready to meet his soul mate yet. On the evening we were returning home, we were sitting at the airport waiting for our plane to board I saw somebody! I looked at him knowing he looked familiar, I later told my mom that I thought he was a member from N'sync. Sure enough, it was! It was Joey Fatone from N'sync and the previous runner up from Dancing with the Stars. Jake's girlfriend, Hollee, and I went over to meet him and get our picture with him! He was a nice guy, and I was sure ecstatic to finally have met a celebrity!

All together, it was a great vacation! I wish I could have stayed there all summer (I even tried talking my parents into it). But all vacations must come to an end. Besides the bad sunburn I got on the last day, there was nothing I would complain about!

Thanks for reading, and I will try to make them shorter blogs in the future!