Monday, October 24, 2011

Epic Road Trip: The Beach

This will be the final post on our epic road trip, and will contain far fewer pictures because when your at the beach on a warm day you want to play, not take pictures! I just have to say that I LOVE the beach! I want one in my backyard someday ;)

 This reminded me of my favorite poem, footprints in the sand.






Philip LOVES to build sand castles :) So we always do! 

Oh, and I should probably answer a few questions that I'm sure some of you have been asking yourself.... We're poor right? Yes. So how did we do it? Over consumption of cooler food (sandwiches, bagels, etc.), SUPER cheap (this is code for lame) hotels + some camping, looking for and finding deals on tickets, and using the power of technology to find nearby gas stations with the lowest price. And no, we did not go into debt for this trip. And yes, that money would have been great to add to savings. But you know what? The amount we spent for what we did was extremely reasonable (we actually spent about half as much as we did on our honeymoon and our honeymoon was shorter and we didn't do nearly as much stuff). We are young and hope to start our family soon, and once we do we won't have the opportunity to do crazy road trips like this for a while. There is a season for everything, and this August, it was the season for an epic road trip! 

Epic Road Trip: Sea World

Sea World! I love this place! It's like the one place that I had been before that Philip hadn't. Philip really likes fish and underwater animals, so I was so excited to take him! We had a really good time and really enjoyed all the shows that we got to see! 

This was the best picture of the trip, so I had to put it first!


















We got this painted for us while we were there. It hangs in our bathroom so everyday when we see it we are reminded of our fun at Sea World!

Epic Road Trip: Universal Studios

We ended up having a lot of fun at Universal Studios, more than either of us expected too. The studio tour was really cool, especially the simulated earthquake part, oh and the flash flood. Awesome. The best part was definitely the Jurassic Park ride though. I love that ride! We got SOAKING wet, but it was sooooo worth it! 







 The courthouse in Back to the Future! Love those movies! 

 Who-ville

 There's a nice view of WB from Universal.


 We both love Apollo 13!!!






I wouldn't mind going back someday, as long as I get to ride Jurassic Park at least 3 times!

Friday, October 14, 2011

Epic Road Trip: Disneyland

First time to any Disneyland park for me! Philip's first time to Disneyland, but he has been to Disneyworld. It was magical! I CANNOT wait till I can bring my own kids and share the magic with them!
My favorite rides were splash mountain and space mountain. We got to be in the front of the roller coaster for space mountain and that made it doubly awesome! (Oh, we did California Adventure too! And World of Color water show at California Adventure was so amazing!)












































I already want to go back!

And for my favorite part... the fireworks show! I LOVED this! Its was so magical!


Ahh I love disneyland! I already want to go back!