We started out our summer with an amazing trip to California. We left the day after graduation/last day of school. I had gone to the senior all night party and gotten home at 2:30am, so I was pretty tired the next day on our way there. We took our 15 passenger van with Dad, Mom, Peter, Karla(my friend), Me, Mara, Leah, Joshua, Maria, Gaby, and Emma. The numbers are slowly shrinking, but it makes the ride there a little more comfortable. We got to California Saturday night, went to church on Sunday and went to Sixflags Magic Mountain on Monday. Peter was the only one who had been there before, so he led the way to all the rides.
Before the rides.....
Na na na na na na na na...Batman!!!
After the rides...
Although we had a blast at Sixflags, it was quite the exhausting adventure. By lunch time we were all super exhausted and ready for lunch. We met by the van for lunch and ate sandwiches. Emma was sumer insistant that we all go and ride the swing ride together. The swing ride consists of sitting in a swing that lifts you up in the air and spins you in a circle. Lets think through this....huge big roller coasters throwing you all over the place, then you eat sandwiches and go on a swing that spins you in circles....not such a good idea. Both Karla and I ended up feeling super sick and didn't go on any of the big roller coasters after lunch. We hung out with Emma for a while and then got frozen lemonade while we shopped around and paid a guy to draw this....
Pretty much its sweet. After Six flags we went to in n' out where we got some heavenly animal style burgers, shakes, and fries. Yumm!
On Tuesday all of the kids left to go to the beach. It was pretty cold with the wind blowing, but the water was freezing! We collected a lot of shells, tanned a little bit, and played in the water a lot. After a couple hours we headed back to Grandmas to shower, go to the 99 cent store, and head over to Ita's for dinner. On the way to Grandmas I noticed that the back of my knees were hurting really bad. After I got out I twisted around to look at my legs and someone pointed out that I had burned them really bad. I have a very drastic line of where my shorts were and the back of my legs are now as dark, if not darker, than the front. Its hard to tell in the picture, but they were extremely burnt.
Before we left California, we visited a lot with family, and took a picture of those that were at Ita's house. Karla took the picture and she kept counting funny which made all of us kids bust up laughing. I have to point out though, that in this picture we caught Ita smiling! Its almost a miracle. We had a blast visiting California. It was definently a trip worth taking.
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Joshua looks like he is in a dress...but its a cool pose.
Whoot whoot! First strike pose.
Its super blurry and hard to read so I will tell you the scores:
And this is my losing face.
