“Rise and shine Mark Streich!” Nick Amatangelo squealed in delight as he woke me from my sleep. “I wanna get to the Magic Kingdom right now! Get up! Let’s go!”

    The Magic Kingdom was probably the most exciting theme park that I visited at Disney World. We arrived and it resembled everything you could imagine from a Disney television commercial. Disney characters were hopping around, and even the giant Cinderella Castle was in the center of all the action.

    “Yeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaah dudes were gonna go on every flippin ride in this whole park! Hey little kid, get outta my way!” screeched Nick Delmurro being his rude but rather entertaining self as he shoved a kid who cut in line out of the way. We did in fact ride on almost every ride in the park that day. We went on a log flume ride, a Jurassic Park ride, and many others. However, one ride stood out as the funniest ride in the whole week at Disney. We had caused havoc in many people’s days on other rides, but this one made many people reinforce their stereotypes about teenagers. It was a ride called the “Tower of Terror,” and it happened to be the highlight of our day. We kept screaming on the way through the long lines to the ride and made people complain. Some of my friends really enjoyed that part. However, the real fun started when I found out halfway through the ride my friend had his pockets filled with mulch, and for a reason.

    If you aren’t familiar with the ride, it’s like an elevator that goes up rather quickly, and drops back down faster than gravity pulls it naturally. It then repeats itself until you are nauseous, which is the amusing part. Since the fall from the top of the ride is quite high, objects become weightless in the falling room. As we fell, my friend spread out the mulch evenly around the room while everyone watched with amazement. The mulch was levitating.

     “Check it out dudes! YEEEEAHHH! Mulch time!” my undisclosed friend screamed as we reached the bottom of the drop and quickly reversed direction. All the mulch crashed down on everyone, including an old couple in the back who were not happy at all. I couldn’t have been laughing harder at the sight of everyone covered in mulch. That is, until we repeated the ride and my friends brought a few biscuits and butter instead of mulch. The end result of that was the funniest on ride photograph you could ever see. Simply, it was a group of teens doing what they like to do. Unfortunately, we lived up to the stereotype that groups of teens cause trouble, but the fun we had made it all worthwhile.

    This week at Disney changed my life because it showed me what fun you can really have when you are with the group of friends that suit your personality. I wasn’t following a group of people just because I thought they were cool. I went with this group around all the parks because they did the kind of things I thought were fun, like being mischievous. We were simply a bunch of sneaky teenagers having some fun, and that was what I enjoyed the most. This trip was made absolutely priceless due to the countless things my friends and I were part of that should have had us expelled from the park. But in the end, I realized that when you are with your friends, you can think much more mischievously, have much more fun, and explore new possibilities you wouldn’t be brave enough to try out otherwise.