LA Trip

So a couple years ago, Randy found out that the Los Angeles Dodgers had an "all-you-can-eat" section at Dodger Stadium and has wanted to try it out ever since. Well it just so happened that his favorite team (Colorado Rockies) were playing the Dodgers the weekend before his birthday so we decided to go. We were going to meet Randy's parents at the airport in SLC to leave the kids with them but it didn't work out at the last minute so my parents took them for us. We flew out Friday afternoon and got to LA about 6 pm. After a little snafu with our rental car (Randy didn't want to drive a mini van around LA Ü), we finally got to our hotel and got something to eat.
Saturday morning we drove to a park & ride lot and caught the train into the game. Randy didn't eat much breakfast so he could load up at the game.

Randy with his first round Ü

It was all-you-can-eat hot dogs, popcorn, peanuts, nachos & drinks. Since it was my first time to Dodger Stadium, I had to have a Dodger Dog then I had a nacho. I was done after that. But the drinks came in handy because the seats were in right-center field and it was a day game so we were in the sun the entire time.

Our front row outfield seats

The plan was to go to the 1:00 game and make it to the Newport Beach temple for the 6:30 session. Well, since nothing ever goes as planned on our vacations, the game went into extra innings and we got wondering if we'd even make the last session at 8:00. But we're glad we stayed because in the bottom of the 11th inning, the Dodgers Matt Kemp, hit a ball hard and as soon as he hit it we knew it was coming over the fence right by us. Before I had a chance to say anything, I looked over and Randy was heading down the stairs to the walkway behind the fence. He & the ball reached the bottom at the same time and he hopped a short fence to pick it up. There wasn't anyone even close to getting to the ball so Randy didn't have to fight for it. Even though it was hit by the wrong team to make the wrong team win, it was a good consolation prize. Ü We immediately headed for the bus and tried to make it to the temple.

Once we got to our car and got on the freeway toward the temple, I called my mom to see how the boys were doing. That's when I found out that my dad had been taken to the hospital in an ambulance the night before. He's been having trouble with his arms going numb and having chest pains and it got bad Friday night. Luckily, Brent & Whittney were in Enterprise that night so they stayed with the boys Saturday. They brought them down to St G and they all had a big slumber party at their house. They didn't find much wrong with my dad so he was released Saturday night and stayed with Brent too.

We made it to the temple just in time for the 8:00 session. Since I couldn't be home to help my dad or take my kids, the temple was the next best place to be. The Newport Beach temple is a small temple and it was a completely full session. It was a beautiful temple. I loved the murals that were painted in the ordinance rooms. It was late when we got out, so we just headed to our hotel.

Sunday morning, we decided to go back to the temple to take pictures since it was too dark the night before. We had left our camera at home on accident so we had gone to Walmart and bought a cheap camera. That's why our pics didn't turn out the greatest but at least we have some.

Us in front of the Newport Beach temple sign

After taking a few pics, we went back to the hotel to change and headed back to the airport. We were able to catch the direct flight back to St G and made it home by about 6:30 & picked the kids up from Josie & Scott's house. It was so nice to get away just the two of us. Even though I got sunburned and my dad got sick causing a little stress of what to do with the kids, it was a good weekend (& my dad's doing much better).