California Here We Come!!

Well we had the fastest trip in recorded history!! We were supposed to leave Thursday morning and stay until Sunday, but my sister had a wedding she was a part of and Scott had that HUGE job interview. (Good thing we didn't miss that!) So we flew in around 8:30 am on Saturday morning. We got a sweet rental van and drove to Universal Studios. We hit the essential rides: Back To The Future (luckily Scott didn't get sick), Jurassic Park (Kiersten and Erik got soaked), and the Mummy Returns (we went on it twice! If you are ever there definitely ride it. You won't be disappointed.) We left Universal at 1:00 pm and drove to the Pantages theater in LA to see WICKED!! Yeah! We grabbed a quick bite to eat and then went into the most amazing theater I have ever seen and saw my favorite musical of all time. Some of us grabbed some sleep in the car on the way to California Adventure and Disneyland. We arrived in Anaheim around 6:30 pm. We went to California Adventure first. We rode the Tower of Terror, and the Screamer. Scott got front row on the Screamer! It was awesome. We stopped to eat some deliciously massive burgers before continuing on to Disneyland. We rode the "new" Pirates of the Carribean ride. All that was new was that they changed some of the dialogue and threw "Jack Sparrow" into a few scenes. We shopped for pirate apparel, but found we didn't have enough booty. Before the park closed we manged to ride the Matterhorn, Space Mountain (which has been updated and is absolutely amazing!). While the Nilsson clan went on Space Mountain Scott and Wayne discovered the "Buzz Lightyear" ride, which ended up being Scott's favorite ride! You ride around in carts and shoot bad guys for points! Right up his alley. We made it back to the hotel around 1:00 am. We all crashed out pretty fast. Believe it or not, we all slept in until 10:30 am California time. Which means 11:30 am Utah time. Wayne had to put on his reading glasses to make sure he was seeing the clock right. He NEVER sleeps in later that 6:00 am! We had a fun Mother's Day breakfast at noon before we jumped on the plane home! Whew!! What a trip. We decided to never try to top this trip. Because it is impossible to do more or have more fun in such a short time! We did three theme parks and a Broadway play in 14 hours!!