Welcome to the 62nd post! I have so much to talk about, I don’t even think we have time for an intro, so lets get into it! Reeeaaadddy…GOO!

I turned 14!

Yep! the moment you all have been waiting for (except you probably haven’t because that would be weird) has arrived! In the morning I opened gifts including a working banana phone, book of Rick and Morty quotes (who doesn’t need that), lovely watercoloring set with a new watercolor notebook, and a 3 day trip to any place in the US with one parent! I’ll reveal where I chose to go at the end of the post to give you some time to guess and…hey! I don’t want to see you scrolling there to check!…I’m watching you…*squints eyes at computer screen*…always watching…

After I opened gifts, I used the watercolors for the first time, face-timed my friends for a bit, and got LOTS of dog snuggles!

Around noon, my dad finished a work meeting and took me to play pinball! We went to a bar which had a little side room with around 12 pinball machines. I’d only played pinball once or twice and I had so much fun figuring out how to get bonuses and testing out the different machines! After playing for a few hours, my dad took me home where I saw my friend who came from Vermont! We caught up while dinner was being made and ate lined potatoes and hangar steak until we thought we’d burst!

More recently, I went to LA! A small group from my synagogue went to LA to learn about Racial Justice and all of the hidden voices who aren’t being heard. We cooked breakfast at a transitional house for women and their children called Alexandria House, handed out bottled water in Skid Row (click here for the history), and apart from it being 1,000,000°, it was AMAZING!

Okay…I guess you’ve waited long enough to know where I decided to go for my birthday trip…The answer is…NEW YORK!!! I’m going with my dad! We’ve booked flights, hotel rooms, and are researching some of the best pizza restaurants! (The whole “best pizza in new york” google search isn’t very helpful. There’s a LOT of pizza places.

Okay anyway, Easter! So…That happened. Doc and Hazel hunted for eggs in the backyard that were so skillfully planted by the Easter Bunny.

Here’s a couple of pictures of Doc’s experience hunting for eggs:

In other news, my Dad’s Birthday! He turned 52 this year! Woohoo! We didn’t get to do much because my Mom, Brother, and Sister got Covid, but we opened gifts (while masked), and my parents ordered dinner from Montelupo (which you may remember as the dinner place I went to for my 13th birthday). Don’t worry, the whole Covid thing is under control. My siblings and Mom are almost past it and got through it pretty okay. There were a lot of movies in bed for them and candy requests for my Dad and I to fill out, but it gave me something to do while I was home from school. It also gave me a newfound knowledge of Disney movies, as they constantly played throughout the house for about a week.

Finally, for our last topic, my friend and I went to see Hamilton!

My friend’s Mom is sick and couldn’t switch the dates on their tickets so I got invited!! It was an AMAZING experience and I really enjoyed going!

Thanks for reading!

-Grace