Lauren's Birthday Weekend

At the airport

So when we flew into San Diego we got our rental car(a PT cruiser) and drove straight to Newport Beach(well we ate first-at my favorite Mexican restaurant)

The beach was beautiful. It was about 75 degrees and perfect...mostly because there weren't many people there.

We laid out for a few hours....with no towels, because we forgot to bring some.


There were birds though. We started feeding them goldfish crackers and then we instantly got attacked. I thought I was in the movie 'The Birds'.


Friday night we went and saw 'Eagle Eye'.

Here is Lauren waking up on the morning of her birthday.
Our hotel was nice...the Hilton in Costa Mesa.



We decided to go shopping on her birthday.
We went to the South Coast Plaza...

Later that night we met my family on the beach and had a hotdog roast and sang Happy Birthday to Lauren.

Hannah made perfect marshmallows for my s'mores.

My brother Paul and his daughter Haylee.

Mom, Sydney and Me.

Lauren

Sydney stole my camera and took some good photos. This was a self portrait.

After we left the beach Lauren & I drove around looking for a Dairy Queen because she really wanted an icecream cake for her birthday. We found one and brought it back to the hotel to eat. After we ate our fill we went down to the hot tub and hung out for an hour or so.

We put the cake in the fridge/freezer in the hotel room and the next morning it had melted all over. I had to clean the whole fridge!



We got ready for church and drove to Riverside for my families Stake Conference. It was good to see some old acquaintances.

We had dinner with my family and just hung out watching the Red Sox lose. Bummer!

On Monday we decided to go to Universal Studios. I haven't been there for 19 years.

Here is Lauren wearing her 4D glasses getting ready to go in the Shrek 4D movie.

These are the long escalators going from the upper and lower lots. There are 4 of them in a row and Lauren and I decided to run up the steps instead. There are over 400 of them. We did this 3 times throughout the course of the day. My thighs were BURNING!!!

Jaws!

Lauren and Dora! We did it!

You all know I secretly want to be a football star. So here was my chance.

We flew out Tuesday afternoon and got home that evening.
I know I had a good time, I hope Lauren did too.