I also purposely wanted to make sure I made it to 200 blog posts in 2011 which makes this my 200th post! I wanted to start blogging more and in 2010 I only blogged 10 times... so I think I stepped it up a bit! I'm happy! Happy New Year!!
If you look closely at this picture you can see that it says "World of Color" in the water.. it was showing a lot more clearly than that but my camera wouldn't capture it. I can't even describe to you how brilliant "World of Color" is. Some of the things done in this show can only be described by Disney magic.. if you haven't seen this show yet.. do yourself a favor, and next time you are there... see it! I cried.
This was the picture they snap of you right before they drop you again on the "Hollywood Tower of Terror"... my family and I are on the middle row... and as you can see from my face.. "Tower of Terror" is a pretty accurate name.. but it is so fun!
This is a picture I took in line waiting for "Snow White."
"Pinnochio"
My mom and I waiting for the new "Little Mermaid" ride.. and being that this was my all time favorite movie growing up, I loved this ride!
"Indiana Jones!" (which we rode at least 3 times.. it's the best).
It was an amazing trip. Disneyland or Disney in general will never get old.. and I will never outgrow it! 
My mom got French Onion soup that I tried a taste of and was pretty good!
My mom and dad got a salad with grilled salmon that was pretty good too (i'm not the biggest fan of salmon though).
and this was the main dish my brothers and I all got... it was not at all what we expected. It was called the "Monte Cristo" sandwhich and it was described as having turkey, ham and melted cheese and said it was "lightly" battered. There was not much meat at all, it was heavily battered (and the batter was sweet) and covered with powdered sugar. It was not that great, but it's presentation was amazing.
That night for dinner we stuck with a place we knew would be great, the "Rainforest Cafe," and it was simple, good food with great atmosphere. 
Here was the finished cheese cake my mom and I made (topped with my grandma's homemade apricot jam).
My mom and I made lasagna from scratch!
Here was my dinner plate! (delicious!)
Hope you had some yummy food today too!
My grandparents gave me this set of 4 big soup bowls from Anthropologie (one of my favorite stored in the world) that I had been dying to own and I am very excited about!
As I was sitting there and we were all opening our gifts we were exchanging with eachother, I couldn't help thinking, isn't it kind of funny that on Jesus' birthday we give eachother so many gifts?... and when God gave us the greatest gift of all?... makes me think more about the gifts I can give back to him, or to others, through him! Merry Christmas ALL!
1. Being at home all day with my family
I have had these shoes for about a month (I got them on black Friday), and on two separate occasions I have taken a spill, and hard, while wearing these shoes. I usually have great balance, but the bottom of these shoes are so dang slippery! I didn't take the time to scuff them up with scissors or anything before now because I figured if I wore them enough that would happen on it's own, guess not. 
There was a special where you could try 3 different dishes for $30 and I thought that sounded like a great idea (especially since it was dad's treat), and I also got the wine that was listed as the paired wine with my meal! I felt so grown up!
My salad had caramelized nuts, pears, and some really good dressing.
The pasta dish was penne pasta, meatballs, melted cheese and marinara sauce.
My main dish was chicken that was "stuffed" with ham and melted cheese, mashed potatoes and spinach.
The dessert, which was way too rich not to be shared, was a chocolate mousse type dessert on top of a sponge cake, it was delicious and very rich! It was a very yummy dinner experience. 
Today is the first day in a long time that I can think of where I haven't had anything I've had to do. I woke up mildly early to finish up some baking with my mom, then went to lunch with a friend and now I'm relaxing and watching "Harry Potter" with Cam before I have some dinner and go out with Amanda Noel and some friends to celebrate her sisters 21st birthday! Yeah for Christmas break!
I've been working on a paper on "Romeo & Juliet" for my Shakespeare final and it's been getting me to think a lot about the writing of this play. (I've also been thinking about the acting and theatre production of it, but don't even get me started on that). Which has got me thinking...
When Shakespeare wrote this play, do you think he had all these ideas in his head of themes he wanted to run throughout the play? Do you think he meant to focus on themes of love, destiny, fate, and use so many different metaphors for light? Was this something he planned or are all of these things just things we have used to analyze and better understand his writing?
Shakespeare, as we all know, has been around and will be around for a very long time and has been extremely influential in both academic and theaterical writing and performances. I started looking at different types of youtube videos for "Romeo & Juliet" and stubled upon some amazing ballet videos of it and distracted for a bit. Ok ok ok, I need to get back to my paper! Almost there!
