California!

On July 3rd, my family and Aunt Nona, Dena, and Lela, went to California! I love that place. But before we get to the enjoyable stuff, lets begin with how we got there. 13 Hours on a Train!!!! We left at midnight from Tucson. We were supposed to sleep, but no. Dena and I colored puppies and cats for 3 hours. It took forever. Never want to do that again. It is in the past now. July 4th was spent in the hotel, IHOP, and at Marina Del Ray. Thats where the fireworks were. Lame. Saffords are way better. We left early and still didn't get to the hotel until 12:30 in the morn'. Because, the car rental place didn't give us a car because they closed at 2:00. We rode the bus. Public transportation. Not fun. We were happy the next day to get our two matching HHR's. The Gordon car was silver, and the Herrington was gold. We went to the beach that day. I body boarded. I love that stuff. It was super fun. I mostly did it with Sarah for an hour. I got sunburned again. Surprise. But this time on the back of my legs. Painful, let me tell you. We also saw dolphins right where we were swimming. They were just swimming around. I would have freaked out completely if I was out there when they swam by. I hate sharks. Anyways, Sunday, we went to church. The building was, I think, an old Catholic church because they had the holy water bowl up by the pulpit, but the pulpit was off to the side. And the windows had stained glass, and there was some wierd open window off to the side of the pulpit where othere people were sitting. Perpendicular to us. Strange. But, the weather there was so nice, that they just openned all the windows. There was a breeze that was just as good as air conditioning. So nice! After church, we ate our meal that we bought the night before. We got chicken, mashed potatoes, cheesy broccoli, and malted shakes and ate them in our hotel room. My family is so goofy. Thats was makes us fun. I think... After that, we drove to the LA temple. It was huge and on a hill. We walked around and took lots of pictures. Dena fell UP the hill. Ha ha! My family then went to Rhodeo Drive and walked around. We looked at all the crazy stores, and all the displayed clothes that i would never wear if i could afford them. Because they were all ugly. One looked like what Michael Jackson wears in his Rock With You video.
Yes, sparkly and silver. Bleh. We then drove around Beverly Hills. We passed Marylin Monroe's house, and all the other crazy, huge, beautiful, fountained, gated houses. One of them had 8 cars in front. What in the world would I do with 8 cars? I wouldn't even want eight cars right now. After that, we went and walked on the Santa Monica pier. That was.... interesting.

It was fun to see what it was like, but... yeah. We also went to the carousel. We found out it is the same one in The Sting, which stars Robert Redford and Paul Newman. Cool bit of information. Good movie too. Its like the origional Oceans 11 or Italian Job. Monday, the Herringtons went to Disneyland! and my family went to Hollywood! We walked up and down, taking pictures of the stars, and stopping at the Chinese theater. Graumans? I dont know how its spelled. Something like that. We also took pictures of the hands and feet in the cement. Very cool. Will Smith has very big feet. After all that, we went back to the beach. I body boarded with my dad, which was an adventure! We had fun. Didn't get sunburnt that time. We then rented bikes and rode around for an hour. It was fun, except I almost flattened a small boy. Litterally, I screeched my tires and everything. I left a long black mark from my tire and almost had a heart attack. Whew! After turning our bikes in, we watched some loser buff guys on Venice beach try to show off. They had the rings that you swing on, hard to describe, and they made it down and back, but this little cowboy kid comes along and does all these flips and stuff, and totally shows them up. It was funny. My dad wanted to prove something to himself, so he climbed up the rope which was about 25 feet high. On the way down he burned the skin off his leg. It was gross. The next day was leaving day. We turned our car in and rode a bus for the last time. We flew home at 3:50, got back to Tucson, and I am finally home! Sad that vacation goes so fast. It was super fun. I wish that i could live in a city like that, where you can walk where you want to without sweating or dying of heat stroke. Or where you can walk to work, or ride a bike, or take a bus. I love places like that. But i know i could never live there, because i probably wouldn't be able to take it. I'm too country. or whatever. I think those might be lyrics to some song...