Mood:  caffeinated

Ok, so I am really behind on my blogging!!

Sorry my few and far between readers. 

Anyway, onto posting about Kennywood.  (this may not be very detailed as it was like 2 and a half weeks ago)

 Kennywood!!!!

Ok, so every year our band takes a trip to Kennywood, it is an amusement park in Pittsburgh, PA, for those of you who don't know.  Two years ago, it was canceled due to storms.  Last year, it was on my birthday, they sang while they rode the merry-go-round.  That was sure interesting!!  It was scheduled to be on my birthday this year, but we couldn't go then, so the date was changed to August 13th.  So I got up at like 7:30, we had to be at the school by 8:45.  The ungodly hour was summer suicide!!  That was the earliest I got up the entire summer, excluding the day we went camping and the sun woke me up at 6:30, AM!!!, but that was involuntary therefore it doesn't count.  Anyway, I crawled out of bed, got dressed ate breakfast and jumped in the car.  My dad took me and we had to pick up first, Mel, who manually opened our automatic doors.  Then we picked up Sarah and Caitlin, and no I am not talking about the Kaitlyn I talk about in like every blog, this is a different Kaitlyn who didn't have a ride.   Anyway, on our way to the school, me and Mel, who sat in the back seat of my van, made funny noises right in Sarah's ears the entire way there.  Sarah gets annoyed easily, making it more funny than imagineable.  Then we got to the school and got our uniforms.  Thankfully this time Kaitlyn and I were not exiled to the front of the bus.  Anyway, I sat with Kaitlyn on the bus.  We filmed many videos, just as we did last time we went to Kennywood.  One was a documentary about the rare Kaitlyn in its natural habitat.  Another was a music video, ok it was just Jenn G. singing 7 things, which if you have never heard the song by schizophrenic Miley Cyrus is suckish yet extremely repetitive, so of course it gets stuck in your head for the rest of the day.  Then we took a short break and made fun of the song.  The next video was of me and Kaitlyn pretending to be on a roller coaster, unfortunately the bus driver heard us and started swerving saying "I heard there was a roller coaster!"  It was a very interesting bus ride. 

