Alrighty, so I haven't updated this mofo' in ages so this blog is gonna be hella haggard cause I can't remember much that has happened since I got back from Cali but I'll give'r a go anyways.
First thing I'll start out on is the Trapped Under Ice show that went down at Jesse Neul's house in Kelowna. The show was super hype and the kids basement was pretty much built to have shows in. I was surprised at the turnout cause there was actually quite a few kids there which is rare for Kelowna and house shows. For some reason Trapped Under Ice played first much to the dismay of Cam Brown and Jesse Pretty who had gone to 7-11 and missed their entire set. They played real good and everyone had a good time moshin and singing along in the little basement. The dudes in the band were all cool as well and hung out with everyone after the set. CDC played 2nd and to be honest I am not into that band at all I don't even know if they are a serious band or a joke (CDC if your reading this i'm sorry but i'm not down), regardless their set was still fun because everyone was jokingly bro moshin' super hard and being funny. Except Sean Cromie of course who was lovin' the band and showing us all how real bro mosh is done. Horizons played last and had a good set, I would love to see 100% more Cole "Knightrider" Young guitar solos though. After the show the Vernon crew and some Kelowna dudes all went to Kelly O's for some food and it was revealed to us that Connor had sustained a concussion at the hands (or should I say fists...yuk yuk yuk) of the bro mosh king Cromie. He was out of it and we all had a lark at his expense.
Ok, so I'm a little hazy on the next events that happened in the summer but the next big thing that I can recall are Katt and her friends from Edmonton coming to Vernon to visit. They came to Vernon and camped at some random ass campsite I hadn't even heard of in the middle of the woods. We didn't really hang much but we did assemble a large crew and make our way out to Enderby to float down the river. The people that came included me, Connor, Ramsay, Derrek, Katt, Jessica, Danyell, Nikki, Grant, James, Damian and Ryan. Dave and Haley were also supposed to come but pulled a real wuss move and backed out last minute, weeeeeeeeeak. The float was good and after we all went for ice cream which was delicious. We then went back to Vernon (ditching some Kelowna guy no one knew in the process, smooth driving Con!) and Connor, Ramsay and I went to hang with the Edmonton girls at their campsite. In the morning we met up with them again and went to the good ol' Waddy's restaurant for breakfast, and if you haven't I would highly encourage you to go have a meal at the 5 star establishment that Waddy's has set up in Vernon. Minters is all I can say. After the meal we said our goodbyes and that was the last we saw of Edmonton females.
On a very important side note, I did NOT have the hairiest chest out of the river float crew. That title belongs to the fine gentlemen known as Derrek Traxel.
The next thing I am going to talk about is Brownfest 2008 because I remember it quite well and everything in between is a bit hazy. I'm sure some rad stuff happened I just can't remember it at the moment.
Brownfest 08 was a show put on by non other than Cam Brown himself. The bands that were playing were Scarab, Crusades, Vile Style and Foul Play. Poops Brown really outdid himself when searching for a venue and found a dancehall in Westbank that is perfect for shows, although it is a bit of a drive from Vernon. We got to the show and spent a good hour waiting around for some of the Kelowna dudes to go back to their place and get a bass cab. Once they got back we found out that Scarab wasn't actually going to play cause they didn't have their shit on lock so instead Crusades set up their stuff. They let everyone know that it would most likely be their last show as a band for awhile and I expected Kelowna to be super down and mosh hard since it was their last time being able to see them and unsurprisingly, I was let down. The only kid(s) moshing were Connor, Lindsay and me which I thought was pretty weak (a hefty Kelowna fellow also moshed for a bit near the end, props to him). After they finished Vile Style set up. The Vile Style set was a blast, Mark their guitarist is one rowdy dude and had a bunch of props for the set. They ranged from zombie masks, to blow up guitars, to giant foam peaches. The set was fun and everyone was playing around hitting each other with all the props. Foul Play played last and all doned full soccer uni's for the set. Ill. Mark also played guitar for them and had more zany ideas which resulted in everyone playing with more props and having more fun. Once they finished everyone sang happy birthday to Harry, the drummer from Vile Style and Mark brought out a bag full of donuts he found in the dumpster of a Surrey Krispy Kreme. It doesn't get more hood than that folks. We all went to Boston Pizza after the show and enjoyed a meal. Everyone hates on BP for some reason but I think it is wonderful and would eat their all the time if it didn't make me so fat.
