Day 15

We have quite a bit to catch you up on!! By the way I'm doing this post from my iPad-- don't let anyone tell you that an iPad is just as good as a regular laptop. This is so awkward because I had to download an iPhone app to even get this to work and the keyboard is stuck in portrait mode. #firstworldproblems... Oh well.

So since last time. Cole and I have been super busy. Cole was sick and we were worried he wasn't going to enjoy Disneyland on Friday so we took him to a doctor that a friend of ours knows thinking he would give us a good deal. Well it was pretty hilarious what happened. So we drive down to his office and find out number one that the office is in a strip mall. As we walk in we pass this guy smoking and chatting it up with these two fat white trash chicks and the guy turns and is like, oh hey, are you him? Cole says... Ya I'm Cole. He says, Great, let me finish this smoke I'll be right in. Okay....

He doesn't have a staff so he signs us in himself. He's this loud talkative Jew and barely let's us get a word in. He asks Cole a million questions. And finally takes us back to the examining room. There is a doctor table with that loud paper on it so I'll give him that-- but also in the room is some old garage sale desk, a toolbox with his equipment in it and a scary barred up door going to the outside. Is this a real doctor? I'll get to that! He examines Cole and tells him he's not sure if he has anything bacterial but if we want he'll sell us a generic Z pack. In fact he says, since your moving to Hawaii and won't have insurance I can sell you a few of them in case you get sick there. Done! So we buy 4 packs for $20 each and get the heck outta there. We find out later that he once lost his license for over prescribing meds... Makes sense. But worked out for us!!! Cole took one of the Z packs and was healed so Disneyland was back on in full force.

Cole and I have been desperately missing our friends James and Megan so we had a little date over Skype. It was awesome. Just the fix we needed with our cute, dear friends. It was so nice to see them that we took pictures too. Hi James and Megan, we love you :)

The next day was Halloween and so the Smith kids dressed up and Cole's parents came down to make Chili in a Fritos bag and go trick or treating. I'm 27 and still on Halloween I eat way too much candy!! The kids costumes were awesome. Summer and Raven were these Monster High Dolls. Skyler was a zombie and his makeup was amazing. Sierra was Athena. Cole and I stayed up and watched a really really creepy movie. We couldn't even finish it and had to watch funny YouTube videos in order to fall asleep. Remember the Back It Up remix news story YouTube? That made me laugh and put me right to sleep.

The next day we drove up to Los Angeles to hang out with Charles. Sort of his grandpa. We took him to lunch and talked with him for a couple hours before Adrienne, the boys, and Barbara met us up there to go to the BYU girls soccer game against he school right down the street. Most intense soccer game over!!!! The teams were very evenly matched and the goalies were amazing. Especially theirs because we had three times as many shots on goal and the score was 0-0 the whole game. The game was a tournament game so they went into overtime and still no score. During the second overtime BYU scored and won!!!!

We went to dinner with Charles after the game and had the best stuffed Marsala chicken with a big price of chocolate cake for dessert. That night we stayed at Adrienne and Tyler's and then the next morning was Disneyland!!!

We made it to the park just a few minutes after it opened. The first place we went was California adventure. We got fast pass tickets to the new cars ride which was for 4:30-5:30 that night!! And we got tickets for world of color. We rode screamin, Hollywood tower of terror three times, soaring, splash mountain, the railroad roller coaster that I can't remember the name, buzz twice and i got my best score ever of 125,000 and Cole got 175,000. We totally cheated and looked up online how to get the most points. We also did star tours twice, space mountain, splash mountain, the haunted mansion, Snow White, whinny the pooh, madderhorn, we watched the Michael Jackson 3d movie, pirates of the Caribbean twice, and I know I'm missing some but you get the idea that the day was super successful. Of course we went back to ride cars with our fast passes and had to sprint through barricades as there was a parade happening and got road blocked and almost didn't make it in our window. But we ran! And got there at exactly 5:30. I'm so glad we did because the ride was awesome!! We then watched world of color and that night after some more rides we watched Fantasmic. We were so tired and almost fell asleep on the way down to cole's mom's house but we made it.

I forgot to tell you the delicious food we ate!! You probably don't care but at least know that we got the best ice cream!

Saturday, Adrienne cut our hair and then we went down to Amanda and Matt's for a picnic and hike. That night we hung out at the house, repacked all our luggage and ate Skyline 3 ways. And then pizookies for dessert :)

Sunday morning... We flew away! The day was going great. We flew in, got our bags (7 big military bags that we were able to check for only 170 bucks!!) and grabbed our rental car. We drove to where our campsite was-- the area at least-- and bought a storage unit. We put most if our crap in there and then made a Walmart run. Walmart makes you feel like home wherever you go. After Walmart we met up with a friend and hung out with her for a bit-- mistake because now it was dark and we hadn't been to our campsite yet!!! We were so tired by 8:30 with the time change that we just wanted to set up our tent and go to bed. So we drove a half hour to where our campsite should be.... When we got to where the guard shack should be we couldn't see a trail and no one we asked knew what we were taking about. The trail we found, went alongside he chain link fence by this government building. It wasn't much of a trail. A guy told us to make sure that we left our names so if we got lost they could send search and rescue. So we were already scratched out. Not to mention the big signs that said Beware! Hunting Grounds!! And lots of other signs. 

Well we were out of options so we going to hike in anyway. We got out of the car and started grabbing our gear when a very clear and big wild animal started running around in the trees beside us. I was out. I jumped back in the car and started looking for another place to go. We ended up finding a deal for a hotel in downtown Waikiki about a half hour away. We drove there, and our exhaustion had really set in. We finally pulled up and Cole went to go check us in. He came back about 5 minutes later swearing and yelling about the fat guy who couldn't check us in because our reservation hasn't arrived from Priceline. So I called Priceline and was on the phone for about 20 minutes be we finally got it all cleared up. Cole had to parks 4 blocks away... Poor Cole was about to have a melt down he was so tired. I dragged all our stuff up so that Cole could walk with out luggage and we finally got settled in and to bed.

Surprise it's actually a pretty great room we got at a steal and we survived our first night in Hawaii.

On to more adventure!

*Update! I hadn't posted this yet and I wanted to let you know that we went back to that campground in the daylight and staked out where we want to stay tonight. It's much more acceptable at day time (this is where the picture came from above). The other idea I had if this place didn't work out was to go back to the rental company and get a truck and just pop up the tent in the bed of the truck every night!  Luckily for now we won't have to do that. AND thank goodness for McDonald's wifi and my lap top. I finished this post using my mac instead of my iPad--SO much better.