oh just everything else we did in california

*feel free to not actually read the captions because they are boring

soooo..

after this blessed occasion kalie and spencer arrived and we all stayed at shealee's for the night then packed up the next morning to head to vegas

(but not before leaving money for the milk we used! i know. so thoughtful.)

when we arrived (not before sitting at discount tire for an hour though) 

we ate at the oh so classy sweet tomatoes

(ps it wasn't even as gross as i remembered that place to be!) 

upon entering vegas we really only had one priority:
to go here.

which was a fairly successful shopping trip for all of us.

after a few hours we were back on the road to go to LA!

(worst picture ever but maybe it is the only one i took during this part of the trip)

that night we arrived at brynne and tanner's apt at about 9pm to say hello then headed to our old friend rachel's to stay the night to rest up for.. 

..this happy place!!!

(i only took like 5 pictures (this being one of them) besides those taken at club 33 so i have to get others from ryan and kaaaaalie)

so..disneyland happened friday, it was the best ever.

then - saturday we did the following things:

went to the beach!

(more pictures of the beach found heeeere)

mmmmm

ryan and ellie just loving the waves!

(okay so you can't tell from this picture but trust me, they were)

bnotd = ellie came up from huntington to be with us!

(ellie was my roommate freshman and part of sophomore year)

and was kind enough to take a picture of the four of us

(could my hair be any more out of control?)

and this of course wasn't awkward at all.

the beach was really great and so were the shops and everything else around it!

we felt sad to leave but we were happy we could go be with b&t!

dinner with the frei's and other friends was delicious and much appreciated after eating out for days

mhs pride!

what is not to love about this brynne and this apartment?

or this guy.

afterwards we headed to third street promenade which brynne did a nice job of talking about here.

and saw a girl (whose name i can't remember) that plays sometimes with ryan's brother ben!

stripes for life! or maybe i should say stripes 4 lyfe.

and the award for keeping your eyes open in a picture when you usually have a hard time doing it goes to tanner!

after we parted ways and said goodbye to b&t (which was sad sad sad) kalie and i snuck into forever 21

(literally. like we slowly walked behind ryan and spencer, ducked, and then ran into the store. who knew they would hate shopping so bad by the end of this little trip?)

then we actually had to head back to rachel's because we were all so tired!

and take a picture with her before going to bed. we are so grateful she let us stay with her!

(sunburn anyone?)

the next morning we woke up bright and early, packed up the car, headed back to vegas, changed into church clothes in a walmart bathroom, went to sacrament meeting (which was the best thanks to all those cute young women talking about girls camp!), went back to walmart and changed into regular clothes, headed to st. george, dropped kalie and spencer off at their car, waved goodbye to them and to the little mermaid, then drove all the way to murray (passed two cars that had rolled off the freeway!) without stopping and got there at about 8:30 pm.

it was a fast yet very delightful trip!

and in closing,

 it only seems appropriate to end on this uncomfortable note:

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