DarqByte

Wow, what a weekend I had! It was absolutely totally awesome!

So yeah, as I said before, Laura and Randy colluded in secret to give me Friday off. I had no idea, so I woke up at 6am like I always do and started my morning routine. Put my contacts in, flossed my teeth, started brushing my teeth… Then Laura comes in the bathroom earlier than she normally does in the morning. She says “You have the day off today.”

Through my toothpaste froth I say “Huh?” “You have the day off today. You don’t have to go to work.” “What do you mean?” Thus, I get the explanation that Laura has coordinated with Randy to give me the day off to start my birthday weekend. And that she let me wake up so that we could get an early start…

And then she starts packing. Apparently we’re headed out of town and I need to pack through Sunday. Thus began our road trip. At one point, Laura admitted to me that we were headed to California via the I15, since I’d figure it out relatively quickly once we hit the 15. When we got to her parents’ house, I thought that perhaps we were headed to Disneyland because they allow you in for free on your birthday…

Not much else to report until we hit the 15-215 split in California. Usually, if I remember correctly the 215 is used to go to San Diego. And we didn’t take it. Further fuel for L.A. and perhaps Disneyland. Eventually she had to give me the directions because we were approaching some quick turns in succession so she couldn’t handle looking at the directions and driving. Destination was Anaheim, and I couldn’t figure out why we were going there.

Eventually we ended up damn close to Disneyland, so I figured it out. I’d forgotten that Disneyland was in Anaheim, haha.

We did some shopping around in a couple of malls. We each got a new book to read and I made sure to get a copy of Watchmen. that was such a gook book and movie. We headed back to the hotel and read for a bit, then we scooted on off to Morton’s for my official birthday dinner. Man, that place is so good, so yummy. I know I totally annihilated my diet that day.

So Saturday was Disneyland! We got park hopper tickets so we could head on over to California Adventure as well, and they have some good rides there too. The Tower of Terror was pretty nifty, as was California Screamin’ and Soaring over California.

Andrew & Amber also ended up meeting us there. It was pretty neat to see them, I wasn’t really expecting it. Grabbed lunch with them and hit a few rides with them while we were there.

For dinner, we headed out to this jazz restaurant in Downtown Disney. They had some really good food and their Bananas Foster was great. They had this jazz quartet there that was really good. Played their own stuff as well as some well-known stuff. We wrapped up by hitting up the Lego store and I got another Star Wars set. Good times!

Sunday was pretty much just wake up, hit up Ikea with Andrew & Amber, and drive home. We got a few things at Ikea that we’ve wanted, like some picture frames for Laura’s 365 pictures to put up on the walls.

It was a great weekend, had tons of fun! And now I’m old. A quarter of a century. Mid-20s… Wow.