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This past week I was able to go to California with my wonderful friends! ROAD TRIP!!! Who doesn't love a good long drive in the car listening to the best summer jams and laughing with some close girl friends?? I made a playlist for the drive (it was 14 hours worth of music... you could say I was pretty excited). Not to brag but I am pretty proud of this playlist, it was very versatile. From Disney, Throwbacks, Indie, Pop, Country, Rock, all the works. We sang, slept and chatted. 12 hours never had gone by so fast! This was a pretty spontaneous trip and all came together in a matter of weeks. Meg and Sierra bought their 1D tickets earlier in the year, but Whit and I wanted to tag along! After my study abroad, Whit and I were talking about how we really wanted to go! So badly. So a couple weeks before we left, Whit and I bought our tickets and planned this kick butt trip!

Our trip, with the help of some amazing people, was a great success! We went to Disneyland, the beach, and the main event... ONE DIRECTION CONCERT!!! It was a good mix of relaxation, excitement and foooooood.

Stuck in traffic, naturally you stick your head out the window

I felt like fate, or something, was definitely on our side. It was the 60th Anniversary at Disneyland, so there were a lot of amazing decorations and celebrations during the day! Once you walk into the park you instantly drop about 10 years of your age. It's all the magic that Disneyland possess.

It all started with a mouse

Her day was made!

Peter Pan. Earlier in the day we were talking about how you never ever see Peter Pan out and about because he is always running around. As we were turning the corner into Fantasyland, Whit shouts "There he is!" and what do you know? Peter Pan was standing and taking pictures with some other people. So of course we have to take advantage of the amazing opportunity that has presented itself, we start quickly walking toward him. But that Pan is a sneaky kid... He just took off running! I mean like full speed! He was hoping stairs and dodging people and tables and he was off! So of course we took off after him! There is no way we were letting him go now, we were so close! Sadly we missed him, but after riding some rides we found him again! He wasn't getting away this time. We finally caught up to him!

After meeting Pan, we had to venture around Disney some more! Meeting more characters and eating a churros and screaming our lungs out!

My ENTIRE world was made

WE MET THE DEVINE'S!

But first....

Hey it's 10.. let's ride Bear River Rapids!

"Say boys"

pc: Meggy (xoxo)

Disney was a complete success! It was seriously the best Disney trip by far. I need to go there more often. I mean the drive isn't too right?? So it's fine!

ONEEEEEE DIRECTIONNNNNNN

 

They are seriously the best  performers! I was crying the whole time. What a great hour and a half of my life. After the concert, since Meg and Sierra were sitting somewhere else, we had a dance party by the car. It was unbelievable! People would get out of their cars to dance with us and talk to us! One Directions really does bring people together. It was.... better than words. *winky face*

Chi-O til you die-O

This trip was spectacular. Full of good eats, laughs. music, tears, and fangirling. Thank you girls for the laughs and for loving those beautiful British Boys as much as I do! Let's do it again sometime, okay??

Until next time,
-O

no one's as irish as barack obama.

Confused about the title? Ask any Irishman or woman and they will tell you that our president is as Irish as they come. They say everyone is Irish, and you know what? I am okay with that! The Irish are amazingly nice people, with lovely accents, beautiful faces and lots of hearty food. It was a grand ol'time. When we first arrived we had one mission in mind. We may be twenty years old and in our second year of college but Chan and I looooove One Direction. (sorry 'bout it tweens but those boys are ours.) As some of you may know that Niall is from Ireland, and his favorite restaurant is Nando's. So there was our mission--- FIND NANDO'S. And that we did. 

Thank you Niall, you beautiful man you. 

It. Was. Delicious. So whenever you are in England or Ireland... check out Nando's. I promise you no disappointment. We continued to walk around and take in the beautiful, green city.

Trinity College. Isn't it gorgeous?

They drive on the other side of the road. I was wigging out.

Something that was so peachy about Dublin was they spoke English! Finally!!!!! We could understand everything that was going on! We decided to celebrate the fact that we didn't look like bumbling idiots because we could finally understand the language. What was something we were craving badly that we haven't done in months?? The movies! We figured a good way to celebrate was to see a movie. We saw Cinderella. Okay lads and ladies, if you haven't seen it yet, finish this post and then go see it now!! Honestly it was darling! I loved it. Saturday treated us with the Cliffs of Moher, Galway and the food festival at Galway. 

I told you they love him.

O'Brien's Castle. Chan was stoked

"I'm going to look like I'm falling and send it to my mom"

Twisted chips on a stick. My new love

We had traditional Irish food.. so lots of potatoes. Good thing we walk a lot else I would be a billion times heavier. Can we just take a minute to talk about the how nice the Irish people are?? We were seated at the Duke's Pub and immediately our waiter, this darling man,  was there and asking where we were from and if we were in Dublin on holiday. He called us loves and patted my shoulder and continued to chat with us. Like it was just so nice, and literally every place we went the people were just oozing kindness. We should live every day live we are Irish, that's all I'm saying. 

Sunday was Easter and we had heard about a parade but we had a walking tour all lined up. We went to find the walking tour but it was cancelled for the parade! So this must have been some huge parade right, and it was!!! It was the Commemorative Day Parade, so we got to see a bit of Ireland history. Then we did our own walking tour and saw St. Patrick's Cathedral, Trinity College, and just random stuff! Our hotel hooked us up with a swanky lunch! It was quite the Easter, but I did miss being home with my family and getting an Easter basket. 

St. Patty's Place

That's on fire! Talk about scary. 

Hoppy Easter Every-Bunny

So our moms sent us an Easter package and included were these bunny mouths. They are like ring pops but a bunny mouth on the end. So we decided on Easter we'll take a cute picture and send it to our moms as a thank you and cause we're super cute like that. But every picture we took we couldn't stop laughing! They looked super weird, and people kept walking past. So we waited until no one was ahead of us, and hurried and snapped our picture. That resulted in this lovely couple photobombing our precious Easter picture. But it's spring and love is in the air, so we'll let it slide. 

Ireland surely supplied us with plenty of green pictures and amazing times. Dublin, you'll be added to me list of places to revisit. You are loved and missed.

For your enjoyment.

Until next time,

-O