Trip to Spokane

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Reagan, Gwyn & Kelsey

First off, I’d like to give a heart-felt thank you to Pete & Sally and Gina for their hospitality and for inviting us! I was emailed a month or more back from my big sister, Gina, to see if we could join them for their second child, Kelsey’s baptism. Rachel and I discussed it and decided that would be fun and we accepted. Rachel’s dad, Pete, lives up there as well and offered to put us up for the weekend. It was a great weekend!

We were able to arrange the time off and packed up the van with our clothes, supplies and Lexie and left around noon on Friday, the 30th. We take I-15 north to where it meets up with I-90, near Butte, Montana. It’s a pretty lengthy drive and it seemed like every few miles there was a 5 mile stretch of construction. Problem was there wasn’t any actual road work going on! Just blocked off sections of the freeway. A couple of sections where they brought north and southbound together on one side. I think there was one section where the road was actually tore up but still no workers present. They lowered the speed limits from 75 to 35. Otherwise, it was a decent trip. We made it in just over 12 hours.

Las Vegas Trip 2010

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adventure, Adventuredome, Circus Circus, Entertainment, fun, Hoover Dam, Las Vegas, Luxor, Main, Percy Jackson, Travel, vacation

Wyatt, of all people, wanted to visit Las Vegas this year. I put my money on the Lotus scene from Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief as to why he wanted to go so bad. Knowing that Vegas is not really a horribly great place for children, we decided to focus a lot of our time at Circus Circus and did a tour at Hoover Dam. If you’ve not been to LV in some time, Circus Circus has added Adventuredome. It’s a whole add-on building that houses an entire theme park! You can click on the link after reading to see more.

Circus Circus

We arrived in Vegas Saturday afternoon and stayed our first night in a small motel off The Strip to save some money. We were still pretty close to all the action, but it was a lot cheaper and had a swimming pool. We went into town and hit the Midway at Circus Circus. Wyatt played a lot of the games and we watched a cool circus act where a couple of guys juggled each other by their feet. Wyatt won a few prizes and some tickets. It being a holiday weekend, parking was atrocious! That was my least favorite part of the whole trip. It was also about 106 degrees the entire time!

Disneyland Trip – 2.0

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Disney @ Halloween

We were invited to join Dave, April, Ian, Debs and Jake at Disneyland to help celebrate Ian’s 4th birthday and a belated wedding celebration for Debs and Jake.

We had already been to Disneyland earlier this year in February as a treat from my Mom, who was having a birthday and wanted to treat us. People looked at us and scoffed wondering how we could be so rich to afford going twice. We really didn’t pay for the first time.

We were able to get really good tickets at Dream Vacation Builders. They were 5 day Park Hopper tickets at the price of 3 day tickets and they were even discounted further. We stayed 4 days and had a blast the entire time!

Disneyland 2009 Pictures!

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I’ve posted them on my Picasa account. Enjoy!

Disneyland 2009

Here are some more photos from my Mom’s Camera:

Disneyland 2009 – Mom's Pictures

Marini/Shumate Disneyland 2009

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California, Disney, Disneyland, fun, Main, memories, Travel, vacation

Wow! This trip was one for the books. As posted previously, Mom had this idea to help celebrate her birthday with her whole family at Disneyland. She ended up shelling out some big bucks to get us all out there. We had some help from my sister-in-law, Mary, to get some special discounts as she is a Southern California resident. Gina’s family and Mom got some two day/two park passes to enjoy the whole experience. We decided to spring for an extra day. The weather was perfect! A couple very brief sprinkles but either partly or mostly cloudy with temps around 70 were the order of the day. We also had a cool visit with Adria and her children, Sam and Sarah! It was great to see them again after so much time had passed.

High Score!

I kept updating my Facebook account with posts as to what was going on. Click the link to read through them. We took a ton of photos and will be posting them to my Picasa account later this evening. The drive to and from were perfect. Our Civic got upwards of  40 MPG! Granted the way to Disneyland from Utah is mostly downhill, but still, for it not being a hybrid, well done!

If this post sounds a little uneven, I apologize. I should be asleep, not at work but I burned through all my time off.   I will try to endure. I will likely post more as I regain my strength and mental capacity.

I’ve noticed a huge spike in site visits over the past few days! To all those new readers, welcome and thanks for stopping in!

-Timmy