Update

To even start this update, I had to look at a calendar to remind myself what went on over the last couple weeks.

• Aerials attended their first competition of the 2010-2011 season on November 6th in Sacramento. All 8 teams placed in the top three in their divisions. Our youngest team in attendance that day even took home a grand championship!!! It was a fun day and we were all eager to get back into the gym to spice up our routines for our next competition, which by now is only 2 weeks away!!!
• The Ho's were able to get together for our annual "Ho Thanksgiving" It was fun seeing the girls and PBR and stuffing our faces!
• We celebrated Allison's 25th birthday with a surprise party at my parents house, after the original "ghost hunting" plan was canceled. We partied HARD!!! So hard that we were all drunk and in bed by 1am!! hahahaha. We consumed lot's of wine, beer, shots, margaritas and some x-rated drink, played some fierce games of beer pong, and even ventured out to Huey's for some drinks and a great karaoke performance of "Gin & Juice" It was a great night.

I have been fighting off a cold and some pretty bad back pain for about a week now. But I was lucky enough to have last Sunday & Monday off from both jobs so I spent them laying around the house and spending time with my family. It was nice and helped me recover a bit.

Today is Thanksgiving........I unfortunately am working, I worked the night before and I work the night of. I am Thankful for my job, but I really would rather be with my family. I haven't even gone out for the traditional "night before thanksgiving" bar hop since 2007!! I am making time and a half right now, instead of spending money so I guess thats the upside to working on the holidays right? I also get to work Christmas eve and Christmas night. I am really not looking forward to that........Christmas eve is a big deal in the Giaquinto house, and I hate that I have to leave the fun and come to work. But all this holiday work is gonna pay off when I board the airplane on December 28th to spend 7 days in Florida! I CANNOT wait!!!

Up next on Amy's calendar:

• Aerials performance at the Vacaville Christmas tree lighting "Merriment on Main" on November 30th
• Aharon & Maria's baby shower for Dreavyn December 4th
• Aerials 2 day GSSA competition December 11th and 12th
• Dad's birthday December 12th
• Aerials Christmas party December 16th
• Christmas
• FLORIDA for New Years December 28th - January 4th

I think that is it for now!

Happy Holidays!!!

I totally forgot....

Probably because I have been sooo incredibly busy.......
However, I did forget to update about my Disneyland trip. Of course it was amazing!!! Audrey, Adam and I missed the family like crazy, but we managed to have a great time. We rode all our favorite rides, ate all our favorite snacks, watched my favorite firework show...twice. Saw the amazing "World of Color" show...twice. Had fun glowy drinks, learned how to draw Chip of "Chip and Dale" and we shopped for hours. I even got most of my Christmas shopping done!!!! I am now going through a major withdrawal from Disneyland. My season pass expires in 22 days and I am so very sad about it. I do plan on getting another one in April for our National trip and my family plans on going again in December 2011 for Christmas. It's just sad to know I am not going back until April.
To the normal human I am sure I sound crazy, but I can't help it. I love that place, and I love going there with my friends and family!!!


On a non Disney note, the San Fransisco Giants won the WORLD SERIES!! So very exciting!! A group of friends of mine, Audrey, Adam and I decided to attend the victory parade on Wednesday. It was a crazy event, and an experience I will never forget. It took us 45 minutes just to get our Bart tickets in Concord!!! We packed, like sardines, into an 80 degree Bart car with about 1000 other Giants fans, all decked out in our orange and black. We took the hour plus ride to SF standing wayyyy too close to each other......but hey at least we were all in good spirits. Once in SF we waited in a huge line to get up to the Bart station, waited in another huge line to exit the Bart station, waited in ANOTHER huge line to walk up the not working escalators, just to arrive at mayhem!! (after all the lines, we were starting to wonder where all the cool rides were at the end) People were everywhere, in the trees, on the light poles, monuments, signs and statues. It was like nothing I have ever seen! We worked our way through the weed, alcohol and BO smelling crowd until we couldn't walk any further.........And........we never really saw much of anything!! But at least we can say we were there, on probably the hottest November day ever, right smack in the middle of the craziness. We were part of the 1.5 million person crowd who cheered on the World Champion Giants as they made their way through the streets of San Fransisco on cable cars. I kept saying "next year, we will know what to do" followed by us laughing, knowing this was probably a once in a lifetime experience.....or according to their World Series wins, a once every 56 years experience....I mean if they continue on that path I will be 85 when they win the World Series again. However, if they happen to do this again sooner than that, or if the Niners ever pull their heads out of their asses and win a Superbowl. I will know exactly what to do........
Plan a) Get a hotel room for a week so you don't have to try to get into and back out of the city in the mayhem. Bring a LARGE cooler full of beer, water and food, set up chairs and maybe even some sleeping bags right in front of the stage at least 8 hours before the parade starts and sit there all day drinking beer!
Plan b) watch it from a bar far far away from the city!

Now if the Niners do ever pull their heads out of their asses and win a Superbowl again in my lifetime, I don't think just attending the victory parade will be enough. So I have made a plan in case the planets align and pigs begin to fly. Not only will I be in a seat at the Superbowl, but I will fly home with the team and lead their damn victory parade myself!!!! I will name this plan "plan when hell freezes over"

Next subject......

In approximately 18 hours Aerials team 1 of 8 will be taking the competition floor for the first time in the 2010-2011 season! I am so excited to see these 85 kids take the floor! We have worked very hard this summer and I know it will all pay off on Saturday. Stay tuned for competition updates!!!