Hey Guess What? I'm Twenty-One!

27 July 2012

While I was getting ready this morning, Palmer made me hot chocolate with the powder that the hotel puts in each room. She even put it on the tray and included the cookies that the hotel gave us. Haha. It was awesome.

Then when we walked out to go eat breakfast, I found a bunch of balloon taped together with a happy birthday sign. I knew immediately that they were from Molly and Kylee. My friends are awesome!

After breakfast, my group and I loaded the bus for Liverpool. So I had to spend three and a half hours of my twenty-first birthday riding in a bus, but that’s okay. Two of them were spent watching She’s the Man, in honor of the play we went to last night. I love that movie!

When we got to Liverpool, we went to a museum about some major ship wrecks that are associated with Liverpool, including the Titanic. That was a neat exhibit. But the next museum was my favorite: The Beatles Story.

I loved going through that museum and reading all about the Beatles and how they formed. And I love the Beatles, so it was a great way to celebrate my birthday!

Inside the Yellow Submarine

John Lennon's glasses

Afterward, Molly, Kylee, Palmer, and I went to the Ferris Wheel there. Molly paid for me to go, and we listened to Beatles songs the whole time. And of course, we sang along. Then we went back to the hotel and had a little dance party until it was time to go to dinner.

Me and Molly on the Ferris Wheel

It just so happened that my directors had decided to take the group out for dinner tonight. That was a lot of fun to be with everyone. And one of the girls in my group mentioned to the waitress that it was my birthday, so she brought out a piece of cake, and everyone sang to me. It was so nice! I love my group. I’m so lucky to be out here with such awesome people.

After dinner, we all went back to the hotel to watch the opening ceremonies of the Olympics. They were so cool! I loved it. Especially the part where James Bond picked up the queen. Haha. That was awesome. We were all getting so excited!

While all of the athletes were being introduced, a bunch of the girls and I had a dance party in honor of my birthday. And we may or may not have dressed up a little bit. We had a blast! We did that until the American athletes came on (their outfits were lame, by the way).

I was exhausted after such a long and awesome day, so I went to bed after that. But it was an awesome twenty-first birthday! I only wish I would have been able to talk to my family, but we didn’t have internet access. But that’s okay because I’ll be home in about a week! :)