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On February 17-21, Sarah Tonks, Ryan McMurray, Sean Thompson, and I took a road trip to Bakersfield California. IT WAS SUCH A BLAST! I didn't expect it to go so wonderfully, there were a few little bumps in the road, but overall it was a fabulous weekend. On the way to California, we stopped to take picture by the signs and the giant thermometer in Baker. Ryan had never been to Arizona, Nevada or California, so it was even more fun taking him somewhere he'd never been.

 On Friday when we arrived in Cali, we had dinner and played with Sean's niece and nephews, it was so good to be around little kids again, but it made me really homesick for Boise. After that we went bowling and had to get wanded. "I have a feeling I'm not in Kansas" were the words that kept repeating in my head. My first game was awesome, and then it was all down hill from there.

On Saturday, we woke up late since we didn't even get home that morning until 4 am, and we left for the Santa Monica pier in L.A. when we got to the pier it started to rain... it would... but that didn't last for too long and when the clouds lifted for a few minutes, we went and enjoyed the ocean. When it started to sprinkle again we took off to the L.A. Temple, it was so pretty and the Visitor Center there is so wicked awesome! You can draw pictures and it will show them on a T.V.!

After the temple we went to HOLLYWOOD and went to Mann's Chinese Theater, on our way there we stopped by the Kodak Theater and as we were going up the escalator (Buddy the Elf style), I sliced my leg open and thought I had to get a tetnis shot (I made an appointment, but it turns out they're good for 5 years and I got one in 2007). I got to touch Hugh Jackmans hand!!! AHH! And I saw the Carpenters star!

We ate at a restraunt called Tommy's, it specializes in Hamburgers, fries, and hot dogs... but these ain't normal... oh no, everything has CHILI on it! So yummy, and healthy!

The next day, Sunday, we went to church, when we drove past Sarah's car, we realized that she had a flat tire, we kind of knew that one was getting flat, but we thought it was the one on the other side of the car. Turns out that we were right, that one was a little flat, but the tire we saw had been SLASHED! It was quite the California experience!

This about concludes our trip, on Monday we drove all the way back through 5 states and home to freezing cold Rexburg. It was a wonderful Presidents day weekend, thank you George, Abe, and Tom. Y'all rock!