Then we got to Kennywood.  I left with Sarah, and Jenn R, and Kaitlyn.  Somehow my bad luck didn't set off the metal detectors and I got into the park with no problems.  Then everyone but Kaitlyn had to go to the bathroom.  We did that and Kaitlyn and Jenn wanted to go on this one ride, it is kind of like that swinging Pirate Ride that they have at every park, but it was bigger and it spun.   Me and Sarah went on the bumper cars while we waited.  Then we met back up and went on the Pirate ship ride, I am not fond of that ride because I am afraid of steepness and heights, but I lived through it.  We also went on the Music Express, the ride that they had at every park that spins really super fast and plays music.  We went on it like 10 times last year.  Then we went on the Raging Rapids.  It was my favorite ride.  We went on it twice despite Kaitlyn's wishes.  We all got soaking wet, but I was the only one smart enough to but on sandals and bring other shoes.  Therefore I was the only one who didn't complain the rest of the day that I had soaking wet shoes.  Then we went on the Thunderbolt, the second largest roller coaster in the park, (granted there are only 4 but....).  And me being scared to death of roller coasters, started flipping out when I saw the size of the drops.  Ah well, I lived through it.  Then we ate lunch at the place where we got all of our food last year (we were very repetitive last year).  I got chicken.  Then we went on the Jack Rabbit.  This is a roller coaster just like the thunderbolt but it is a little bit shorter.  I was scared to death but made it through (after all I wouldn't be writing this blog if I died).  Then we went on the Racers, I actually like this kind of ride.  I actually put my hands in the air.  It was truly amazing.  Then Kaitlyn and Jenn went on the Phantom's Revenge, the biggest roller coaster in the park.  This one was like /\/\/\/\/\, that is what it looked like, except it was steeper.  Why would someone build such a demonic structure.  While they were doing that me and Sarah went on the Music Express again.  Then we went on the Kangaroo, its this ride that spins, sends u up a ramp, then u fall like 2 feet and repeat.  It was really boring.  We went on it like 20 times last year though, so we obviously had to go on it for old times' sake.  Then Kaitlyn and Jenn got off of the ride and because she liked it so much, she went on it with Sarah instead of Jenn as planned.  Me and Jenn went on the Kangaroo, then the Wipeout, this ride that spins super fast and tilts,  it is really fun.  Then Sarah and Jenn went on the Pittsburgh Plunge, it is pretty much a log ride.  Me and Kaitlyn didn't want to get all wet though so instead we went on the Wipeout, while we were in line we saw Afton and Mel layin on the sidewalk.  We talked to them while we waited, and no we obviously didn't ask why they were laying there on the ground.  Kaitlyn thought it was boring though.  She has turned into a roller coaster liker.  Shunnnnn!!!!  And she is that bad kind of roller coaster liker that doesn't like boring rides at all.  Kaitlyn, *sigh*.  Anyway, we all met up and rode the 2nd awesomest ride in the park, The Exterminator.  The line was extremely long.  It was worth it though.  I splashed Sarah with the water that I caught that was dripping off of the Pittsburgh Plunge.  Then Sarah went to get a bottle of water out of a vending machine and it ate her money.  Vending machines do not like Sarah at all.  Oh, right the ride.  It was like an indoor Wild Mouse.  It was all dark inside.  That ride was truly awesome, wait it was better that awesome, it was awe-ALL.  Then we got off of that ride, and got food.  I got breadstix and pizza and mountain dew.  Ps, if u know me u know that I should never be allowed to have mountain dew.  Then I ate food, pizza and breadstix, to be exact.  Then I was really super thirsty, so I refilled Kaitlyn's souvenier cup with Mountain Dew.  Then we were walking back to the buses and met up with Miranda, Lindsay, and Mr Schaller, our new band director.  Mr Freeman moved to Kuwait.  I know what you are thinking.  Who moves to Kuwait?!?!?  Apparently, Mr Freeman does.  Anyway, I talked to Lindsay and Kaitlyn.  We discussed how my presense (sp?) makes people hyper.  Lindsay said that when I walked up to her she got really hyper.  I will take that as a compliment.  Then we got changed into our band uniforms.  As fun as Kennywood is, the parade sucks.  It is pretty much a bunch of little kids piercing holes in you with their horrible little eyes.  Anyway, we got all lined up.  And did I mention, trombones are in the front of the parade block now!!!!  Clarinets are finally where they are meant to be behind the drumline in the back of the band.  I mean no offense to my clarinet playing buddies, you all rock, but clarinets are breath-powered torture devices.  Same with Piccolos which were also exiled behind the drumline.  Anyway, we weren't going to start for a while so we all socialized and me and Afton quoted Powerthirst (this awesome video on Youtube) incessantly.  Then we started the parade.  It pretty much sucked.  My section leader Aleah got her wisdom teeth out so she couldn't play very well and the rest of the people pretty much forgot the music.  Then we boarded the bus to go home.  Me and Lindsay and Kaitlyn some how got started writing a song.  I am not really sure how but we did.  It is a spoof on the Fiddler on the Roof song, "If I were a Rich Man" called if I were a milk man.  Then while we were trying to record it on Kaitlyn's phone, her psychotic cousin kept calling.  He called like 40 times.  I made him really mad by calling him Darth Vader, apparently he is really proud of his stalkerishly deep voice, and he hung up.  Then we recorded the song.  Then we got back to the school.  SOB SOB. 

MANDI OUT

IF I WERE A MILKMAN BY LINDSAY, KAITLYN AND MANDI

If I were a Milk Man, na na na na na na na na na na na na na

Mood:  energetic

OK, first sorry for not blogging in so long.  I have just been very busy (I will write about those distractions above). 

Now onto the show, but I guess in this case it is a story. 

Sunday

Again, as a sacrifice to my roommates, I took a shower in the morning.  Then we all get ready and go down to breakfast, without our roomkeys (AHHH!!!).  So we go down to breakfast.  I forget my meal voucher thing and decide to go back up to our room.  But wait, there are no roomkeys.  I panic.  I go to my friends and they have to roomkeys, either.  We go find our chaperone and explain our dilemma to her.  She takes us down to the front desk and the nice lady gives us another roomkey.  ALLELUIA!!!!!!  We get into our room. 

