Myspace.com - did you just have a flashback to html, awful flashing graphics, your latest favorite song, the stress of organizing your friends in the right order for your Top 8?? If not - then you're too old or too young!
Well let's rewind THIRTEEN freaking years. WHAT?!? It was 2007 and I was sent a message with a link to a complete stranger's profile. The message was something along the lines of "you have to add this girl. You two will totally get along." It is worth noting that the one who sent me the message has still never met this girl she told me to be friends with.
Why did we look like we'd be friends? As soon as I hit her page I knew. Clearly we were meant to be friends! Not only did we share a fandom for Buffalo Bill, but we also share a strong dislike for that little man known as Phil Collins. So in 2007 Jessica and I became Myspace friends!
Scared to meet someone off the internet back in the earlier 2000s? Well we clearly weren't. It was early 2008 that we finally got together for our first of many visits to the Enchanted Forest! To this day it feels so wrong if I am there without Jessica!
Later that year we celebrated Jessica turning 30 together. Oh my gosh. We could do the math, but let's just not say how old we are now! Aww youth.
Enchanted Forest wasn't enough for us. We needed MORE! So in 2009 we decided that we had hung out in Oregon a few times, why not just pack up and go to Walt Disney World together for over a week. What could go wrong? Traveling across the country, being trapped in a hotel room, navigating tourists, all of that ... with someone you've only spent a few hours with now and then!?!Well guess what! We ended up being perfect travel companions! We were hungry at the same time, we had to potty at the same time, we were sleepy at the same time. AND we discovered another thing we both had in common.... a love of costumes! Oh man, we came home with so much candy after Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party! That vacation was so freaking rad!
It was so rad that we thought we should do it again in 2010! We kicked this vacation's ass! Nasa, Universal and Harry Potter, Halloween Horror Nights, all the Disney parks and again another costume. Frankly we had one of the best group costumes of the night if I do say so myself! Plus, thanks to Jessica, we had props which aided in our theme and our constant search for Scooby Doo! Jessica gets 100% credit for that whole costume idea AND the costumes. Good job!!
Do you think we'd stop there after we were on such a roll? Heck no. This time we took a break from Walt Disney World and did something extra different for the two of us.... Viva Las Vegas! But this wasn't an ordinary Vegas vacation of two young girls getting drunk and dancing all night. Oh no. We DID go out one night -- to see Alex and Daniel in What a Drag! And we went to the Michael Jackson Cirque show with his actual family. That was awesome, and a mad house, and I cried through the whole thing. But what was the main event?? This is insane... we went to do the Las Vegas Rock'n'Roll half marathon together. If you ever heard any horror stories of the year everyone got sick and it was like a war zone and people throwing up every where.... that was this year. I was one of those sick people on the ground, too! Naturally I forced her to go to the Titanic exhibition, because duh!
That was a fun trip, and running is kinda fun.... so why not go back and do another race? But let's do Walt Disney World again! And in 2012 that's exactly what we did! Did I say we liked to wear costumes?? Brace yourself for what we pulled off this time!!
Costume 1: the morning 5K. We were up around 4am this day, if not early. We ran 3.1 miles. 4am. Remember this. Wayne's World! Wayne's World! Party Time! Excellent!
Costume 2: the same day. Ready for a 10pm race. We ran 10 miles. Same day. Tower of Terror 10 Miler. We never napped. We did crash a Disney Mom's luncheon at the California Grill though! I'd like to note that this photo of our "Sister Witches" costume was actually taken by Disney and used in their publicity photos!
Costume 3: Yes, we did THREE that trip! How on earth did we fit all of this in our suitcases?? This time it was our 3rd time visiting Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween party - dressed as gypsies. Another one Jessica came up with. This one was nice and airy for me, which was good because that whole vacation was HOT! Oh yeah, we also became "those girls" ... those friends that bought matching Mickey Mouse dresses and wore them together when we crashed the luncheon! I love that dress. I still wear it!
Remember the gymnast at the Olympics?? Here. We did in on Splash Mountain, too. We're fun.
In 2013 we sort of put a halt to our travels. Why? I got married, hence the "sort of" --- because we didn't skip a trip that year. We went back to Vegas so I could get married!! You didn't think I could meet a random stranger online, travel the country with her and then not have her in my wedding did you??
We haven't done any trips since this one.... but we had another good reason not to. This happened!
Jessica got married!! These two girls that met ages ago as singletons are now both old married ladies!
So what now? I don't know! I think we will still find fun things to do, like Enchanted Forest and maybe another comic con!
*For photo context, we were smelling our hands after fist bumping Zachary Levi TWICE!
The whole point of this is .... JESSICA IS AWESOME!! Thanks Myspace Tom!
So here's to 13 more years!
