Happy New Year!!

• What's up y'all? I had a very fun four day weekend and New Years celebration. Thursday morning I met Sandi at her place in Stockton, and we drove down from there. I pretty much slept the whole way. Except for stops in Fresno, Bakersfield and Downey to pee. Yes Downey is in L.A. but we were staying in Orange and traffic sucks. We made it down there and went to dinner first at some Mexican place since the wait to check in at Motel 6 was too long. I had great chicken fajitas. After we checked in and I took a shower, we were off to Knotts Berry Farm. I was running on like seven hours of sleep in a two day period, but frankly didn't care. We had a blast. The Newsboys performed twice and it was awesome. The rides were out of this world. I went on the Silver Bullet twice, it's like Top Gun at Great America, only a lot more intense. We ended up buying the DVD of ourselves on the ride, it was that good. Then I went on Supreme Scream, which is pretty much like Drop Zone. Only much higher, and it goes back up. Freakin scary. Sandi's not into drop rides so I went on it myself. Next we rode the Waveswinger, which is basically just riding in a swing, pretending you're Peter Pan or something. So freakin fun to feel like you're flying. Oh yeah, we also went on Ghost Rider, the wooden coaster twice. That one is the gnarliest coaster I've ever experienced, period. For a wooden coaster to have that much g-force is amazing. We went on it right before midnight, and again when the park was almost closing. Oh yeah, and for some insane reason I decided to go on Bigfoot Rapids twice at 12:30am when it was 48 degrees out. The first time we barely got wet, second round I got soaked. Oh well, dried off a little on Ghost Rider. So worth it. I am so going next year.
  
• We slept in on Friday, well sort of. The bed at Motel 6 was pretty hard. I wanted to check out the Irvine Spectrum, so we had a late breakfast at a crepe place, then did some shopping. I got a cute sweater at Torrid, coffee at The Coffee Bean, and tried some frozen yogurt at Pinkberry. So good. We also got snacks for the road at Target. Then we headed to Santa Monica to check out the pier. It was pretty fun to look around at the view but honestly Pier 39 has a lot more things to do, more shops, etc. We ate at Bubba Gumps for dinner, I had a cheeseburger and broccoli. Then we headed on back home, and were in Stockton before midnight.
  
• I stayed over at Sandi's that night, and we went to breakfast at Mimi's the next morning. Then we got coffee at Peet's, and frozen yogurt at Nubi. I had peppermint egg nog cheesecake with a few toppings, mostly nuts and fruit. So tasty. There's a Nubi in San Leandro at Bayfair, I gotta try that one. Then I drove home, did some housework, hit the gym, then hung out with Dad for the evening. On Sunday I went to church, then went shopping with Cathy. I got new size 16 jeans (YES!!), a cute shirt, and some beauty products. I didn't even use my whole giftcard for Target. I think I'll use the remainder towards groceries this week. How thrilling.