Spring Break this year was a trip to L.A.
Honestly…it wasn’t my favorite vacation ever, but anywhere with my husband and kids is fun.
While there…we hit up:
Universal Studios twice.
Harry Potter land was amazing. It was transformative, and highly entertaining. While there, we went to the wizard who appointed proper wands. On our second time through, Navy got picked to be the apprentice, and we were all so excited! Mostly because she got a free wand! That is…UNTIL we realized that she was actually appointed her perfect wand…to the tune of $79.95! Yeah Right!
Meanwhile, Dash was so upset he didn’t get to buy a wand, that I told him that Harry Potter’s real wand was a simple stick off a tree. I told him that I would find him one just like harry Potter’s wand, and he seemed to be fine wtih that. When I came back with a pretty wimpy stick (all I could find), he pouted the rest of the hour! Navy tried to humor him with it, but he wasn’t having it. It might have been because Scout, Navy and I kept cracking up over the flimsy stick I found.
Outside of Harry Potter land, was my favorite part of Universal Studios — the lot tour and special effects show. Honestly…they were awesome! During the special effects show, they picked our family to be the ones who did the sound effects to a movie clip. My kids loved it, and we got VIP seating — which I loved. Universal ended up being a blast.
(Update: Kennedy - a friend of Scouts happened to be at the show where we did the special effects! She said she was so excited to see us!)
We did Hollywood Boulevard, and Chinese Mann’s Theater.
We took the subway. And when Dash was going to mess his pants, I made him use this trashcan, because it was one of those emergency situations. He did not like it, but thank goodness we stuffed his shoes with toilet paper to make him taller for the Universal rides…so we were prepared for his trashcan stint.
We had VooDoo donuts.
We hit up downtown, where I went fabric shopping, and Navy got a turtle she names “Bama Ka Warrior”! (obviously in honor of Skilly.)
One of our favorite stops was the Griffith Observatory.
The show was incredible, the museum was great, the views were insane, and the big front lawn to play ball on was perfect.
We ended our trip to a pizzas stop, where the “circle game” was in full force.
And rolled ice cream!
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Los Angeles…you have too much traffic, way too many people, a bazillion homeless people, and smells that are just gross. But we tackled you, had a good time, and won’t be back for a mighty long time!
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