Now that we are home and somewhat recooperated, I will tell a few things we missed. First off the second night of DL Dailynn fell pretty hard and skinned her knee and elbow. The first thing that she cried was "Now how am I going to play soccer?" We started laughing then the next thing to come out was "Now how am I going to walk?" We were reassuring her that she would be able to walk, that it wasn't the bone hurt, just her skin. This was followed by a hysterical "BUT I LOVE MY SKIN!!!" It was a long 10 min drive back to the hotel listening to her scream and cry about how her skin was lost and that it was bleeding and she was so sad. Luckily she fell asleep after a few min. Once we made it back to the hotel she started back in as if she hadn't even fallen asleep. I started cleaning it and she was screaming bloody murder. I was sure we woke up a few other people in the hotel because of it. If I tried to change the bandaids at anytime the rest of the week, it was another round of screaming about me taking her bandaids.
So on Friday we hit Sea World, and were quite surprised to sit in the splash zone at almost every show and we didn't get a drop of water on us. BUMMER!!! We were all so tired from the whole week that it was not as exciting as it should have been. I will say though that the best show was the Sea Lions Live. Well let me rephrase that, the preshow for SLL was the best. They just had this guy out there acting like he was cleaning things up. He started by squirting people with his bottle pretending to be cleaning, sneaking up behind people squirting them and stuff. Then he started pulling people out of the crowd and getting them to do stuff. Janina had her camera out so he pulled her up and had her pose. Then they pulled another guy up to put his arm around her to pose. The guys wife wasn't too happy, then they pulled up an African American girl up to be their daughter. Then he was "watching tv" with theme songs coming on and either acting them out our letting the audience sing them then turning it off so we kept singing. It was really a lot funnier than it sounds.
So we spent Friday night and Saturday driving home, and it was so nice to finally get here. The problem, we were going to Ephraim the next morning. We were going for one of the mission farewells that are going to the same mission. It was fun being with all the neices and nephews for an afternoon. I miss all of them, they are a lot of fun.
That's the end of the vacation, now where is my vacation?
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Small World
So we were in DL last night when we found out that Nathan's niece is going to the same mission as his brother 1 month later than him. The funny thing is that their older brothers both went to Brazil at the same time as well. What a crazy coincidence. Also, my brother's wife had her second baby yesturday. I am hoping to be able to stop by on our way home to say hi. Well Janina told me that she had a cousin get his mission call and another cousin have a baby yesturday as well. What are the odds.
Spring Break 2
Ok, so I left out a few great stories that happened not at DL, so here we go. We are traveling with one of my sister wives, Janina, her fiance, Zackary, and daughter Cassie. On our way from Las Vegas to CA we kinda got ahead of them. Not a big deal, but Cassie had potty issues (we will leave it at that), so they had to keep stopping. Well about a min outside of a major town (Bakersfield I think) Cassie says she needs to potty. Well, there was nothing around, so they saw a bunch of green roofs, so they figured there would be a gas station or something like that. They get there and it is a juvanile detention center on full lockdown. Janina and Cassie have to be buzzed through 3 doors, and have 2 gaurds sit outside the bathroom for them to even get through it.
We were trying to find dinner the second night of DL. We were so tired that we figured we would pick up some fast food on the way home from the park. We asked Avi what she wanted since Dai was out for the count. She said Del Taco and neither of us wanted anything to do with it. We rely on the GPS to fine one for us and get us there. We get their tacos and plug in an In-N-Out burger for us. We see that it is on the same street that we are on but start blindly following the GPS to get there. It starts taking us to the freeway to get on. We shoot that down and get on the street that we are on and tell it to recalculate route. It was about 3 blocks from where Del Taco was. After getting our burgers, we had to stop for some groceries so we could have lunch the next day. We Go to Albertson's because we know where it is. On our way back we pas a Del Taco that was closer that the other one, and is on the same street as Albertson's In-N-Out and our Hotel. If we would have only taken the time to go to the store first we could have saved ourselves a huge headache. California roads suck!!!!
