Tuesday morning, we all woke up at 6 AM so we could make it to the airport for our flight at 8:45 AM. I was mostly packed the night before, in the morning I just had to pack some small things in my carry on bag. I packed my 2 microphones in my carry on bag because I wanted to make sure they wouldn't get damaged. I wrapped them in one of my blankets.
A car got to our house at 6:30 AM to drive us to the airport. Our first flight was a couple hours, we flew to Amsterdam. Next, we had the long 8 hour flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. On that flight I watched 3 movies. I watched the fate of the furious, Baywatch, and a horror movie I cant remember the name of. Here is the first meal that I got on the plane. It was a chicken meal, it was really good.
I did not sleep on the plane, when we got to Detroit, it was 5 PM which would be 10 PM in Dublin. I was not tired, it felt like it was 5 PM. We waited until 6:30 PM to get on the plane that took us to Grand Rapids. That flight was only 30 minutes. We finally got to the Grand Rapids airport, and my Dad was waiting there where he always does to greet us. It was nice to be back in GR. We went to his car and drove home.
We got home at about 9 PM. About 30 minutes after being home, my Dad and I drove to Taco Bell because I was hungry, and that's the first place I always go when I come back to Grand Rapids.
I got a lot of food there, then we went back home.
Wednesday night I finally got to see Ben. He slept over at my house that night.
We went to Taco Bell again that night, and we saw Max on the Job. He went on his break and came to say hi and talk to us. It was really nice to see Max again. After we talked to Max for a bit, Ben and I went back to my house. We watched "The Punisher" until about 2 AM, then went to sleep.
Thursday, Ben and I went to City High Middle school (my old school) to watch the powderbuff game, which is a volleyball game of Seniors vs. Juniors. We picked up Lillie and Calebs mom Amy, then drove to City. The game started at 3 PM, it was pretty close, but the Seniors won eventually. It was very fun to watch, and after the game we were going to see Blandfords production of "A Christmas Carol" at St. Cecilia Music Center. We had time to get food before that, because it started at 7 PM, and it was only 4:30 PM. Some of us went to Taco Bell, including Lillie, Ben and I. We all got to St. Cecilia around 6:10 PM, and we were able to get good seats. The Blandford Beeps always sit on the left side of the seats, and we usually take up 2 or 3 rows. Everybody was wearing their blue hoodies from Blandford, but I did not know where mine was.
The production was very good as always, and at the end all the Alumni stood up to sing the final song of the production. It was a lot of fun, and afterward we got to have some snacks upstairs. I had Ben, Caleb and Tony over that night to spend the night.
People left early Friday morning, and my Dad took me to deposit some money into my bank account at Lake Michigan Credit Union. Friday night I had another sleepover with Max, Caleb and Ben. Saturday night around 3 PM, Aunt Pennie, Oma and Uncle Art came over to our house to hang out. For dinner we all went out to eat at Donkey Taqueria. They are a very good Mexican restaurant. They have really good chips and salsa, especially because they have 3 different types of hot sauce, all of them are delicious. For dessert we got Churros, which were very good.
Sunday, in the morning, I cleaned the bathrooms and then went to see Star Wars: The Last Jedi again with Mira and Caleb. They let me tag along. We originally thought that the tickets for that movie were all sold out, so we switched to go see Pitch Perfect 3, but once we got to the movie theater we saw some seats at the 3D show so we got them. AMC has these really nice seats that can recline by pushing a button, so you can basically lay down and watch the movie. It was probably better seeing the movie the 2nd time around. I was able to appreciate the plot and special effects more since I got the basics the first time seeing it. I still think the best part of the movie is when this lady turns the ship at the enemies ships and jumps to light-speed, the movie goes completely silent, and you see the ship go through each of the enemies ships, then about 5 seconds later the sound comes in. That is the coolest thing ever!
That night, my Mom and I drove to Uncle Oliver's house to have dinner for Christmas Eve. I also got to use his cool studio that he has in his basement. It is crazy big, he has a lot of cool technology that I don't know how to work. It was fun to mess around with his stuff.
Here is a picture of his recording studio:
It is very big. Uncle Oli cooked us a very delicious Dinner. We all played a fast version of Uno after dinner for a while. By the time we left, the car was covered in snow so I brushed and scraped the ice off of the windows and windshield. It was about 9 PM when we left, and it was very cold. We got home at 10:35 PM, right when my Mom guessed we would get home.
Monday was Christmas Day. I waited for Levi to wake me up so that I did not have to wait forever to open presents if I would have woken up at 6 AM like I usually do. He woke me up around 8 AM I think, I never looked at a clock. We went downstairs to the Christmas tree to open presents.
We had to search for our stockings first, and Levi thought that they were hidden in the Piano, and he was correct.
I let other people open their presents before I opened mine. I got a lot of cool presents, including a new Spartan sweatshirt,
a new helmet and gloves for skiing, some money, and some new ski boots. The ski boots looked very nice.
I also got 2 tickets to a Taylor Swift concert in Ireland at Croke Park, which can hold 74,000 people. Here is an Image so you get an idea of how many people it can hold.
I can go to the concert, or I can resell the tickets, probably for a much higher price. My Mom said that the tickets sold out in the first day very fast, which is crazy because that means 74,000 people bought tickets in the same day. I don't listen to Taylor Swift a lot, but it would be an amazing concert to go to.
~ December 19-25, 2017 ~
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