Yeah, that's right. You heard me. This weekend has surely been one of the greatest weekends of my life, no doubt about it. So what has made this particular weekend so great, you say? Welll....
Friday was my birthday. That statement right there tells you that it was a pretty special day, but it was more than just, ya know, "today's my birthday, yay.." First off, it was a late start, so school started two hours later. Second off, it was a school-wide pajama day, so I, of course, wore my PJ's to school. Third off, Erin made me an awesome birthday cake (pictured) that we got to eat at lunch with a whole bunch of my friends, who sang happy birthday to me right before we ate the cake. And fourth off, I got to do lots of various activities with both Erin and Kira after school.
First was going to see the junior high's production of Disney's High School Musical, which our friend Dan is in (he played the announcer, Jack Scott, and did a dang good job in doing so.) The quality of the production was typical of junior high musicals, but it was still really good and I had a great time.
Next off was going to see the Jon Schmidt concert at Viewmont. Ten minutes before the concert started, my friend Adrian, who is really good friends with Jon Schmidt, invited me backstage to meet him. I was amazed at how cool of a guy he is. Seriously, he was very lively and upbeat, probably the most upbeat person I've ever met, which is pretty awesome. The concert was amazing - if you've never seen this guy play the piano before, you NEED to see him in concert - he really puts on a show. But this particular show was special to me because he wished me a happy 17th birthday and acknowledged that to the entire audience, while playing me a short birthday song ("This is a birthday song, it isn't very long..!"). He also played another song just for me that I requested him play, "Pachelbel Meets U2". I really felt special at that concert last night. Jon, you are one of my heroes.
Finally the girls and I got Papa Murphy's pizza and we met back at my house to watch a movie. At 11:30 PM, after spending eight hours with them doing stuff, I drove them home. They're really awesome friends.
Anyway, Saturday was prom, and that day started out being quite stressful for me, what with my family being somewhat uncooperative on working with me to get ready and all that, but it all worked out. Around 12:30 I picked up my date, Dana, to come to my house to play board games with Adrian and date Miranda, and the temporarily-dateless Stormie. We played a couple games that I hadn't played in several years, such as Motor Mouth. It was pretty fun. Then around 4:30 I picked up Dana again, as well as both Stormie and her date, Kyle (the Prom King, I must add) to take them back to my house to meet up with Adrian, Miranda, Matt, and Lyndsay to go out to dinner at the Olive Garden.
We got there and realized that it was an hour long wait so we instead travelled over to the nearby mall to look around and count how many weird looks that we were getting. (I think we got up to 65 before we stopped caring enough to count.) Dinner was great; most of us ended up getting cheese ravioli for some reason. At the table there were small tubular packages of sugar, and we kept on putting packages of sugar in our mouths to get, er, "high" off. :P Great times, great times. Of course, the dance itself was fun, (though getting there wasn't always the case, with people complaining about my scary driving and my tendency to tailgate Matt often :D) and Dana and I had an awesome time.
So that was my awesome weekend. Yeah, I never know how to close these blog posts anymore. I can't think of any closing lines for this post, so as I usually say.. insert cool closing statement here!!
