My Awesome Siblings

While me and Melon were out on our morning walk I was thinking about how fortunate I am to have such a wonderful family. I had an experience at the hospital on saturday and my patient passed away, as I watched his siblings enter his room and see the grief overcome them at the passing of their brother I couldn't help but think of my own siblings.

We argue with and tease each other, and we are different in a lot of ways but I will always love and be proud of my siblings.

So let me introduce you to them.

My little brothers - Milo and Boone.

100% chance I'd be murdered if Boone knew I posted this picture.

Milo is creative, funny and could seriously get along with anyone from any walk of life. People look up to him. He's a loyal friend and has always looked out for the 'little guy' and sticks up for them. He has lots of hobbies and currently his obsession is his car. He wants to grow up to be a surfer beach bum though.

Boone has always had a million friends, ever since he was a little kid. People just gravitate towards him because he is so friendly. He's an incredibly talented athlete, and is the quarterback for the football team and the pitcher for his baseball team. As long as he's with his friends he's happy.

My little sister Maggie.

Maggie is very smart and such a hard worker. She owned her own car and condo by the time she was like 20 years old. She's way ahead of the rest of us! She's always been responsible and ambitious and knows how to get work done. She will definitely go far in life. And she is beautiful!

Siblings are truly the best.

Another Trip to the Happiest Place on Earth

It has become a bit of a tradition to go to Disneyland at the end of the summer for a girls only trip! We've done it the last 5 or so years, and I always look forward to it. I'll take ANY excuse to go to Disneyland, let's be honest, haha.

My life is a bit of a paradox, because I constantly talk about how I'm 100 years old inside, but I also feel like I'm a kid at heart who will never really 'grow up'. Figure that one out.

We started the day out in Cars Land! Pretty much everyone's favorite ride is the Racer's so we naturally had to head straight to that.

Then we were off to one of the best rides EVER Luigi's Rollickin' Roadsters.

Me and my cute mom :)

OK PEOPLE. Let's talk about the new Guardians of the Galaxy ride. Let me preface this by saying I am a HUGE Tower of Terror fan and was extremely angered at the prospect of it getting replaced. With that said I am also a huge Guardians of the Galaxy fan, so I was trying to be as optimistic as possible going into this ride for the first time.

And let me just say IT WAS AWESOME! I loved it.

Yes, I miss Tower of Terror.

Yes I wish they had never replaced it.

However Guardians of the Galaxy is a fun new twist and they did a REALLY good job. I quite enjoyed it and we were able to ride it three times! I thought for sure the lines would be forever long, but honestly we probably only waited 45 minutes each time. There are six songs possible for each ride and depending on what song you get it is a different ride experience - pretty neat!

Day 2 my little sister Margaret (real name Maggie) arrived! We all wore our matching 'I Love Minnie' shirts, and went to go see Minnie herself! While waiting in line one of the cast members looked at all of our shirts and said "You guys are definitely in the right place!".

Disneyland is always the right place though, no matter what!

Anyway let's rewind for a second, the beginning of Day 2 we headed straight to good ol' Frontierland for a very special treat!!!

Mickey Mouse pancakes at Rancho del Zocalo!

I feel like Frontierland is a very non-traditional place to eat Mickey Mouse pancakes, particularly at a Mexican restaurant?? But they stopped selling them at the River Belle Terrace for whatever reason, and the Carnation Cafe got turned into a sit down restaurant where you pretty much have to have a reservation to get in.... So we had to make due.

Our Mickey Mouse pancakes got us all hyped up for the Wildest Ride in the Wilderness!!! Big Thunder Mountain railroad.

I just realized I didn't post a pic yet of by Big Thunder Mountain Railroad shirt! I recently starting following a bunch of instagram shops that sell Disneyland t-shirts. They're unique and lots cheaper than anything at the parks. Maybe someday I will link them all here.

When ordering this shirt I was like, peach is such a cute color! Then I put it on and I was all like... oh yeah I'm WHITER THAN WHITE and have red hair. So the color wasn't doing much for my complexion, but I still felt cool anyway.

My two Disneyland faves... Haunted Mansion and a Mint Julep. I was so happy that Haunted Mansion hadn't yet closed down for the transition into the holiday version, because it's my favorite ride, and what's worse than going to Disneyland and finding out your favoritest ride is closed?

We rode Thunder Mountain Railroad so many times, I can't even tell you.

One highlight of the trip was me and Bo got to sit in the very back seat of the Casey Junior Circus Train... which everyone knows that is the most coveted spot and the odds of actually getting it are like 0%. I couldn't believe our good fortune! It's the best seat because you get to sit backwards, and for some reason that makes it more fun.

Hey, it's Guido! Also I broke down and bought an MU hat, guys. I've been resisting for so long because everyone else has them. But I finally got over my hipster problems and bought one because let's face it my life dream is to enroll at Monster's University and I can sing the first two lines of the MU fight song. So that makes me pretty official.

Could not stop riding this ride! It's the best, I tell you.

Last minute before closing ride on the carousel.

Beignets! Highly recommend.

Who knew safety cones made such good backdrops.

Just crazy Aunt Toni in the front wearing a shower cap (Toni, if you're reading this I love you!).

We ended our last day with the World of Color.

Why oh why did it have to end??? Someday I will move to Disneyland and live there forever, just haven't found someone to fund that yet.

Disneyland I miss you already.