New Year's Day
Didn't do a whole lot: got up around 9am (which is really late for me, but then again we were out til 2am or so last night), did some laundry, went with Curtis to get his mom a bday present (espresso machine), then came home and read some manga, watched some anime, and lay down for a little nap around 3pm. Well, it's 9pm now! Boy was I surprised when I got up to find that I'd taken a 6 hour nap!!! I guess I really needed it after last night. Feet are still sore. I have pretty big blisters on my "problem" toes (4th toe on each foot); hope those go away soon. Should have worn my toe socks! They really do help keeping my problem toes separated and preventing blisters like these. Oh well, live and learn.
Speaking of which, never doing the disneyland new year's eve thing again. Well, definitely never staying til midnight, that's for sure. Everything was pretty cool til about 8pm, because the crowds started gathering for the 9pm fireworks and after that it was totally packed chaos. If you didn't stake out a spot on Main St hours before (which we didn't), you're relegated to being part of the wandering masses that can't stop anywhere and can only go one way in a certain route around the park. We were able to stop near the Dumbo ride and chill for the 9pm fireworks, but for the midnight one, forget it--we finally had to force our way behind some ropes on Main St so we could stop walking! And then the irony of all ironies: it got so foggy we couldn't even see the midnight fireworks!! The ones near the castle we could make out, but the ones in the background that go off near Toon Town, forget it--we'd see the sky light up and go boom but no sparkles...so weird. Then of course there's the massive throng heading for the parking lots afterwards, and then getting out. So glad we live so close--once we got out of the damn parking lot it only took us like 15 minutes to get home. It was super-foggy, though, very scary.
*sigh* Well it was certainly a memorable new year's eve. I think I'll be OK with staying in for another ten years or so. We usually never go out for NYE so it's kind of funny we decided to do this thing, but I think we were ready to do something a little different. Hope you all had a good new year's day, and let's hope things get better in 2009!
