This winter we spent the actual Christmas Eve and Christmas Day playing games and hanging out with our family here in Boise. Then we took our Webster Family Geeky Adventure just after Christmas and we enjoyed the best that Las Vegas and Los Angeles had to offer. I'll just run through some of the highlights. Maybe not what you might expect from those two cities.
Las Vegas With Our aunt, uncle and cousins
Josh is a test pilot, although we don't really know what he does.
The National Atomic Testing Museum
We learned some things none of us knew before that. Probably the sound track for this adventure would be a clicking geiger counter.
Discovery Children's Museum
What a great hands-on experience. All of us had a great time building and testing things out. There was something fun for each of us. One of the highlights was a tower with about 15 levels of science demonstrations.
Los Angeles Highlights
Evening walk at Sunset Beach.
Early morning run at the beach (Hannah and Heather)
Hanging out with the Stephens family
We enjoyed two days hanging out with Andre, Beth, Jason, Micah, and Torrey. What fun. We played everything from basketball to charades and mostly enjoyed just sharing life.
Touring Biola University
We walked from the Stephens house and recounted tales from our youth. It was fun for the girls to be able to add pictures to all the stories they have heard. We met some of the animals and profs in the science department and made ourselves at home in all kinds of places.
On Friday we drove to downtown LA. The LA public library is majestic. Huge expanses. A collection of books like we have never seen. Beautiful art.
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Downtown LA on Ice
The city parks system sets up a small ice rink in Pershing Square, right downtown. It was T-shirt weather, beautiful sunshine, and there we were ice skating. It is fun to see all the different people trying hard not to slip to our deaths on the ice. All of us are still a bit sore and are nursing quite a few blisters.
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Visiting Our Old Neighborhood
We drove down to our old neighborhood and showed their girls our old church (Celebration Church) on 20th Street and drove by to see our first apartment at Kenwood and 27th street. The street and the house have been cleaned up quite a bit since '97.
Phillipe's French Dip
The Stephens family loves to wrap up their time in downtown LA with a visit to the famous Phillipe's for french dip sandwiches. A classic LA eatery.
It took some gumption to put my sweatshirt back on, put my pen back on my ear, and to head back north to work.
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This was awesome,Paul! I saw some if these pictures on FB, but it was SO good to get the Narrative n hear about your time in Vegas & your time with Beth & Andre n their kids. I so Loved showing dad you ice skating in LA & you all in front of your house on Kenwood. So many memories! I'm glad you had a wonderful trip.
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