Happy Thanksgiving!

It's a small world ride!

You people must think I'm joking, but people do really take pictures with them constantly and they always seem to take better pictures for these random people than they do for me...frustrating!

I thought this was cool because it was written in both languages

The train ride there.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

We spent the day at DISNEYLAND!!!! It was awesome and we had tons of fun. I even got Ashlynn to ride Space Mountain with me as she's finally tall enough! Poor little thing though, she had her eyes shut the whole time:) Then when we went to the restroom after the ride she told me I needed to "wash my hands because the aliens might have touched me". I never even mentioned aliens...but I guess she just associated it with space. Anyhow, to make her feel better we went and blasted them on the Buzz light year ride afterward. She actually beat both Hoss and I with her score. And the best part was there were no lines, anywhere! We saw the parade, watched the Lion King show, rode the train and then did my favorite, Its a Small World! The girls loved everything. Oh, and too funny. We knew there would be camera-happy people everywhere and so we decided to count today; 21 different people took their picture with the girls. What are they going to think when they get around Caucasian people again! It actually gets pretty annoying. Ash was really good about it. She seems to take better pictures for them than me, but Brielle was not cooperative and we never make her.

Well that was our fabulous day! We are going to have our Thanksgiving dinner celebration with friends on Saturday (schools here didn't even give the day off today) so we are looking forward to that. And in the spirit of Thanksgiving, I thought I'd share one of my favorites I've had with Hoss. It was when we first had gotten together. We hooked up in July and then seperated for different schools around the 11th of November. Now keep in mind that by the time we left each other we had already picked out rings, so we had gotten close. He was in North Carolina and I was in Florida. I was missing him alot, and as it was also my first year out of the house and away from family I was feeling bad about the upcoming holidays. Anyhow, he managed to borrow a friend's truck and drive down for the weekend. We explored Jacksonville together and he got me through the day. My most vivid memory of the time is our Thanksgiving meal. We both didn't have money and he had spent last dime on gas to get down and I was spending the rest of mine to get him back up. So our meal for the holiday was 99 cent tacos and when we got back to the room we shared a bag of oreo cookie poptarts. Ya know, Thanksgiving isn't about the food. It's about the company. I loved that weekend. You could have stuck us in a cargo container with a box of oatmeal and we would have never wanted out. I am thankful for those moments, they make all the hard times seem like a passing breath.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!