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| This was our first of what I'ms sure will be many split weekends. I stayed home with Luke for his home games, and Mike took Josh to Great Falls for his away games. |
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| Luke had two games back to back Saturday, and he played great. He was really in on a lot of plays. |
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| He did 4 face offs, which was fun to watch. Side note : it was too cold to take many pictures, so this is all I have from 3 hours of lacrosse games. |
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| Saturday we went to the Santa Monica Pier to enjoy the beach. |
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| It was windy there. |
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| Gramma and Grampa Harley, this is for you! |
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| Boys in prop toys. |
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| We had some time on our hands, so we rented two tandem bikes and rode to Venice Beach (which is only about 2 1/2 miles away). I love how chill Luke looks back there. He couldn't really reach the pedals, so he ended up riding with his feet up a lot. We rode to the candy store that Luke saw last year when he was too sick to go inside. We made up for lost time. :) |
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| We pulled over to wait for Dad and Josh, who were trying out letting Josh ride in front...which did NOT work!, so it's selfie time! |
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| Silly selfies are our favorite. |
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| And then came Daddy and Josh. Josh was reaching out for a high five! |
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| They were cruisin! |
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| Luke and I rode the roller coaster on the pier. Then we had lunch and came down to the beach for our toes in the sand. :) |
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| These kids don't care how cold the water is, they're tough! |
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| Hey boys, stand still and smile please! |
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| Way too busy playing in the water. They didn't play long, it was freezing! |
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| Obligatory toes in the sand perspective view |
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| Next we went to the Griffith Observatory, which we heard was the best way to view the Hollywood Sign. It turns out that it's an amazing science museum type of place. |
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| Luke got a stuffed earth, and Josh got pencils. :) |
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| It is a great place to view the Hollywood Sign! |
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| Sweet brothers |
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| The rooftop was so cool. We went here first, and really enjoyed exploring before we went indoors. |
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| Luke had just finished learning about the phases of the moon, so we took a picture to show his teacher. |
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| The boys were using the telescopes to view exhibits. I love that they had those metal steps for the kids! |
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| There was one whole room dedicated to planets. We loved this room! |
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| I love Albert Einstein, so we had some fun with this statue of him. |
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| ET? |
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| Deep thoughts with Josh Jenkins |
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| Thataway |
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| And my ever-clever husband, getting his nose picked by THE Albert Einstein. |
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| After the observatory we went to Din Tai Fung Americana for the best dumplings in the hemisphere. |
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| We tried a lot of different food to show the kids how tasty it all is |
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| Josh liked the noodles, but the dumplings were the best. |
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| They're crazy good! |
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| They come in those bamboo steamers and we ate 20 of them between the 4 of us. :) |
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| Our last hotel pool swim of the trip. They were not happy to stop the fun for a photo. |
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| Thursday the boys went to a co-worker's wife for the day while Mike and I worked. Friday Mike went to work like usual in the morning, and the boys and I slept in. We had a quick breakfast and then the boys swam like crazy kids. They were trying to perfect the mid-air high five! |
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| Before we headed to work to show the boys the joist, we grabbed second breakfast. Luke chose a piece of bread and whipped cream. Breakfast of Champions! |
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| Then we got to take a ride in the work helicopter! Josh is saying "This is AWESOME" in this picture. |
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| The helicopter had no doors, which was so super cool. The pilot took us over the lake, and banked it hard out josh's window. It was the highlight of his day and the weekend! |
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| This is pre-take off! |
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| And post trip. Josh LOVED it! |
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| The two of us posing by the bird. Luke didn't want to go in the helicopter. He thought it would be too loud, too cold and too scary. He was probably right. He didn't even like to be outside during landing, so he stayed in the car during the 3 landings that he watched. He was so impressed that the helicopter shook the doors when it landed. |
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| After a nice Mexican lunch and trying to see some work, we headed to Hollywood to see the Chinese Theater and the stars on the sidewalk. That was cool, and then we went to Dave and Busters to have some serious fun. Luke couldn't reach the pedals on this game, so I held him and worked the gas (no brakes necessary for us!) and he steered. |
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| They loved this Star Wars game |
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| This one was more of a ride than a game, but they still liked it. |
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| Serious boys! |
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| We caught a fun view of the Hollywood Sign (the #1 thing they wanted to do in CA) from the mall where we parked. |
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| It's just like in the pictures. :) |