Then we go to the waterpark inside the hotel.  First, Miranda, Kayla, Melissa, Sarah, Kaitlyn, Jenn R., and I go on your average dark body slide.  Then, we all get in line for this really awesome waterslide.  It is like half covered.  First, you get in this little raft thing that has room for 2 people.  This raft thing is sitting on a treadmill-type conveyor belt.  After you get in the raft, the guy at the top waits for the people before you to get to the bottom of the slide and then the treadmill-type thing starts moving, AS FAST AS YOU CAN IMAGINE.  It shoots you up and over this huge hill.  For a single second, you and the raft are in mid-air, weightless, waiting to hit the bottom of the slide.  Then another conveyor belt-treadmill-type thing pulls you up another hill.  The slide becomes covered as you go around a big turn.  Another drop comes, not as steep as the first, but still leaving you momentarilly weightless in the air.  You are pulled up another hill on a treadmill-thing.  Another turn comes, it gets dark and suddenly you are faced with light and another drop comes, the steepest one yet, and you are again weightless.  Another treadmill-thing, the biggest turn yet, water in your face, and you are jolted to a stop.  This waterslide was THE AWE-ALL-EST, GREATEST, STEEPEST, GREATEST (again) WATERSLIDE EVER CREATED.  Then we, (everyone except Sarah and Miranda who are still in line for the zip coaster, see above) grab tubes and go on your traditional, have to have at any waterpark, dark water slide with tubes.  Then we go to the otherside of the waterpark and get in line for one of those toilet-bowl body slides where you go down the slide, spin around this thing that looks like a toilet bowl then fall down the hole in the middle.  This slide rox (so much it gets an X).  Then we check out the wave pool and go get in line for another toilet-bowl type slide, but this one has a tube.  We wait in line for this one for probably a very worthwhile hour.  On this one, we go down a dark tube, take a big turn, big drop (weightless, you almost pee in your swimsuit, type drop), then we come into the big toilet bowl part, go around it twice, go down the hole in the middle, go into another dark tube, experience another weightless drop, then we come out of the tube and the slide is over (why does it have to end? (sob, sob) ).  Then we go into the wave pool and meet Sarah and Miranda.  I go see Megan, who is deeper in the wave pool, come back and see Kayla with some random guy who she picked up, and the rest of my friends are tackling each other.  The guy looks scared of Kayla.  I join in the tackling.  Then we all split up.  Me and a few other people go in the lazy river.  We split up even more.  I go on a few more water slides with Kaitlyn.  We all meet up again and go back up to our rooms. 

Sarah and Jenn R. go shopping with a few other people.  Kaitlyn and I go over to Nicole's room along with our hotel neighbor, Jenn G.  Jenn watches the Pens game while Nicole, Kaitlyn, and I talk about highly random things which I do not currently remember.  Kaitlyn and I decide to throw yogurt covered raisins from my trail mix at Jenn  She gets annoyed and returns the fire.  I get a bruise under my eye, FROM A RAISIN.  Kaitlyn and I do not give up.  She tackles Kaity, takes my trail mix, and DUMPS THE WHOLE BAG OFF OF THE BALCONY.  GRR, JENN G, GRR.  Nicole's room mates walk in and they do not like the noise so we move back to my room.  Jenn continues to tackle Kaitlyn.  It was funny.  She has her slippers.  Jenn picks them up and makes some funny kung-fu-type-noises then goes "YOU ARE NO MATCH FOR MY KUNG FU" to Kaitlyn, while making some funny Kung-Fu movements with her slippers in hand.  Then she goes all "KUNG FU" on Kaitlyn.  Meanwhile Nicole is filming this.  HILARIOUS!!!!!!!  Sarah and Jenn come back up and Sarah convinces like 5 people to let her do their make-up.  They go up to Melissa and Kayla's room.  I briefly visit them.  I return to my room with Afton and Nicole.  Me and Afton throw ice off of my balcony while Nicole is watching the video of Jenn and Kaitlyn.  Some guys down on the sidewalk try to it on Afton and she procedes to yell "STRANGER DANGER!!!! STRANGER DANGER!!!!" while she wears her vampire teeth that she got from the arcade.  IT WAS FUNNY!!  Sarah, Jenn R., and Kaitlyn come back to our room, all looking like clones of Sarah, I shudder at the thought  .  We get ready to go on a dinner cruise on Lake Erie. 

