You gotta have some driving in the car pictures, don't you?
We had a great time in California! It was a fun trip! We went with my friends, Carrie and Rodney. *who are hoping to adopt ! If you know of anyone considering adoption, feel free to pass-along their information!* Carrie was one of my first roommates back when we went to Snow College back in 1997. I know. Sheesh, I'm getting old! But we have been BFFs since! I love her to death!
Dustyn and I drove down to Vegas on Thursday afternoon. We arrived around 3:00PM and got to check out Carrie and Rodney's new house! Very nice by the way! Carrie got out of school around 3:30PM and we hit the road. We actually went to dinner first at Cafe Rio. Yum. Then we hit the road around 6:00PM. I have no idea what we actually did during the entire time, but it was fun!
We arrived at our hotel in Anaheim, CA around 10:30PM or so. I don't really remember, but it was kinda late. Our hotel was nice! It was 0.5 miles away from Disneyland, so that made it nice. It had a really nice pool, hot tub and a yummy breakfast. I totally want to stay there again! We were in a Queen Suite so the room had a full kitchen (not that we needed one). I think we finally made it to bed around midnight or so.
Friday we got up and going and ate breakfast. We headed to California Adventure first. Of course, we had to head to Hollywood Tower of Terror.
I love Halloween in Disneyland!
Carrie kinda blends in.
One of many goofy picture of Dustyn. You really shouldn't give me a camera!
C is for Carrie!
(I took this picture for CamRee and Hadi. I wish they could have been there to see it instead. :( )
C-A-L-I-F-O-R-N-I-A
YAY!
The Gang! Except for the coolest picture taker ever!
Like our ziplock bags to protect our electronics? Nice.
Halloween Time! They had "candy" music playing. It was fun!
The World's Largest Candy Corn.
Yes, I have lot of pictures of Dustyn. He's cute.
"Why so many pictures?" he asks.
I know! A picture of me! In front of the Haunted Mansion. (Of course it has been revamped into The Nightmare before Christmas. It was pretty cool. But you have to miss the old one a little.
Here we are together! Jack in the background sitting on the pumpkin. My aim is off.
Dustyn is thinking... ZERO days until Christmas? Whatever.
We're excited!
Bored waiting in line.
Dustyn messing with settings on my camera.
And taking crazy weird pictures of me. Oh well. (Like my Mardi Gras beads?)
Hmmm....
Jack and ... whoever that is. Guess I should brush up on my Nightmare Before Christmas Trivia. Whoops.
We had loads of fun! We have a lot of random pictures (as seen above. And below!)... mostly while we were waiting in lines. It really was a great weekend in the park. Not too many lines. I think the longest we waited in any line was like 45 minutes. The weather was great (a little warm for us) and we even saw Howie Mandel. Twice! I know. We are sooo lucky! We went on Splash Mountain three times. The first time, we all got completely soaked. The wettest I have ever seen anyone get off that ride... I am so not kidding. I was HILARIOUS! We were basically soaked before the big drop! How does that happen? Either way, it did. It was crazy and I about died laughing my butt off. (yes, that happened NUMEROUS times on the trip. It was great!) The second time we didn't get wet (the people with us were too lite), so we tried again. Luckily we got matched with a few people who weren't sticks. It worked that time. It was SO funny.
A before pic.
Another before pic. Not much better.
Oooo... getting closer...
Closer ...
There is the first drop! Yeah, by then we were soaked. But I was trying to save my camera from getting soaked. I didn't think we'd get too wet so I didn't put it in the ziplock bag. Wrong.
After. Too bad you can't see how wet we really are. It was completely crazy!
The first time. I love it.
Here we are! There are a few dry spots. I had no idea there were any!
The second time. Making faces of course!
And the last time. We are dorks.
We had a blast and all the rides were great. We obviously had a blast on the Buzz Lightyear ride. After the first time, we started pulling faces on all the rides. It was great! And you know what is the COOLEST ride ever? I loved it! The Toy Story ride in California Adventure! It was so fun! I totally enjoyed it. I think that was the longest line we waited in, but it was so worth it. It is similar to the Buzz Lightyear ride, but 3D and interactive. It is awesome!
Getting ready for Toy Story. Or maybe after. Who knows.
Day Dreaming... or maybe Night dreaming in line.
Some more waiting.
Cheese!
And again!
So serious Dustyn! I mean we are about to get on the coolest ride ever!
Maybe I squished too hard.
Anyways, it was a perfect weekend. Except for my poor feet. Sheesh! I didn't think they would ever be the same. But they felt much better on Sunday and today they are almost back to normal. On Friday night, Dustyn and I went and sat in the Hot-tub and swam. It was SO nice! The hotel's pool was open 24 hours a day and is outdoors. It was after 11:00PM when we went swimming. It was completely peaceful and relaxing.
Waiting in line again. I think that Rodney was probably getting a little annoyed by my fabulous picture taking! ha ha. Just teasing. Dustyn was!
See... I told you! He kept closing his eyes. :P
Everytime! That is just mean!
Rodney. I'm not sure what his face is saying here.
Dustyn and Rodney's pal.
Again! Just ONE picture with eyeballs!
Rude! So I stuck my tongue at him.
And again! Come on Dustyn!
More lines!
Making more faces!
The boys. The girls were playing with the cameras.
Carrie and Rodney getting ready to get on the service elevator on the Tower of Terror.
Dustyn, the artist.
Here we are in front of Grizzly Bear Peaks.
They were totally lying. They may be the happiest place on earth... but they sure don't use Quilted Northern. I was wishin' though.
Dustyn thinking in the Beast's study.
It's not a trip if you don't see Mickey Mouse!
After all this fabulous fun, we left Disneyland about 7:00PM or so on Saturday to head for home. It was a long drive home, but we arrived in Vegas around 1:00AM. Luckily we gained an hour in there somewhere. :) We stayed at Rodney and Carrie's house that night and went to church with them on Sunday. After church, it was back to Utah.It was a fun vacation and it just made me want to go again and spend more time!
Thanks Carrie and Rodney! We had a blast!
(hopefully you can make sense of all my pictures since they are just randomly thrown in there.)