After we finished with that we headed back to Vernon and Hunter came along for the ride and stayed with us for the next couple days. Having him around was a very minty time and we got up to quite a bit. We went out to my cabin and hung out with my cousin and her friends who I don't know and roasted hot dogs. I took on the first ever Mississauga Mauler that night (a hot dog with an entire can of pop poured on it) and did not enjoy it what so ever. Other highlights of Hunter's stay included Cam Brown hyping Date Rape, watching Nick Gibson peform on his acoustic (http://www.myspace.com/wesaynever MINTERS!), hanging in Kelowna and singing BRO-O-CO! TA-A-CO! It was a good time to say the least.
That is all for now, I also went on a fishing trip but I am going to cover that in a later blog. Which will probably happen later today. HURRAY!
- Dan
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Friday, August 8, 2008
California Part 2 - The Sound & The Fury
After we hit up 6 Flags we spent another night in Anaheim and then headed out to Hollywood. We got there fairly early, checked into our hotel and went and rented a car. We drove around Hollywood for a bit and through Beverly Hills which was pretty crazy. It wasn't like I imagined it but some areas were super nice. We hit up In-n-Out Burger and headed to Venice Beach. We got to the beach area and parked our car to walk along the shore, we spent about an hour walking in the wrong direction and had to turn back to find the well known area of Venice Beach (the level from Tony Hawk). We made it there and looked at a bunch of the shops which all had pretty much the exact same shit. There was also a bunch of graffiti on the walls there that we checked out, some of it was pretty wild. We headed back to Hollywood and once we were there Lennea and Connor got in a bit of a tustle so Lennea and I walked down Hollywood Blvd together while Connor grumped it up in the hotel room (we later found he actually pulled a solo mission and walked around Hollywood). Me and Lennea saw some weird ass people walking around, there were bands playing in the street, break dancers, people dressed up in all sorts of costumes like Jack Sparrow, Spiderman, Jimi Hendrix, KISS, etc. and there were also hella bums cruisin around, one of them was super sketch wearing nothing but socks and pulled a sidewalk lay down cigarette smoke. It was pretty much just a big party with bums hangin. On the way home we got some sleazy pizza and almost saw two dykes fight in the middle of the street. Tight.
The next morning we returned the car and cruised Hollywood a bit more. In the evening we had to make it back to LA and catch the Amtrak to Santa Barbara. The ride was pretty cool cause we went past the LA river and got to see all the crazy graff. There was tooons of it, just non-stop and most of the stuff was amazing.
We got into Santa Barbara pretty late and made it to our hotel room where they scammed us out of another 100 bucks, but it was the only place we had to stay so we had to suck it up and pay. Californians are sleazy. We hit the hay and at about 5:30am we got a knock at the door, it was Lindsey, Grant and Cole from Kelowna/Calgary who were going to stay with us for the weekend. They set up their sleeping bags and we talked for a bit before goin to bed for a couple more hours. We checked out Santa B a bit in the morning and went to a mall that was way out of any of our price range and ate pop-tarts (We left Grant sleeping in the hotel room while we did this). After getting breakfast we headed back to get Grant and found him still sleeping. We dragged his large red-headed ass out of bed and went to the venue.
Day 1 of Sound and Fury was super fun, I probably enjoyed it the most out of all the days. I was super excited instantly because me and Connor found/reunited with Clarke (you readers may remember him from our Rainfest adventure as our crazy red-headed American friend), we talked to him for a bit and watched a few bands. I can't remember the exact order of the bands so I am just going to do a highlight list of the bands I was diggin.
Highlights of Day 1:
- Seeing Swamp Thing, they put on a wild live show with tons of energy. Their guitarists were givin'r hard. I was bummed though because I bought some Kayne West sunnies at Venice Beach and they were in my pocket and got moshed into a few different pieces, but whatever it was worth it.
- Sabertooth Zombie played a super fun set, such a unique band that does whatever they want. A kid got really hurt during their set though which sucks and they had to end their set early. Hope that dude is ok.
