can I go back where it's warm?

wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Florida was awesome! I miss the palm trees though. and I miss being warm.

we watched so many movies on the bus I can hardly remember them all now...on the way there we watched "School of Rock" (stupid), "Coyote Ugly" (better than I expected), "Emperor's New Groove" (listened to music through it), "Billy Madison" (not bad), and "Matrix" (slept through most). on the way home we watched "Mr Deeds" (slept through it), The Goonies (listened to music and dezed through it), "Bringing Down the House" (pretty stupid), and "Finding Nemo" (ignored it). and I know I'm forgetting some. oh well.

Magic Kingdom was really cool, for all that I really expected not to like it. I got Robin Hood's autograph! lol. went on Pirates of the Caribbean (duh), Haunted Mansion (sweet), and Peter Pan's Flight (very cool), and also walked through the Swiss Family Robinson treehouse. I spent a lot of time trying to track down Peter Pan, but never did find him. he was in the parade at the very end of the day, but I didn't have my camera out, which I'm still kicking myself for. if anybody that's reading this got a good picture of him, I want a copy!

Epcot was decent...we spent the whole time in the part where it's a bunch of other countries. spent lots of time in Japan for Rachel G, Germany for Loren, and Britain for me. I got a picture of me in a British phone booth! also got Mary Poppins' autograph, lol.

MGM was pretty cool I guess. the Star Wars ride was awesome! the great movies ride was pretty cool as well, very relaxing (which is nice when you've been on your feet three days in a row). we watched the Beauty and the Beast show, which was pretty nifty. saw the Muppet 3D Vision thing, very cool. got Kermit the Frog's autograph, which is actually a stamp because his fingers are too long to hold a pen.

symphonic and concert bands each got 2nd place in their respective categories, orchestra got first. still trying to figure out what the judges were smoking.

and now, one of Jennie's random lists because they're fun...

Things I liked:
~Peter Pan!
~Pirates of the Caribbean ride
~shiny wands
~pretty castle that I took a zillion pictures of
~listening to Schuster act like a little kid on the way to Magic Kingdom
~Haunted Mansion ride
~Peter Pan's Flight ride
~Star Wars
~watching Schuster sing in the House of Blues
~not actually spending any money on food at Disney
~fuzzy Ewok and Winnie the Pooh
~Beauty and the Beast
~random British people at Disney
~England in Epcot
~palm trees
~leaves on trees
~warmth
~sun!
~hardly any sunburn
~FastPass things in Disney
~staying up talking until almost 1 the last night in the hotel
~Random Confused Guy!!!!!!!!
~treehouse
~symphonic band kids figuring out songs on their mouthpieces/reeds
~getting my picture with Robin Hood

Things I didn't like:
~bus ride too long
~not watching good movies on the bus
~not sleeping on the bus
~sunburned scalp
~waiting in lines
~smelly bus
~McNabs

I slept until 10:30 today and have done nothing but shower and unpack. my room still looks a bit like a disaster area. I think I'll do my calc homework and fold laundry and ignore the rest of my homework cuz I can do it over spring break.

I just remembered

another one of the movies we watched on the bus was "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"

*shudders*

it isn't fair

so apparently my brother got to hang out with all the cool kids part of the day at MGM. I wish I could hang out with them. but I don't know any of them well enough.

I don't get it. my brother doesn't know them that well either, he's just friends with Ben. so he's automatically accepted I guess.

and then there's me. I guess I'm just not cool enough.

but I really don't understand. I mean, I've got so many...well I guess you could call them connections...to those kids, but I still just don't fit in. I mean, I talk to Andy a lot, I've known Ben since he was like 5, Katie comments in this journal, Josh and I talk online sometimes, Jenny Amble is good friends with other Josh, Steve is in my section in band, I talk to Chelsea sometimes, I've known Danelle since middle school...so why don't I fit in? it doesn't make any sense at all. and it's really depressing. because these are the kids that I see at school and see them always doing something fun, hanging out, and there's always so many of them...and I just get this horrible wistful feeling becuase that's the kind of friendships I wish I had. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love the friends I've got, it's just that those kids...they're the awesome ones. they always seem to be having fun, going to each other's houses, whatever...and I sit there wishing I was a part of it.