I don't know when the last time I had a weekend that didn't have something on it.

I always have something going on.. on the weekends. I might have one day of my weekend to go somewhere other than what is planned, but since I'm doing something on the other day, I tend to just want to be lazy. This past weekend I had a 3 day weekend. I could have been a lot more productive, but I wasn't.

Saturday began with Erik having his swimming class and I did a workout. We'd been planning to attend the Bats Day Market, but I couldn't get my booty off the couch. The Hallmark channel was doing a marathon of the Love Comes Softly movie series and I'd never seen them, but knew if I ever did, I would enjoy them for their sappiness. For those who like fairly religious movies, they have good messages. I myself am not very religious, but even though at times, these movies really push it towards you, the stories are enjoyable. I want to read the books now because I know they are different then the movies.. There are 8 books and currently, 6 movies have been made. I spent my entire Saturday after my work out sitting on the couch watching these movies.

Sunday was Bats Day in the Fun Park. The Unnofficial Goth Day at Disneyland. I'm not goth but a lot of my friends are so I've been in the culture for almost a decade. When I go out dancing, I prefer a goth club because they're not meat markets and I honestly like the music. The fashion can sometimes be fun as well. Some people really go out of Bats Day. I tend to be more casual, and just wore a Bats Day limited edition tee shirt and official Bats Day ears. It was the 10th anniversary for Bats Day and the 3rd one I've attended.

This was the first Bats Day in November. It's always been in August up till now. Noah, the creater of Bats Day, decided to move it to a cooler climate. Next year, it will start it's new home in May. Since it was Veteran's Weekend, it was pretty crowded, but it didn't feel overly crowded.

We headed over there around 10:30 and we ran into our friends Arielle, John and Missy inline for the tram. It wasn't even planned. Once we got into the park, we met up with Mike, Steven, Lacey and Ryan. Our first stop was Thundar Mountain Railroad. We were odd numbered so they made 3 of us sit in one of those seats. John, Lacey, and Arie being the thinest, squeezed themselves into the front car. Even though I go to Disneyland fairly regular, it'd been a while since I road Thundar Mountain.


Afterwards, we met up with Arie's friend Sarah and her daughter Emily. We headed over to Winnie the Pooh. Where little Emily met a life sized Winnie and Eeyore.



It was getting close to the 1pm castle photo so we headed back toward the castle. There were thousands of Goths hanging around and everyone started lining up. We're near the front so hopefully, I can find us in the picture. Bobby met up with us there.

Once the photo was taken, all the goths dispersed and we headed over to Space Mountain to grab fast passes and eat lunch at the pizza Port. At this point, we lost Emily and Sarah. At the Pizza Port, I decided to have a salad and it was pretty good. While eating, I get my first Scream Prize alert on my cell from Twitter. Noah had decided to have a sort of scavenger hunt using twitter.. he would announce his location and the first 1-3 people to him with the password would win a prize. Erik headed over there. However, my SMS is really slow to update so He only got consilation prize pins. There were still 14 more scream prizes to be won through out the day though. John's phone updated faster, so we decided to keep an eye on twitter with his.

John and Arie met another group of Goths and they tried to cut into the Buzz year line with us. There were way too many of them and they decided to head off on their way, and we never saw them again that day. After Buzz, we headed back to Space Mountain. There were 12 of us at this point. At the castle, Missy ran into a friend and her cousin, Natalie and Jennifer. Natalie and some cool Nightmare Before Christmas tattoos on her forearms. We almost had our own car. John and Arie's lap bars weren't working properly, so they had to wait. When we got back around, they decided to let us all ride again because of the technical difficulty. It was pretty cool.

After Space Mountain, our group split again. Ryan, Steven, Lacey, and Mike all stayed in DL and the rest of us headed over the California to ride Tower and the new Toy Story Midway. Arielle, John, and Missy hadn't been on Toystory yet. We got fast passes at Tower and headed over to Toystory. We waited about 25 minutes, but everyone loved it. It's such a fun ride. Someday, i will get a good score on it. We headed back to Tower but Our Fast passes were still 5 minutes from time so we were told to wait. I looked over and saw my friend and old roommate Christine also at the gate, she let us in 3 minutes early. It still a fun ride. We stopped and to watch Turtle Talk. And it was a lot of fun. Arielle asked how global warming was affecting his environment and Crush said that he like warm water and asked what she wanted him to do about it. She told him to send all the fish to the surface to sing and dance and scare all the humans. Crush told them all to go Sing. It was a pretty fun
program.

We headed back to Disneyland to eat and had dinner at the Birthday plaza. Ryan the rest met up with us there. Arie and I shared a Pumpkin Cheese cake and it was good. We got a Twitter from Noah saying to be prepared and "Toon" was a quotes, so we assumed he would be in Toontown. We started heading there and most of the others wanted to go on the Matterhorn. So Arie, John, Erik and I headed on to Toontown, we really wanted a scream prize at this time. Just as we pass infront of an on coming parade, we get the text that he's infront of Honey I Shrunk the Audience. We take off running. Arie and I stop and walk at a more casual pace sending the boys on. I get a bunch of texts on my phone, but we don't know whats up until we get there. They both won! Erik one a limited addition Pocket Watch and John won the bats day ears. We went back to Toontown to get him the hat portion and then met up with the others at Alice after that. It was time to head to the Haunted Mansion meet. Ryan and the others decided to leave at this point, so by the time we get to the mansion, there are only 5 of us left.

The last two years we've had 30+ in our group so it felt really weird only have 5. We ended up in overflow in the fast pass area. It was so packed with people. I was 788 inline when we finally got into the main count. We lined up at 7:30 and finally got into the mansion at 9:30. While inline, I finally ran into my friend Elizabeth. I still regret never running into Talon.

After the mansion, we hit up Pirates. We decided to head up after that. We stopped for Hot Chocolate and hit the tram. That was some good hot chocolate too. Overall it was a fun Bats Day.

Monday, I slept in, caught up on DVR recordings and did an hour of strength training. After that, I only did some shopping errands, but of course I spent more then I wanted to at Target.

The rest of the week, I've been catching up on my work and I finally see a dent which is why I'm able to blog today. Saturday, we'll be hitting up John's Birthday party. I just wish they all didn't live in North Hollywood. Why can't I have friends that live close to me.