Just got back from Disneyland with Jonathan, Ambika and CJ, it’s 2am, I’m deathly ill but I’m smiling from ear to ear right now. I always have the best time in the world when I’m in the company of these three individuals. We must have spent every moment of our time together laughing hysterically. I’m so thankful to have met everyone from ZShape because they have showed me proof of friendship in its purest form. Today, I left work at 6pm and went straight to Disneyland. We didn’t get there until about 8pm. Upon arriving to the Disneyland Resort we headed straight to the Storytellers Cafe located at the Grand Californian Hotel. Tonight we were celebrating a milestone, Jonathan, Ambika, and our friend Vivian all entered the ImagiNations competitions this past week and finally we were getting together to celebrate such a grand achievement. It was months of stress, hard work, procrastination, laughs, tears and all around jubilation. We decided we wanted to eat someone fancy thus the idea to eat at Storytellers. Upon arriving, we saw this grand buffet with the most delicious looking macaroni n’ cheese I have ever seen, freshly carved turkey breast and the most decadent array of deserts. Sounds great right? Well not when you’re on a diet. I was in food hell but thankfully my calorie counting ways had allotted me enough wiggle room to eat a yummy dinner. We decide to be really sneaky and out of the 4 of us, only 2 actually purchased the buffet. I spent my entire dinner sneaking bites from CJ’s plate, handing bananas to Ambika to stuff in her bag and picking at Jonathan’s plate. It was quite the rush even though I’m sure our waitress could careless. As we sat around the table, we exchanged lots of stories, sang Friday multiple times and toasted with drinks in the end. I was tempted to break my diet which I did end up doing but I didn’t fall or crash nearly as bad as I thought I would. Go me!  After spending our time at the restaurant, we went straight to the park to celebrate #AmbikaDay in style, we headed to Space Mountain where there was a 60 minute line. I told some of my deepest and darkest stories to the cry of my days of public humiliation at the hands of speech and debate. Finally, we actually got onto the ride and it must have been my favorite Space Mountain experience in quite awhile. Once again we sang Rebecca Black’s seminal class “Friday” as well as “Born This Way” as we journeyed through the universe.

While on Space Mountain we came up with a pose that we were going to do for the photo. This is both a good and bad thing. Good because you don’t have to think of ways to be clever for the image while riding the ride but bad because you spend the entire ride preparing yourself for the photo. This particular pose dictate John and I to cross arms with one another to create a human hash tag. Our timing was just a wee bit off and we spent the last minute of the ride awkwardly trying to keep our arms aligned for the photo. We ultimately succeeded in our mission! We spent the rest of the night cruising the various shops on Main Street then said our goodbyes in the parking lot. It was one of those really laid back Disneyland trips in which you have no desire to go on the ride but your just so happy to be in good company on a beautiful night at the happiest place on earth. I can’t even begin to describe how much I adore the three individuals I spent the night with. They made me forget about my worries and fill my belly with lots of laughter. We missed having Lauren there who decided to go to a college strip show instead of hang with us. Next time. Next time.

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