Mike and Julia: Graduation/Disneyland/Universal Studios!

Graduation couldn't have come sooner for me!! I was so happy to finally be done. I still can't believe that I won't be going to school next semester. I'm going to be very BORED!! However, Mike is starting nursing school in January so I will be the bread winner so that will keep me plenty busy. Since I don't have a job yet and probably won't till the next school year, I will continue to Dispatch part-time and substitute teach whenever I can.
I am being super picky about where I want to get a job. I've decided I'm only going to interview with schools in Davis School District. It may take a little while longer because the jobs are limited and are in high demand, but I'm going to get what I want. I plan to substitute teach at many of the schools near my home and get myself known to the principals so that IF a job opens, they will consider me.
The interview process for Davis School District is different from any other school district. They contact your for interviews vs. you applying for what is open. Unless you're an employee, you have no way of knowing what schools have openings and what schools don't. The screening interview that I did back in November was what set me up to be recommended to interview. If you did poorly, the district won't recommend you to schools and you have to wait 3 years before you can do another screening interview. I was told that I did very well therefore I've had three schools contact me for interviews. Unfortunately, the first interview I did very well, but I didn't get it because I was up against someone who was already friends with the principal AND the secretary so I didn't have much of a chance. The second interview I was 20 minutes late to due to graduation, I let them know of course but I was still a bit frazzled therefore I don't think I did very well. The third interview was a phone interview, those are super awkward. I was called while I driving my car back to the hotel and was caught totally off guard. So, to keep my spirits high, I'm very prepped and ready for any other interview that comes my way! I wasn't expecting much anyway because it is mid-year and very few positions open up, I will probably start interviewing for jobs for the next school year in March or April so I will keep my fingers crossed!! Wish me luck!

The day after graduation we went to DISNEYLAND!! I absolutely love it there. It's such a happy place. Unfortunately I was pretty much sick the WHOLE time. That was a huge bummer but I made the most of it. Mike and I drove down Saturday and went to Disney on both Sunday and Monday on our own. Monday we were only there fore about 4 hours until I was too sick to stay any longer. We camped out in the hotel room for the remainder of the day trying to get me better.

Dan and Sierra came Tuesday. We picked them up from the airport, went back to the hotel, and all 5 of us went to Disney that night. It was a lot of fun but unfortunately Daphne was sick.

We went to Disneyland on Wednesday as well and were there pretty much the entire day. We had lunch at the Blue Bayou which is ALWAYS delicious and it has an awesome atmosphere since it is inside the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. Daphne and myself were still sick but trudging along. We decided to make Thursday our rest day so that we could all try to get better. (Dan was getting sick at this point). It was really nice to kick back and relax. By Friday, we were all sick. Some more than others but with medication we were able to get through the rest of the week.

Friday was by far our best day. We finally figured out how to manage the fast passes and the parent switch passes that we received because of Daphne and we didn't have to wait in any of the lines. It was awesome!!

Saturday and Sunday we went to Universal Studios and had a blast there. I absolutely loved the studio tour. It's always fun to see sets of movies or TV shows that I love.

Here are some pictures!

Dan and Sierra waiting in line to ride the tea cups

This is a funny story that I forgot to share. Mike got his haircut while we were on vacation. He looked up barber shops and this was the first one we found. It was like 2 blocks from our hotel. It looked old and sketchy but we walked in anyway. the old man looked so excited to have customers that we couldn't just walk out. I got a picture with my phone of the old man cutting mikes hair. The shop was super ghetto too. His Christmas decorations are what you can see in the background, lol. He was a very nice old man but he didn't know how to cut hair. He said he had been cutting hair since he was 15.

You can see here the wonderful job he did. Mike had several different hair lengths going on there. It looked far worse in person. It was a great story though. We found the nearing great clips and went there for a second try on a hair cut. They did much better!

I really wanted to buy these but they were $20. I just couldn't justify that!

We are just being our usual silly selves.

What a stud!

All of us on the boat for It's a Small World.

Mike needs a baby!!!!!! He was so cute with Daphne!

I just love my face on this one! It was the real thing. We rode this ride right after we watched Fantasmic and right before we went home so it was pretty late at night and it was cold. Therefore, no lines! The cast members running the ride asked us if we wanted to go again so we went three times in a row switching off who was in front. I was the lucky one to be in front our last ride.