Sunday, January 31, 2010

Winter Vacation 2009...Flagstaff, Lake Havasu. Los Angeles, and Thatcher!

Yeah... Winter Vacation was a crazy one. We were in Flagstaff for a week of it so Dave could finish up work. On Friday my sisters and Holli were able to come up, which was so much fun! We were going to all carpool down to Show Low on Saturday for our dear friend and old roommate's wedding! We spent Friday enjoying the Flagstaff weather. We went sledding and played in the snow and ice skating. I have some fun pictures of snow play, but unfortunately didn't get any ice skating.

Dave Zooming Down the Slope!


The Whole Group with our sleds!


We tried making a lying down snowman...


And this is our standing up snowman we made. It was so good that people were coming by asking us if they could take pictures with it! haha


Dave getting in trouble..


Brooke's random baby snowman with a... cigar??


Anyway, somewhere during that fun day I ate something that didn't settle well, yeah I got food poisoning. It hit me while we were ice skating and Holli stopped by Big 5 on the way home and I let out everything (so I thought) that was inside me. But no... there was more to come. Try having some sort of bodily export every two minutes till 4 in the morning. Needless to say I missed Jessica and Joseph's wedding :(. I really wanted to be there to support them. And I had to go to the hospital the next day because I was SO dizzy and needed fluids. They said my blood pressure was around 89/54... LOW! Well after that we went to Havasu and my laziness begins. Something about going home, where mom is there to cook, and I have no obligations, tired after a long semester, I just shut down! My family probably wonders how I accomplish anything when I am in school, but it is like I am a different person! haha. But for Christmas Eve and Christmas day we were able to go to Los Angeles to see Lance (my brother), and we had such a good time!

We got to go see a reconstruction of a buried Greek Villa from Pompeii. Lots of unique artwork and very pretty architecture!


A cool tile set up


Dave and I in the gardens area.


Titled "Head of a Young Woman"--haha. Good thing Brooke is much cuter than THAT young woman with beady eyes!


A cool shot Dave got there of rocks...


We also got to go hike the Hollywood sign!


Standing right above it


And to not put an end to our adventures, we got to go see the Grauman's Chinese Theatre where movie stars put there handprints and footprints.

I LOVE Shirley Temple! Look at her cute little feet and hands!


Dave with Jimmy Stewart's mark.


Oh yea, and we ran in to Justin Timberlake while we were there ;).


Well the 9 of us (oh yeah, did I mention there was 9 of us in an 8 passenger suburban with 3 guys over 6 foot?). Fun stuff. Anyway, we went back to Havasu and spent the rest of the week there.

Then Dave and I went to Thatcher to spend New Years with his family. We had such a good time playing games galore (they are my kind of people) and counting down to the New Year. We didn't take any pictures unfortunately, but we always have fun when we go down there. Dave's brother and sister-in-law, Tim and Cadie, took us kayaking on this cute cute duck pond/lake thing. It was so much fun! We are glad they let us do that with them. Anyway after all that fun we headed back to Flagstaff ready for school to start again. Back to the grind.