California! (Part 1)

Ok guys I think I'm going to break this post up into several baby posts, because I have a lot of pics and want to blog about a lot of stuff :)  My mom also helped me figure out how to make the pics big!  Woo!

So last week we decided to get our finals done early...we both finished Wednesday morning, and then hopped in the car and drove to San Diego! The drive didn't even feel that long because we listened to the book The Outsiders on CD and it was SO GOOD! I read that book in like 7th grade, but didn't realize how good it was I guess. Probably because it was an assignment for school.  We are now obsessed with the outsiders. We love the way they talk! We've tried to incorporate the words "Golly" and "lousy" into our regular vocabulary.  ALSO we stopped at a DQ like 2 hours out of town to get ice cream and at the gas station there was a random petting zoo!  With a zebra!  It was awesome to say the least. 

There was a bunch of other cool animals too:

Anyways, we got home pretty late on Wednesday.  Thursday we got to go to Cody's track meet and see him pole vault and also see Coach Medlock, my fav track coach!  Here's a pic of us from far away chatting with him :)

Here's Cody being a stud:

Also my bff Megan just happened to be at the track meet so I got to see her!  That was SO FUN!  She is hilarious.  She was creepishly sitting behind us and made this strange barking/dying noise so I turned around to give the "what the heck are you doing, you weirdo?" look and turns out she was trying to get my attention and it totally worked!!  So funny.  Loved it.

After the track meet we went to the Padres game with Derek!

 I'm eating the first base coach.....

Friday was MY BIRTHDAY!  We headed up to Disneyland for the day!  It was pretty disgustingly crowded...but we made the best of it anyway.

Walking in...

 Billy pinning on my birthday button (because I couldn't do it myself I guess?  It made for a good picture okay.)

 California Screamin!

I wanted a frozen banana.  There's always money in the banana stand.

Jayce was so scared to ride the swings ride!  But Billy was a good comforter and helped him feel at ease.  That's what best friend brothers are for.  So cute.

We rode the Disneyland train...(which I have never even been on!  And this is a pretty crazy/blurry picture but I liked it)

It's a bug's life...(that Jayce was also terrified of)

 
A few of our classic ride pics:

 Me and Billy decided to take a nap...

And then we got REALLY good at making faces....

HAHAHAHhaha just kidding.  I took too long taking the picture with my phone so right when I clicked "take" the picture switched to this one.  How perfect is that?  Look at these people.  Hilarious.

After a wonderful Disneyland day we went to the Rainforest Cafe for my Birthday dinner!

Cody shaking hands with the Gorilla.  BFFs.

THE VOLCANO birthday cake Mom got me!  The restaurant people sang to me and everything! :)


Mom and her 21 year old daughter...who look like sisters.  Seriously look at us!  We look a lot alike in this picture.  And like the same age.  Weird.

Jayce (and Mom) said some pretty hilarious things all day that day that I will share in conclusion of this post.

Mom: (on the bus on the way to Disneyland...really loudly) "Whats up with all the gangsters on this bus??!"
The rest are Jayce.
"I'm going to name my kid Drinking Milk, and for his nickname call him Milk."
"You know like tornadoes cause a lot of damage in one small area, and hurricanes cause a little less damage over a bigger area" <-- I was impressed with that one
"What if this restaurant was our bedroom and there was like a huge bed and everyone in the restaurant right now would get to sleep in it so we would all just eat dinner and then sleep here?"
"What if a human went around to everyone's house and asked if they could take all the hair from their bathroom and then made a gorilla with it?"
"Are we almost leaving because I FARTED!"
One of Jayce's awesome made-up jokes: "One time there was a man who was walking down the street and he saw a car and he ATE IT!"
"What if there was only one mailman for the whole world and he had to travel around the world every day and deliver everyone's mail and his bag was so big that it went up into space?"

And those are only a few.  The day was full of "Hey Caitlin!  Watch me do this!"  So I would watch him hit a ball over the fence, or throw his sandwich into the trash super hard, or stomp on a leaf, etc.  He is the funniest kid I know!

Anyways, it was a great day!  That is the conclusion of the first not-so-baby post of a few more to come :)