Happy Birthday, my little 10-year-old! Stop growing up, already!
This year Evelyn picked a Lemon bundt cake for her cake. She got a few more dragons. But we didn't do tons and tons of presents because we were planning a trip to Texas in a few weeks! We left Angelo with Grandma Shelly, and had basically a free Texas trip with the points Michael had saved.
Evelyn bought herself a souvenir dragon stuffed animal there. We spent a lot of the time in the hotel room, because, just our luck: it was freezing! We had one day that was pretty warm, but one day it snowed! The whole city shut down. That was the day we were planning on going to Ripley's believe it or not. Nothing was open. Even restaurants. We had to eat in our hotel that night. Thank goodness for the free dinners there! It was hot dogs....but beggars can't be choosers. That night they were the best tasting hot dogs ever!
We were able to go see the King Williams Street mansions on our first full day there. It was a Sunday, so that was a good Sunday activity: going and coveting.
This mansion looked so much like the haunted mansion, it was almost creepy! Makes me wonder if Disney based the haunted mansion off of this house!
We got a lot of comments about our matching hoodies. Everyone wanted to know which sports team we supported. The true answer is that we don't even know enough of the colleges colors to make up a team!
Evelyn really loved the river walk. She thought it was beautiful. She especially loved the ducklings. She also liked the cathedral with the light show. She wanted to buy all the souvenirs she could, but resisted the hole in her pocket until she got her dragon. She saved the rest of her money for Disneyland. What self control!
The last day we were there was the day it snowed. There wasn't even and inch. Mostly it was a freezing rain, but all the freeways are all elevates, so they were solid ice. It was funny how much salt they used for melting the ice.
While we spent most our days in the hotel, we did a lot of hot tubbing, and reading Fablehaven, and sewing. Evelyn got a felt animal sewing kit for her birthday and she loves to sew the little creatures.
We had so many hot chocolates this trip that I think there was chocolate running through my veins. But it saved our lives. It was so windy and humid cold!
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