Sunday, April 26, 2009

California Trip 2009

Each year the kids and I (Keith) go to California for a Jujitsu convention. This years was in Costa Mesa down by Los Angeles. Since this year spring break was before the weekend of the convention we decided to take an extra day and stop over in Las Vegas. That was fun but I am not sure the kids liked walking so far. Fortunately for me, they had their heelys (sp?). They walked about half as much as I did which I am grateful. I did not have to carry them :)

Some of the cool places that we saw were the M&M store









The Coke Store









Treasure Island










Bellagio










We stayed in the luxor hotel. The bummer on the trip was that we heard some bad things with the brakes on the way down. It reminded me of the Bryvon7Q (Big isn't it!) Regan when he goes into the car shop and has to tell the guy what is wrong with the car. $800 later and new brakes, we were off to LA.





We made it there ok around 7p Friday missing the classes, but that was ok for the kids and I. We ended up swimming. They loved that. Saturday we competed in the National Freestyle contest. That was a lot of fun. Zack and Nicole did really well.


Warming up

Zack Beating on some girls :)









One of the judges knew both kids and thought it would be fun to put them in together.









Nicole was fun to watch.



And I had some fun too :)


2 comments:

Leah said...

When we went to Vegas, I also saw the M'n'm store, thoufh we did not see the Coke store or Treasure Island (I am not sure about Bellagio). I am glad you had fun.

Emma said...

We went to Vegas too and saw the M+M store too. At least you did not go in the summer like we did. It was HOT!!! even at night. The temperature got up to around 115 degrees. And there was a lot of people. Crowded. And no Heelies(or heelys). Great job, Zack and Nicole!