- Trash Talk was crazy, I feared for my life the entire time, especially when their roadie got the mic and just started ruining people. I remember him from Rainfest though and knew to steer clear. I also got KO'd during their last song. Apparently some kid stage dived feet first and I got it right to the dome and the next thing I knew a bunch of peoople were around me picking me up off the ground.
- Have Heart was awesome as always. I love this band. Kids were going nuts and didn't stop stage diving the entire time.
After the show was done for the day we headed to In-n-Out with Clarke and his buddies. There were tons of people from the show there and we ran into one of the dudes we met on the Amtrak(I didn't mention this earlier but his name was Phil and was from Toronto, he also had a sweet moustache). Once we finished our meal we just headed back to the Hotel, hung out for a bit and then fell asleep.
On Day 2 we all got up and went downtown Santa Barbara in the morning. Grant and Cole were fighting non-stop which was hilarious for the entire trip. Cole got mad at me and Connor because we called Grant a "day-walker" (a red-head that isn't super pale and can go out with being a noticeable ginger), but we said Cole was to red-headed and pale to be a day-walker. He then freaked and called himself "the night rider". Grant then told Cole that he acted like no one had ever been nice to him in his life and that he had a black soul. During our downtown excursion we saw the sweetest thing on the whole trip. A bum walking around with a dog and standing on top of the dog riding it was a cat and on top of the cat was a rat. They were all walking around riding each other like a pyramid. So fucking rad. We also hit up Fatburger and Grant pussed out of doing the King challenge. Day 2 of S&F was the weakest in my opinion but there was still some good stuff.
Highlights of Day 2:
- Trapped Under Ice was rad I hadn't really gotten into them much before but they really impressed me with their set. So heavy and tons of gnar mosh. Including a naked dude moshing the whole time.
- Colin Of Arabia played a good set, not as many people were into it as I would have thought but they were still good.
- Paint It Black had a really fun set. It was cool cause they came on right after Death Before Dishonor and played like the complete opposite style of hardcore and totally burned the DBD singer for using the word "Faggot".
- Guns Up! was by far the wildest set of the whole weekend. Kids were going off! Lindsey got caught in a mosh and got a wicked shiner + bloody nose + bloody mouth.
After the show we were goin to go party but everyone was hella tired so we just went back to the hotel and hit up 711. Everyone was trying to sleep while me and Grant kept them up talking about baseball all night. Grant is ill.
Day 3 we went back downtown to hang/do some shopping and we ran into cat-rat-dog again which was awesome because I could never get tired of seeing that. At one point the cat got off of the dog and the rat hucked the gap from the cats back to the dogs back. It was super epic. Day 3 of S&F had a crazy amount of good bands but I was so tired that day that I don't think I enjoyed it to it's full potential.
Highlights of Day 3:
- Lewd Acts brought the slime and kids were getting grimey. Their singer was also going nuts and jumping waaaay into the crowd and bashing his head with both the mic and the stage.
- New Lows, I am so hyped on this band. So heavy and kids were moshing hard. Clarke was givin it his all during their set. I love Clarke.
- Shipwreck was really cool. I was never super into this band before but I listened to them a bunch before the show and actually listened to their lyrics and they are amazing, the dude can write. Their live show was also alot of fun.
- Sinking Ships played an amazing last set. Lots of jokes and funnyness, kids were also going pretty wild and piling up on the stage to sing along for the last time.
- Ceremony, I had super high hopes for their set and was actually a bit dissappointed. Don't get me wrong it was still gnarly as fuck and Ceremony is just good so you can't go wrong but everyone was hyping their set saying it would be the gnarest of the weekend and it definitely wasn't, although they do get the craziest circle pit award.
The next morning we returned the car and cruised Hollywood a bit more. In the evening we had to make it back to LA and catch the Amtrak to Santa Barbara. The ride was pretty cool cause we went past the LA river and got to see all the crazy graff. There was tooons of it, just non-stop and most of the stuff was amazing.
