California Trip - Part 1

Our trip started yesterday - we drove, and drove, and then drove some more! We stayed in Jean, NV, which is about 20 miles south of Las Vegas. Overall the trip went well. We stopped for dinner in Alamo - which seriously, has the best gas station EVER. We had corn dogs, chicken nuggets, hamburgers and ice cream cones. How much better can it get? Oh, it only cost us about $20 for all of us. Killer deal! Our favorite part when Ryker said (during a snow storm), "It looks like we're in space." Apparently the snow coming towards the car looked like we were traveling in light speed. I think he's watched too many Star Wars movies......

Today, we finished our drive to California. On the way, we stopped for some alien jerky in Baker, CA. Who knew alien jerky was super good? We also found some interesting aliens in a car and a spaceship. The kids thought it was pretty cool. Baker is also the home of the world's largest thermometer - which normally measure incredibly high temperatures.... except today, where it was topping out at 43 degrees. Brrrrrrrrr.



We arrived at Melissa's........ The kids were excited to get out of the car and enjoy running around. They were loving the 60 degree weather. They had a great time running and playing with their cousin Gage! Baili, Jett, and Gage came up to see us! It was nice to see everyone.




For dinner, Melissa and Hamid took us all out to Medieval Times. It was an exciting adventure! Everyone had a great time. We cheered for our knight (who happened to be the bad guy) - Gunnar stated that it was too bad there was a happy ending - since our knight was killed. It made me laugh. He always comes up with a different perspective than what I would think.


Now we're off to bed with visions of Disneyland dancing in our heads! The weather is supposed to be perfect and it should be a fun day!