Sunday, September 11, 2011

holy smokes...

we have a 6 year old. this year for jack's birthday we went down to california to visit nanna and papa.

he scored some pretty good loot. batman tower, mario kart race track, trio blocks, mario sports and phineas and ferb the movie. he has the best nanna who made him an awesome mario cake to cap a wonderful birthday party bbq.

we went to disneyland on his actually birthday and i think it is safe to say that jack had a blast. he is now tall enough to go on ALL the rides. we took him on space mountain and john said jack seemed a little nervous during the ride but as soon as we got off jack screams, "space mountain rocks!!" his all time favorite ride was star tours. i'm embarrassed to admit this but i totally freaked out on that ride. i'm a little claustrophobic and as soon as they closed those doors and i realized there wasn't any air blowing on me i lost it, started sweating and almost started to pound on the door to get me off. i managed to keep it somewhat together (so as to not freak jack out), by keeping my eyes closed and taking deep breaths. i'm a total loser i know. after that things were just fine but needless to say i did not go on that ride again.

jack even got to be a participant in the jedi training academy show. he was of course doing his own thing but he was in heaven and so excited he got to beat up on darth vader. sammy was an angel at disneyland but the same cannot be said for the rest of the trip.


the rest of the time was spent hanging out with family, going for night swims, the griffith park observatory, thai food, bike ride at balboa lake park and of course the beach. the weather was pretty chilly at the beach and i actually got to wear a sweatshirt. sammy did not like the sand at all at first but he eventually warmed up to it a little. jack had a blast building a sand castle and making a tunnel.

it is always so nice to be able to go back home to good old north hollywood!! until next time.

2 comments:

Sarah said...

I laughed out loud at your star tours story. I'm glad to hear Jack is tall enough to ride everything- we are going in December and McKay is already planning the daily schedule of rides. We were worried he wouldn't be tall enough for them.

I remember vividly when my brand new baby was a week old and they called me to tell me you had Jack. I must have been your visiting teacher, right? Anyway, I can't believe those little babies are six either! It's crazy!

Sarah said...

I must admit a sweatshirt on the beach actually sounds like heaven right now. And Disneyland is one of my happiest places on earth. How fun that Jack could ride on everything and so glad you made it through Space tours :). Nana's cake is top notch - love it!