So to celebrate this momentous occasion we decided to head down to southern California. My Uncle and Aunt live there and they were nice enough to let us stay at their house. It's only about a 5 hour drive - just a little bit longer than going to Salt Lake and it is soooo much fun. Not that Salt Lake Isn't - It's just I would like to go to California more.
On Friday my Uncle called his neighbor who works at Disneyland and he got us free 1 Day Park Hopper tickets with Fast Passes! SCORE! His name is Joe and he has one of the best jobs there! He is in a little band and they perform about every hour for 30 min. They go all over the park and dress up as different things. But he doesn't have to take pictures with a bunch of kids or clean up or stand there running the rides. He's worked there for over 30 years!
Friday
Joe in his Fireman Outfit
They had a lot of celebration things going on. I think it's their theme this year or something. You can get in for free on your birthday!
A newish ride. Yeah it was that exciting.
Tower of Terror. Yeah it was that exciting!
This was on Tom Sawyers Island. It reminds me of Pirates 2. I have never been on this Island before and it was one of my favorite places!
Again on the Island. They have all these cool caves - there are a ton of them!
Awe
We were waiting for our fast pass time for Indiana Jones so we decided to kill some time with this awesome ride! But it turned out that they were having technical difficulty with the ride so we never went on it. It's my favorite one too. Bummer. We also tried to get into the Blue Bayou restaurant (the one on the Pirates ride) but they were full. :(
Saturday
Uncle Judd, Aunt Cindy, Me and Dallin on the ferry at Balboa Island. Those Balboa Bars are delicious!
On a pier at Newport. We ate at the end of it on the top of the restaurant. It was so much fun!
Sunday
This is a really old Stake Center - it was built in the 20's or something but my cousin Christina goes to church there so we went with her. It is so beautiful inside. It has stained glass windows and huge vaulted ceilings and it's 2 stories with a basement.
The Greystone Mansion
This place was absolutely amazing! It's in Beverly hills and my cousin Christina found it one day by typing "park" into her GPS. Haha. There was a wedding being set up so we didn't get to go everywhere. But the grounds are just beautiful. Supposedly there was a Murder Mystery there.
This place was absolutely amazing! It's in Beverly hills and my cousin Christina found it one day by typing "park" into her GPS. Haha. There was a wedding being set up so we didn't get to go everywhere. But the grounds are just beautiful. Supposedly there was a Murder Mystery there.
There are a ton of movies filmed there including X-Men, The Holiday, Spiderman, Air force One, The Prestige and National Treasure just to name a few.
This fish needs a chiropractor.
This is at the J Paul Getty Museum
He was some billionaire (from oil) that collected a bunch of stuff and he wanted people to be able to see it for free so he made some museums that run themselves somehow. But everything was just gorgeous. The architecture, the gardens, the stone on the side of the buildings, the sculptures, the paintings and they had some cool photography.
He was some billionaire (from oil) that collected a bunch of stuff and he wanted people to be able to see it for free so he made some museums that run themselves somehow. But everything was just gorgeous. The architecture, the gardens, the stone on the side of the buildings, the sculptures, the paintings and they had some cool photography.
The Garden
Monday
My Uncle has a horse that he keeps about 5 miles away from his house. I'm just used to growing up in the country with horses so it's weird to see them in cities. But I guess his community is an old horse town and there are over 100 miles of trails so there yah go.
Uncle Judd - The Citified Cowboy
My Uncle has a horse that he keeps about 5 miles away from his house. I'm just used to growing up in the country with horses so it's weird to see them in cities. But I guess his community is an old horse town and there are over 100 miles of trails so there yah go.
Uncle Judd - The Citified Cowboy
This beautiful Lab is in "School" and for her "homework" she had to get used to being around other animals. They did pretty well. Buena was busy eating so she really couldn't care less about the dog but it was cute.
Buena meet Ellie, Ellie meet Buena
Buena meet Ellie, Ellie meet Buena
Then it was back to reality. So sad. I love vacations!
