Showing posts with label DeAndas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DeAndas. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Last Night in Arizona

6/27/15
Day 20

Today was going to be another lazy day, we swam and relaxed all morning, but a few hours after lunch Dad had other plans. He decided he wanted to treat everyone to Flipside. Flipside is a kind of mix between Chucky Cheese and Dave and Buster's. There was food, bowling, mini bowling, pool, an arcade, a spy laser maze, a ball pit/climbing center for kids, bumper car type things, and, my personal favorite, laser tag. All of us really enjoyed the different activities. Charlie beat everyone at bowling, even the adults! The bumper cars were fun because we got to slam into each other. Dad and I passed the laser maze on hard and ended with a really good time. I was a beast at laser tag, we played several times and I beat dad almost every time. The first round all of my family members were on the same team except for me, so I was on a team with strangers. The team I was on won and I got third place over all beating all of my family members. The second round I got eighth, then fourth, second, and first. I had the best time in there beating my family and all the other people in there. The funniest thing was coming out to see the scores and having all the guys look totally embarrassed to learn they were beaten by a girl. I had the best accuracy percentage for the majority of the rounds also. We ended up staying later than planned because of a sand storm that came through. Right before we left, I took Tyson in the laser maze, it was funny trying to crawl through the lasers holding a baby. He loved it at first, but he ended up not liking it much at the very end. We drove back to the RV where we gave Parker and Auntie Stephanie a tour and then said our goodbyes.

 Carmen and Tyson in the Laser Maze
(see little foot by her hip)

Cousin Bonding

6/25/15
Day 18

Today was a pretty relaxing day for us kids. We mainly just swam and watched movies. Auntie Stephanie and I watched the kids and another baby named Parker Rose, she was so cute! She only really let me hold her and it was the cutest thing! Tyson tried giving her hugs and kisses, which was also really adorable! Mom and Dad went to meet up with Grandpa Dan and Grandma Karry in Phoenix (they followed us! (not really, they were just coincidentally in Arizona at the same time)). We had a great time doing some cousin bonding with Auntie Steph and baby Parker Rose.

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Meteor Crater

6/21/15
Day 14


We decided to head out a few days early so that we could spend more time with our cousins Parker and Tyson, as well as my Aunt Stephanie (Uncle Jarod was away for work, so we didn't get to see him). We left early in the morning, and made a stop at Meteor Crater. It was pretty neat.  We were all playing with this meteor simulator, changing the density, size, and velocity of the meteor to see what kind of damage the different combinations would do. Dad managed to destroy planet earth. The Crater is really big, and it was pretty interesting to hear a few theories behind it and how it was determined to be a meteor crater. We watched a video about how they determined it to be a crater and how it was believed to have been formed. I'm not really into astronomy, so it wasn't my favorite stop, but I will admit it was interesting. We left after browsing the gift shop, eager to see our cousins. We made it to the DeAnda's by 5 p.m. The kids swam and to finish off the night, we ate Father's Day steak dinner.