Sunday, July 27, 2008

Home Again

We arrived home on Friday after being gone for about three weeks. It was a good trip and we had plenty of time to visit friends and family. However, Scott was home alone for two of those weeks and he was thrilled to see at drive in and had dinner ready for us! I think the thing we all missed the most was our beds.

A few of the things we did included hiking up little Mt. Si and experiencing all kinds of weather from sun to rain, seeing fireworks on the fouth of July from the waterfront in Seattle, seeing Kung Fu Panda, mini-golfing once with the AF Thunderbirds flying overhead and once in the dark with glow in the dark balls, seeing Wall-E and driving 15.5 hours to get to our first stop in Oregon on our trip up.

The kids learned how to play Speed and at first I was the speed champion, but they all soon surpassed me. My fingers just aren't as nimble as they used to be.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Here's Zachary




Hi, I'm Zach!



Here are a few things about me. I'm eight years old. I used to not like roller coasters, but after riding Thunder Mountain at Disneyland, I'm learning to like them. I even rode this two seater arm ride at Legoland by myself! I'm the one on the left.

Making it to the next Level

After reading a few friends' blogs, I've decided to try my hand at putting our lives onto the web. We aren't a particularly exciting family, but maybe I will be more attentive to what happens around me so that I have interesting things to share.

We just returned from a whirlwind vacation weekend to southern California making the themepark circuit. We did the mongo day at Disneyland, another at Legoland and a short one at Sea World. Not my favorite way of doing it, but it is so expensive we have to make the best of it. Our favorite place was actually Legoland. It had shorter lines and more rides we could get on without waiting in a long line. It was so hot during the days we were there that the splash park at Legoland was a highlight. The kids also liked the Dragon roller coaster ride. I'm finding that as I get older the more motion sickness I feel on rides like that. But I did it once!