Week 5: Irvine Spectrum

As a present to my best friend after getting married, my mother decided to take her, her new hubby, my date, and myself to Dave and Buster's at the Irvine Spectrum for a day of fun. Together, the four youngest people won approximately 3,150 tickets. My mother is a goddess and won close to 5,000 alone. But she does that every time she goes to an arcade because she's magic. My date and I resolved that we were going to save our half of the tickets for something neat, like a food processor for 6,000 tickets. Either that, a plasma globe, or a lava lamp for our room because we're retro like that. Huffah!

Before dinner, my mom decided to go shoe shopping (every girl's love) while my date and I took a romantic ride on the ferris wheel during sunset. And by romantic, I mean mildly awkward as I tried to take selfies he didn't want because he hates taking pictures. I did manage to get a few good ones, mostly funny, and turned my focus to the scenery. The sun reflecting against the glass panes of the building windows was absolutely stunning. The warmth, and with all of the cool down light to serve as a tonal. Of course, all the street lamps and building lights are practicals, but we all knew that. The best practicals, however, were those attached to the ferris wheel, all lit up at one time! It circulated and had designs, but overall was just a giant headache. It was great.

And while all of these aspects of the Irvine Spectrum were wonderful, my favourite would have to be, by far, this up lit scary tree. How frightening! I was telling my mother how a lot of the time, people use up light if they're trying to scare someone, like a flashlight on someone's face during a ghost story while camping. So, why up light this sad dying tree? Her answer was that it scares kids into thinking the tree will throw an apple at them if they climb on it. So much yes.