The Wonderous Thanksgiving

Ok so if you didn't know this before, you will know it now, I love Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving in my opinion is the best holiday that we have, yes Christmas is wonderful and gives us time to remember Christ but everyone has gotten so caught up in the presents that it has started to loose its meaning. Where as Thanksgiving, there is no present giving, just great food to celebrate our thanks to the Lord for all he has done for us. I have the great opportunity of being able to celebrate thanksgiving three times this year, once with my moms side of the family once at my sisters house and of course once here at home, that means I get three times stuffing, three times the yams, and of course three times the amount of pie that I can eat... Now you can see why I like this Holiday so much because it allows us to eat, eat and eat some more. But the food isn't the only reason I like Thanksgiving, I also like the whole idea of devoting a day to being Thankful, and over this past year my list of things to be grateful for has grown tremendously. So I hope that you can all remember to be grateful for something, even if its a little thing, you could even say that you are grateful for me ;) or not. Perhaps maybe you can find someone to tell how grateful you are that they are in your life, you never know who might need to hear it. Hope you all have a Wonderful Thanksgiving.

Back

So last night I finally made it back to Visalia. I had a wonderful trip with my dad, after DisneyWorld we went to Albuquerque, we were able to see several old friends and I honestly don't remember a time where people where so pleased to see me. The looks on their faces, and the pure happiness of us showing up on their door step was priceless and the joy in being able to catch up, it was like the 6 years since we left had never happened. We were lucky in that everyone that we wanted to see was home when we went to see them so we didn't miss anyone.
After Albuquerque we traveled to AZ where a lot of my family lives and we had our family Thanksgiving early, I love Thanksgiving so I think it is great that I get to celebrate it twice this year. We were able to see most of the family, and most importantly we were able to enjoy ourselves for the most part. On Friday we had a Girls shopping trip to Last Chance, which is a busy, mean place to shop, but you get good deals. But for those of you who know me well know that I don't do well shopping, and I don't do well with lots of people in a small place, but I made it through 3 hours of shopping there and even went back in when they decided I didn't buy enough shoes. By the time we left the store, without deciding to go back, we had 25 different pairs of shoes for the 6 women that had gone. I believe I doubled the number of shoes that I own and wear... and I don't even like shoes.
I really enjoyed every part of my trip but I am glad not to be traveling anymore. I am still not sure how I feel about being back in California but this is where I am at least until May.

People Watching

So I am definitely a people watcher it makes things nice when I have way to much time to be thinking. I have gotten into the habit, especially when I am in places like Disneyland to watch people and see if I can figure out stuff about them. For example when there was a big group at one of the shows we watched at Disneyworld this week and I spent probably 5 minutes trying to figure things out, the nice thing is if I don't get it figured out by the time we disappear into the crowd I can just find another group. It doesn't matter if I am right or wrong, it just gives me something fun to do. So be careful you never know what I might be trying to figure out.

A Detour

On my way back to California my dad and I made a nice big detour to DisneyWorld. Since I had never been I was extremely excited to go. We spent 4 and a half days traveling to the future, the past, around the world, to mars, and to the home of all our fairytale friends. There are 4 different parks that make up DisneyWorld and my favorite was the Animal Kingdom. We spent most of Monday there, it isn't a huge park and it doesn't take you long to do everything there but it was very nice, it is a park that is somewhat like a zoo, it has lots of animal reserves on it so you can see lots of different types of animals, and to make it amazing it all takes place in Disney. There was also an amazing show with people performing the songs of the Lion King, it was the best show we saw and I could have watched it over and over again.
There is also the Hollywood studies of Disney, this was probably my least favorite park it was mostly filled with shows and only about 3 were worth watching. and they only had 2 rides the were worth going on. It did have this really cool sit down restaurant where you go and sit down in cars that are set up as a drive in movie theater, that was a different but very cool place to eat.
We spent probably a little part of each day at the Epcot park. This park almost literally takes you all the way around the world. It has little food booths from different countries around the world and little shops with items from different countries. Epcot also takes you to the future and you can travel to mars. A really fun park with lots of fun stuff to do.
Last but not least, The Magic Kingdom, The Magic Kingdom is Disneyworld's Disneyland basically, now Disneyland is much better but it is still pretty good. Some of the rides were a bit better then the ones in California but they had a lot of attractions that were not anywhere close to being as good.
So it was a great birthday present and I am glad that I was able to go, but now I am ready to be home. Just a little over a week left and I will be back to California.

Saying Goodbye

So I am absolutely horrible with goodbyes. If I was good at not telling people things then I would be happy to just like disappear and not have to worry about the awkwardness of the whole ordeal. A week ago today was my last day at work and it was a lot harder to do then what I thought it would be. Over the past 7 months that I worked there I have become extremely attached to my residents and even though I didn't care for cleaning all day everyday it still worried me to be leaving my floors cleaning in the hands of someone else. I realized my last week that I have become very OCD when it came to my floor and how it was cleaned so it was a hard week because I was training someone else on my floor and she didn't clean the same way I did. But I can't worry about that now. It was hard to say goodbye to the residents that actually knew who I was, half of them never really remembered or even knew who or what I did, but the ones who did it were hard to say goodbye too. I had so many sweet residents and they were always so good to me. I really hope that I made the right in leaving and going back to California, I have been really worried about whether or not I have been making the right choices and hope that I am on the right path. So far it still feels right.
It was also hard to leave the Losee Family, I am extremely grateful to them for putting up with me for 9 months and will miss them a lot.