I don't think I can go back to real life this week. I can already tell it's going to be a horrible week. And I have a test Tuesday, a paper due in a little over a week that I haven't started on, 24 hours of clinical time, and back to a job I hate.
On one happy note...I've lost around 10 pounds without even trying and stuffing my face like mad on 8 days of crappy vacation. Now that's talent.
I'm awesome sauce.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
California 2010 Pictures!!
Farewell beach. I hate you California.
Wow...the beach is not supposed to look like this.
My awesome meal at Red Lobster with fresh wood fire grilled salmon and snow crab legs! Yum!!
Tenacious D live at Blizzcon 2010. Awesome show!
Jack Black on the big screen!
Uh oh.
Russell's worst nightmare...
Did I mention we totally met Kevin Bacon, Tom Hanks, and Bill from Big Love? lolol
Melissa and Joey (our friends that we met on WOW) acting goofy at Universal Studios.
Melissa and Joey (our friends that we met on WOW) acting goofy at Universal Studios.
This is the woman who caused us to waste over an hour of our day waiting in line at Universal Studios...
Monday was supposed to be our beach day, but we ended up at Disneyland instead due to crummy weather. We actually had a blast and the lines were short since kiddies are in school and not a lot of people thought the happiest place on earth would be so happy on a cold and rainy day!
While we were at Disneyland, we ate at a BBQ place, and Russell actually ate ribs off the bone!! So proud!
The vacation from HELL!
California sucks. Like really. Not sure if we will go again, and if we do it will definitely not be Anaheim. I think we took WV with us or at least the black cloud that was over our heads. Cold and rainy in the 60s most of the week. And when it wasn't raining, it was still COLD! So much for my big plans to go and lay on the beach. We started having a day with sun and warm, so we headed out to long beach....on our way the sky turned black....a few minutes after we got there it started raining. It was so cold we had to use our towels as coats. I got to go in about as deep as my thighs, and I think I could have stood the cold enough to get in, but it was raining, and no one else was swimming, and I was afraid I would be eaten by a shark, lol. It was nice to at least see the ocean, but I definitely did not get my ocean fix, and now I am craving it.
We got to go to Knott's Scary Farm, and it was probably the best thing we did the whole trip. It was a billion times better than Fright Farm. They had monsters everywhere, and they really put themselves in the characters, and they scared the shit out of me many many times. I lost my voice because of this. They had awesome mazes, and their rollercoasters were still open for the night. It's a whole new dimension riding a loopty in the dark! We also got to watch this fantastic magic show that was ran by Ed Allonzo (the magician that owned Max's on Saved by the Bell). He did an amazing magic show, and he was so hilarious. He even added perviness to the show. He even started talking about masturbation, and then looked at Russell and said "you know what I'm talking about dude" and then he went to give Russell a high five, and then stopped and said "nevermind I see you're busy" HAHAHA! So funny. There was even a part of the act done by the woman who had no legs and she did an up in the air rope act, and she did a trampoline act. This woman had the biggest arms I have ever seen on a woman that wasn't beefed up with steroids.
Our hotel was terrible. We figured out why it was so cheap. They nickel and dimed you for everything. Parking was $11 per day. We had to pay $50 for one week of internet. There is no continental breakfast, but hey they do have a hotel restaurant on site. They had $3 bottles of water on your desk trying to get you to drink it. And they charged us $3 for a receiving and handling of a package fee that we were never informed about until we were checking out. We even told them ahead of time that we would be receiving a package. And so much for charging of the handling since Russell had to walk to the office to get it himself. For $3 they should have been hand delivering that package to my hotel door and kissing my feet before they left. We even got accused by one of the non-english speaking maids that our room was not our room, and she made us get out by waiving her finger at us. It's so funny that BOTH of our key cards decided to quit working at the same time, and it just happened to be when the maid was in our room wanting to prove that it was OUR room. Did we get an apology from the hotel for the fact that our keys stopped working and caused us grief? No. Not only did they not apologize, but they tried to act like it was TERRIBLE that our maid wouldn't let us in our room...umm hello....she did her job by making sure someone else wasn't saying it was their room to take our stuff. It was YOUR fault that our keys didn't work...not hers. Safe to say we will never go there again. And you should not either. It's the Anabella in Anaheim, CA. Do not go there. Seriously. They also kick you out of their pool at 10pm...and they stop serving drinks at their bar at midnight. Who does that?!?!
