Finally I am able to get a vacation in and I am loving it. I have had the opportunity to visit my brother in California...southern California that is. I arrived here on wed. the 8th and have been able to do so much. First of all I must say that Alden has the greatest in laws in the world. They are the funniest family that jokes around day in day out. I laugh all the time and I feel like I fit right in. If I could find a family 1/2 as amazing as they are for my future in laws I would be the luckiest. The day that I got here everyone had to work. Jeff (Emily's little brother) picked me up from the airport and on the whole drive in I was trying so hard to convince Jeff to go to the U of U. (Austin you should be proud of me!) Since everyone was busy doing work and all I had Jeff drive me to the grocery store and I bought all the ingredients for sugar cookies. Jeff was the most excited about the cookies. He ate 13 of them that day. Emily's father Peter let me borrow his bike and I road to the beach. It took about 2 and a half hours but I loved it. I went to Huntington Beach. I should have worn regular shoes though. The flip flops just did not cut it on the bike.
My sister and here friend Patty came in town on Thursday morning and we hung out at laguna beach at the sawdust festival and then at Huntington Beach. For most visitors parking is one of the worst things in California but I was having the best of luck at every stop. At Huntington though I pulled the best parallel parking. Angie and Patty will attest to that. The only problem was the fact that there was a pole on the passenger side and so it required for Angie to crawl over to the drivers side. i got pictures of it. I have never seen Angie laugh so hard. i thought that we were going to have to pay extra for the car rental for cleaning expenses.
We did make it to Disneyland and that was a blast. We planned it out just right. Even down to what we would eat for lunch and what line we would eat it in. We chose Splash mountain and Angie and Patty got chicken tenders and fries. i on the other hand wanted a turkey leg. These things are huge and I love them. i put the turkey leg in my purse (you can see the blue top of the turkey wrapping in the picture) and I got in line. I then pulled it out and started naughing on it. I got so many funny looks and I am sure that people were thinking that my eyes were bigger then my stomach. Sometimes they are but not when it comes to turkey legs. I ate the whole thing down to the bones. i even had a black man from about 10 people back work his way up to me and ask me where I got it. Got to love the turkey legs.
Overall it has been a wonderful experience here. i plan to bike to the beach on both Monday and Tuesday and play surfer bum. i have no plans but to read and bask in the sun. School starts in a week and I better enjoy the last few days. I will be working the rest of the week but believe it or not I love working since I do not do it full time now.
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