Disneyland Gift Cards!

Dalton and I both got gift cards to Disneyland this past Christmas, and we almost forgot about them until the last week of summer! (I would probably NEVER go to Disneyland unless I had discount tickets or a gift card or something... $105 for a ticket to the happiest place on earth is a bunch of nonsense!)

Tram ride to Disneyland!

 The lines were pretty short when we were there...probably because it was SO HOT that week! It was a little ridiculous!

Castle! 

I lose...by a lot :( Haha I had no idea what was going on for most of that ride. 

Space Mountain 

The new Cars World at California Adventures. It was actually really cool. They replicated that street really well and the red rock mountains in the back ground looked so real! This is where all the line build up was, so we didn't get to do much over here. 

Disney fireworks...so magical ;) Haha, and also the best time for the rides!

Weekend in Vegas

A couple weekends before school started back up, Dalton and I went up to Vegas to watch the races (and also, for an official Vegas birthday trip for Dalton). It turned out to be about 112˚F while we were up there, so we stayed away from the races until later in the afternoon to avoid boiling out blood.

I have no idea how everyone else survived out on the track all weekend...being on all that asphalt already makes it so much hotter at any race! :/

We stayed in New York New York, a hotel on the strip we've never stayed, and also right in the middle of all the action.

View of the pool from floor 20 

The first night, since it was just practice night at the racetrack, we got some dinner at this delicious steak house in our hotel and went from a night walk on the strip for the usual people-watching entertainment :)

Gallagher's Steakhouse...now those are some big hunks of meat!

Musical water show of "Viva Las Vegas" outside the Bellagio 

The next morning, I guess there were delicious breakfast foods everywhere, because I have may pictures ;)

GIANT donuts 

But even better...strawberry banana waffles! MMMM! But I didn't get any :( 

Since it was so hot outside, Dalton and I mostly stayed indoors and tried our luck at gambling (which I really don't like!) Turns out Dalton was pretty lucky! I think he ended being up $100+ at the end of the weekend!

After we got bored of the New York New York gambling, we wandered around the casinos nearby until it was time to head over to the track to watch the races. 

In the morning, Dalton just had to spend one last dollar on the mega size slot machine, haha :)