wonderfullnessSooooo friday was grad night and it was pretty much awesome. Lisa and I went straight to Kirsten's after school where we took naps and showers and then headed right back to berkeley. There was a nice picnic on the mound where we stopped to take some horrible pictures, and then we got on the bus to go. Everyone was complaining about the length of the drive, but it was really just about the same time it takes for me to get to school, so i didn't think it was too long. Lisa and i talked the whole way. it makes me really sad that she is leaving so soon. We are a lot alike and i'm going to miss a good friend when she leaves. It figures though, i always get in tight with the germans.
Anyways, once we were in Disney World it took us another good hour to find a parking space. that was pretty much the worse part. but from the time we finally got off the bus on it was awesome. i guess there wasn't enough room to bring everyone in through the front gates, because they took us backstage and brought us through an entrance i recognized from my time at film camp there. they were blowing the chemical fog by the pounds, probably to hide the trailers and trash cans, and had loads of cool lighting effects as we walked in. after we got past the wall of lazers and smoke and through the security checkpoint, the group split pretty fast. i didn't see another berkeley person for a couple of hours. but i'm not sincerely complaining.
My little group and i went straight to tomorrowland and jumped on the line for space mountain. at the time the wait said 50 minutes (it was later advertising 2 hours), but the line was constantly moving and it ended up being more like 20 minutes. all the rides were a lot better than i had remembered. of course, this is probably due to my newly cured fear of roller coasters.
When we got out of space mountain teddy geiger was playing just outside. along with teddy geiger, fall out boy, fefe dobson, omarion and marco rodriguez were all playing at different places and times around the park and to be completely honest, i wasn't all that interested at first. i wanted to revert back to my childhood for a night of dumbo-riding, tea cup-swirling bliss. but Kirsten was in love with teddy gieger and insisted we watch for just a few minutes. we ended up watching the entire set and basically, i'm in love. not only were his songs good but he was super dreamy and a great performer. he was also probably the only guy there not lip-syncing. he kept singing over at lisa, kirsten and i (or at least we like to think so) and pretty much had us under his spell the whole time. after he finished we decided we had to meet him, so we dragged the rest of our group to the side of the stage to wait for him to come out. at first there was a big group of girls there too, but after about 15 minutes or so, and an announcement of an autograph signing for later that night, most of them floated away. but an autograph, i guess, wasn't good enough for us, because we stayed. we made friends with one of the security guys and asked how we might have a better chance of meeting him, and he directed us to stand at a certain place and told us to wait. we could see him being interviewed by the disney channel or something behind the stage, and about 10 minutes later he came out with a microphone and cameras rolling in tow. we had the perfect view of him, but i was too dumbfounded to snap a few pictures. good thing kirsten did. he stopped right in front of us, where the cameras had drawn attention and the group of girls had once again grown, all screaming at the top of their lungs except for myself who was too star struck to do anything. the security guard we had made friends with pointed at us and suddenly i found my voice. teddy looked right at me and smiled his heartbreaking smile, and i asked if i could get a picture. he said yes and michelle, kirsten and i jumped in. for an entire minute he had his arm around me and was talking to me as we posed for the thousands of cameras my friends had. the tv camera was also taping us. it all felt very glamourous and surreal. so much so, in fact, that i can't remember anything i said to him or vise versa. after what seemed like too short a time the camera man said he had to go, and so he smiled and thanked us and went on. it turns out we were the only girls in the park that got a picture with him!
after that we were quite happy and so we bounced from ride to ride with no interest in any of the other bands playing until 1am, when teddy was doing an autograph signing. we got in line at 12:45 and only had to wait a little bit once he got inside. i chatted up another security guard in the line. he was british and really cool and laughed at us for our 'lack of decency.' he asked us who 'that guy was.' he was a funny guy. when i got to the front of the line they wouldn't let us take anymore pictures and i couldn't think of anything to say. so i kinda just spat out a "HI!" he smiled and he looked tired and said he recognized me from before. i was on cloud nine and just had enough time to tell him, once again, how much i enjoyed his show before his publicist ushered me out.
we ate greasy burgers and fries and brownies after that and went about the rest of the night in giggles. it took almost an hour to get back to the parking lot around 4 where my dad was waiting for me and lisa. phil's parents were visiting and had left for disney world the night before. we went back to the hotel and slept until 2, where we then went down to the bakery and got big sandwiches and muffins and talked about the strangeness of berkeley boys. thats another reason i hate to see lisa go. she's the only one other than me who agrees that there is something fishy about those guys. anyway, we than decided to make the most of our time and go the MGM at four, but first stopped at the general store to get some neccessities we had forgotten.
i bought myself a new mini stick of deoderant. i know you wanted to know that. but that one little stick brought back a load of memories from this summer. i had also forgotten my deoderant when i had come for my film camp last summer, and they must sell the same stick in all the disney stores because the one i got on saturday smelt exactly the same. and you know what they say about smell and the senses and stuff. anyways, between the smell of this deoderant and going back to MGM, where we filmed most of the movies, i was constantly either in a fit of giggles or tears over random memories that kept popping into my head as i revisited my old haunts. lisa was awesome about listening to every one of them, and we talked a lot about our best summer memories and how strange it is to go back and how people change. i thought a lot about a boy i met last summer, that i hadn't talked to or thought about in a little while, and as soon as we got back to the room that evening i tried to call him, but my cell phone died the moment i pressed dial. oh the memories. summer romances are the best and the worst at the same time. perhaps i will write about the ones i've had in another entry.
on sunday morning we went to a character breakfast with alice in wonderland, mary poppins, tigger and winnie the pooh. it was fun to stuff our faces and get all giddy when a new character came around just like when we were kids.
i love disney world.
then we came home and i went to target straightaway to buy teddy geiger's cd, which i have been playing nonstop ever since.
what a weekend.