So now we are outside of San Diego. We were going to go to Sea World this afternoon, but by the time we got here and situated we were all so exhausted that we just wanted to veg. We went down to the beach which is litterallly about 2 blocks from our hotel. We are EXTREMELY glad that we weren't planning on having the whole beach experience today because it was realy windy and this beach was not a play beach, it is more like the beaches you see people running on in movies and such. It had beautiful cliffs on the side and we just walked along the shore letting the water wash up to us.
Tomorrow, Sea World and the long trip to Vegas again. Wish us luck.
We were trying to find dinner the second night of DL. We were so tired that we figured we would pick up some fast food on the way home from the park. We asked Avi what she wanted since Dai was out for the count. She said Del Taco and neither of us wanted anything to do with it. We rely on the GPS to fine one for us and get us there. We get their tacos and plug in an In-N-Out burger for us. We see that it is on the same street that we are on but start blindly following the GPS to get there. It starts taking us to the freeway to get on. We shoot that down and get on the street that we are on and tell it to recalculate route. It was about 3 blocks from where Del Taco was. After getting our burgers, we had to stop for some groceries so we could have lunch the next day. We Go to Albertson's because we know where it is. On our way back we pas a Del Taco that was closer that the other one, and is on the same street as Albertson's In-N-Out and our Hotel. If we would have only taken the time to go to the store first we could have saved ourselves a huge headache. California roads suck!!!!
So now we are outside of San Diego. We were going to go to Sea World this afternoon, but by the time we got here and situated we were all so exhausted that we just wanted to veg. We went down to the beach which is litterallly about 2 blocks from our hotel. We are EXTREMELY glad that we weren't planning on having the whole beach experience today because it was realy windy and this beach was not a play beach, it is more like the beaches you see people running on in movies and such. It had beautiful cliffs on the side and we just walked along the shore letting the water wash up to us.
Tomorrow, Sea World and the long trip to Vegas again. Wish us luck.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Disneyland 1 (probably)
So we have just spent a WONDERFUL day at Disneyland. The girls were awesome, we got into 6 rides within our first hour and a half there. We go to most of the park, and are so glad we have 2 more days there. Tomorrow is finishing up the park and hitting California Adventure.
I know, who cares about all of this, I am just setting up for this story. So we were all starving and looking for dinner. We were within a block of the McDonalds (trying to go cheap, but it is across the street so nothing is cheap) when we get stopped by this person standing outside the Quizno's. She talks us into listening to a timeshare presentation because they are going to feed us for free, give us $100 Disney Dollars, and a ride in a Limo. We are so tired and hungry that free food and sitting for an hour and a half sounds WONDERFUL to all of us. Dailynn is completely zonked out in the stroller so she just doesn't care. We get in the limo with another family making 11 people in a 8 person limo, and starty the crazy forever drive to get the three blocks we were told we were going. My friend Janina who is with us on the awesome trip is just so excited to be in the most comfortable seat in her life and doesn't even care about the fact that we are in a limo at all, the seat was just perfect.
So we get to the hotel, go to check in and what we find out is that they are booked and so we aren't getting the presentation, or dinner. It is now 8 pm and we are all fading fast. We did get the consolation that we got $150 Disney bucks. While we were waiting for our disney cash, we are just people watching because that is all you can do when you are that tired. So first these two girls come push the elevator button and start making out or something. While doing what ever they were doing the elevator beeps, and they go closer to the door they are standing by. Meanwhile, the one next to it opens, waits for them, then closes. It's another 2 min before they realize that it is taking entire too long for it to get to them. The other girl pushes the button and complains to the first that she didn't push it, while the first insists that she has. They finally make it on and are gone. Not even 2 min later this guy comes up to push the button and for some reason he just can't find it. He is just pushing the wall not even a centimeter above the button about 10 times before he looks down and finally gets it. He makes it safely away from his hystericaly laughing audience. Then again not even 2 min later this old couple come to call the elevator again. Well it was waiting for them, so the door opens immediatly. They are just standing there laudy dahing until they realize thier elevator is closing and walk right up to it as it finishes closing. Then they didn't know how to get it back since it was gone. It was another second before they figured they could call it again, and the same doors opened up. Oh we were unable to contain ourselves by this point.
