Day 7: Disneyland

We tried to ride Space Mountain first...it shut down and everyone was evacuated right when we reached the front of the line.

We then went to the Matterhorn- it was closed for repairs.

Then we tried Thunder Mountain- the ride broke down while we were on it leaving us stranded for 10-15 minutes before a cast member came to get us. (we did get free ice cream!)

After that we headed to Indiana Jones- it was far from a smooth ride, stopping when it shouldn't and such. But we made it through...the ride closed soon after we got off.

After that everything went smooth :)

Here's one of my favorite shots- Main Street, USA at night.

Day 6 Adventures

At the San Juan Capistrano Mission there is a fountain. Within the fountain are fish. There is a particular fish who does not like Adam. As Adam simply pointed his finger at the fishes on brought its head above the water, opened his mouth, and spat water at Adam- twice! It was awesome. Here's Kurt trying to recreate the episode:

The Getty was awesome! They had an entire section of ridiculously old books with actual gold letters, intricate drawings, fancy writing that is pretty much illegible, and many were written in Latin- I had fun trying to decipher a word or tow. Unfortunately one quarter of Latin means I'm far from being a Latin language expert. Here's a picture of the museum:

Our last event of the day was attending a Dodger's game. I tried to take a picture of the big-screen-score-board-thing and here's what happened:

The screen went blank right as I took the picture. I was trying to get this:

They have a player named Salazar! Anyone a Harry Potter fan?



Look! It happened again! (the second picture didn't turn out too well)

Does this mean I have horrible or excellent timing?

Day 5

I killed everyone in a game of Settlers. Thanks, Adam, for not watching the board and helping me win faster.

This wasn't my favorite picture day, so enjoy a preview of Day 6:

Days 3 and 4: SF and LA

We met a few celebrities:

The most awesome celebrity we saw all day? Why Tori Doyle of course! Never heard of her? Well, there is a song about her!

Day 2: San Francisco

Kurt and I attended a Giants' game in San Francisco. That's a baseball team if you don't have every sports team memorized (I totally do). Apparently the team is doing pretty well this year and they have quite a few fans. We arrived about halfway through the game and had to pay $40 for two standing-room-only tickets. Here's the stadium:

Kurt was excited to be there!

We also saw some sights:  Golden Gate Bridge

Fisherman's Wharf:

The Painted Ladies:

And it was super foggy/overcast the whole time!

Vacation Day 1: San Francisco

We arrived in San Francisco around 10:30pm. We went straight to our hotel, The El Camino Inn where we proceeded to check in. The lady at the front desk, after looking at our reservation, asked, "Are there only 2 of you?". Yes. Only two. We got our key and proceeded to our room. This is (kind of) what we saw:

Then we went a little further...and found a door:

And what was inside?

Why another room! A kids' room. We had reserved the 'family' room. Whoops.

Recently

This past Monday up in Anacortes I was in the middle of preparing 3 or 4 different meals for the twins, and I..er..had to use the restroom. But I couldn't really abandon the stove. Anyways, Lili walks over to me and asks, "Chew, are you doing the bathroom dance?" I'm laughing now as I type, but in the moment I simply turned to her and said "yes" without cracking a smile. Lili promptly informed me "you shouldn't hold your urine. It's not good for you". Thanks for looking out for me Lil!

Tonight Kurt and I went to O'Dea High School's football game. Why? A friend from Kurt's youth is now assistant coaching (and teaching) there. The team had no cheerleaders which confused me for a moment until I recalled that O'Dea is a boys only Catholic school. Then it made sense. I mentioned this to Kurt who informed me O'Dea had students from the girls' Catholic school, Holy Names (really? that's a school name?), cheer for a while but stopped because they were harassed too much...that kind of made sense too. The entire game was filled with me asking random questions about football, how all boy/girl schools worked, and commenting on how weird it would be to attend high school downtown in a big city. I guess it worked though because O'Dea won 28 to 13. My incessant questions definitely won the game :)