Saturday Part II

This morning after Lowe's Greg and Uncle David and our neighbor continued their weekly tradition of working on the shed. From what I understand, this week they put up the shelves inside and finished spraying in the foam stuff to make the shed water proof. They all had a good time and I think Greg and our neighbor are becoming friends...he's already committed himself to coming over next Saturday to help out! I will take pictures of the inside of the shed later and post them...

This afternoon after Lowe's and the men working and kids napping...

...we headed to Disneyland. Today was the day our passes expired and so we wanted to make one last "Hoorah!" We also wanted Karyl to see the Electrical Parade again...last summer we were there every Saturday night it seemed like for her to watch the parade and she LOVED it!! She still loves it, and now she's not afraid to stand and wave at the people on the floats. For those who are wondering, yes, we will be renewing the passes....just not right now. It's too hot and there are just too many people there during summer to make it worthwhile, we'll wait until it cools down a little and school starts back up so we can have the park to ourselves again!!

Anyways, we had a fun time and here are some pics from Karyl's Happiest Place on Earth!

Hi daddy!!

"No grandpa, the ice cream is THIS way..."

Mommy and Karyl waiting for the Electrical Parade to begin

THANK YOU AUNTIES FOR MY BALLOON!!!

This balloon had a LED light in it that made it change colors and she LOVED it. We got home and had to sneak it away because she wanted to play with it and not go to bed!!

Also, they have re-vamped the Electrical Parade this year....they took out a few of the floats and added some new ones. Tried to take pics but the memory card was filling up fast...we'll get some next time, or better yet, go see them for yourself!!

Then, if Disneyland wasn't excitement enough on the way home we ran into a patch of trouble on the ever wonderful 91 freeway...luckily, we ALWAYS jump in the Fastrack lane when we're all together since the 3+ lane is free and this time it saved us what would have been HOURS stopped on the 91. The entire freeway was CRAWLING from before the 55 freeway and we even stopped at one point in the Express Lanes, long enough for me to get out of the car, open the back of the van, and take out the camera (we figured if the Express Lanes were stopped, this was going to be a good accident). Well, we were only stopped for about 4 minutes, then our lanes started moving again and we were pretty close to the police break, so we finally got a view of what was going on!! All the cars had been moved to the side, but the other 4 or 5 lanes of the 91 were blocked...they weren't letting ANYONE through, there was glass and all kinds of debris all over the regular lanes. We felt SOOOOO bad for all those people. No one wants to be stuck on the 91 at 11:45 at night on a Saturday! So we zoomed on past the police break and I tried to get a picture of possibly the eeriest thing I've ever seen....the 91 freeway completely black, no cars outside the Express Lanes. That's a scene that will get your attention....staring down the 91 and not seeing a single set of brake lights!!

I know, bad picture, but you can see there are headlights coming at us, but NO brakelights to the right...creepy, huh?!?!