We have to wait for the limo to come get us, then the driver seams to be having a hard time getting us back to where we started but we finally made it. Finally we just walk into this buffet that seams reasonably priced. After getting our fill on the slim pickins, we go for the icecream. Avi wanted chocolate as always and Dai wanted twist. I got Avi's choc and then went for Dai's twist and all that came out was Choc. So then I try the vanilla and nothing comes out so I tell Dai there is nothing I can do and we go sit down. Zachary sits down just a few seconds after us with a bowl of twist icecream. He was in line immediatly after us so I am so confused. He said he did the twist and all was good. So now I don't know how to run an icecream machine.
We stuck around for just a few more min after dinner to watch the fireworks. Once we finally make it back to the car, we start driving away. We have this wonderful GPS that is being our saving grace for the trip because CA roads are so confusing. So we know we have to get on the freeway, and see a sign that says freeway entrance. Nathan jumps on it and when it is too late we realize we are going South when we are supposed to be going North. Luckily it was a quick turn around and we made it safely back to our room where we are crashing right now.
I know, who cares about all of this, I am just setting up for this story. So we were all starving and looking for dinner. We were within a block of the McDonalds (trying to go cheap, but it is across the street so nothing is cheap) when we get stopped by this person standing outside the Quizno's. She talks us into listening to a timeshare presentation because they are going to feed us for free, give us $100 Disney Dollars, and a ride in a Limo. We are so tired and hungry that free food and sitting for an hour and a half sounds WONDERFUL to all of us. Dailynn is completely zonked out in the stroller so she just doesn't care. We get in the limo with another family making 11 people in a 8 person limo, and starty the crazy forever drive to get the three blocks we were told we were going. My friend Janina who is with us on the awesome trip is just so excited to be in the most comfortable seat in her life and doesn't even care about the fact that we are in a limo at all, the seat was just perfect.
So we get to the hotel, go to check in and what we find out is that they are booked and so we aren't getting the presentation, or dinner. It is now 8 pm and we are all fading fast. We did get the consolation that we got $150 Disney bucks. While we were waiting for our disney cash, we are just people watching because that is all you can do when you are that tired. So first these two girls come push the elevator button and start making out or something. While doing what ever they were doing the elevator beeps, and they go closer to the door they are standing by. Meanwhile, the one next to it opens, waits for them, then closes. It's another 2 min before they realize that it is taking entire too long for it to get to them. The other girl pushes the button and complains to the first that she didn't push it, while the first insists that she has. They finally make it on and are gone. Not even 2 min later this guy comes up to push the button and for some reason he just can't find it. He is just pushing the wall not even a centimeter above the button about 10 times before he looks down and finally gets it. He makes it safely away from his hystericaly laughing audience. Then again not even 2 min later this old couple come to call the elevator again. Well it was waiting for them, so the door opens immediatly. They are just standing there laudy dahing until they realize thier elevator is closing and walk right up to it as it finishes closing. Then they didn't know how to get it back since it was gone. It was another second before they figured they could call it again, and the same doors opened up. Oh we were unable to contain ourselves by this point.
We have to wait for the limo to come get us, then the driver seams to be having a hard time getting us back to where we started but we finally made it. Finally we just walk into this buffet that seams reasonably priced. After getting our fill on the slim pickins, we go for the icecream. Avi wanted chocolate as always and Dai wanted twist. I got Avi's choc and then went for Dai's twist and all that came out was Choc. So then I try the vanilla and nothing comes out so I tell Dai there is nothing I can do and we go sit down. Zachary sits down just a few seconds after us with a bowl of twist icecream. He was in line immediatly after us so I am so confused. He said he did the twist and all was good. So now I don't know how to run an icecream machine.
We stuck around for just a few more min after dinner to watch the fireworks. Once we finally make it back to the car, we start driving away. We have this wonderful GPS that is being our saving grace for the trip because CA roads are so confusing. So we know we have to get on the freeway, and see a sign that says freeway entrance. Nathan jumps on it and when it is too late we realize we are going South when we are supposed to be going North. Luckily it was a quick turn around and we made it safely back to our room where we are crashing right now.
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