My vacation and life!

9:06 P.M. 7/5/2012
SPAIN WINS THE EUROCUP! Woo! So...Plane ride was not too shabby. I'm in Sacramento right now and it sucks because I can't leave the plane because it also goes to San Diego. I haven't eaten dinner yet. Augh. Dude. I got additional screening because I happened to be the lucky random. I got to hold up a line. Woohoo! I've been reading The Pianist and it such an incredible book. Everyone should read it. Every page puts me in awe about how incredible Wladyslaw Szpilman's story is. I remember only watching the last ten minutes of the movie and how I bawled. By some miracle, I found the name of the movie and found out it was a book! It also shows how not everyone was bad. A German soldier saved him! Incredible. On other news, my sister has been so excited and going nuts. That reminds me! Madi and Juli came over a while ago and she went psycho watching Rio. That was a side they never saw. Hahaha I love the fact I can blog on my phone. So. On news that's now related to my trip, I am in love with Sierra Boggess. She has my new idol. I want to be her. I also adore Ramin Karimloo and Tam Mutu. :) I've been listening to so many Disney and POTO stuff. Hahaha It is still my life. Since everyone knows I always change topics... my flight attendant speaker was so funny. "In case of an emergency, I would pick the child with the most potential if you have more than one." "No one loves you... more than how we love you and your money!"

9:39 P.M. 7/6/12

Animals. Loads of walking. Annoying people. Screaming children. Little juggling Asian boys. All at the San Diego Zoo! I've learned that I am terrible at navigating with a map. So much freaking walking. My legs are dead. We also dropped by downtown for some food. The weather here is fantastic. The location of my hotel (Holiday Inn) is amazing. Less than a minute away from Costco, 7/11, Chipotle, Carl's Jr., McDonald's, and so much more! Tomorrow is Sea World! I'm so excited! My face place ever :)).

11:23 7/7/12
Eek! What a day! So much fun! I love Seaworld! The shows have changed... for the worst but they weren't bad. We actually ate a lot of food there. Weird! Dad usually hates amusement park stuff. I love the rides! I was super sad because last time I came, I got so sick and couldn't ride! Andy was so scared of the rides till we actually got on them. Hahha I am soaking wet right now at the hotel waiting for Andy to finish his shower. We went on the Shipwreck Rapids twice with this funny Mexican family! Then the Atlantis ride and the polar bear simulator. Finally, the new Mantis! SO FUN. Oh course we also went on rides with Karina. Which reminds me that we watched the Elmo 4D and Karina was in love! Haha HOLY BEEP. I just realized... I've just been sunburnt for the first time in my life on my shoulders. PAIN. D: Wow. This is great. I was watching Daniel's video like he told me to and the fire alarms in my hotel go off. Woohoo. Fun. 9:19 7/8/12 Sunday! Today we drove all the way to Hollywood and walked around. It was super exhausting. It is definitely interesting. I wish we could've gone to Universal Studios like last time. Oh well. Now we're in Garden Grove eating at Pho Pasteur. Dad says it's even better than Pho 38 in Tacoma. Holy crap! As usual, instead of pho, I got fried rice. I need to go running. Haven't had time though :(. I shall tomorrow morning!

Part of the show :)

9:34 7/11/12

Vegas! That's where I have been. Before that we went to the San Diego Safari though. We are staying at the Paris Hotel. It is all nice and French themed. The pool is huge and I went swimming in it yesterday. I also saw Phantom of the Opera yesterday. It was a roller coaster trying to get the tickets. It sucked. But the show didn't. I don't get how that show is closing here in Vegas! I really want to see a lot more shows. Too bad I'm not rich. After the show, I went to Circus Circus with my family. I babysat the sibs for a bit while my parents went to go eat because I ate before the show. Karina got so scared on one of the rides that she bit me and scratched me. It was so sad. It was kind of how you grip onto something when you're scared. But somehow... I have a hickey. From my 2 year old sister. Other than that ride she had lots of fun and refused to leave after it closed... at midnight. We are leaving for our 10 hour drive down to San Francisco and San Jose. Oh boy.... On other news, I got a new book, Between the Lines. I also got new cheap black flats :). I also failed that piece of crap of an AP World Test.

11:11 P.M. 7/12/12

Yesterday when we arrived in San Jose, we visited my fave relatives in Cali ever :)). I don't know their names in English so they shall be called relatives. Haha. We came back today for dinner with them too! I'm actually here right now. We came after going to San Fran. Yay for Asian bakeries and drinks :). Dude. My relative's father in law is a freaking boss. He is super high tech like... Daddy high tech. And he is a contractor. He decked out my relative's house with super nice designs and high tech stuff. Even the garbage is high tech! The house is still in progress but the additions are seriously amazing! Like this skylight thing. I'm super tired, but I love it here! It's also funny because they think I'm super tall ;)) But seriously. He's the coolest person ever. Dad and I love and respect this guy. Oh yeah! We went to Stanford! Beautiful campus! Dream school :)) 11:12 A.M. Friday the 13th! Yikes! Flying back today. I'm not superstitious so whatever. Our flight is at 10 P.M. We passed by the Winchester House and I want to go but I heard it's way overpriced and lame ish. Dad won't let me go because he thinks I'll get posessed. Haha. We were planning on going to San Fran, but we're back at my relatives! I don't mind though :) One of them made flowers out of straws and egg cartons! WOAH.

