In effort to be spontaneous and fun, Natalie and I went to Disneyland over the weekend. I wanted to cheer her up and I thought this would be a great way to do it. At least Disneyland didn’t burn down. Normally I’m a planner. I don’t like to do things on the spur of the moment. But someone gave me the idea that getting married at Disneyland would be fun. I was looking at the website for this when I decided we should just go. But no, we did not get married there. We just went to have fun. And fun we had.
We actually left Friday night around 8 o’clock. It only takes an hour to get there. And I’d booked us a room at the Disneyland hotel. We had a really nice room and we wasted no more time checking into it. It was already getting late. But we were so excited to actually be there that we decided to walk around the place and see everything. They have a really awesome pool (that we never actually used) and Koi ponds and waterfalls. There weren’t that many people out there so it was actually sort of peaceful to just walk around holding hands while we took everything in.
But we eventually went back up to the room and decided we should sleep. We wanted to get up early so we could spend as much time as possible at the parks. They have two of them now. One park has a lot more rides and that’s the one we went to first. The California Adventure. It was awesome because they had it all decorated up for Halloween. That’s one of Natalie’s favorite holidays so I figured she’d be in heaven with all this stuff. I was right. It was so cute to see how excited she would get over everything. And she kept stopping people passing by and asking them to take our picture. She’s adorable.
All of that fun was tiring though. We spent the whole day there. But neither one of us was going to be the first to admit we were wiped out. I asked her if she was tired and she countered that with, “are you?” I was. But I told her we could stay longer if she wanted. But she agreed with me that her feet were hurting and it was time to pack it in. On the way back to the hotel though she said she felt like a party pooper. She didn’t want the fun to end just because we were tired. So I suggested to her that we go back to our room and get drunk. That’s fun. And you can do it sitting down.
She liked that idea and asked me if we were going to raid the mini bar. Fuck no. With those prices? I suggested we stop at a liquor store instead. We could buy a case of booze for the same price as two miniature bottles from the mini bar. She wanted something yummy and insisted on getting a bottle of Malibu rum. We also got pineapple juice to go along with it too. That was a tasty drink. It was so good, you didn’t even realize how much you were drinking.
Before I knew it, we were in the bathtub pretending to be pirates. You know, rum? Pirates like rum? We were drunk. What more can I say? And we were also fully clothed too. There was no water in the tub. Yet. At least until Natalie decided to turn the shower on and drench us. She said our pirate ship had hit a storm and she wanted to make it authentic. We’re a little silly, but I like it.
And of course, once our clothes were wet, we had to take them off. And that was fun too. This pirate caught himself a dirty wench. I won’t go into details. But it was a jolly good time. And once our jolly good time was over with, we decided to turn on my laptop because I brought it with me. Yes, I’m pathetically addicted to my computer. I hate going anywhere without it. You never know when you might want to look at something. And they had free internet access. I planned ahead. But I honestly wasn’t going to bring out the computer. It was Natalie’s idea.
We’d had a conversation earlier about those cute little dolls she likes to make. And she had introduced me to the wonderful fun of making my own Yahoo avatar for chatting purposes. I resisted the urge to make a tiny cartoon replica of myself for awhile, but I finally caved in. It was fun, damn it! And I told her that I’d discovered that you could make your avatar dress up for Halloween. She wanted in on the fun too. So this is what we did.
We laid on the bed together and made an avatar. Are we dorks or what? But making an avatar while drunk is even more fun than usual. At one point her avatar had a mohawk and a pet shark. And we discovered that if you clicked these certain smiley face buttons on the control panel, your avatar would make faces! How cool is that? (I know Tizzygirl is going to love hearing about this, my fellow avatar junkie!)
But Natalie’s avatar made this one face that I could only describe as a ‘what the fuck?’ face. It was hilarious. And since she was drunk, Natalie found me funnier than usual. I like that too. Her laugh is contagious. Plus, she’s so damn cute when she laughs I just want to kiss her all over. And I did that too. In the end, I think her avatar ended up on a beach with a pet punk rock rubber ducky. I’ll have to look at it again because we were pretty far gone by the time we finally saved it and turned the computer off.
We were both exhausted and ready to pass out by this point. But I’ve never had so much fun. We spent the whole day at Disneyland, and yet my favorite memory of the trip is lying in our room making avatars. Does this mean we’re weird? I guess it doesn’t matter since we’re evenly matched on the weird scale. We like the same stuff. And it’s awesome because I never feel like I have to try very hard to keep her entertained. She’s amused by the smallest of things. It’s such a sweet quality about her.
And when we were laying in bed, barely conscious, she said she didn’t want to go to sleep yet because then the day would be over. And it was such a perfect day, she never wanted it to end. I felt the same way. But sleep was calling my name. I couldn’t help it. But then she had to get up to pee. That’s one of the hazards of drinking too much before bedtime. And she made me promise not to fall asleep without her. How cute is she? But when she did come back, we both passed out. It couldn’t be helped.
We were up fairly early Sunday morning though. And without hangovers! That was amazing. The drinking gods must have been smiling down upon us. And we wanted to get a start on Disneyland before it was too late. We had a very good time there as well. We didn’t really see everything though. We skipped a lot of the rides and just walked around. But we got to see the Star Wars ride, which is my personal favorite. And they usually have a Stormtrooper and Darth Vader outside greeting people and taking pictures. I’d been there last summer before I met her and I had my picture taken with them. And now we have a matching one of her too! Trust me when I say for a Star Wars nerd, it’s hot to see your fiancée posing with Darth Vader.
But we did run into a little trouble on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. I already mentioned our lusty pirate tryst in the room. Well, we were fooling around and joking on the ride about how fun it would be to have sex in there. Talk about authentic. But we discussed this quietly enough so no one else heard us. We were whispering. But since we were in the back of the boat and no one was watching us, I did kiss her. And my hand did go right to her boob. What can I say? It’s a natural reaction. We didn’t get carried away though. Honest! It was enjoyable, for sure, but it was mostly a joke. We were laughing about it.
When the ride came back to port though, some guy in a uniform came up to us and told us to behave ourselves. He saw us on the security monitor. Oops. They have a security monitor? I had no idea! But he reminded us that the Magic Kingdom was a family environment and we needed to control our lusty pirate fantasy. That was mortifying. I didn’t think anyone saw us! It was dark in there! And we were surrounded by pirates. I’m sure they’ve seen worse. They’re pirates. They’ve lived jolly good lives full of debauchery. But I guess the Disney pirates are more wholesome than that.
After we both turned red and busted up laughing, we apologized and ran into the gift shop to hide. We felt like morons. But we were happy morons, at least. All in all, this was an amazing little weekend trip and I’m so glad we took it. I guess sometimes it’s fun to be spontaneous. The two of us are such creatures of habit that it’s nice to break out of the mold once in awhile. Plus, Natalie needed some extra fun because she’s been stressed lately. I think this trip did the trick. What better way to cheer someone up than to take them to happiest place on earth?
-evil_twin LA