Everyone goes down to the lobby and then we all board the busses.  We eat a fairly good dinner.  Then go out on the deck of the boat.  It is pretty cold and very windy.  Good thing I have my trusty band hoodie.  Eventually, people slowly drifted off of the deck to the warm inside.  After about a half hour the only people who had stayed out on the deck for the whole time were Mike and his girl friend, Sean, Melissa, Kaitlyn, and me.  Eventually Kaitlyn went in because she "got cold".  Wimp (just kidding).  Kaitlyn and Jenn G. occasionally visited Me and Melissa on deck.  Mike and his girlfriend went in after a while.   Sean was outside most of the time but occasionally went in to talk to some of "his friends".  Sean is great, though.  When it was just Melissa, me and him, he did some crazy stuff.  First he started rolling around on the deck.  Then, he........well, he was just Sean.  Then Kyle came out and tied him to a pole on the deck of the boat.  MELISSA GOT A PICTURE.  He looks possesed.  Our band director's wife came out, saw Kyle tying Sean to the pole(who for some reason was completely willing to be tied to a pole), and was like "YOU UNTIE HIM RIGHT NOW!".  Kyle was just like "I am almost done, then I will untie him."  She was nervous.  I personally enjoyed it.  Anyway, Me and Melissa, THE LONE SURVIVORS OF THE LAKE ERIE DINNER CRUISE.  I like that title  .  We went back to kalahari. 

My friends and I had planned a big party for that night, but my friends were so boring they couldn't entertain an easily-amused five-year-old.  So we went around and got pictures.  Then my friends excitement levels took a turn for the worst.  I swear Sarah's makeup seeped into their brains and turned them into temporary Sarah clones.  They were boring, obsessed with their phones and cameras, monotonous, and most of all ANNOYED BY MY HAPPINESS AND HYPERNESS, just like Sarah.  It bothered me so much  .  Eventually the make-up wore off though and they were back to themselves soon.  TOO BAD IT WAS MIDNIGHT.  We then went to sleep. 

Monday

So me, Sarah, Kaitlyn, and Jenn R. started the day the same as the other days (We remembered our keys THIS time.) I got a smoothie for breakfast.  It was yummy.  After we ate, we went down to the lobby.  A bunch of my friends went back to the water park for a few hours.  I went shopping with Miranda and Kayla.  I have to admit it was kind of boring.  So I texted Afton and asked her where she was.  She told me she was on a couch in the lobby.  I went up there, with Miranda and Kayla.  We all talked.  Then Afton and a bunch of other people went downstairs.  I stayed with Miranda and Kayla.  We then went to the stores downstairs.  I did find something in the stores I looked through, a crappy water bottle and a TUBE OF SUGAR.  I use the tube of sugar more than the bottle.  Pathetic, right?  There is a big huge arcade, probably the size of my house near all of the stuff downstairs.  I went to the arcade and found a bunch of people including Afton, Nicole, Shelby, Jenn G, and Sean.  I had way more fun there.  I earnede 36 tickets.  The day before I saw Sean with 2 claw things which were each 25 tickets.  I wanted 2 of those claw things so bad.  I only had enough for 1 though.  I asked people if they had any extra tokens, to play games so I could get more tickets.  If they asked why, I explained my claw dilemma to them.  So when I asked Sean, he said he was broke.  But then he used his tokens to buy me a claw.  It was so nice of him. This left me with one claw thing, and enough tickets to buy another one but I had 11 tickets left.  I couldn't think of what to use those 11 tickets for.  Then Sean comes around and he is like "Anyone have 11 tickets that they aren't gonna use".  So I gave him my tickets.  Sean is great.  Then me and Nicole and Shelby and Sean went over to the indoor playground.  I know you are probably thinking that we are all too old (13 years to be exact) to be going on an indoor playground.  Then me and Nicole got kicked out of the playground for not having sox.  DUMB RULES!!!!!  So me and Nicole left, found Jenn, and then went to the outdoor playground.  It was fun.  We skipped back to the door to get inside and started singing some song.  Then these guys that were hiding near an air conditioner (or something like that) started to try to sing the song we were singing (unsuccessfully, I might add) and then they yelled "ROCK ON DUDES".  We think they were drunk.  We went back inside.  I got ice cream.  It was yummy.  I think the flavor was "FAT ELVIS".  We went back to those random couches where we met Melissa, Kayla, Miranda, and a bunch of other random people from our marching band.  Everyone eventually drifted back to these couches.  We then got our luggage and boarded the busses.  This bus ride was not nearly as fun, everyone was really tired (except me and Melissa, of course).  We watched a video on Mel's iPod and laughed hysterically.  Everyone glared at us.  I am sure they were thinking either "they are ...YAWN...completely crazy" or "WOW" .  We got off the bus.  I went home and slept. 

