Ireland-Day 1 Flying to Dublin

Well, we are off on our trip. The first day we are driving to Salt Lake City.

Ireland!

It is official! Ireland is almost here. Lisa and I are getting so excited for the trip. Please check back often, as we will update the blog daily with all of the sights and sounds of Ireland!

Just to get you excited, here is a map of Dublin with a few of the things that we will be seeing and doing in Dublin. The map is a little small, so you may have to move it around a little to see everything that is there.

View Dublin, Ireland in a larger

Labor Day Weekend

So I know that Labor Day Weekend was a while ago but here are the pictures from our trip we took that weekend. Jason and I had a great weekend with my parents and spent the first day of our trip at the Huntington Library and Gardens.
The Huntington is so beautiful and has an impressive art gallery and themed gardens.



The next day we decided to break our usual trip to Disneyland and go to Universal Studios. Jason had never been and Mom, Dad and I haven't been for years. We had a blast visiting there again. I think our favorite thing was we ended up getting a "Front of the Line"pass, which was expensive but TOTALLY WORTH IT!! We highly recommend getting one on your next visit there.





The shot of us taken with Scooby and Shaggy is for our nephews, Drew and Matt, who both love Scooby Doo!

Almost looks real, huh.

We all really enjoyed doing the Backlot Tour and seeing some famous movie sites. Here is a classic Hitchcock site. Very appropriate for the Halloween time.

Here's a video of Jason being a star and participating with one of the demonstrations at Universal Studios. This was done at the special effects studio and is kind of messy, so don't watch it if you easily faint. :)

Jason and Lisa go Redneck!!

Every now and then Jason and I fill our need to see cars crash and smash themselves so we find ourselves at the County Fair to see the demolition derby. This time we had Trevor and Michelle go with us and had a blast watching the truck derby and the van jump. Check out this video below-- It is hilarious!!!



Here is a picture of Michelle and me. We call ourselves the twins... I can't imagine why?











Jason and I also thought that if we were at a county fair, we might as well go see the Bear Show. Seriously... Bears! Check it out!

ROADTRIP!

Here are pictures from our latest adventure that took place 2 days after I (Lisa) got out of summer school. Jason suprised me with this great roadtrip planned for the holiday weekend of the 24th of July. The premise of the roadtrip was to visit all of the National Parks in the Southern Utah/ Arizona region. We started out the trip at our very own Zion's park and then traveled and hiked Bryce Canyon, Coral Reef, Canyonlands, Arches, Dead Horse Point, and then the Southern Rim of the Grand Canyon. We enjoy traveling together and road trips is one of our favorite ways to do so. Here are some pictures from the wonderful break!


Bryce Canyon was so beautiful and even though I don't feel that I could say which park was my favorite... Bryce was my favorite!



Here we are enjoying the sun at Bryce.



We love Arches and almost always hike delicate arch when we go there so this time we decided to do a less popular one: Double Arch.



I just love this picture of Jason




Here we are at Dead Horse Point. We had fun guessing why on earth it was named Dead Horse Point but apart from that it was a gorgeous view.



We got to the Grand Canyon during a rainstorm which created this misty scene. When we went hiking the next day it was cooled off and the perfect day for hiking.