This year Austin turned 25...so to celebrate him being a quarter of a century, I surprised him with a weekend trip to California to watch BYU play UCLA at the Rose Bowl. And holy crap, did we fit plenty into 3 days.
We started out Friday night at the fair...we people watched, sipped on lemonade, and ate a delicious Navajo taco before going home and packing the rest of our night.
Our flight was at 6am...so this is a beautiful picture of us with about 3 hours of sleep.
P.S. One of the main reasons we flew is because Austin turned 25, which means no crazy fees for a rental car!! We have never flown anywhere together because renting a car is always like 5x more expensive if you're under 25. So this was really fun to be able to fly together for the first time instead of spending 13 hours in a car!
We got to Cali around 8am and had NO plans. We have never gone on a trip before without a specific plan (usually down to the hour) of what to do, so we were a little confused. We decided to drive up to Beverly Hills/Hollywood area and ended up going on one of those "star tour" buses that drove us around to all the celebrity homes. It was super hot, but it was a perfect way to kill our time until the game at 7:30.
"Go stand by that Will Ferrell star."
"What do you mean? For a picture? That's weird."
The bus took us up to this point where you could see all of L.A. and the Hollywood sign...it was so pretty! We got plenty of comments on our matching shirts, by the way.
At the game. We were sitting by almost all UCLA fans and they hated us the whole time, up until 3 mins left when they finally were ahead of us. Such a sad ending :(
The next day we decided to go to Six Flags Magic Mountain. (We tried to go on Saturday before Hollywood, but we had a sweet coupon they wouldn't accept if it wasn't printed...so we left and came back the next day instead.)
It was insanely hot and we were both exhausted to the max. We went to ride X2 first, which is the most insane ride you'll ever ride in your entire life. We had our phones stuffed in my pockets, our keys in my shirt, and sunglasses in Austins pockets. The ride definitely ate our sunglasses, but thankfully our phones are still in tact.
Here's proof of the insanity. (My sneaky photo taking skills weren't good enough to get Austin in the pic...but his face was even better.)
We rode Tatsu, a flying coaster, after X2 and then made our way to Goliath. At this point I thought I was literally going to die I was so hot and tired. Austin was getting there too. At the end of Goliath, I totally blacked out for a few seconds and couldn't move my head. It was a little too scary, so we decided to leave after that. On our way out, we checked the temp at it was 104. Yikes. It was still fun, even with the heat stroke.
We ate (mostly) at Denny's, but here's a couple yummy meals we had. Hot's Kitchen in Hermosa beach was really yummy, even with a tiny burger.
This was at the Original Pancake house and that fresh strawberry waffle was as good as it looks.
Before we left on Monday night, we fit in a few hours at the beach. It was so fun to relax for a day after 2 days of craziness. I sat on the shore and buried myself in sand while Austin swam in the waves.
There was hardly anyone at the beach, so we took pics of each other and made this delightful collage for your viewing pleasure.
It was a perfect little weekend getaway, but it went by way too fast.
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