MANDI OUT. 

Mood:  energetic

Hola mis amigas y otras personas (hi my bffs and other people) (back to english) who for some strange reason actually read my blog. 

(to explain topic, sweekin = sweet + freakin, awe-all (all is better than some)

So about 1 week ago, in a far away land called Ohio (OH-HI-O), our band went to invade the small place called the Cleveland-Sandusky Area (it was never the same, i think).  This invasion was completely awe-all for the invaders, for the invadees probably not so much but I wouldn't know.   

Friday

We, as in the marching band, boarded the buses at 12:30-ish.  And life was no longer the same (just kidding).  The bus ride itself was so sweeking fun, I made my BFF Kaitlyn spaz by holding a fan up to her ear.  It was gr8.  That was the awe-all-est bus ride in the history of bus rides.  Then we went to the Hard Rock Cafe.  They had awe-all food, and very awe-all decorations.  Then we went to see the CLEVELAND SYMPHONY.  They were really good.  My ears were shocked.  That was over at about 10:15, we were all tired.  YAWN!! We got back to Kalahari, our hotel/indoor waterpark/resort/(well awe-allest hotel ever!) at about 12:00 that night.  This place was awe-all.  It along with the waterpark/resort thing it had an arcade.  Every room had a balcony, fireplace, flat-screen-tv, and well other normal hotel stuff.  IT WAS STILL AWE-ALL THOUGH.  I <3-ed this hotel.  After about 2 hours of screaming about how awesome the room was spying over the balcony divider at the guys, getting caught by the guys, getting 3 showers taken, setting up for tomorrow, and getting in bed we all fell asleep.  That was a long night. 

Saturday

I woke up before everyone else in my room (there were 3 other people) at 7 o'clock.  I had decided the previous night to spare the other people and shower in the morning.  So I hopped in the shower (unfortunately, I didn't literally hop ).  I was already dressed by the time the rest of my temporary room-mates got up.  Then our chaperone let us out of our room at 8:00, wke e went down to breakfast like 15 minutes later.  I had 2 doughnuts yummm.  We left to go to CEDAR POINT at like 10:00.  Cedar Point was awesome even for the roller-coaster-phobic person, which I most certainly am.  I went on the (huge ginormous ferris wheel which I can't remember the extremely-cheesy name for), BLUE STREAK (a really wimpy roller coaster), KROIKA (a scrambler/paratrooper cross), (an untilt-ey, tilt-a-whirl), THE SCRAMBLER, MATTERHORN (that ride that they have at just about every park, but have no standard name for that spins really fast and the car tilts sideways), (that other no-name ride that just spins really fast and the person on the outside gets completely SQUISHED), CEDAR CREEK MINE RIDE (a roller-coaster type ride that is more jolty than steep), (the spinny-swing ride), THE SPIDER (it wasn't actually called the spider but it is a spider-like as rides can get), and (some indoor ride that was like a dark version of the Cedar Creek Mine Ride but more big turns and less turns).  Now for the story.

Me and my two slightly roller-coaste-phobic friends get lunch.  I set my Mountain Dew down.  I sit down, knock it over, reach to grab it, knock over my friends Mountain Dew, and she flips out about how her feet and legs are soaked.  While I am cleaning up said Mountain Dew (after earning the nickname Mountain Dew Spiller, my friends aren't very creative) a dumb sea gull flies over and poops on my jacket.  I hated sea gulls to begin with.  My friends now say when a bird flies by "MOUNTAIN DEW SPILLER, DUCK! IT'S A BIRD!  DUCK!".  KIND PEOPLE. 

LONG DAY, ERG! I FREEZE WITH NO SWEATSHIRT!

MACHO NACHOS

I am eating dinner.  I have a taco.  My other bff Afton comes up to me and my bffs.  We see lady eating MACHO NACHOS.  They had lettuce, jalepeno, olive, cheese, meat, salsa, and tomato.  It was heavenly macho.  (when i am not pressed for time i will upload a pix of the MACHO NACHOS).  So now me and Afton's inside joke is MACHONACHO.   Man those were some Macho NACHOS.

We leave CEDAR POINT at 10:00 PM.  We get back at 10:30, film fake earthquake, and go to bed at 12:00ish. 

MANDI OUT (see above for CEDAR POINT!!!!!!!!! PART II.)