A few weeks ago I would not have guessed we were going to be heading to California soon...but it's true! We went on a trip very similar to this last year—and it was a blast.


So we're off to enjoy Las Vegas, Huntington Beach, my grandparent's house, the Chino airshow, and.....DISNEYLAND!!

The airshow is what sparked this trip. Josh mentioned it would maybe be fun to go to an airshow this year...and I don't need to be told to get up and run with the idea of a vacation. I quickly found out when the California airshow was, and called up my grandpa to organize. Then it kind of spun from there. We added Las Vegas, and then added a day at Huntington Beach. Then, Thursday last week, I started making up a song and Josh said, "That sounds like the 'It's a Small World' song." I replied that he shouldn't bring up Disneyland because I'd want to go. Then, my amazing, smart, loving, wonderful, caring, totally awesome husband said, "Well, we could stay an extra day and go."

Oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh!

That's one of my favorite places ever! So I nailed it down, made a lunch reservation at the Blue Bayou, and am just so excited about this trip and all the fun things we're going to do I can't stand it.

I'll be sure to post pictures when we get back!

So don’t tell anyone, but I’m a huge Star Trek fan. 

So last night Josh and I went on a date—and a pretty great one. Café Rio and bowling…but I know what you’re thinking. 

“Danielle, that’s not a very unusual date…” 

But it was, and I’ll tell you why!


We get to the bowling alley, one neither of us had been to before, and the front of it looked like an abandoned warehouse. Seriously. I almost didn’t want to go in, but Josh coaxed me into braving it. 

We walk to the back of the space and find ourselves in a super sketch bowling alley. But we weren’t going to back down now, so we got our shoes and started the first game. Things were going just fine the first few rounds—and it was actually cool because our screen was ocean themed. 

But then things turned for the funnier.

Our pins suddenly wouldn’t stay up anymore. We’d start to bowl with half of the pins already down (or missing)! It was really hilarious when one of us would get a gutter ball and it would show up on the screen as a strike…but not so funny when we would get a strike and it would show up on the screen as a gutter ball. But we kept bowling, missing pins and all. Sometimes the ball would somehow bounce from the back and knock a few more pins down, and sometimes our pins would go flying up the gutter so they were halfway down the lane! We’d knock them back with an intentional gutter ball. And let me tell you, that's actually harder than you'd think!

Halfway through the second game, our lane gave up on us and randomly shut down. When Josh went to go tell the employee about the situation, the guy just sighed an exasperated “wonderfulll…” and moved us to a different lane. That lane started somewhat better…until it began to malfunction just like the other one! We were laughing each time one of us went up to bowl. It made the game so much more unpredictable!

Maybe we were cursed, or maybe the bowling alley just wanted to make it an even more entertaining date night. Either way, it was seriously the funniest bowling match we’ve ever played. So memorable in fact, this morning we were still laughing about how ridiculous the bowling alley was. 

Sometimes the best thing to do when the bowling alley gives you lemons is to make some lemonade you can laugh over for days to come. And we definitely will be laughing! 

So, if you’re looking for a ridiculous bowling night, just go to the Seven Peaks bowling alley in Sandy—you’ll be in for a funny time!

The people who know me best know that I love Star Trek. Now, I’m not going to give up here on my blog just how much I love Star Trek, but let’s just say it’s enough for me to be going to the midnight showing tonight!