So I figured that since it is has been just about a year since I last blogged that perhaps maybe I should post something. I've never really gotten into blogging like I thought that I would when I first created this blog three years and some months ago (think it is three months). I suppose its just a sign of what is big and popular these days. So anyway, I've had some interesting things occur in the last year and thought I would share some of them.

First of all, I have a job now. I work at Olive Garden as a busser. My best friend tried for months to get me to apply there and finally succeeded in getting me to do so. I wasn't sure if I would like it but I have loved it for the most part. I have a lot of physical work that I have to do but it keeps me in pretty good shape. And it gives me something to do rather than sitting around the house doing nothing (since I'm such a good student that always studies or does homework...).

Second, I got to visit a lot of cool places this past year. My church had a group that went to Washington D.C. and New York City among other places during our one week trip. I got to tour the White House, Pentagon, and the US Capitol while in D.C. I'll tell you something about the White House that I didn't quite realize from looking at it on TV... it looks old. Seriously... especially when compared to the Capitol. That is one beautiful building. Out of all the tours I was most disappointed in that one because we weren't able to see the House or Senate floors, which ticked me off because they weren't even in session so it wasn't like we were going to disturb them from their "work." The Pentagon was the most interesting of the three tours. We got to walk where the plane crashed into it on 9/11 and look at names of the people who died. During our stay there, we also got to tour the National Cathedral, which was seriously messed up. It is such a beautiful building but totally weird at the same time. They have a sculpture of Darth Vader at the top of one of the towers. No joke. In addition, we saw almost all the Memorials, a couple Smithsonian museums, and got to walk through Arlington National Cemetery and see the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

NYC was completely different from DC. It was cool, but wayyy too compact for my liking. The best thing about our stay there was the harbor cruise we took of the city and getting to go to Times Square at midnight. That was pretty sweet. On the way home we visited the Hershey's Chocolate Factory too. I did forget to mention that on the way out to DC we toured the Air Force Museum (which was 10X better than the Smithsonian's in DC) and a three hour tour of the battlefield of Gettysburg, which was very interesting.

Later in the summer I also was able to visit Chicago for the first time in years. I got to see a Blue Man Group concert which was awesome and then the next day went shopping in a big mall by the John Hancock building (believe its called the Water Tower). I wish I had been able to go to Six Flags while I was up there but I didn't have the time. I did get to go to the Six Flags in STL though in June and that was an absolute blast. Me, my aforementioned best friend, her brother, and one of her workmates went and it was absolutely dead that day. We once rode the Boss three times in a row (I think we rode it a grand total of six times that day).

The highlight of amusement parks came in early October though. I finally made it to the mecca of theme parks: Cedar Point. It was amazing. It was cold out that day but I think that helped keep the crowds lower than they might have been since it was Columbus Day weekend. Anyways, I got to ride some of the best roller coasters ever built. Millennium Force was a blast but Top Thrill Dragster... what a ride. 0-120 in 3 seconds and your heart is in your throat the entire time. I got to ride it twice... the second time at night, which was cool. Anyways, I was able to ride every coaster there at least once (most of them only once actually haha) and I bought a hoody to commemorate that I was there at least once.

I could comment about the political landscape that we have been watching for the last year now but that would make this post way too long. Plus it'll give me a reason to post again sometime in the near future.