We got into Santa Barbara pretty late and made it to our hotel room where they scammed us out of another 100 bucks, but it was the only place we had to stay so we had to suck it up and pay. Californians are sleazy. We hit the hay and at about 5:30am we got a knock at the door, it was Lindsey, Grant and Cole from Kelowna/Calgary who were going to stay with us for the weekend. They set up their sleeping bags and we talked for a bit before goin to bed for a couple more hours. We checked out Santa B a bit in the morning and went to a mall that was way out of any of our price range and ate pop-tarts (We left Grant sleeping in the hotel room while we did this). After getting breakfast we headed back to get Grant and found him still sleeping. We dragged his large red-headed ass out of bed and went to the venue.
Day 1 of Sound and Fury was super fun, I probably enjoyed it the most out of all the days. I was super excited instantly because me and Connor found/reunited with Clarke (you readers may remember him from our Rainfest adventure as our crazy red-headed American friend), we talked to him for a bit and watched a few bands. I can't remember the exact order of the bands so I am just going to do a highlight list of the bands I was diggin.
Highlights of Day 1:
- Seeing Swamp Thing, they put on a wild live show with tons of energy. Their guitarists were givin'r hard. I was bummed though because I bought some Kayne West sunnies at Venice Beach and they were in my pocket and got moshed into a few different pieces, but whatever it was worth it.
- Sabertooth Zombie played a super fun set, such a unique band that does whatever they want. A kid got really hurt during their set though which sucks and they had to end their set early. Hope that dude is ok.
- Trash Talk was crazy, I feared for my life the entire time, especially when their roadie got the mic and just started ruining people. I remember him from Rainfest though and knew to steer clear. I also got KO'd during their last song. Apparently some kid stage dived feet first and I got it right to the dome and the next thing I knew a bunch of peoople were around me picking me up off the ground.
- Have Heart was awesome as always. I love this band. Kids were going nuts and didn't stop stage diving the entire time.
After the show was done for the day we headed to In-n-Out with Clarke and his buddies. There were tons of people from the show there and we ran into one of the dudes we met on the Amtrak(I didn't mention this earlier but his name was Phil and was from Toronto, he also had a sweet moustache). Once we finished our meal we just headed back to the Hotel, hung out for a bit and then fell asleep.
On Day 2 we all got up and went downtown Santa Barbara in the morning. Grant and Cole were fighting non-stop which was hilarious for the entire trip. Cole got mad at me and Connor because we called Grant a "day-walker" (a red-head that isn't super pale and can go out with being a noticeable ginger), but we said Cole was to red-headed and pale to be a day-walker. He then freaked and called himself "the night rider". Grant then told Cole that he acted like no one had ever been nice to him in his life and that he had a black soul. During our downtown excursion we saw the sweetest thing on the whole trip. A bum walking around with a dog and standing on top of the dog riding it was a cat and on top of the cat was a rat. They were all walking around riding each other like a pyramid. So fucking rad. We also hit up Fatburger and Grant pussed out of doing the King challenge. Day 2 of S&F was the weakest in my opinion but there was still some good stuff.
Highlights of Day 2:
- Trapped Under Ice was rad I hadn't really gotten into them much before but they really impressed me with their set. So heavy and tons of gnar mosh. Including a naked dude moshing the whole time.
- Colin Of Arabia played a good set, not as many people were into it as I would have thought but they were still good.
- Paint It Black had a really fun set. It was cool cause they came on right after Death Before Dishonor and played like the complete opposite style of hardcore and totally burned the DBD singer for using the word "Faggot".
- Guns Up! was by far the wildest set of the whole weekend. Kids were going off! Lindsey got caught in a mosh and got a wicked shiner + bloody nose + bloody mouth.
After the show we were goin to go party but everyone was hella tired so we just went back to the hotel and hit up 711. Everyone was trying to sleep while me and Grant kept them up talking about baseball all night. Grant is ill.
Day 3 we went back downtown to hang/do some shopping and we ran into cat-rat-dog again which was awesome because I could never get tired of seeing that. At one point the cat got off of the dog and the rat hucked the gap from the cats back to the dogs back. It was super epic. Day 3 of S&F had a crazy amount of good bands but I was so tired that day that I don't think I enjoyed it to it's full potential.
Highlights of Day 3:
- Lewd Acts brought the slime and kids were getting grimey. Their singer was also going nuts and jumping waaaay into the crowd and bashing his head with both the mic and the stage.
- New Lows, I am so hyped on this band. So heavy and kids were moshing hard. Clarke was givin it his all during their set. I love Clarke.
