Well, my 21st birthday was magical. About 30 people called me to wish me happy birthday! How special am I that people are thinking of me? Wow. I'm lucky.
To celebrate my 21st birthday, Sluss made reservations for Mc and I to eat dinner at the Blue Bayou located conveniently in a happy little place called Disneyland : ). It was WONDERFUL.
We drove down and arrived around 12ish, prime heat time. The ticket lady was nice enough to give me a big button that said, "Happy Birthday Corrina" on it. Okay, if it is your birthday, you GO to Disneyland. It really IS the happiest place on earth!! Throughout the day, about 30 to 40 Disney Employees wished me a Happy Birthday. I felt like such a princess.
We saw "Honey I shrunk the audience", went on Star tours, Buzz Lightyear, Jungle Cruise, Matterhorn, Pirates of the Caribbean, the Tiki Room, and Indiana Jones. We saw the parade twice! Plus we saw Fantasmic and the fireworks! Our dinner was at the Blue Bayou right on the water. Sluss definitely hooked me up with the best seats in the house, (and some chocolate mousse with big chocolate coins in it, with a candle to top it off!). It was so fancy and nice. The food was super tasty. I had filet mignon with taters and veggies. YUM. Plus, wedge salad and rolls. MMMMmmmm. Dinner definitely made my 21st memorable.
You'd think this was the end of my story, but it isn't!! While we watched the parade (both times), about 15 dancer/character/d-land peeps said Happy Birthday to me.... including.... PETER PAN! He said Happy Birthday and then blew me two kisses! I felt like the luckiest girl in the WORLD. I totally had a face cramp after the parades from smiling the whole time.
Dreams really DO come true there! I know that sounds cheesy, but I don't care. By the end of the fireworks I was in tears. If you don't get tears in your eyes during the parade or fireworks or Fantasmic.... YOU HAVE NO SOUL.
Everything was so perfect, right down the the second we left. We walked out of the exit and the Disneyland exit-man said, "Happy Birthday Kid". How in the monkeys did he know how old I felt all day yesterday, with my feet hurting and my back hurting from parade sitting and Disneyland walking.... I thought I was so old that already the arthritis was setting in. Then that man made me feel so young again. Oh to feel young again.
Well it was wonderful. I'll put up some more pictures after I catch up on my sleep. We arrived back home at 2AM! We are such party people. I know this post is not very chronological or organized...but I'm old now.
By the way, I let Liann win on Buzz Lightyear.
3 comments:
You are serious old now, so take care of all those aching joints. I think Liann keeps Bengay in the medicine cabinet :)
Wait, you might not be old enough to know what that is. Well...don't eat it.
So glad you had a super day, and I would have been happy to watch you get happy smiley crampy face. Happy 21 + 1 day!
Let her win - pshaw! If you let her win, she might have beat you by a few thousand points. You got smoked!!!
Happy Birthday anyhow. Glad you guys had fun.
Oddly enough, the only time I ever went to Blue Bayou was when the Sluss parental units were kind enough to bring me along, many years ago.
You were probably 2 at the time...
There is no magic at Disneyland. They don't keep it in boxes or on shelves, it's not found in any of the shops or ticket booths, and none of the workers know when it will come.
Instead, they work all through the night making flowers grow, wiping every glass window, mirror, and counter, sweeping the stores and streets meticulously clean, checking every single light including the 1,000,000 blinkers in the trees (fact), and then wish upon the last morning star. Then they wait... they wait for that one special person who will come to the park with just enough magic in their pocket to share and make that wish come true.
On your birthday, it was you.
Each time one of them wished you "Happy Birthday" they were really saying, "Thank you... we were afraid you would never come!" Because they knew the magic had spilled out of you pocket and into the hearts of every one who came that day... and into the hearts of everyone who read this blog.
In fact, there was so much magic that you brought to the "Magic Kingdom", if you had just looked behind you on the way home, you might have seen a trail of magic streaming into the night sky like so much fairy dust.
You are our "Tink".
The Sluss Dad
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