Good times in Cali part 1

Oct 20- Oct 24

We have spent the last 10 days in Anaheim California and we were fortunate enough to be able to stay with Jeff’s good buddies Beau Lawler and Chase Greep.  I don’t even know where to start to explain how much fun we had with them and all the cool things we were able to do.  We arrived in Anaheim in the evening of October 20 and started our stay there with a big yehaaw at a line dancing club.  Jeff and I were thinking “sweet a little country place with a few old people line dancing…we know how to line dance, we grew up in Calgary”.  Well this was no Cadillac ranch my friends.  The DJ would call out a dance and everyone would flock to the floor and like robots everyone knew what they were doing, minus the clueless Canadians.  These dances weren’t just your average country line dancing, it was like hip hop with crazy spins, jumps, booty shakes, and all sorts of things that were foreign to us.  It felt like in the movies where everyone is at the prom or something and then all the sudden everyone knows a choreographed dance.  The coolest part was that they had couples dances to..too bad Jeff and I were focusing so hard on our footwork we couldn’t actually enjoy that we were not at a nightclub and we weren’t surrounded by freaky naughty things going on.  The next day we recuperated from our humiliating skills on the dance floor and went climbing at the Riverside Quarry for Jeff’s birthday (no surprise he chose to climb on his bday).  The rock itself was awesome and the climbing was great but it was kind of hard to get over the fact that we were in the middle of a local dump.  I struggled belaying cause I swear there were rats lurking around.  In the night we went to Beau and Chase’s favorite Vietnamese place called Pho and topped the night off with a hilarious game of catch phrase.  The next morning we went shopping at the outlets a bit then went to the Santa Monica pier and Venice beach. It wasn’t the hottest of days so we just walked along the beach down to Muscle Beach and checked out the stores and street shops. We came home to Beau, Chase, their roommates, and a bunch of pumpkins ready to be carved.  The competition was more intense then I thought it would be so Jeff and I pulled out our A game and made an epic spider web with a spider on it.  Unfortunately those Californians were biased and Beau won with a mediocre presentation of a Harry potter pumpkin.  On Saturday the 23^rd we went to Universal Studios, and I don’t know what was better- actually being on the rides, or looking at the pictures of Jeff’s face after.  We went on the tour of where the filming is and saw some of the sets from movies and TV shows and that was really cool to do.  The next day we had a full day of fun with Beau and Chase.  We started the morning with a pancake breakfast then went and played an extreme tennis game.  After we came home and played a big game of dunk ball with their roommates Johnny and Erick then cooled off in the pool.  We drove into Temeculeh to have dinner with the Greeps and then played a very entertaining game of guesstures.  The best part was when it was chases mom’s turn..she was pretty comical watching.