Joey and I are leaving for Albuquerque tomorrow. We will be accompanied by my sweet friend, Cheryl who flew out to San Diego just to help us with the drive. We are stopping in Phoenix for the night and should be in Albuquerque sometime Saturday afternoon. I'm sure my blogging will be even more spotty than usual, but I'll try to post something while I'm there. If you think of us, please pray for a safe journey!

The other day Joey and I were driving around town. Well, I was doing the driving, and Joey was providing the commentary. A stop light turned yellow right before we were going to go through an intersection, and I had to brake kind of abruptly. All of a sudden, from the back seat, I heard, "Whoaaaa!" Once the light turned green I accelerated quickly so I could change lanes because I needed to turn right at the next street. Again I heard a dramatic, "Whoaaaa!" I feel like 17 months is a little young to be a backseat driver.

We are house sitting for my parents right now while they are up in Oregon visiting my brother at grad school. Since my parents live about 5 minutes away from Legoland, we decided to take the opportunity to go. A little secret among the locals is that they let you into the park for free for the last hour. Legoland for free is the kind of deal I like!

Since we only had an hour, we got into the park and just started walking with a mission to find something fun for Joey to do. Well, mission accomplished, because one of the first things we ran into was DUPLO Playland which is geared towards toddlers. And this little toddler...he had a blast!

After DUPLO Playland, we spent about 20 minutes power walking through the rest of the park to find other rides Joey can go on next time we come. I'm really thinking that might be tomorrow!

If you've never been to Legoland and you're ever in Southern California, I highly recommend it. It's a really impressive park. Just walking through it was fun because so many things are made out of Legos. Andy and I kept pointing at things and saying, "Wow! Look at that! Oh my goodness! Look at that!"

After Legoland we had dinner at In-N-Out burger. Life in Southern California may be expensive, but it sure has its perks!