California Christmas

BEST VACATION EVER. It started out with Keith and I leaving church and heading out on the road. We drove and drove, stayed in a Motel 6 in Tucson, drove some more and made it to Los Angeles in 2 days. We decided to stay in L.A. for a while to go sight-seeing! We had never been there so it was exciting. First, we had some In-N-Out. I had eaten there before, but I didn't remember how it was, and it was Keiths first time. I thought it was okay. Keith thought it was good though!

After we got settled in our room, we got showered and ready to go out on the town. First we went to the Graumanns Chinese Theater with the Walk of Fame. It was so cool! We got to see footprints and hand prints of Christopher Walken, Shirley Temple, JOHNNY DEPP, and even Darth Vader! We walked down Hollywood Boulevard and Keith bought me a souvenir Oscar that says "Wife of the Year." SO awesome. I'm going to put it in our Hollywood room. :D For dinner we went to the Hard Rock Hollywood. We have to go to every one of them! lol

The first family stop we made was to my brother Jason's house. It was nice to see everyone there. My nephew David was there and we caught up with each other. He's my childhood best friend! Keith and I also got to meet our newest nephew, Kenzen. He's so cute. :D

The next day was Christmas Eve and we went to my other Brother Mike's house. We helped them wrap presents and eat cookies and such. It was fun! Christmas morning was fun to see the little kids open presents. We even got presents of our own! It was nice of Mike and Megan to do that for us. :D Later in the day Keith and I went to go see Bedtime stories. It was a good movie, but that theater had TERRIBLE service. Wow... We also got lost on the way back to Mikes house. It was an adventure!

The next 2 nights we stayed at Jasons house again. Keith played World of Warcraft with my little nephews and David and I goofed off like old times, making videos and putting googly-eyes on objects. hahaa...

Saturday was Jason and Terrie's big day. They got sealed in the Oakland Temple! We got up early and drove for 2 hours there. It was a lot of fun though. I really love the Oakland Temple, and this time I got to go inside for reals! I was so happy to see my family in there. :D We had a party afterward at Jason and Terrie's home and all my brothers and sisters were there! It's been years since that's happened. I loved it! Megan took our family pictures. I'm excited to see them!

On Sunday we said goodbye and traveled up to Rohnert Park to visit Elder Hyde - Keith's childhood friend from Tennessee. He is in the San Fransisco mission so we tracked him down and surprised him. They were really happy to see each other. It was great! I love surprises.

After church we drove all the way down to L.A. again. We got a motel right in between L.A. and Anaheim so we could have easy access to another day in Hollywood and a day in DISNEYLANDD!!! (But that will be in the next post.)

Our day in Hollywood was good because we were able to see everything in the day time. We ate at the Disney Malt Shoppe place across the Kodak Theater to get us pumped for the next day. After all of that, we decided to go on an adventure - to the Hollywood sign! We had tried last time, but got dead-ended. Sad. This time was a success. We drove all the way to the top of the highest hill closest to it, and we got AMAZING pictures. I was so excited.

The next day was Disneyland. To be continued... xD