Rancho Cucamonga

"So Boogy-boarding Ben, where're ya from?"
"Rancho Cucamonga."
"Rancho Cucamonga!...I have no idea where that is.
Rancho Cucamonga, Rancho Cucamonga. It's kinda fun to say though!"

Hi yall! Just got back from the magical world of Disney.
So I went to Disneyland for my orchestra tour last week with the whole music department. We all had a lot of fun and learned a lot. We went to colleges for clinics with the pro's who helped us out a lot with our music.
But first we started with the bus ride. A long long bus ride.

This was my seat partner. She was the most annoying girl ever. She can irritate even the nicest people i know.


This was the dude in front of me. He's also my stand partner in the orchestra



And these were the dudes behind me. They also became my entourage and attached themselves to me throughout the trip. The red head was super annoying and acted like a five year old. ugh he even claimed i was the girl of his dreams; five minutes later he was asking what my name was again.



The bus ride was kinda scary cause our driver fell asleep once or twice. We hit the rumble strip a lot throughout. Once, when i woke up we were being led by a semi. He was forcing the bus driver to stay awake and slow down. Thank you truck driver for saving us!
We hit McDonalds for some breakfast. poor workers didn't know what hit them. Then we hit Hollywood.

First stop was the Hollywood bowl




Then we hit the boulevard. I tried to find the beatles but i didn't have time to really look for it. plus i didn't really know where their stars were.

The next day we hit the Huntington beach!





And for dinner we went to medieval times



and i got a flower!! lol since i was surrounded by guys i knew that our lovely blue knight threw it right to me! Of coursed i squealed like a crazed fan girl. I was very protective of my flower.

And then the day we were all waiting for. DISNEYLAND!!! *crazy scream*





They had drained the big lake for repairs, I think they might also add some princess and the frog stuff too. So I didn't get to see the boats or tom sayer island or anything like that. Kinda depressing.






















I had a lot of fun and rode a lot more rides. Even pirates and Indiana jones and haunted mansion!
We didn't see any princesses except for tiana who was performing throughout the day. I was lucky to get any pictures at all. The first day of disney i was stuck with the guys but then i was finally able to get free of them and hang out with all my girlfriends!
(ok i admit i did kinda like the attention the guys gave me)

The coolest thing we did was the Talk Live With Crush. It was amazing. The conversation above is from that. You basically sit down and talk to Crush from Finding Nemo. My friend talked with him and it was so funny. I definately will see that again. But compaired to my first time i really improved the amount of rides i did. especially considering that I hate most rides i think i did really well. Ha! take that family! i'm getting better! And then the bus ride home. This one was shorter cause all of us were dead tired.


Our teachers actually got in a big fight at the end of the trip. The band teacher wanted us to get to the park at 7:30 but this was also the day we were leaving so we had to be packed for the ride home straight after disneyland. We were functioning on less than 5 hours of sleep and no one could eat breakfast because they were all packing. My amazing orchestra teacher really didn't like the idea of us not eating and little sleep and she also knew that most of us would skip lunch in the park. She wanted us to be able to eat breakfast. So she argued with the band teacher and we got a little more time. So we were told to load the bus at 8:30. After breakfast which i finished at around 8 i go back to the room to catch a few more Z's. I'm with my other roommates discussing the arguements from our teachers and the confusion going on that morning when we hear the choir teacher yell at some girls telling them that we were leaving as soon as the buses were loaded. This made us angry. Nobody was telling us anything and we were tired and frustrated. so we gave up and just packed our stuff onto the bus.


Finally i'm at home but guess what happens!! I get sick. and not just sore throat from screaming and jet lag. But like aches and headache and puking all night sick. Great fun. This means that aside from all the make-up work i had from the trip i also have all the work from the day of school i missed. Maybe it's all the stress and lack of sleep that killed my immune system. I wouldn't be surprised.
Hopefully i'll survive until spring break next week.