Anniversary Trip! Part 2

Part 2: Disneyland!

Disneyland was by far the best part of our trip! No surprise there :)

It was hard for me not to complain at first. There were so many people. August is probably one of the most busiest months for Disneyland, I would say.We had to walk really slow because all the people were pretty much shoulder to shoulder. We also Had to wait in line for at least an hour for each ride. But even with all of that, It was still SO fun!

We didn’t figure out until the last day that the best time to come was right when the park opened. We had taken our time on the other 2 days, and we didn’t get there until 12. We found out that getting there early, and using fast passes is the best way to go.

We LOVE Disneyland! So much fun!

Bugs Life

This was one of my favorite “rides” Character animation. They teach you how to draw Disney characters

Creeped out face on “it’s a small world”

Watching a show and fireworks :)

Pirates Lair

part of a parade going down main street

and here are some videos. At the night shows they did in Disneyland and California Adventure, they used water and lights. It was so cool to see, because they also fanned out water and projected movies/images on them. So cool! We also saw Aladdin in California Adventure. it was a play, and it was Amazing. A must see!

Yes we thought “it’s a small world” was a little on the creepy side, but everyone has to do it once right?

ok, ok, I know. You’re probably already tired of all these videos, but I only have 3 more.

first, Aladdin

Next, Turtle Talk with Crush the Turtle, which was so cool and fun!

Last, part of a show we saw in Disneyland at night

Just watching these videos and looking at the pictures, make me wish I was still there right now! :( Disneyland was so fun and we loved every minute of it! I only wish the days hadn’t gone by so fast.

Anniversary Trip! Part 1

Alright, well, I’ll warn you right now. these posts are going to be long. I am going to separate them into parts.

We left on Tuesday of last week, and checked into our hotel in L.A. Then we headed to Hollywood Boulevard to go to Guinness Book of World Records, Ripley’s Believe it or Not, and The Hollywood Wax Museum.

My favorite!

Creeper.

That night we ate at a tiny Italian restaurant close by.

That was the end of day one! Day two we went to Universal Studios. It was also a very fun day! They have a few new things there we hadn’t seen before.

Waiting in line face.

No!

due to my impatience about waiting in line and the hot sun, Hans insisted that he buy me a frozen lemonade (actually cherry limeade) I told him no, because it was 4 stinkin dollars for a little frozen lemonade, but being the good husband he is, he bought it for me anyways. It sure made the wait a lot more bearable.

Happy :)

That’s all for now. I’ll post more later.

Camping!

Last week, was a week of camping. Now, since all of Hans’ family already knows, it’s fair to say that I don’t like camping. bugs, dirt, animals, sleeping in tents, not my thing. yes, I feel like a wimp. But I have come to grips with the fact that everyone has their own things that they don’t like. It really does bug me that I act like such a girl, and I can’t just be a man and “rub some dirt in it”. haha.

Nonetheless, I had a really good time! And I’m glad that I married into such a fun family :)

We left on Tuesday and came back on Saturday. After setting up camp, we just hung out. Most of the week we spent doing things like: Reading, going on small hikes, picking huckleberries (wild blueberries), having campfires, singing campfire songs, and much more!

We had a really great campsite and it was only a short walk to the lake, which was really pretty.

One of the days down at the lake I fed one duck and 15 minutes later, about 12 ducks were wanting food from me, haha. I guess word spreads fast.

 

Hans’ family also has a canoe, which we got to ride on.

Here I am with my nieces Kyla and Avery, Steph and Curtis’ girls :)

Our air mattress filled up almost the entire tent :)

All in all it was a good trip, and we all made it safely there and home.

Oh! and I also found a cool looking fuzzy Caterpillar that I gave to Julia my niece. We didn’t think it was poisonous, but after she had been playing with it for a week, we started wondering why she kept getting cuts on her fingers. She showed us her arms and she had a lots of mosquito bites that itched. ummmm, but they were definitely too big to be mosquito bites. almost the size of half of a dollar bill, on a little girl.

Well, we looked it up online, searching through pictures and matching them up with the caterpillar, and guess what?? It was poisonous. It had been stinging her and she had gotten hives all over. after taking a good bath and taking some Benadryl, she is back to normal. Sandy made sure that that thing was destroyed. ha. I guess I'm not as good of an Aunt as I thought I was!

Those dang bugs and animals. I think they are fun to look at, but keep them away from me.

Tomorrow we are leaving for LA! first is Ripley’s Believe it or Not, then one day at Universal Studios, 3 days at DISNEYLAND, one day at a San Diego beach including cooking over a campfire, and 2 days at Sea World! nice hotels, eating out, lazing around, now that is my kind of trip.

$100= 8 nights at hotel suites  $100= food (we have gift cards, that we got for way cheap) the most expensive thing we bought were the Disneyland tickets, and we already had universal studios tickets. this could easily have been a $2,000  trip, but we are doing it for WAY less than that!

We are way excited! As good as our honeymoon was, this is probably going to be way better. Happy Anniversary to us! :)