California-July 16-24

Saturday the 16th, Alice, Laura, her roommate Brook and I all left for CA. We spent the first evening with Alice's sister-in-law and her family in Apple Valley- much prettier name than place-near Victorville. We attended the musical Hairspray at the local college-Laura's cousin Paul was in it. We went to church and continued on.

Carol, Laura

Laura thought driving was boring, so we "created" towns along the way you can visit Lauraville and ride her plastic goats or Caroltown which is a lot more cool I don't remember why-guess you had to be there!

 Here we are at the fabric district. Brook and Laura got bored here pretty fast.

 Scary elevator from the parking lot to the fashion district.

 tried stuff on...

 bought stuff. 

The next day we went to Disneyland-We stayed from 8am till midnight and let me just say- The happiest place on earth is really happy with 4 adults and no kids! Look for me in the hot pink shirt in these photos, Alice in green, Laura in white and Brook in gray.

Laura

Look! We even got the people behind us happy!

 No one complaining, no one terrified  and everyone taking care of their own food, etc. I never thought DL could be this happy!

Waiting for splash Mountain to be repaired. When it finally did people had given up so we ran up the line and did it 3 times in a row!

Still happy after getting drenched!

What drenched hair does when it dries.

Thunder Mountain Railroad broke down so we scored 4 extra  fast passes-best break-down ever. The guy behind us was totally wierd though and we had to spend a little time with him before they got us out of the ride and yes he got in all our pictures.

Brook, Laura

Laura, Alice
16 hours and 23 rides. Still happy.

The next day we picked up Heather and Jake (they were on another trip in CA and got dropped off to us, yay!) and went to the glass cathedral. Then we tried to recover from Disneyland so we could hit the beach the next three days-first Corona Del mar with Alice's relatives, then Huntington, then San Clemente. The swimming pool and hot tub were also favorite beaches.

Laura's cousins

Brook, Laura

Jake, Heather

Heather, Jake

This is how Brooke and Laura were sun bathing. One wants to be safe, one wants a sunburn.

We all wanted to end the day with a shopping trip to Trader Joe's and Dinner at the Outback -so we did. The next day on the way home we went to church in Las Vegas with Gordon and Tammy. Whew.