Wah-wah! Here comes the sun.

It started with a trip plan to Disneyland…

// February 12th, 2009 // movie talk, news, trip

Living in California for few years now, I still haven’t been to Disneyland. It’s actually pretty closed for only around 90 miles with 1.30 hours driving approx.

I always wanted to visit the land of Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and all those Disney character as I was a HUGE fan since when I was little. And yes, I’ve been dreaming on going to Disneyland probably 20 years of my life. It started by reading the comics and seeing the parade on christmas day on TVRI (Indonesian television).

So, few days ago, we decided maybe it’s time to pay a visit. All seemed set.

Then the day before our trip, I was at outside my work place when suddenly something “strange” coming down from the sky. First I thought it was only rain because the weather was damn cold at the same time. No, it wasn’t rain. It’s actually ice in small pieces and there were lots of them. I could see people running to the store. Some of them opened their umbrella and I could heard the loud noise of those ice hitting the top of their umbrella. It also hit all the top of the cars on the parking lot.

It seemed I just experience my first hail!

So, I started to have second thought about our Disney trip. I knew that experience will be mostly outdoor, so was that wise to go during this weather? I didn’t want to be freeze or the worst part was getting another hail while taking their fun ride.

We finally decided that Disneyland trip maybe wasn’t a good thing to do right now. So, instead we decided to catch a snow!

I saw a snow before few months ago, but only few ice laying in the ground near Julian. That’s it. I was hoping we could see those even in bigger size.

Julian is our destination. Just like Disneyland, it also only take around 1-2 hours to go there. First, Adam called some business place there to ask if they have snow. They said they did.

So all set. We head off to Julian. The weather was actually getting warmer so we didn’t really have expectation that we were gonna see lots of snow.

When we entered the Highway 79, I started to see snow. It was more than I saw last time but not really in a big size. I didn’t mind though.

However, as we driving higher to the mountain, the more snow we saw. Then we finally saw this big field that, as you can see, covered with snow.

Then since it’s almost evening, we decided to continue the trip even higher in the mountain. This time the snow was getting more and more and deeper. However, the weather wasn’t as freeze as I thought it could be. I only wore one coat and no gloves at all.

I post more pictures of the trip here

My Oscar Prediction on Kompas

I thought they won’t publish it since someone already wrote it first. So, I didn’t even bother to check until I saw on my “traffic” website that someone visit this site from Kompas.

If you want to read it just click here. It’s in Indonesian, though.