I did not realize it had been so long since I had written a how-we're-doing blog. I have some time right now, so I figure there is no time like the present!
As most of you know,
Gramps was here visiting last week. The week started off great by going to Los Angeles for the first time since we moved out here. We did a little window shopping to start the day off. That is where Trey decided he wants this for his birthday, Christmas, whatever:
Clearly, that is NOT going to happen until he gets his very own job and buys it himself! We were standing about 5 feet from him, if that, and I literally had to tap him on the shoulder to get his attention. In all honesty, this was a pretty impressive set-up, including foot pedals, steering wheel, and a full surround sound system. However, this is for someone that only has friends that "live" in those 3 computer screens, in my opinion.
After doing some shopping, we decided to go to the Le Brea Tar Pits. I, unfortunately, did not get any pictures while we were there. I am slacking, I know. It was neat, though, to learn about what the tar pits are actually about, not to mention seeing the pit that Mike Rowe worked in on Dirty Jobs. I guess we all just had too much fun while we were in L.A., and Alex couldn't contain himself. He got sick and threw up all over the middle seat, his car seat, the floor board, and himself. We were still a good 2 and a half hours away, so, needless to say, the truck wasn't smelling so good by the time we got home.
The next day we didn't go quite as far from home, just in case. We went off post, though, and spent some time at the mall and furniture stores doing more window shopping. It was another good day, especially considering there was no puking. But Papa Shu had to go to work the next day, so we cut it a little shorter. Over the next couple days Papa Shu and I got the stomach bug, but it wasn't as bad as Alex had felt. Unfortunately for Robert, he had to go into the field and wouldn't be back for a few days. I can only imagine how awful that was, but there are no sick days in the Army.
Wednesday the boys and I went to Las Vegas with Gramps. We went to M&M World and Coca-Cola. We got lucky, and it wasn't very busy while we were there. So we got to take a few good pictures!
Alex now refers to any M&M's he sees as "num nums" since Gramps was generous enough to buy us blue and white ones to put into our new Colts jar Mamaw and Papaw got us for Christmas. We also watched a short 3D film that was pretty cute, and Alex was amazed for the first 5 minutes or so. Then he was more interested in the glasses. It was only about a 10 minute video, though, so it was fine.
After M&M World we went next door to the Coca-Cola store/museum-type
thing. Gramps paid an ungodly amount for some pictures there, but this
one was taken with my camera. The Coca-Cola polar bear moved around, and, when I get around to it, I will scan in the picture that Gramps bought. In that picture, the polar bear is kissing Alex's head. Too cute! I was surprised that Alex wasn't afraid of him. He is squeamish about a lot of unfamiliar things, but he loved this bear.
After leaving there we went to the
World Famous Gold & Silver Pawn Shop. We didn't get to see Rick or Chumlee or any of the other
main guys, but we did see the big body guard that, if you have seen the show
Pawn Stars, Chumlee was trying to teach the job to. They were filming some shots of miniature airplanes someone was trying to sell, so I wasn't allowed to take any pictures at the time. I didn't see him after the filming was done. Otherwise I would have gotten my picture with him! Any of these look familiar?
It was a really fun trip.... until Trey got sick later that night at Famous Dave's. It was his turn, I guess. He said he felt better after he spent a few minutes in the bathroom, and he didn't get sick anymore. Unfortunately, Gramps didn't get much sleep that night. He had caught it too! He was down and out for a couple days, but he was still nice enough to allow me a couple hours to go to the gym 3 times last week. I can't thank him enough! Luckily, everyone is feeling better now.
We got out of the house again Saturday to take some pictures around post. We drove just outside the gate and got some pictures of the painted rock pile. I am not going to post them all, but these are some of my favorites.
All the boys enjoyed going out to the rocks. Alex wanted to climb with
his brothers, but mean old Mom wouldn't allow it. So, the story of the
picture in the bottom left is him "climbing" a rock all by himself and
posing until I snapped this picture. He's a ham. Trey took a couple of
Alex and me to show everyone proof that we live in the middle of
nowhere. But I edited it some just for fun.
I had no intention of writing so much, but I suppose if I was posting updates more often, they wouldn't have to be so long. Don't forget to click on the pictures to see them better!
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