Last week went pretty smoothly I'd say. I've spent a lot of time swimming and such,and my cousin, Chris, is visting. Monday I hung out with him. On tuesday, I discovered my taillights on my car were out, which jepordized my dlr trip the next day, but I went anyway, seeing as the hotel we stayed at was near walking distance to the parks. Anyway, tuesday and wednesday was my mini vacation with Chris to the Disneyland Resort. Tuesday we did Disneyland, covered most of the rides we wanted to see by 4-5ish, then left to get hotelroom keys and cheap drinks. We returned at about 6, we had fastpasses for splash mountain but it was busted, so we got an early seat for fantasmic and waited the 3 hours. Great show as always. Afterwards we did splash mountain, matterhorn, and then left.

The next day was DCA. California Screamin' was busted all day, which made us both pretty angry, but not much could be done about that. Around midday, we went into millionaire. As luck would have it, I was the fastest on the fastest finger question (my pro random button pushing skillz), and made the hotseat. That was pretty freaking awesome. I only made it to around 8,000 or 16,000, but as soon as I got in the hotseat I realized that it was all really cool and I didn't care how much I won. I ended up winning 7 collectible pins, and a baseball cap. As a strange sidenote, today I read that millionaire will be closing permanently on august 20th. This news came as a shock, both because it was an unexpected anouncement, and that I got in the hotseat just in time before its closure. It must have been fate. But I digress. The rest of the day was fine. I did my 13th ride on Tower of Terror, which for the sake of the ride's themeing seemed like a pretty big deal to me (but of course to no one else). Oh well I had my fun. The performance of Aladdin was very poor, and that was another downside to the day. The flying carpet over the audience never happened, a many of the flying wire effects didn't work either. The show also had the guy playing aladdin who has the voice that sounds like he has a cold, which personally bugged me. The genie was the mediocre genie, and he's big entrance was late. I'm not sure why they didn't just close the show down for the say with so many missing special effects, but it probably had something to do with Calfornia Screamin's closure and the park's lack of attractions. Anyway, we burned out pretty early, at around 4, and went home. A very fun two days.

Saturday, I went with Chris, Pohl, and Ted to see the Aquabats at Soma. I felt a bit out of place at first (maybe it was the fact that I was one of the few there not smoking pot? possibly), but as the concert progressed we all got very into it, except for chris, but he's not really that type of guy anyway. An awesome concert. I'm not going to try to explain- you had to be there.
Yesterday was Sunday, and Laura returned from Europe after 5 weeks. She called me in the evening, and that made me very happy. I should be able to see her on wednesday, if it works out with her. Greatly looking forward to that.

Today I hung out with Lona and John. We saw anchorman (my 4th time, but I really wanted to get out, so I didn't mind), and then ate at chili's. They're too cool for me, I swear.

That should just about do it for now. More of my summer properly documented for future reference. You stay classy San Diego.

"I ate a whole bunch of fiberglass insulation... it wasn't cotton candy like that guy said. My stomach's itchy..." -Steve Carrell