- Shipwreck was really cool. I was never super into this band before but I listened to them a bunch before the show and actually listened to their lyrics and they are amazing, the dude can write. Their live show was also alot of fun.
- Sinking Ships played an amazing last set. Lots of jokes and funnyness, kids were also going pretty wild and piling up on the stage to sing along for the last time.
- Ceremony, I had super high hopes for their set and was actually a bit dissappointed. Don't get me wrong it was still gnarly as fuck and Ceremony is just good so you can't go wrong but everyone was hyping their set saying it would be the gnarest of the weekend and it definitely wasn't, although they do get the craziest circle pit award.
After that was over we went back to our hotel room and had pizza with Clarke and his buds. We then went to bed and got up hella early to catch out Amtrak back to LA where we had to catch our plane back to Seattle. That part of the trip went smooth but once we got to Seattle we found that the 7pm greyhound was sold out and we would have to wait till 11. Luckily I asked at 7 if we could get on and the driver said yes so we didn't have to wait an extra 4 hours. The ride home was good except for the border, the guy we got was a dick and was trying to be sneaky and trick us into admitting something but it ended up just being really awkward and taking a long time but we made it through easy enough.
We made it back home to Vernon the next day and I was actually kinda bummed to be back. I had so much fun in Cali with Con and Lennea and I wished the trip was alot longer. Hanging with Lindsey, Grant and Cole was also alot of fun, those dudes are hilarious and I now consider them all super good buds. Seeing Clarke again was also rad, I can't stress enough how amazing this man is. If any single girls are reading this I would highly recommend getting your freak on with Clarke Holland.
Anyways, thanks for reading this I know it was alot. Hopefully you enjoyed it! Until next time, BYE!
- Dan
Anyways, thanks for reading this I know it was alot. Hopefully you enjoyed it! Until next time, BYE!
- Dan
Saturday, August 2, 2008
California - Part 1: Rides and Stuff
I have decided to do this trip in two different posts because I don't really feel like writing tons of stuff all at once and it will be much easier to read instead of just jumbling everything in as one.
This trip to California was originally going to be myself, Ramsay and his girlfriend Jessica and my girlfriend Lennea. However, Ramsay and Jess both had other deals so they couldn't go anymore and my bro Connor decided to step in and come along and I am hyped he did.
We headed out of Vernon on the 17th and went to Vancouver to stay the night with Lennea. The drive was pretty quick and when we got to Vancouver, Justen was at my place hanging with Lennea and had a pretty sweet gun that shot both plastics discs and plastic bb's at the same time. Tight. We turned in pretty soon after we got there but not before Connor got hot soup spilt all over his hand due to Justen being a meathead. In the morning we made the trek to the greyhound and had to bus about 5 hours to Seattle. Once we got to Seattle we had to find our hotel and had quite the ordeal locating it. We spent one night in Seattle and caught our plane to LA in the morning.
The plane ride was actually alot of fun. We flew with Virgin America and they had these crazy touch screens in the backs of their seats so you could watch tv, movies, listen to music and play video games. Me and Connor spent some time playing Doom until I managed to freeze my screen and it would no longer work. Anyways, the flight was short and we got into LA in the early afternoon. We caught a bus and made our way to our hotel on Disney Way which was about a five minute walk from Disneyland. Since it was already kinda later in the afternoon we just went shopping at this shopping center by our hotel where we all got some pretty rad sunnies and Connor got a Hollister necklace...which he actually wears. After shopping we made our way to Downtown Disney and looked at all the shops there, some of them had some pretty crazy stuff, namely the store that had the Arnold Palmer memorabilia for nearly 500 bucks. We ate at the Rainforest Cafe that night which was fun but I thought the food wasn't very great. Once our dinner was done we headed back to the hotel and watched the Disneyland fireworks from the porch of our hotel room. Me and Lennea then walked to a grocery store to get some food and see if they had cheaper passes for Disneyland. We went through some pretty hood ass areas to get there and once we did we found that the Disney passes were the same price as they were at Disneyland. Lennea ended up stealing one after sketching about it for half an hour.
