From Germantown to Hollywood

This is better late than never.....I'm going to fast forward a little bit.  We left Sunday, Jan. 21st for Amarillo, TX through Arkansas, Oklahoma, and 1 hour past the Texas state border line.  After traveling all day, it felt good to get out of the car and eat at T.G.I. Fridays and watch the Giants beat the 49ers.  Go Eli even though Brady is going to crush you.  After some well needed sleep, we got up and drove to Flagstaff, AZ.  The rest of Texas and New Mexico was in our dust.  We got to Flagstaff, and it was snowing.  Again it felt good to stop, rest and sleep.  Off and away we drove to California.  Driving into LA was like a movie.  Palm trees, beautiful houses, and crazy drivers!  Well, not in the movies are there crazy drivers but in real life they swarm the place.  At the hotel we got warm free cookies.  Next day we headed to Universal studios.  Praise the Lord for yelp maps!  It was so fun to see some of our favorite movies become rides.  It was not fun to go into the House of Horrors.  After a day filled with fun, we headed back to the hotel.  The next morning we headed to Hollywood.  Mom thought we should go on this famous shopping street (Rodeo Drive).  If you've ever seen yelp maps, you'll know that is shows a red pin where you started and green pin where you end.  A little blue ball is you.  This famous shopping street set us off course.  Our destination was near Malibu.  After some "confusion" and once again yelp maps we finally got to an amazing restaurant right on the ocean.  It was super fun.  The next day was a hang out day.  We swam and played tennis at the hotel.  That night we headed to Dave and Busters.  Guess who got 1,000 tickets??  The next morning we were off to Hawaii.  After some more "confusion" we got to LAX and made our flight.  We hopped on the plane with much excitement!  I practice my "Aloha" on the entire flight.  Mom read a Hawaiian magazine, Peyton listened to music, Chancellor and Dad watched movies, and then it happened. We were flying to Hawaii.  I'll soon be writing about Kauai, the island we are headed to first.  Until next time, feeling adventurous!

Rainey