Disneyland

For our Birthdays, Caleb and I decided to take a trip to Disneyland. We had such a great time. It was fun to go on a trip with just Caleb and myself. We don't get to do that very often. We flew in to LA on Saturday. Our friends, CW and April, just had a baby. So we got to spend some time with them on Saturday and meet new baby Wylie. He was absolutely delightful...and we had a great time with CW and April. I didn't get any pictures of them though, and I am kind of sad about that.

The rest of the time we spent in Disneyland. There was a lot of this....

because we didn't have anyone to take our picture for us.



I'm kind of short


standing on my tip toes


some delicious churros


pineapple whip


we did find one nice lady to take a picture of us


I had no idea this is what an artichoke plant looked like.


and some fireworks

The weather was perfect...not too hot and not too cold. We were able to ride every ride that we were wanting to ride and most we got to ride more than once. I think our favorite was Indiana Jones the Ride. I also really liked the Hollywood Tower of Terror at California Adventure land.

Birthday

My birthday was last week, and I had such a great birthday. On Tuesday, we met up with some friends for dinner and dessert at the Bakery downtown. They have some amazing desserts there. I got a cream puff thing that looked like a peach.


Cory, Mindy, Bev, Maria, myself and Caleb

Then, on Wednesday Caleb took me out to Benihana.


Caleb looks adorable in this picture, but I kind of look tired and not so awesome.

Octopus Hot Dogs

These are delightful...and there are a lot of ways to make them.

Wicked!

On Wednesday, we were able to go to Wicked. It's playing in Salt Lake right now at the Capitol Theater. My parents got us all tickets. We had great seats and the play was awesome!! Such a great story...love the twists in the storyline. Thanks so much mom and dad for having us. We had a great time.


the stage


Ben, Melanie, Ashley & Alese


Caleb & I...I think we caught an orb on our camera. There is a ghost in the Capitol Theater. We learned about him when we went on a ghost tour of Salt Lake a couple years back. I looked up the story again when I saw this on our picture.

Capitol Theater

This theater is not just a place to see plays and operas. The story goes that a young usher was killed in a fire at the theater in the 1940s. Nicknamed George by the staff, this ghost has never left and still haunts Capitol Theatre. There are many stories circulating among the staff about George. One is that minutes before a production of “The Nutcracker” began, all of the stage lights went out, and nothing the lighting team could do would make them work. Finally, one of the staff looked up and yelled to the room at large, “Damn it, George, knock it off or I’m going to have you exorcised!” The lights immediately came on.

Another story, also involving a security guard (many of whom are there late and are therefore susceptible to ghosts), goes that the night guard, bored on his rounds late one night, amused himself by hurling paper airplanes over the balcony in an attempt to hit the stage. He was more than a little terrified when later in his office, one of the abandoned airplanes came out of nowhere and hit his head.

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