Florida 2015 ~ Part 3

I love fancy smancy hotels as much as the next person but fair warning, they are breakfast potato killers. RIP to all the tater cubes that have met their end by being mixed with peppers and other assorted veggies, you will be gravely missed. Needless to say I didn't enjoy the breakfast; guess I'll just stick to my granola bars. A bad start doesn't mean a bad day however! The band, choir, and flags all participated in their designated clinic workshops today. Those people in 2 or all 3 chose whichever they so desired and for myself that was choir! Our director, Nicki was the sweetest thing! We did voice overs for many random sounds from bird calls to the slurping of a cat drinking. The we dug into our pieces of music which included The Circle of Life and Can You Feel the Love Tonight, both from Disney's animated film, The Lion King. The circle of life was glorious. Being on the soprano part has its perks, I mean who else but sopranos would have the melody right? For Can You Feel the Love Tonight, I was lucky enough to be chosen as a soloist! There were three of us in total, Baylee Ritter took the lead with Timons adorable opening, followed by Logan Mies on Simba's romantic tune, and me in the caboose with Nalas flirtatious response! There was a dance portion to a classic song from my childhood. None other than Hannah Montana's Pumpin' up the party track. We fist pumped til we could do so no more and talked about the 5 steps to success: Quick, Friendly, Awesome, Focused, Flexible. A short lecture on the Disney college experience followed and then we were sent on our way. 

To where did we go next? The beach of course! Coco beach was the destination and my only goal was straight relaxation. Once we ate the delicious bbq food provided for us, everyone dispersed. Some went out into the waters, others buried each other in the sand, and then people like me laid out on a towel with nothing but sunshine and reading a book on the brain! It was beautiful. 

Later on, all three buses began to make our way to see the Hoop Dee Doo. This is where it really starts to get interesting... To start off our struggles, our buses dropped us off at the wrong location and one of the buses even abandoned the students! The dinner show began promptly at 8:30 and after being picked back up by the buses and driving around aimlessly for what seemed like hours, we finally arrived, late of course. Luckily for us, however, the performers held the performance until we were seated and settled. After all, with 140 some people, we were basically the honorary guests as we took up more than half of the audience! To describe the Hoop Dee Doo in simple terms picture this: An extremely Hokey performance similar to the madrigal dinners but with a Southern Belle/countrified twist! Some of our troupe even became main focal points in the show. (Gavin Balota as the brave Indian chief and Fritz Pagel as the silver fox - insert kiss upon forehead here). The show was a hootin and a tootin good time; I even got to strum an authentic washboard! Here's hoping that tomorrow is equally as much of a hoot and a holler as today was! 

Florida 2015 ~ Part 2

Oh the wonderful sun is shining strong and bright down here in Florida! Continuing with yesterday's agenda, Epcot was definitely a blast in a glass! Upon first arrival we all quickly pulled out our electronic devices to take a picture of none other than symbolic globe like silver ball.

My group then headed on over to guest relations to see about getting me an electronic chair to use for day. After about choking when the worker told me it would be a $50 fee, we all fled from the money magnet building. After many more pictures we took a ride into the depths of the giant symbolic globe like silver ball. It was a fun trip through time as we saw things ranging from the ancient Egyptians all the way to our own personalized futures. A great time traveler always needs a break so our next stop was this delicious and authentic pizzeria in the mock Italy! I swear the Italians do it right in almost every aspect. I mean honestly the language is beautiful, the food is perfection, the women are pretty and the men are finer than fine 😻 ! While sitting and eating we flagged down one of the many fit waiters and requested him to snap our picture. While looking at the photo, however, our group of 6 had suddenly gained another member! We were sitting in front of this glass window and another worker shamelessly photobomb our shot!

 It was honestly hilarious beyond belief. The food helped to reenergize us long enough to find the infamous Fa Mulan and snap a quick photo with the insprirational woman warrior,

however our adrenaline had run out and everyone had become irritable. We unfortunately finished the night at the park in crabbiness, but at least the fireworks burned bright and temporarily burned out our tempers. After a long day all we really needed was sleep, however, once at the hotel we couldn't just run to our rooms and crash because that'd just be too simple. Instead we got lost in the mysterious hotel, had to unload EVERYTHING, not just the luggage, and my room had 4 extremely achy and sweaty girls who simply wanted to shower. Finally, at around 12:30, we were finally able to sleep. 

What a day...

Florida 2015 ~ Part 1

After a crazy few weeks of travel from Davenport, Iowa for a dance competition, to Omaha, Nebraska for our class's Atrazine project, to Bloomingdale, Illinois for the II District's district convention, it's finally time for Spring Break! However, no break is in sight for me. Waking up at 3 am is only acceptable when travel is involved! It's been a long morning of bus rides and of course the long haul across country via the clouds, the moment we have all been waiting for for almost a year has finally arrived. Within minutes PTHS's band and choir will be arriving in Disney World!! Stay tuned for pictures and updates from my perspective of this magical trip 😁😁

"The Good Life" ~ Nebraska

Nebraska: typically not one's first visit choice when it comes to traveling across country, yet here I sit among 6 other students and my teacher as we all make the long journey out to this Midwestern state. My Ecology class has been working with the University of Nebraska in Omaha for a few months now. We have been planning out a 10 week lab that both our high school and the university will be taking part in. This drawn out experiment will be testing the local rivers in our designated towns for Atrazine, a dangerous insecticide. Because of the extensiveness of the rivers, we have invited other high schools in our county to join the fun! In order to put the finishing touches on this project before our start in Mid-April, the university invited us to come work with their students in person and present our other projects and programs to the college. 

 

I could not be more excited for this trip. Besides the fact I get to miss school and go on a road trip with my friends, I also get to help make an impact on our natural world! Let's do this Nebraska! 

Take Two 👌

I did this for my trip to California over the summer and absolutely loved it. Now with a full schedule ahead and long hours of traveling time to write along the way, I'd like to give it another go! 

Welcome to the blog of my wonderfully crazy life! To those reading, fair warning, I try way to hard to make a funny and tend to have awkward things happen in my life more often than the average person... But that's what keep me on my toes.

And with that cautionary statement in mind... Here's to new experiences, wacky moments and many (pointless) blog posts. 

Tally ho!