Beach Trip?

We had planned to take  a trip to the beach one last time before Camelia left to go home. Once at the beach it was pretty miserable. It was SO windy and the sand was so fine it was in everything. We packed up and went to the zoo in Atascadero. It turned out to be a lot of fun.

Watching the turtles

Buddies!

"No Nafan!" Owen was worried about Nathan sticking his head in the lions mouth.
Owen felt brave enough a bit later

Disneyland and More

Nathan and I had the chance to go to Disneyland with the Titan choir last weekend. We had so much fun!
The Frontier Choirs did great, won 3 trophies at a wonderful ceremony in the park. Poor Teresa was sick, but she didn't let that slow her down too much, she did pay for it later though.

Advanced Women's Choir performing at the festival in Placentia, CA.
After this they went to the hotel and then to Medieval Times

Saturday morning at Downtown Disney

 Our first stop was to find a baseball cap with ears for Nathan. It's the one thing he wanted to look for.

We met up with Teresa and her friends to ride the Haunted mansion, unfortunately it broke down.
We hit the Jungle Cruise instead(and  got a map)

Jedi Training, another must for the day

Autopia, Nathan couldn't wait to drive a car. We stopped and got his license on our way out.

Toad Ride

Nathan got to "drive the Mark Twain boat. Here he is signing the guest book

Driving the boat

Ringing the bell and tooting the horn

Cute little performance before the awards ceremony in the park

 Sunday morning we headed to California Adventures for awhile. This time it was just me and Nathan, we didn't meet up with anyone else until the end of the day for food and shopping :)

Churros

Nathan won Dumbo at the boardwalk game in California Adventure.
He actually won a Mickey Mouse and 2 little stuffed animals as well.
He gave the Mickey away, since he already had it at home.

We did the wilderness explorer stuff.
They had markers to complete different activities and then you scratched off to see your badge.
At the end you could get a senior Wilderness Explorer sticker. Nathan had lots of fun here.

Rock Climbing, horizontally

Nathan and I rode Goofy's sky school.
This ride is a little above my roller coaster limit, to give you an idea.
Nathan said this was the BEST RIDE EVER!

Here we are doing the Jelly Fish Drop

After some delicious lunch and some shopping we headed back to Bakersfield, exhausted.

Keep CALM

Nathan's first grade field trip to CALM was yesterday. They didn't get a ton of  time there, but they had a really good time.

Hayden, Gage and Nathan were my group

Kalie, Aslin, Hayden, Gage and Nathan

The train ride

The Wizard of Oz

The kids have been working hard since January rehearsing for The Wizard Of Oz.
Here are some pictures from the performances this last weekend. Nathan said he had a really good time, but when asked today if he was going to do the next one he said no, maybe never again.

Nathan's costume and make-up. He's hunched over acting like a monkey

They have this tradition at Junior Theater, a gypsy robe. It's a robe they give to a deserving actor or actress, that person puts something personal from the show and opening night of the next show they pass it along to the next deserving actor. Teresa was so shocked and excited to get the robe this show. Part of the reason was because she was tech supervisor, basically she makes sure all the props and sets get on in the right order.

Teresa in her gypsy robes, there were two this time.
(Sometimes they run two shows at a time)

Teresa in her salon girl costume and her good friend Alex.
Alex was the stage manager for the show

Corissa, Teresa and Hannah as crows

Teresa was Dorothy's salon girl

Nathan as a flying Monkey

It was difficult to get a good pictures of them.
They were moving the whole time