7-11!!

In honor of 7-11 I feel the need to make a little post about something that is very near and dear to my heart, the slurpee.  If you happen to be a poor soul who doesn't know what a slurpee is, it's a frozen drink that is 100% delicious.  What else can I say?  It's refreshing?  A sugary sweet delight?  Tastes like heaven?  Yes, all of that and more!

I am ashamed to admit that I didn't get my free 7.11 oz cup of happiness today (every July 11th 7-11 gives out free slurpees, obviously).  But I did have one on the 4th, so it's all good in the hood.

If you ever have visitors from the East, remember your manners and get them their very own so they can have an excuse to take pictures that won't come out properly (those silly kids). 

And you may be required to do a stained-tongue check.

 Julia passed this time, but barely.

I'm sure if she didn't she would have totally flipped out.

If you have any idea how picky Andrea is with what kind of treats she has, you know that a slurpee has to be totally awesome for her to even hold it!

You're the best slurpee!


***Andre pays royalties to have Andrea's image with a slurpee. Andrea in no way endorses any individual slurpee varieties or the line as a whole.

the Getty

If you find yourself driving north on the 405 freeway from Santa Monica to Burbank (which we ALL do from time to time) you may notice a tram on your left side.  Andrea had wondered what it was for, an eccentric billionaire?  a really lame amusement park?  what?!?!?!

On one fateful day, our dreams came true and we wondered no longer!  We found out it's a tram for the Getty, from the parking structure to the museum.

The museum was fun, besides the "Gods of Angkor" exhibit I liked the buildings and fountains the most.

 This was quite interesting because the water drains out that center hole and drops down to a second fountain.  Double fountain!

Andrea really liked the plants.

I think they made her miss her babies :)

Ride Pics

Who doesn't love to see themselves while having copious amounts of fun?  The only thing that could make such a picture better is if you're making some sort of ridiculous face.  Knowing that Disneyland offers patrons an opportunity to not only have this kind of picture taken but ALSO makes them available for sale.  Lots of amusement parks (and almost every hotel/casino in Vegas) offer this kind of thing, but unlike those other jerks Disneyland lets you take pictures with your phones, cameras, whatever FOR FREE!!!!

With an almost $80 entrance fee and faced with constant markups that seems too good to be true!  But wait, there's more!!  If you act now you can see a bunch of our embarrassing/funny/odd pictures for no added cost.  That's right, free to you for the low, low price of nothing what so ever!!!

Sorry, this was my first attempt and didn't realize you had to be quick... and not use the flash.  I guess this would classify as embarrassing because it embarrassing how bad it is.

 Here we see Andrea hogging the spot light.

The lady in front of me is giving a thumbs up and it looks like I have sickly arms and am holding her head.  Rest assured I am not touching this person.

 Hooray!

 Andrea gets giggly on this ride.

 This isn't particularly interesting... except for whatever the lady in green is doing.

 THIS IS SO INTENSE!!!!

On about the fourth time or so on the Tower of Terror I decided to have a little fun with the pictures.

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I'm sleeping!  How funny!!!!!  I wouldn't normally toot my own horn, but another guy on the ride nearly died laughing when he saw the picture.  Oh wait, they told us on the ride that we got sent into the Twilight Zone, maybe he died from the elevator crash! do dee do do!

It's a LOT harder to look like you're sleeping on California Screamin'.

Now Andrea wanted in on the fun.  Let me just say, it was hard to sleep with all the people screaming around us.  I think the guy in the white shirt was in some kind of pain or something...

I don't know what this looks like to you but we were trying to pretend like we were sleeping again.  FAIL

 I don't think we could have topped the last sleeping picture, so this time we went for scared to death.  Once again Andrea got the giggles and just looks really excited while I look like I've got an Ed Grimley thing going on.

 I don't think the guy behind me is having a very good time.

I really like this one.

But adrenaline pumping rides aren't the only places you will find great pictures at Disneyland.  In the Innoventions exhibit we found a glimpse of our future selves.

Oh, how fun.  One thing I thought was a little strange was they have huge posters of some the different rides around the park that have cool artwork but they don't sell them.  In the Happiest Place to take your money on Earth, we found a souvenir that could cheaply and easily be replicated that have great marketing (everyone that actually enters the park walks right past them) and wasn't for sale.  Amazing.

Well that just means we have to pose by them.

(Andrea isn't making a stink face because she doesn't like Pirates of the Caribbean [that would be ridiculous, because she LOVES pirates], she's making a pirate face obviously.)

If we're going to pose by these posters, we might as well pose in front of other pictures.

 Andrea's become very loyal to Neutrogena in a very short amount of time.

How true.