California

It is so beautiful here! I love California! My plane here lost one of my bags which turned out to be okay since I could hardly carry another bag anyways!! They did deliver it to my hotel later. And Nic missed his connecting flight because his first flight was delayed so I had to find my way to the hotel alone! I cried when I found out....I didn't want to get here and be alone! LA is HUGE! But everything worked out alright in the end. We went to Manhattan Beach our first day here. It was hot and beautiful. We did some window shopping, walked along the beach, went to a cool little aquarium and just relaxed. We got a delicious and beautiful cupcake and an amazing bagel too!! Oh and they have Jamba Juice here so we have been getting delicious smoothies!!!

Yesterday we went to Universal Studios which was amazing! I got sick on the ride there because the bus driver drove like a maniac! Although it seems like everyone here drives crazy anyways! It was 86 degrees yesterday so we were SO HOT when we were at the park! It was so cool! We went on a tour of the studios and saw where they were making movies. We saw old movie sets and Wisteria Lane where Desperate Housewives is filmed!!!!!!! That is hands down my favorite show ever! :P We went on this "ride" thing where there was a 360 degree screen in 3D of King Kong. It was intensely awesome! We saw where they filmed the War of the Worlds airplane crash scene. It was kinda creepy!

We did a lot of souvenir shopping, although we didn't buy much because everything costs so much! I got Dip n Dots for the first time and it wasn't as good as I thought it was going to be. We also went on The Mummy ride which made me so sick! It was a sweet roller coaster ride though! My brothers Micah and Josiah and maybe even Dad would have loved it! We went to a special effects show and then our favorite, the water show! It was this live show with incredible stunt actors who jumped off tall buildings into the water, shot guns, things exploded (for reals), they drove boats and jet skis and even flew in a plane!! There was one jet ski thing that went underwater! It was so freaking cool! Absolutely brilliantly fantastic! Needless to say by the end of that day we were EXHAUSTED! I got even more sick on the bus ride back. I swear no one knows how to drive!

We walked around outside the hotel for a bit so I could get some fresh air. We were also trying to find a place to get food but there are really only restaurants in the hotels and they are way too expensive. We found a Subway though and got some sandwiches and cookies and went back to the hotel. We watched Bruce Almighty (so funny!!) and ate our food and then passed out!

Today we are going back to Manhattan beach and just relax! We take a trolley there. It's only $5 round trip! Then we are going to a huge shopping center to look around!! Tomorrow it's on to Hawaii!!