We woke up early to get to Disneyland before the rush the next day. Me and Con got into the park easy because we already had passes with Lindsey Allen had given us (thanks a bunch Lindsey) but Lennea's pass totally got iced at the gate because it hadn't been activated due to it being stolen. She ended up having to buy a pass. I had a blast at Disney, we hit all the good rides numerous times and stayed there all day. It wasn't as busy as I thought it would be, but I definitely noticed that there were toooons of shady/scummy looking characters there. I never noticed that when I had been there before, I guess when your young you don't noticed that typed of thing. The highlights of the day for me were Indiana Jones, Space and Splash Mountain, Fantasmic, spending 9 dollars on churros and obviously The Enchanted Tiki Room. Connor also got ruined by a bee in Toon Town and his finger swelled up to the size of one of his legs (which is huge) and spent 20 bucks of a piece of the cursed Aztec gold from Pirates of the Caribbean.
Day three in Cali we went to California Adventure, which is the other Disneyland park for all you nooblets. We got there hella early so we could beat the rush like at Disneyland but we found California opens alot later than Disney (I'm sick of writing California Adventure and Disneyland so now they will be referred to as CA and DL) but they did let us into the small shopping area of the park. To beat the rush we decided to wait near the area where the rest of the park was roped off so right when they unroped it we could hit the roller coaster. The park opened and we pretty much speed walked to the coaster area with about a thousand people speed walking behind us. We got there and found that there was already tons of people there waiting in line for the rides, so that was super wack. We got in the line which we assumed was the line for the coaster and waited in it for about an hour before we noticed that they were giving out 3-D glasses to everyone in line, we then realized we weren't even in line for the coaster which sucked, but the ride we actually went on was fun. It was a Toy Story one where you got to shoot guns. The day at CA was fun but not as fun as DL, there just aren't as many good rides at CA. The highlights of the day were the roller coaster, Maliboomer, Big Grizzly Rapids, Tower of Terror and Soarin' Over California.
On day four we rented a car and drove out to Valencia to hit up 6 Flags. The drive was kinda long but it was cool so see some California desert-ish landscape. We got there and it was crazy hot and for some reason Connor thought it would be a good idea to wear a dark blue shirt and pants. So the first thing we did once we got in the park was find a store buy Con some cooler clothes, he ended up buying a yellow Homer Simpson shirt for like 20 boneyays. We tricked Lennea into hitting X-2 as the first ride of the day (which is the gnarliest ride) and she actually enjoyed it so I thought she would be able to do all the rest of the rides but she still wussed out hard for some of them. 6 Flags was fun and we hit all the rides but the lines were so damn long it totally hindered the fun. I also lost my phone on one of the rides so now I am phoneless which is really wack. The highlights of 6 Flags were X-2, Goliath, Scream, Superman, the super sick Batman play they put on and seeing the cop in it almost eat shit really hard trying a jump on a dirtbike, and meeting Pimp Masta Pimp who was some 8 year old black kid who tried to set up a long distance relationship with Lennea.
This is all I am going to write for now, I'll finish the trip in my next post. It will have all the info on Sound and Fury and some stuff about the trip to Hollywood. All the theme parks were super fun and I had a good time at all of them and I'm glad I went even though they cost me tons of money. I would suggest that everyone hits Disneyland up sometime. Thanks for readin!
This trip to California was originally going to be myself, Ramsay and his girlfriend Jessica and my girlfriend Lennea. However, Ramsay and Jess both had other deals so they couldn't go anymore and my bro Connor decided to step in and come along and I am hyped he did.
We headed out of Vernon on the 17th and went to Vancouver to stay the night with Lennea. The drive was pretty quick and when we got to Vancouver, Justen was at my place hanging with Lennea and had a pretty sweet gun that shot both plastics discs and plastic bb's at the same time. Tight. We turned in pretty soon after we got there but not before Connor got hot soup spilt all over his hand due to Justen being a meathead. In the morning we made the trek to the greyhound and had to bus about 5 hours to Seattle. Once we got to Seattle we had to find our hotel and had quite the ordeal locating it. We spent one night in Seattle and caught our plane to LA in the morning.
