Tessa's new friends, hangin w/the apostles.

Last night at our "Back to School" for parents and teachers I went into Tessa's room and read about what she did over the summer. She said she went to Hollywood and went to the museums and for a nanosecond was on "Ten Years Younger" and it was the best day of her life!! It only took 30 minutes to get there.
You know, like when you give them a cardboard box and they will have more fun with that thing than any video game?
And no, Tessa is not doing what you think she is doing! I think she was just shooting her spiderweb.

Hollywood a GoGo and Back

Yes, the infamous, tacky, touristy, scary, "Hollywood Wax Museum". Tessa was a little too spooked to go in the "Scary Movie" portion, but happily posed for me in front of everything else. She's always a willful subject. Jared on the other hand, not so much the poser. But I make him do it anyway to show I really do have another kid.

You don't have to go to the beach to get sand up your #$%%@

O.K. so now that I got your attention.
These are the sandcastles in progress at the Orange County Fair. There were people working on them at the time and still unfinished but fun to look at.

Fried.....What??????

So we were newbies to the "Orange County Fair" which is supposed to be more fun and cleaner than the rest. But to me....a fair is a fair. Rides that look like they'll fly off at any given moment, (Remember that Simpson's episode?).Lots of tired, smelly, cute, bored animals in cramped quarters. Unfashionably and overweight visitors waddling through yelling at their kids? (You know what I mean. Big elastic shorts with matching shirt, permed fried hair with visor, white cellulite legs with running shoes....and you know they don't run while gulping a 32 oz. coke in their hand. You were thinking that...don't lie.) Carny's with mirrored sunglasses, missing teeth, looking like ex-convicts, but oh.....tried to make them look as normal as they could with matching t-shirts this time. And of course overpriced, greasy, fried food.
And I mean everything is fried. What's a vegetarian to do? I suggest ....don't eat.
They had Fried Fish-N-Chips, Fried zucchini,Fried Burgers, Pork Butt (I kid you not, I don't know what that was) and even fried Frogs Legs. When you pick up a fried zucchini to eat which is a mile long, your hand will soak up all the grease. Yes, it is disgusting. So on the way home we stopped off at CPK for some normal food. Salads never looked so good.
I love the pics of the kids on the rides and Jared either looks scared or bored. He's at the teenager stage where everything is so boring. " Do I have to go on that death defying ride?" Tessa on the other hand wants to go on as many things as she can, even if she does have to go by herself.
I wish I could of gotten a better pic of the guys on the stilts with the beautiful painted faces and colorful clothes, but they were going too fast.
So there. We did the fair and all in all we had fun....but that's a "gosh, we did that last year, we don't need to ever go again" thing.