Week of Heaven

I know, this is long overdue, but hey, I did it so give me some credit! :) Last week I went to California with the Lee's! It was such a great trip. Nice to relax and get away from everything for a while. So from where I left off last time, we woke up in Vegas and went to church that morning (I felt very underdressed...everyone dresses pretty flashy there...:), and got on the road to Anaheim that afternoon. A 4 hour drive turned into a 7 1/2 drive!! There was so much traffic going into California. I guess everyone had the same idea of spending the weekend in Vegas to try and win some money....Haha. The only good thing about that drive was we stopped at In N Out for dinner! Mmmm We finally arrived at our hotel at about 10pm, which I was super excited about. I was so tired of being in my car. We had a really nice 2 bedroom suite with a kitchen! We got all our stuff in the room, and then us girls went to the grocery store to get some food for the week (much cheaper than trying to eat out or at disneyland for every meal). Then we finally got to go to bed. :)

The next morning we got all ready and headed off to Disneyland! Our hotel was super close to the park so we got to walk over. We also all wore the same shirt! I spent the night before we left making these shirts, and I think they turned out way cute. They had a picture of Mickey and his friends with the word "FamiLee" on them (the family I live with last name is Lee). The boys weren't really excited about wearing them at all, but we finally got them to put them on and be good sports for us. :) We met my Auntie Margie at the front so she could get me in while everyone else bought their passes. So we got inside, took our pictures:

and then got on our way to the rides! First we wanted to take some time to go on rides with Chase that he would like, so we went on Peter Pan. He screamed the whole time (I guess it is really dark the whole time, flying in a boat, and creepy fake people). Haha So then everyone decided that since I was only spending one day at Disneyland (they were going to be there 2 more days), that we would go on everything I wanted to go on! So we headed over to Space Mountain! As soon we had had gotten in the park that morning, Kaleb asked us over and over where the big marble ball that spun was. We didn't know, but we found it right in front of Space Mountain. So Kaleb got to touch the ball, and was very excited about it. :) As you all know, Space Mountain was pretty much awesome, the line wasn't very long which made it even better! And for those who don't know about the Baby Swap, it's really cool! If you have a baby with you, then you can pick up a baby swap card at the front of the line, then two people in your group take that card and wait at the exit while everyone else waits in the line and rides the line. As soon as they finish the ride, they pick up the baby, and those two people who waited with the baby get to go through the fast pass line! It's awesome. We then headed over to Indiana Jones (Jordon bought me a churro on the way over. I ALWAYS have to get a churro everytime I go to Disneyland! Mmmm). We also went on Pirates and the Haunted Mansion (Chase liked that ride). By that time, Kaleb had gone back to the hotel (he wanted to ride his skateboard rather than be at Disneyland....kind of odd I think), Lyndon, Stephanie, and Monica wanted to go back to the hotel too, so Jordon, Andrew, and I hung together the rest of the day! We went over to California Adventure and got some dinner at Winery Italian Restaurant (which was really good, but more money than what I wanted to spend). Our last rides of the day were California Screamin

My face at the end of the ride....:)

and Tower of Terror! (Best ride ever!) Even though it was only 7pm by that time, we were all just so beat tired, I had ridden the rides that I wanted to go on, and very satisfied with my day at Disneyland! When we got back to the hotel, Andrew and I went and worked out at the hotel gym, and bummed around watching TV the rest of the night. It was a very good day. :)

Andy Bernard: We have such a roller coaster thing, Karen and I.
Jim Halpert: Excuse me?
Andy Bernard: Roller coastery friendship. Hot, cold, on-again, off-again, sexual tension-filled type of deal. It's very Sam and Diane.
Jim Halpert: Wow.
Andy Bernard: From Cheers.
Jim Halpert: Yep.