The Great Flood

For those of you who didn't know, our move came a little early and unexpected. I woke up early Saturday morning (9/19) to the sound of rain pouring. I got super excited because it never rains in Vegas and I always love it when it rains that I jumped out of bed and headed to look out the window. Instead I found a waterfall in my kitchen! I called my in-laws because I didn't know what in the world to do and they headed over to the apartment to help me. I also called the apartments emergency line to get someone to get over to the apartment. I knocked on the resident's above me front door and got nothing. That left us just waiting and watching the waterfall get worse and worse. In one of the below pictures you can see a brown rubber storage tub thing, we had to empty that three times! I thought the leasing office opened at 8 so right about then we walked there and found a maintenance worker. He came right over and got the see a portion of the ceiling come caving in. Luckily none of our stuff got damaged and we were able to move things out of the water fast enough. Since we had to get everything out of the apartment anyway we decided to just get a truck and move up. Mike, Rob, Rob's dad, Jim and Katie came over to help us get everything boxed up (ok really they did all the work while I left to go get the truck) when we got back with the truck mostly everything was packed. THANK YOU EVERYONE!! Jim did a stellar job packing up the truck and we were completely loaded up by the time Dane got there around 1. McCall and Bones flew down with Dane to help us out and it was much needed!! We were able to get all moved in with the help of my parents, McCall and Bones and all the Wilcox's! THANK YOU!! Below are some pictures of the flood and a video I took of the waterfall :)

Finally...Disneyland Pictures!

I am just starting to learn this cool collage thing with pictures so comment away on anything that needs to be changed, like if it is too hard to see certain pictures or something.

Disneyland!!

So our trip had a rough start which you have already learned but we still made the most of it and had a blast! After spending the day at the beach on Friday we were ready to hit California Adventure on Saturday morning. We decided first thing that James, erin, Dane and I would get fast passes to Tower of Terror then meet up with my parents and Lindsay and Haydn for California Screamin'. We headed toward Tower of Terror and got our fast passes but also saw the wait was only 5 mins so we four of course jumped on the ride! Oh how I love that thrilling ride! You never know what exactly is coming and I think that is the best part! Dane had never been on it so it was fun to see him on it for the first time and he loved it! After that we went to California Screamin' which is also one of the greatest rides. We spent the rest of the day in California Adventure and hit all of the rides, it was so much fun and for being Labor Day weekend the longest we waiting in a line was 30 minutes which is pretty good. After California Adventure closed we headed over to Disneyland to go on Pirates and the Haunted Mansion. We walked right onto both rides - it was so great! I hadn't been on Pirates since they re-did it and to see Jack Sparrow in the ride was pretty amazing, he looks so real! After that we were pretty beat so we headed to CA Pizza Kitchen for some delicious food and a little relaxation. We were seated waiting for our food when Dane took a drink from his lemonade and kid you not the bottom of the glass just fell out! It was the weirdest thing we had ever seen! At first I just saw lemonade everywhere from the corner of my eye and couldn't figure out how Dane spilled but then I looked over to see him holding a glass with the bottom of it on the table! It was the talk of all the waiters and waitresses for the rest of the night :) The next morning we decided to get up early and be to Disneyland right when the gates opened knowing it would be pretty crowded. We decided to fast pass Indiana since that line can get pretty long and what do you know, we walked right on it! Then we headed to Splash Mountain which we walked right on and the worker even said it was 'busy' for a Sunday. Pretty nuts! The rest of the day continued in that way and we hit every ride and some of the best ones twice and three times! Our longest wait was Peter Pan. I did lose our camera on the Tea-Cups so I sadly don't have any pictures to post yet but Disneyland called Dane yesterday and said someone had turned it in so my parents picked it up for us and I will get pictures posted as soon as I can. It was a really fun trip even though we ran into a few incidents/bugs and I am counting down the days until we can go again! Maybe we can go before James and erin leave us for dental school, one last WHORAW!! :)

Goodnight, Sleep Tight, Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite

We got to California pretty early on Friday afternoon ready to hit the beach. We checked into the hotel, changed into our suits and headed out. Of course we stopped for lunch at the In-N-Out then headed to Newport Beach for a day of relaxation. I love the beach, I count down the days until I can live by the ocean :) We spent a few hours there then when the sun started to go down we decided it was time for some delicious dinner at the Joe's Crab Shack. We stuffed ourselves full and headed back to the hotel thinking we would get an early good night sleep before hitting Disneyland the next morning. erin, James, Dane and I all shared a room and we were all tucked into bed pretty much asleep when all of a sudden Dane jumps out of bed and says I just got bit by a bug. I jump up of course and flip on the light so we can kill that sucker and that's when I saw my pillow...I had bed bugs swarming all over my pillow and Dane's. James and erin looked at their bed and it was the same thing. I don't know if this is lucky or not but my parents and Lindsay were in an adjoining room so I ran right over and told them so they flipped on the light and sure enough, bed bugs in their room too. Luckily I had done some research on bedbugs not too long ago so I knew how to handle them and what they do. Their bite looks just like a mosquito bite where it just gets red and itches but doesn't do anything so that is the good part. The bad part is they inbed in anything fabric. Haydn and Dane ran right to the front desk and told them the news then walked down the street to find us another hotel to stay in. The front desk crew come into our rooms and first thing he pulled the mattress off the box spring on the bed Dane and I were sleeping on and it was covered. I had to leave the room to not dry heave. As they are checking the rooms, we are throwing all our belongings into our suitcases so we can leave as soon as we can. Then when erin and I are alone in the room he tells us he is going to move us to some other rooms - Yeah Right! James walked in right about that time and told him we are just checking out. Haydn and Dane came back a short time later and said they got us a couple of rooms at the Marriott a block down and it had a laundry room so we headed out. Since we were all infected we didn't go up to our rooms until we had done at least one load of laundry so we had something clean to put on. We were up until about 4:30 washing all of our clothes and blankets that night and we lysol'd everything that had been in the room. Although we continued to be itchy all night, we were officially bug free :) erin sent me this and said her work gave it to her because they find out bug escapades hilarious so I would attach it.