Summer fun

Last week my roommate and I went to the Shakespearean Festival. We had so much fun!

We left on Monday morning and drove to Cedar City and picked up our tickets for the plays. Then we went to my dear friend's house and spent the afternoon with her lovely kids. After a yummy dinner we went to a short expliantaion of the shows that night (that really helped me understand the play) and to the Green show. After a very yummy lemon tart the three of us (me, roommate and my friend) went to "Much Ado About Nothing". I thought it was a marvelous play!

Tuesday after another yummy meal (Thanks Linds!) we went to a presentation about the costumes. It was amazing to see what they went through to put them together. Then, since it was Jane Austen week, we went to a Lunch and Q&A with 3 castmembers from "Pride and Prejudice". We had Mr. Darcy, Jane and a butler. It was a lot of fun and I would reccommend it to everyone. After lunch we went to "Pride and Prejudice". It was wonderful and I really enjoyed it. Then it was time to drive home. Short but fun trip. :)

We stopped at Cove Fort on the way home and got to drive through a pretty good rain storm.

Happy 4th of July!!!

Movie night

Our outdoor movie night is quickly becoming our new family tradition. My 3-year-old neice was talking about watching a movie outside at nana's a couple of weeks ago, so dad arranged a movie night on Friday night with the option of a sleepover and breakfast the next morning. With a little storm front coming in, they decided not to do the sleepover outside but 5 of the grandkids spread their sleeping bags out on the family room floor in the basement once the movie was over. I didn't want to keep driving back and forth so I slept in the spare bedroom downstairs by the kids. They were really good once the last few got to sleep and we had a yummy breakfast the next morning. I love holiday weekends!

Vacation

My mom had a conference in San Diego for 5 days. She didn't want to go alone so she took my sister and me with her. We had more fun playing in San Diego than she did sitting in her classes but we did get some time to play together too.

We went to the USS Midway and got to walk around the HUGE aircraft carrier. They had so much to see. You saw where they slept and stuff like that, then on the top deck they had quite a few aircaft from different times. Even as big as it was, I'm not sure how long I would last on one.


We found a time that mom didn't have any classes she wanted to go to and we went to visit Sea World. I haven't been since High School and it was really fun. We went to a Sea Lion show, a Shamu show,a Dolphin show and walked through many different exhibits. Then when it got dark we went back to see another Shamu show and watched some fireworks. It was kind of a long day - but a really fun day!
The next day my sister and I went to the zoo. It was a cold day but still fun to see the animals. We got to see the Polar Bears and the Panda's among many other animals.


We also went to Little Italy (and had wonderful pizza) Old Town (and had great mexican food) and the Mormon Batallion site. We walked along the water and ate seafood at Seaport Village (well mom ate seafood!). Lots of fun was had but it was kind of nice to come back home too.