the blackburns

Meet Mac

Jon's first Mac. He swore he would never get one but after becoming a computer science major, he couldn't help it. I don't think he'll ever go back. I had to put it on here because he was soo excited to get it. He couldn't even wait till we got home so he met me at work to open it.

Lagoon!

Lagoon! Oh how I love road trips. Lyndsee, Derek, Jon and I decided it was time to go to Lagoon, so we went. It was hard getting it planned so I believe we went in September, right before it closed. Once again, it was kind of cold. It was warm all week, except Saturday. I think I have bad luck. Either way, it was still fun and I still went on my favorite ride, Rattlesnake Rapids, and got soaked. We paid for it after because it was later in the day and we never really got dry after that. I tried to be daring and go on most of the rides but Lyndsee and Derek took the prize for guts. I don't even remember the name of the new ride they have but I refused to go on it so Lyndsee and Derek went on it and Jon stayed with me. I think me and Jon were motion sick from a ride we had gone on earlier, so at least we had an excuse.

The Honeymoon!

For our honeymoon we went to San Diego, California! Jon knew I wanted to go somewhere warm but when we went, it happened to be an extra cold week for San Diego. The temperature was somewhere in the fifties and low sixties but the day we left it went back up to being in the seventies. Despite the weather, we had a lot of fun. Cold and all. While we were there we went to Sea World(I love that place), the San Diego Zoo, Legoland and a "sea excursion." The sea excursion consisted of us going around the bay and looking at the war ships there and interesting buildings and things.

Here's the last day of our trip in California. We got up early so that we would have time to go on the sea excursion before we had to be to the airport. Jon and I both love boats so we thought it would be fun to go but it was freezing outside. Especially once we got going and with the wind...freezing. My favorite part was seeing the sea lions lying around on the boards but it was also interesting to see the ships that have been and are being used in the wars.

You can never get too many pictures sitting next to expensive cars...

Jon wanted me to add to his "car section." He also corrected me that the lego car is a volvo. Anyway, here's some more pictures of nice cars.

The man who owned this car was crazy. He built in a drinking fountain, shower, stove, pop dispenser, and ironing board in it. I know it has more but I can't remember now but I remember thinking that he had thought of everything.

A flower field! Apparently it's only in bloom for about 2 weeks of the year. We passed it on the way back from Legoland and decided to stop. The fields go on for quite a ways.

Seahorses have to sleep too...

I just thought this was worth putting on. We read that a seahorse has to eat every few minutes since their stomach is soo small. This one hadn't eaten for a little while so it just fell asleep...or died. Either way, we thought it was funny.

Legoland

Next day was Legoland! We were excited to go but once we got there we realized it wasn't exactly what we had thought. I think we were the only married couple there without a little kid. Needless to stay, we didn't stay very long. However, their little aquarium section was kind of cool. And of course, Jon thought the big lego statue of a BMW was worth taking a picture of.

This street is just down from the zoo. I add the motorcycle picture because we went to a museum along that street that was dedicated to motorcycles and cars. I think that was one of the highlights for Jon. He has a picture in front pretty much every car in the museum. I had dragged him to a couple gardens earlier so I can't really say much.

San Diego Zoo!

These pictures are from the San Diego Zoo. The panda bear was at the top of our list of animals to see but when we got there, the line was literally a couple hours long. We might have thought that it was worth the wait if it hadn't started raining. I don't think we could have had much worse luck with weather in California, but we still loved the zoo and saw plenty of other animals. Including the koala bears, which were one of my favorites.