SPRING BREAK...RETURNING ONCE AGAIN TO CALIFORNIA!!!
Since Kate is always looking for money making opportunities she offered to rub Grandpa's head...for a price haha
Liam took this pic:
Kate was BUSY during General Conference. Busy drawing portraits of everyone in the room. Then she spread them all over the floor and had a "For Sale" sign for them.
We needed some game time happening so Mom and Dad broke out Blockhead (truly a classic). This was Kate's final move with all of the pieces being used. Good job!
Monday we decided to head down to Knotts Berry Farm. It was a ton of fun (besides the fact that our cell phones died after splitting up the group and the "meeting" place was incorrectly understood). The cute part of that story is that Heather told Kate that they should probably pray to find us. Kate stopped then and there, put her head down and began. A few minutes afterwards, the group was reunited once again! By the way, the dude in red in this picture is Eli's best friend Connor.
I loved this ride like crazy. It was called Perilous Plunge I believe, but we just called it
"The Plunger"
Here's a clip of Eli and Connor going down the Plunger:
Here's what they looked like after:
Let me introduce you to a ride call the "Xcelerator". Eli and Connor really had to work their magic with talking me into riding this thing. It is extremely fast! This video shows the take off at the station:
This next clip is what happens once you leave the station (at this point your going about 90 mph):
Dad and Mom were having a good time too
We rode on the mellow train when we needed to calm down a bit from all of the thrill rides
This is JUNG (pronounced Young) who painted Chloe's initials while we were there. It was so cool to watch him use his small pieces of leather to do it.
Cute hot dog
We were all looking forward to this day when we drove to Newport Beach and spent the day basking in the sun. It was a perfect day.
Eli was pretty proud of his bed head
Off to Hollywood...it was a pretty interesting day
The kids were diggin' on seeing some of their favorite movie characters
...and holding a huge snake
Hey, Shrek even had a star in the walk of fame
We decided to drop by Chinatown while in Hollywood. This was one store that was pretty crazy-it was full of spices, teas, and animal body parts...all for sale
This is a hat that Liam bought but that Eli couldn't resist wearing
So we run into this dude playing live music on the streets of Chinatown. You couldn't help but love this guy, and his talent of playing so many things at the same time (check out the clicker things he's doing with his feet!). In this clip, the guy gave Eli some rhythm sticks to play along with him. Recognize the song? There are awesome people everywhere-even in Chinatown.
Eli and Conner were dying to see "Titanic" re-release in theatres in 3D. I must admit, it was pretty cool to see.
We decided to go to Laguna beach down by Eric and Jenny's house for the morning and afternoon before going over to their house for Andrew's bday.
So jealous of the MV Peel's backyard-the kids loved it!
Andrew mentioned that he had a pair of pink onesie pajamas. I didn't believe him until he showed up a few minutes later with this on...
The view from thier kitchen window...Our view is the side of a neighbor's garage that's falling apart.
Oh yes, almost forgot to mention that Eli stepped on a sharp rock at Laguna and Heather had to go into doctor mode and help him out.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot to mention one of the greatest things about our vacation: The breakfast buffet which was always sitting out when we got up each morning-Yum!
The trip was awesome and before we knew it we were driving back to Utah. Thanks Dad and Mom for letting us crash your house and for all of the great food you provided. Can't wait until next time...