7/14/12
FREAKING GOT HOME AT 3 A.M. rawrrr. So tired... I got a letter from Howard though :). Made my day! Wrote back. I also started one page of AP US... threw the book after that. I got the format and everything to post, but I'm waiting for photos from my Daddio so yuppers. It will be a while before this actually posts...
But it's nice being home. The feeling is amazing. So comfy. OCD is not your friend when traveling.

Now here's a video to brighten up everyone's day!

LAST DAY OF SCHOOL.

HALLELUJAH. PRAISE THE LORD. SCHOOL IS OVER. I'll miss Vas super duper much though :((. I have Street next year and I'll be sure to visit Linder all the time... Which I actually did today after school! I'll explain, no worries.
So school was super short and super long in a way. But after school Maya, Juli, Ha-Yoon, Madi, Kyle, and I went downtown. It was fun. :)) We ate at Cascadia, went to the Farmer's Market, and the docks. We met some... interesting guys on the DASH bus... They're the kind of people that I would punch in the face if I could. We all died at Maya's house from exhaustion and watched Just Go With It. Afterwards, I went home and such. Then I wanted to go running so I dragged Corey, Maya, Ha-Yoon, and Madi to go running. Before we went running, Winston frenched me. Ew. We died after running around the school and my neighborhood :D. Then we saw Linder's daughter running and then we stalked her to Linder's hosue! We hung out with Linder and she was super nice to us. It was fun! She's so funny! I love her! On the way back to my house, we visited Tracy. I'm so tired. I'm just going to lie down here and die on the couch now. Hello, Summer.
This is out of order... Oh well. Too lazy. Super tired. yups.

New phone from an amazing father and Father's Day!

I got the DROID RAZR as a surprise! My dad is so awesome. I was due for an upgrade and Dad got a good deal on it :)). I heart my daddy! It's been nice having a phone instead of just stressing about finals. I got used to the touch screen super fast which is weird. I'm actually typing this on my phone! I pimped the phone out with a bunch apps and music! I'm going to be selling my iPod soon. I got the equalizer app and the music sounds so amazing! Speaking of music. I am so nervous for my piano recital tomorrow that I'm shaking right now! On the bright side, Dad loves the Sounders jacket we got him for Father's Day! Thanks for being the best Daddy ever and not just because of a phone. But for being there for me whenever I was down and for being secretly proud of me even though you won't admit it.

Keeping a good GPA sucks. Congrats class of '12.

Finals have been killing me. I don't have time to do anything. On top of that, I have to run and do my own like musical related shindigs. There's seriously not enough time in a day to do anything. We've been watching Schindler's List in Linder's class. It's such a good movie, but not one I'll watch again... I was bawling. On the bright side, I'm so happy for my alumni friends :)). You guys will all do great things in life!

<3

Graduation explorers.

Brit, Brit.

Ellie :)

Kareeennn!

She <3s me.

My buddos :)

Kindra!

My other half.

hahahhaa

Neighbor!

So proud of him!

Hayes :)

LEAAAAAA.

She's so cute.

P.S. Karen and Emma sounded AMAZING singing For Good from Wicked.

STRESS.

EVERYTHING IS STRESSFUL. LIFE IS STRESSFUL. SCHOOL IS STRESSFUL. HOME IS STRESSFUL. ACTIVITIES ARE STRESSFUL.
As you can probably tell, I'm very stressed out. School has been nuts. So many problems too and I'm not talking about at school either. I've been trying desperately to keep my semester 4.0. This upcoming week... I have something to do every day. Involving piano, choir concert, tennis banquets, volunteering, working on the house we're renting out, family crap, link crew stuff, XC, meetings, and GAHHHHHH. So stressed :(.
Bee Tee Dubs. I'll gonna miss the seniors so I'm gonna hang out with them all... SOMEHOW. :(

Monday: Volunteering, Tennis Banquet, Grandparents
Tuesday: Link Crew Meeting, Piano
Wednesday: Cross Country, seeing Westboro, NHS dinner
Thursday: Volunteering, Choir Concert
Friday: HALLELUJAH, PRAISE THE LORD.
The times are all super close to each other and that's not including music practicing, working out/training for cross country (besides practices), and HOMEWORK.
Here are the photos from some running adventures.