Going Home

I suppose I should finish my vacation posts, sorry to drag them out. This is the last one from the trip, I think :)

We decided to take a different route home so we could stop in Boron and see where they make Borax. It was very interesting and the desert was beautiful. It was really simple getting there from Mentone (breakfast with Mom & Dad), all we had to do was take the CA-38 to the I-10W to the CA-30/210/CA-330W to the I-215N to the US-395N to the CA-58W and then we were there! Pretty easy, right?!

We got to see my cousin Sarah again on the way home, it was a fun vacation!

Click above to see a larger picture of the Borax factory and mine

Family Night

Monday night was our last night with family before our trip home. After the dinosaurs we all drove out to meet Matt & Cherise at a Thai restaurant near their house. It was nice to spend more time with them.

I loved the colors inside the restaurant, that is why I posted several.

Dinosaurs!

The following Monday we went back to the dinosaurs because I really wanted to. I am a big kid with a unique love for weird things. I love animatronics and they had fun robotic dinosaurs. The giant dinosaurs are cool too because you can go inside of them. The Brontosaurus is a gift shop. The T-Rex had been closed since we moved to the area back in 1994 but they finally opened it and you can go all the way up into his mouth. I was super elated!

If you have ever seen Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, the T-Rex will look familiar.

I also had to make a couple pictures black and white, they remind me of those 1950’s cheesy B movies.

Brothers in Blythe

The day after Christmas we got the opportunity to meet Todd’s brother Keith & his girlfriend Samantha at a halfway point. Keith lives in Phoenix so halfway for us was a town called Blythe, CA. There really is nothing to do in Blythe, except eat, but Todd did some research and found some cool Intaglios. We spent about 5 hours with them and then headed for home. Along the way home we stopped at my favorite place in Cabazon, the giant dinosaurs. I’ll have more pictures from when we went back the following Monday.

Of all the names a park could be, this one was named after Todd :) Unfortunately it was a very ghetto park, a little scary.

  

 

 

Christmas Day

We all gathered at my parents for a yummy lunch and then to open presents afterwards. I think we all got what we wanted this year. Not that it really mattered, I was just happy to be with family.

One of the things I got my Dad was a muskrat pelt, he loves random things like that. He saw it at Dave’s in Lynden when they were visiting but never bought it, so I got it for him.

I guess the froggy outfit I got for Holden is the symbol for a gang in the town my brother works in. He was going to take it to work and show the guys :)