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Disneyland

Scott and I had the chance to go to Disneyland with my family over the past couple of days.  If you know anything about you Clark family, then you know that we live for Disneyland.  My family goes basically every year.  I haven't been able to go for the past 4 years, and Scott had never been before so my parents were nice enough to plan the trip at a time when we could go with them!

In front of California Adventure park are giant letters that spell out California.  My family always takes a picture in the giant C for Clark.  I was sad that there wasn't an E for Ellsworth in California because I really wanted our picture in it.  Scott, being the genius he is, decided to turn the F into an E!

Our favorite ride was the Tower of Terror.

While we were in California, there was a heat wave.  It was so hot!  Needless to say, we went on Splash Mountain and Grizzly Rapids a lot.  Our first ride of the trip was Splash Mountain.  Scott and I had to sit in the front, and we were both absolutely soaked!  We spent the rest of the day drying out.  We learned our lesson though, and never sat in the front again!

Take a good look at this picture, because you will never see my mom pose for a picture!  She is wearing the 3D glasses for the Honey I Shrunk the Audience show.
On Sunday we went and found a ward in Newport Beach and went to church.  After church we had a nice picnic lunch at the beach.  It was so hot and we really wanted to get in.  We had to settle for just sticking our feet in the water.

It was such a great vacation.  We loved being able to spend so much time with my family.  Thanks mom and dad for letting us go with you!

Houston House Hunting

Last week Scott and I were able to go out to Houston for Spring Break.  Our goal was to find an apartment.  We wanted to find it as quickly as possible, so that we could spend the rest of the weekend exploring Houston!  We spent basically all day Thursday searching for an apartment and found out that in order to be close to the school (which is pretty much downtown) we had to pay a lot more than we would like.  We were able to find an apartment right down the road from the school and in a safe neighborhood (as safe as you can be when you're downtown).  Now that we've found our apartment we're getting really antsy to get down there to live.  One thing that we both love about Houston, and Texas, is the great barbecue.  As you can see in this picture, we had some awesome barbecued ribs that were as large as my head!

Thursday night, we were so sick of looking at apartments that we wanted to see what else there was to see in Houston.  We decided to drive out to the temple.  Although the temple is in Houston, it takes about an hour to get there because Houston is HUGE!  It was a nice drive getting to see all different parts of Houston.  This picture didn't turn out very well, but the temple is absolutely beautiful.  We're anxious for it to become our temple.

Because we found our apartment the first day, we decided to spend some time on Friday in Galveston.  I was really surprised when we got there.  I didn't realized how big hurricane Ike was last year.  The city, which is right on the coast, was torn up, even after this many months.  We went by  Joe's Crab Shack that was completely shut down and nearly demolished.  Many of the ports still had upturned boats.  The old main street had many shut down shops.  A lot of the stores were in the process of renovations, but there was not a lot of progress.  It was really sad to see all the destruction.  This is a picture of how high the water line was during the hurricane.  To give you perspective, it hits about three feet above the man standing below the line.

Unfortunately, we did not take our swimming suits, so we were only able to wade in the ocean.  We were surprised at how warm is was!
On Saturday, we were able to drive out to Austin to visit our friends, Tyson and Kristina and their little girl Alissa.  The drive to Austin was beautiful.  The grass on the side of the highway was covered in bluebells.  I was surprised at how green everything was.  In Austin we went to a little Easter celebration with the Smiths at one of their friend's houses.  It was so great to see them.  It felt like old times when we would hang out in Provo.  We are excited to be moving closer, so that we can see them more often.  This is a picture of Alissa on her easter egg hunt.

Happy Easter

I know it's a week early, but we celebrated Easter with my family last week.  We went over and watched Conference with everyone.  In between sessions we had a little egg hunt and dyed eggs.  As my mom mentioned, it's one of the last times we'll be around for Easter in awhile.  It's so weird to think that we're leaving Utah.  I've lived here all my life and am having a hard time imagining living somewhere else; this doesn't mean I'm not excited to move!  We're going out to Houston this week to find an apartment.  We're getting excited as we realize it's really coming up!