kristen's fairytale

i don't think i could even begin to express how much i love having rey on leave! we stay up as late as we want and sleep till whenever we want, plus, waking up next to rey every single day is pretty awesome! i'll try and give a little update on everything we have done! we started rey's leave out by going bowling! i think i mentioned it in my last blog about how you get unlimited bowling for three hours for only $10! it was such a blast! most of the time rey won, but i did win a few rounds and we are planning on going again next tuesday! last thursday we had planned to go down to the hobby shop on base and paint some stuff, but my phone decided to randomly stop working! it was just so weird so we took it to the apple store and even they were baffled by what was going on! luckily my warranty still covered the phone so i got it replaced for free! so basically i have an all new shnazzy iphone, but i did lose all my data including numbers, songs, apps, everything!!! after that we knew we wouldn't have enough time to paint so we saved that for the next day and went shopping! rey has a mess night thing coming up where he dresses up in his dress blues and wives/dates wear cocktail dresses so i had to go and find a pretty dress! cali makes it a little hard to find a modest dress but i did find a pretty cute classy halter dress for a decent price so i got that along with a few accessories! the next day rey and i went to the hobby shop to paint! i painted another ice cream cone cup and rey painted a mug! today we get to go pick them up and i am pretty excited about that! on sunday rey and i went to church and we had set up a meeting with the bishop so we got to meet with him and discuss the plan for rey and i getting sealed in the temple! the bishop even thinks that we will be able to get sealed on our anniversary so hopefully by june 11th rey and i will finally be sealed for time and all eternity! so let's see.. what else! on tuesday rey and i went to disneyland!! woot woot! there is a deal going on right now that is for southern california residents where you get a two day park hopper for $109 and we were planning on doing that, but when they asked for id rey showed his military id and they said they had a military thing going on and we got a 3 day park hopper for only $99! it was awesome! we had such a blast and we got to go on everything at least once and we rode our favorites a second time. the longest we ever had to wait for a ride was 20 minutes and we never even had to use a fast pass! we are actually planning on going tomorrow too! we wanted to go on a weekend so we can watch all the shows like fantasmic and the fireworks since they only do that on weekends! hopefully after going on a weekday it isn't too crowded, but since it is in january and a friday hopefully it's not too crowded! i actually heard from a friend that you can upgrade your ticket to a season pass, and we just saw the other day that the season passes are back down to 450 so after our 99 we would only have to pay 350 for a season pass! this would give us free parking, 10% off at merchandise stores, and 15% off food at disneyland! mine last time totally paid for itself and if rey and i both get one we could pretty much go whenever we wanted and if one weekend we want to get out we could just hit up disneyland which would be awesome! rey is a little hesitant and still thinking it over but i am going to try and convince him! plus, we will be filing our taxes soon and since i worked a little bit this past year we should be getting a bigger refund than last time so i am almost positive i can convince him to do it! so that's about all of the big stuff we have done.. we really have just used this time together to hang out, play mario kart, watch netflix and so forth! speaking of netflix! rey and i have become obessed with veronica mars! seriously, that show is awesome and i totally wish i would have watched that show while it was on tv back in the day! it's super intense and every episode you are trying to guess what is going on, and it's pretty funny! for all you netflix people i totally suggest it, or if you don't have netflix you should find a way to watch it cuz it's an awesome show! anyways, i think that is all for now! rey and i need to go pick up our stuff from the hobby shop so i am out!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

p.s. i will be posting pictures probably on saturday on my facebook so keep an eye out for that!