Marathon at Disneyland

We just spent two wonderful days at Disneyland!  We had the chance to be with Jared and Amelia as they were moving to Fort Lewis in the beautiful state of Washington from their home in the beautiful state of Arizona.  Jo and I are still here working in San Diego.

  

So we got up and were at the main gate by 7:30 am to check Henry into the Disney home for dogs and then we played all day long and got home at 11:30 pm.

We were getting ready to ride the Indiana Jared ride..I mean the Indiana Jones ride.  When Jared worked at the ride we called him Indiana Jared.  He also worked the Jungle Cruise and the parades and the Opera House and lead tours for Junior High students and taught Disney Traditions.  Amelia spent a lot of days inside the Disney costumes including Pluto, Buzz Lightyear, a lion ( I don't remember the name) and many other characters.  She has practically grown up at Disney.  All of her family has worked there at one time or another and her sisters still work there.  We estimated she has been there at least over a thousand times and maybe closer to two thousand.

Henry got to stay in Dog Heaven while we walked all over the parks.  He is so cute and was very good.

  I have lots of fun taking our pictures holding out the camera.  It's a guessing game and luckily most of them turn out OK!

 

   We had a blast.  It was so much fun we got up the next day and did it again, although not as early and not staying as late.  And we had our picture taken with Mickey.  Amelia's sister Amy was one of Mickey's helpers and was very nice to be a part of our picture!

Jordan's Visit

Jordan has been working in Hawaii and decided to come home early to get ready for school.  We convinced him to fly to San Diego (it wasn't hard) and stay with us for a few days.  We had a great time. 

 We went out to the Hotel Coronado to get some ice cream!

 Then we went to La Jolla beach and watched the surf and the seals on the beach.  Real lazy animals but pretty cute.

 We went for a hike and played in the surf at Torrey Pines Beach

 And then he drove one of our cars home so Jo didn't have to drive it.  Sweet!

Sea Lions and dolphins are entertaining!

I found this short video of the sea lions in their feeding cage.

And then there are the dolphins.  The show was great!

SeaWorld, Shamu, Sea Lions, Oh My!

If you are ever in San Diego you have to go to SeaWorld and see all the amazing shows.  And that is just what we did last Friday.  

  For one of the shows I was called out of the crowd to assist in the 'feats of strength'.

 They are opening a new sea turtle exhibit and we found a friend there.  It was just like watching the turtles in Nemo.

The killer whale program was great!  They had five whales that performed.  The best was the mother and her little one which followed every move it's mother made.  

 

 The sea lions and the tiny otter always put on a great show. 

 

 We also watched the feeding of the seals and sea lions (and the sea gulls).  One girl right next to me had a fish in her hand and a sea gull flew right up and took it out of her hand.  And it's wings hit me in the face!

 The funnest part of the whole trip is that we paid a little more for our ticket and got 'Premium Passport Reserved Seating' at all the big shows.  We had perfect seats!  Ha! Ha!

 

Fun with the grandchildren

Just before we left Utah to come to San Diego we went bowling with Lori and Adia and Gavin.

We had a great time.  We miss them already.  

We are on the move again.

We are now living in San Diego!  Rick accepted a new position with General Atomics and is working at their facility here.  In a few months we will return and Rick will be working at Dugway, UT for the company.  It is a great job and we are excited. 

 As you can see we love going to the beaches and watching and hearing the surf.  The weather couldn't be better.  We feel bad hearing about all the rain and snow in Utah.
 

One of our first trips was to the Mexico border.  We ended up at an outlet mall and found some new work clothes.  It was weird to see the border right behind the stores.  And we were the one of the few that spoke English. Most of the workers spoke both Spanish and English.  It was fun for Rick to hear the spanish again.

New Shower Door

We finally got our shower door installed and it is awesome. It is a great looking glass door. It is hard to remember what the old shower looked like. I am very excited on how it all turned out.