{the happiest 21st birthday on earth}

Last week my mom and sisters surprised me with some secret information about a trip to The Happiest Place On Earth for the big 2-1 day o' birth. Can you believe that my mom would take us to Disneyland? I couldn't believe it either. Anyway, we had the best time ever (after a few hang ups). And here is an overload of pictures for yours and my enjoyment.


First stop: Beaver. Where the car broke down. It was really quite the adventure. We got out of the car for a potty break and a fountain of funny colored liquid spilled out from underneath the hood onto the pavement. I may or may not have cried a little. But then this guy came to the rescue. He declared it was the water pump and that a nice man named Rick could fix it... the next day. Hello? Disneyland wasn't going to wait for us. We had to go then. So then this guy came to tow it to Rick's place.


it was my first experience in a real live tow truck! It was very fun, except for when the nice tow truck man answered his phone while driving down the freeway to discuss a bet about the basketball game. This is me and Meggy in the tow truck

And then we just had to sit and wait for Wonder Daddy to bring us a new car so we could go on the dang trip for realsies. I have always wanted to sit in the big chair and lucky for us, that's where we ended up. It really was a dream come true.



This here is us waiting and waiting and waiting. Katie was there too but she didn't want in on the picture fun. I know, what a party pooper.

AND THEN WE GOT TO CALIFORNIA!!! Only 4 hours later than expected. It was a good thing too because, as you may or may not have heard, there was some siesmic activity in the greater Las Angeles area around the time we were origionally supposed to arrive. I am sure glad I wasn't there for that, I wouldn't know what to do in an earthquake!

And moving on with the story:

Finally, the next day we went to Disneyland! It was just wonderful! It was only the second time I had been there (the first time being with the orchestra in high school) and the first time my sisters had. My mom went back in the day but hadn't been for a very very long time, so it was basically like her first time too! It was so fun! Here we are in Honey I Shrunk The Audiance! We only saw that one time because it made a few of us kind of sick. But it was fun while it lasted.
We rode the teacups (which I love) and Megan let me go around and around and around even though it was making her want to puke. She is a very very good sister.

Here is mom and Katie. They didn't want to go around and around and around so they went in a different teacup.

When my mom saw Tigger she went a little bit crazy, as you can see in this picture. She was very excited. She ran around chasing him until he stopped, pointed at her map, and ran away. I personally don't really like large stuffed creatures so I stood back quite aways.

And here is my mom on the train. We didn't realize that the train is a wonderful way to get around the park until the afternoon of the second day. One of the times we were on the train they made us get off because of more seismic activity! The ground was really rumbling this week! No one felt anything, but at Disneyland they shut down all the rides until they make sure the earthquakes didn't do any damage. Probably because it wouldn't be the happiest place on earth if people were dying left and right from cars flying off the tracks and stuff.

Because it was my birthday I got to wear a button that said HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAUREN!! And all the people that worked there said happy birthday to me! It was really quite enjoyable. My mom also bought me a birthday crown (it was really just a plain crown but I like to think it was a special one!)! On my birthday I got to blow stuff up!

And Megan got to prove her strength... or lack thereof.

One of my favorite rides is The Tower of Terror at California Adventure. Megan, mom and I went a couple of times. Katie didn't think it would be fun so she waited outside for us. I think she would have liked it if she tried it, but we didn't press the issue. While standing in line we learned the three fundamental rules of life: 1. Don't steal candy from kids. 2. Don't cheat at solitare. and 3. Don't cut in line at Disneyland. Don't worry, we definately didn't cut in line, that would have been horrible, someone just told us that. Here is a picture of Meg and I waiting to be plunged to our deaths!

A birthday just wouldn't be a birthday without a cake and seeing as we were in Disneyland a cupcake would have to do! I loved it! The frosting got all melty in the hot hot heat but it was still a very delicious cupcake. Who doesn't want a Mickey Mouse cupcake on their birthday in Disneyland? That would be just silly if you didn't have one. Believe me.

Space Mountain was a common favorite so we rode it a bunch of times. One of the last times Megan and I decided to make silly faces when they took the picture. Megans face is priceless. I just look like a dummy. It was very fun though.

On the way out of park the last night we had to have the clasic picture infron of the Mickey. It is a wise idea to take the picture right when you get there when everyone is still looking pretty instead of at the end of the day when death is looming. Take a look at our picture for a prime example:

Then we had to say goodbye to Disneyland. It was so sad, Megan even cried. This was also about 37 seconds after our mom told us we had 3 minutes until the crank fest began. You betcher booty we got out of there as quick as can be after that.

It was so fun and I can't wait to go back again!