The bad luck continued through out our whole vacation. We went to Universal Studios. Apparently they are only open from 10am-5pm in the fall....yet they still charge you FULL price. We got there at 11 due to bad traffic, and then we had to wait in line to buy our ticket for over an hour because the lady working the booth was RETARDED! We finally got in and luckily they were slow enough that we were able to get on the rides we wanted to do one time and then leave. Totally not worth $79 a piece.
We did get to go to this awesome restaurant that was small and off the grid. It was a Brazilian BBQ, and I am craving it right now. They had a bar with typical Brazilian food like black bean stew and white rice and collard greens that were amazing. The biggest part to the restaurant was the BBQ meat! They had 7 rounds of fresh meat brought to your table on a metal stake where the waiter would carve the meat onto your plate right there at the table. As much as you wanted. They had sausage, chicken, pork, sirloin steak, garlic steak and many other kinds of meat. All of them juicy and all of them had a piece to it cooked exactly the way you wanted it! All of the meats were slow roasted all day, and they kept bringing the meat until you said stop. We went twice, and the one time we went we were the only ones there because it wasn't quite dinner rush time yet, and we had star one on one meat treatment. Awesome. I totally wish we had a place like this around here because I would go there every day. Mmmm meat. We also ate at places like Fire and Ice which is a Mongolian grill that you put what you want in a bowl and they cook it right there in front of you (a popular choice from last year as well), Cheesecake Factory, Bubba Gump Shrimp, Red Lobster (where I had FRESH wood fire grilled salmon and crab legs), and a very questionable place called Tiffy's where we had the worst service I had ever had. They ran out of coke, our food took an hour and a half and the food was terrible, and Russell ending up crapping his pants the whole next morning and our friend Joey puked. Mmm still thinking about meat. Meat. MEAT!!
Did I mention 60s and raining almost the whole week?? In California....
The weather was better in WV!!
We totally should have just stayed home, relaxed, and spent our $4000 on something else. Because this trip sure was NOT worth it.
OHH, and did I mention when we got back our dogs got lost for 4 hours? They took off after a deer or something, and then just never came back. We searched everywhere! But there is so many woods around here that there would be no way to find them. We thought maybe they were hurt or someone found them and picked them up and took them. We really thought we would never see them again, and you have no idea what that feels like. Imagine you have a baby or child and they are missing. For 4 hours. How would you feel? A neighbor saw them walking up our driveway and came and told us. He said they wouldn't get in his truck and would not follow him which is good because now we know someone would not be able to steal them easily. I immediately jumped on the 4-wheeler and sped down the driveway and picked them up. Poor Russell only saw Dexter when I was coming back up with them and thought Citi was still missing but I was holding her in my arms and she blended in with my shirt I guess. We had a great reunion, and so glad that are home and safe with us! I don't ever want to leave my puppy again!! From now on there will be full family vacations lol.
We got to go to Knott's Scary Farm, and it was probably the best thing we did the whole trip. It was a billion times better than Fright Farm. They had monsters everywhere, and they really put themselves in the characters, and they scared the shit out of me many many times. I lost my voice because of this. They had awesome mazes, and their rollercoasters were still open for the night. It's a whole new dimension riding a loopty in the dark! We also got to watch this fantastic magic show that was ran by Ed Allonzo (the magician that owned Max's on Saved by the Bell). He did an amazing magic show, and he was so hilarious. He even added perviness to the show. He even started talking about masturbation, and then looked at Russell and said "you know what I'm talking about dude" and then he went to give Russell a high five, and then stopped and said "nevermind I see you're busy" HAHAHA! So funny. There was even a part of the act done by the woman who had no legs and she did an up in the air rope act, and she did a trampoline act. This woman had the biggest arms I have ever seen on a woman that wasn't beefed up with steroids.
