California Adventure

No, not Disneyland!  But still an adventure!  We went to California at the beginning of August to visit my Sister Rebecca and we had such a GREAT trip!  Ryan, unfortunately had to stay here and work. So we missed him terribly! (We also brought Danielle along too, since she was off track!)

here are a few highlights:

SIX FLAGS!  Can I just say, I WISH Lagoon was a Six Flags! I didn't know that there were so many things to do!  Rides, Animals, water fun, Animal Shows including Whales & Dolphins, Cotton Candy / popcorn buckets :)... the fun was endless!! 

The first thing we did was go to the Shuka Show!  Shuka is a huge Orka Whale that knows how to SPLASH!  We sat in the splash zone and um... got a tad more than a "splash!"  we got SOAKED!  It was so cool, Kate and Emily had never seen any kind of Animal show so they were SO excited!

Then after playing on some of the kiddie rides & splashed in the water a little, Kate got to Ride a real ELEPHANT!  Her name was Tava, and she got to ride it with Danielle and Macey. 

Later we went to see the Dolphin as we watched the show we ate a big bucket of Popcorn, Kate all the sudden realized she was chewing on her tooth, not a piece of popcorn! "I lost my tooth!" Oh... the excitement! Rebecca took the first two pictures seconds after she lost it!

Then Rebecca showed her the pictures...

"Ahh..." (sobing) "I look funny, I don't want to lose my tooth!" Oh... the horror! After realizing what she looked like and seeing / tasting the blood!

Priceless!  It's a memory that she'll always have of Losing her first tooth while watching the Dolphin show at Six Flags in California! :)

Here are some of us with cotton candy mouth, not to be confused with cotton mouth! At Six Flags they have this great deal, $10 for a bucket  and drink... both are refillable a day long, with the bucket you can choose Popcorn or Cotton Candy.  Braden and Trevor made it their personal mission to get each person at least 3 bags.  Man did we have our Fill!

At the end of the day Rebecca and I went and rode on the Medusa ride while Braden (17) and Trevor (14) watched the kids and took them on the Cobra.

This is Medusa -not the Cobra ride Kate went on. :)

Medusa was SO scary for the first drop and then it was SO MUCH FUN!  I was actually thinking, I can't believe how much fun I am having instead of absolutlely hating it!  I went on it 4 times.  I felt like a kid again, it was so great to spend some all out fun time with my sister, even if it was just for the last half hour until the park closed.

What a fun day!  I would have loved to wake up the next day and do it all over again!

The other big highlight was going to Bridgeport!   

We met my brother Dave there, he's from Reno, it was so great to see him and his kids too!!  

This is one of my Sister's families Favorite places to go! It's one of our favorite places to go now too!  The water is warm, and crystal clear!  With some rocks to jump off of and smooth ones to slide down!  If you are ever in northern Cali. you have to go!

Lindsey just LOVED sitting and splashing!  

And because we felt like we needed more swimming time, we went to the pool also.  Emily was so cute in the goggles that I couldn't stop snapping pictures!