The plane ride was actually alot of fun. We flew with Virgin America and they had these crazy touch screens in the backs of their seats so you could watch tv, movies, listen to music and play video games. Me and Connor spent some time playing Doom until I managed to freeze my screen and it would no longer work. Anyways, the flight was short and we got into LA in the early afternoon. We caught a bus and made our way to our hotel on Disney Way which was about a five minute walk from Disneyland. Since it was already kinda later in the afternoon we just went shopping at this shopping center by our hotel where we all got some pretty rad sunnies and Connor got a Hollister necklace...which he actually wears. After shopping we made our way to Downtown Disney and looked at all the shops there, some of them had some pretty crazy stuff, namely the store that had the Arnold Palmer memorabilia for nearly 500 bucks. We ate at the Rainforest Cafe that night which was fun but I thought the food wasn't very great. Once our dinner was done we headed back to the hotel and watched the Disneyland fireworks from the porch of our hotel room. Me and Lennea then walked to a grocery store to get some food and see if they had cheaper passes for Disneyland. We went through some pretty hood ass areas to get there and once we did we found that the Disney passes were the same price as they were at Disneyland. Lennea ended up stealing one after sketching about it for half an hour.
We woke up early to get to Disneyland before the rush the next day. Me and Con got into the park easy because we already had passes with Lindsey Allen had given us (thanks a bunch Lindsey) but Lennea's pass totally got iced at the gate because it hadn't been activated due to it being stolen. She ended up having to buy a pass. I had a blast at Disney, we hit all the good rides numerous times and stayed there all day. It wasn't as busy as I thought it would be, but I definitely noticed that there were toooons of shady/scummy looking characters there. I never noticed that when I had been there before, I guess when your young you don't noticed that typed of thing. The highlights of the day for me were Indiana Jones, Space and Splash Mountain, Fantasmic, spending 9 dollars on churros and obviously The Enchanted Tiki Room. Connor also got ruined by a bee in Toon Town and his finger swelled up to the size of one of his legs (which is huge) and spent 20 bucks of a piece of the cursed Aztec gold from Pirates of the Caribbean.
Day three in Cali we went to California Adventure, which is the other Disneyland park for all you nooblets. We got there hella early so we could beat the rush like at Disneyland but we found California opens alot later than Disney (I'm sick of writing California Adventure and Disneyland so now they will be referred to as CA and DL) but they did let us into the small shopping area of the park. To beat the rush we decided to wait near the area where the rest of the park was roped off so right when they unroped it we could hit the roller coaster. The park opened and we pretty much speed walked to the coaster area with about a thousand people speed walking behind us. We got there and found that there was already tons of people there waiting in line for the rides, so that was super wack. We got in the line which we assumed was the line for the coaster and waited in it for about an hour before we noticed that they were giving out 3-D glasses to everyone in line, we then realized we weren't even in line for the coaster which sucked, but the ride we actually went on was fun. It was a Toy Story one where you got to shoot guns. The day at CA was fun but not as fun as DL, there just aren't as many good rides at CA. The highlights of the day were the roller coaster, Maliboomer, Big Grizzly Rapids, Tower of Terror and Soarin' Over California.
On day four we rented a car and drove out to Valencia to hit up 6 Flags. The drive was kinda long but it was cool so see some California desert-ish landscape. We got there and it was crazy hot and for some reason Connor thought it would be a good idea to wear a dark blue shirt and pants. So the first thing we did once we got in the park was find a store buy Con some cooler clothes, he ended up buying a yellow Homer Simpson shirt for like 20 boneyays. We tricked Lennea into hitting X-2 as the first ride of the day (which is the gnarliest ride) and she actually enjoyed it so I thought she would be able to do all the rest of the rides but she still wussed out hard for some of them. 6 Flags was fun and we hit all the rides but the lines were so damn long it totally hindered the fun. I also lost my phone on one of the rides so now I am phoneless which is really wack. The highlights of 6 Flags were X-2, Goliath, Scream, Superman, the super sick Batman play they put on and seeing the cop in it almost eat shit really hard trying a jump on a dirtbike, and meeting Pimp Masta Pimp who was some 8 year old black kid who tried to set up a long distance relationship with Lennea.
This is all I am going to write for now, I'll finish the trip in my next post. It will have all the info on Sound and Fury and some stuff about the trip to Hollywood. All the theme parks were super fun and I had a good time at all of them and I'm glad I went even though they cost me tons of money. I would suggest that everyone hits Disneyland up sometime. Thanks for readin!
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