Our hotel was terrible. We figured out why it was so cheap. They nickel and dimed you for everything. Parking was $11 per day. We had to pay $50 for one week of internet. There is no continental breakfast, but hey they do have a hotel restaurant on site. They had $3 bottles of water on your desk trying to get you to drink it. And they charged us $3 for a receiving and handling of a package fee that we were never informed about until we were checking out. We even told them ahead of time that we would be receiving a package. And so much for charging of the handling since Russell had to walk to the office to get it himself. For $3 they should have been hand delivering that package to my hotel door and kissing my feet before they left. We even got accused by one of the non-english speaking maids that our room was not our room, and she made us get out by waiving her finger at us. It's so funny that BOTH of our key cards decided to quit working at the same time, and it just happened to be when the maid was in our room wanting to prove that it was OUR room. Did we get an apology from the hotel for the fact that our keys stopped working and caused us grief? No. Not only did they not apologize, but they tried to act like it was TERRIBLE that our maid wouldn't let us in our room...umm hello....she did her job by making sure someone else wasn't saying it was their room to take our stuff. It was YOUR fault that our keys didn't work...not hers. Safe to say we will never go there again. And you should not either. It's the Anabella in Anaheim, CA. Do not go there. Seriously. They also kick you out of their pool at 10pm...and they stop serving drinks at their bar at midnight. Who does that?!?!
The bad luck continued through out our whole vacation. We went to Universal Studios. Apparently they are only open from 10am-5pm in the fall....yet they still charge you FULL price. We got there at 11 due to bad traffic, and then we had to wait in line to buy our ticket for over an hour because the lady working the booth was RETARDED! We finally got in and luckily they were slow enough that we were able to get on the rides we wanted to do one time and then leave. Totally not worth $79 a piece.
We did get to go to this awesome restaurant that was small and off the grid. It was a Brazilian BBQ, and I am craving it right now. They had a bar with typical Brazilian food like black bean stew and white rice and collard greens that were amazing. The biggest part to the restaurant was the BBQ meat! They had 7 rounds of fresh meat brought to your table on a metal stake where the waiter would carve the meat onto your plate right there at the table. As much as you wanted. They had sausage, chicken, pork, sirloin steak, garlic steak and many other kinds of meat. All of them juicy and all of them had a piece to it cooked exactly the way you wanted it! All of the meats were slow roasted all day, and they kept bringing the meat until you said stop. We went twice, and the one time we went we were the only ones there because it wasn't quite dinner rush time yet, and we had star one on one meat treatment. Awesome. I totally wish we had a place like this around here because I would go there every day. Mmmm meat. We also ate at places like Fire and Ice which is a Mongolian grill that you put what you want in a bowl and they cook it right there in front of you (a popular choice from last year as well), Cheesecake Factory, Bubba Gump Shrimp, Red Lobster (where I had FRESH wood fire grilled salmon and crab legs), and a very questionable place called Tiffy's where we had the worst service I had ever had. They ran out of coke, our food took an hour and a half and the food was terrible, and Russell ending up crapping his pants the whole next morning and our friend Joey puked. Mmm still thinking about meat. Meat. MEAT!!
Did I mention 60s and raining almost the whole week?? In California....
The weather was better in WV!!
We totally should have just stayed home, relaxed, and spent our $4000 on something else. Because this trip sure was NOT worth it.
OHH, and did I mention when we got back our dogs got lost for 4 hours? They took off after a deer or something, and then just never came back. We searched everywhere! But there is so many woods around here that there would be no way to find them. We thought maybe they were hurt or someone found them and picked them up and took them. We really thought we would never see them again, and you have no idea what that feels like. Imagine you have a baby or child and they are missing. For 4 hours. How would you feel? A neighbor saw them walking up our driveway and came and told us. He said they wouldn't get in his truck and would not follow him which is good because now we know someone would not be able to steal them easily. I immediately jumped on the 4-wheeler and sped down the driveway and picked them up. Poor Russell only saw Dexter when I was coming back up with them and thought Citi was still missing but I was holding her in my arms and she blended in with my shirt I guess. We had a great reunion, and so glad that are home and safe with us! I don't ever want to leave my puppy again!! From now on there will be full family vacations lol.
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