{"id":1344,"date":"2016-02-05T11:58:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T19:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rachellefordyce.com\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2016-02-09T16:22:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T00:22:33","slug":"a-fun-kick-off-to-another-year-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rachellefordyce.com\/creative-inspiration\/2016\/02\/a-fun-kick-off-to-another-year-of-me\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fun Kick-Off to Another Year of Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Disneyland<\/a><\/p>\n

“Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!”<\/em>
\n~ Dr. Seuss<\/em><\/p>\n

As I mentioned recently in a recent blog post (“A Year In The Life of Me<\/a>“), I’d like to start chronicling — a mixture of writing personal memoirs, journaling, and sharing various thoughts — about my life for a year, from my most recent birthday until the next. And, I’d like to do the majority of this here on my blog.<\/p>\n

Well, my birthday was just earlier this week! …Let the journaling begin!!<\/p>\n

In the morning the day before my birthday, Steve suggested we take an impromptu trip to Disneyland to celebrate my birthday. We had already been to Disneyland a couple times pretty recently, but despite that being the case, we decided on the spur of the moment to go again. It would definitely be a fun way to celebrate a birthday!<\/p>\n

Over the course of just a couple hours or so, Steve got an oil change for his car, I secured an Airbnb<\/a>, a load of laundry was washed and dried, we packed, and were off!<\/p>\n

We stayed in Anaheim for two nights and spent two full days at Disneyland. We both had a really fun time! I barely took any pictures, though. I only took a few shots of Sleeping Beauty’s Castle, since it looks so pretty lit up at night, which is showing at the top of this blog.<\/p>\n

Here’s a pic that Steve took of me on the Tea Cup ride at night:
\n\"rachelle<\/a>(I Instagrammed<\/a> it.)<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the nightly fireworks were cancelled on my birthday as well as the day after, apparently due to the velocity of the winds at higher elevations. Even though I had already seen the firework display during one of our recent visits, I was looking forward to seeing them again because I don’t seem to ever tire of fireworks — especially if they are well choreographed and set to a moving musical score. …But oh well! Que sera, sera!<\/p>\n

Steve and I had split the driving time of the road trip. I like to drive the portion between Vegas and Barstow, leaving the heavier L.A. freeway traffic to Steve. He grew up in L.A., so he’s a lot more used to it than I am; although I have driven it on my own at least once, however, when I had taken a solo driving trip from LAX to Vegas due to the rescheduling of a flight. …There aren’t many places in Canada that have such large freeways, let alone the traffic — the population of California alone is more than that of all of Canada!<\/p>\n

At any rate, we drove back to Vegas last night after the park closed. I probably have ten days or less before I travel again. My father is spending a little in time Arizona with his wife, so I may rent a car and drive over for a brief visit. But even if I don’t, I believe I’ll be leaving the U.S. soon and traveling next to Mexico; I’ve actually\u00a0never been there before, so visiting Mexico will be a first for both me AND Steve!<\/p>\n

After that, who knows… my plans and life are a bit up in the air right now. Hopefully journaling will help me figure things out. Wish me luck!<\/p>\n

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p.s. If anyone is curious to try Airbnb<\/a> and hasn’t yet, let me know, and I’ll send you an invite with a discount for your first booking!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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