Birthday trip to Laughlin

For my birthday my parents decided to take us on a trip to Laughlin, Nevada. Laughlin is a nice place to relax, if you don't mind casinos. It's a small casino town along the Colorado river. Harrah's has a nice little "beach" along the river that I planned on visiting to just lay out and relax. But we just didn't have the time, I guess now I will have to return sometime in the future! ;)

Anyways while we were there we took a boat ride down the Colorado River to see the London Bridge in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. It was a really fun and scenic boat trip! See:

There was a bridge in London that was slowly sinking and was no longer structurally sound. So the bridge was bought by Robert McCulloch (the same person as the chainsaw company) to serve as a tourist attraction and to sell people on a retirement RE development. The bridge was carefully numbered, shipped, and reassembled. It was actually built on land and not over a river, this saved a lot of money on the reassembly. Once the bridge was assembled they essentially dug a channel canal under it and flooded it so that it was over water.

And I guess his plan worked since there were plenty of tourists! The lamp posts also have an interesting story, they were war cannons (I'm a bad listener so I forget from what year) and were re-molded to become these lamp posts.

I think it'd be so fun to rent a house and boat along the river with a group of family and friends, maybe we'll have to return to do just that. Here's one of the many beautiful homes along the river that we past:

I'll blog about the Grand Canyon next. And I realize I said I'd blog about Disneyland, but I still haven't downloaded those pictures yet since they are on another SD card, woops!

New cross body bag!

So we're heading to Disneyland this weekend! I am super excited for many reasons which I'll blog about next week. But first I have to discuss my amazing find: a cute Cynthia Rowley bag! It's exactly what I was looking for. Bright color, check. Shoulder bag, check. Light weight, check. My main reason to go purse shopping was that I wanted a light weight bag for our trip, I also wanted something that had a zipper, so that I wouldn't be concerned about losing anything while on a roller-coaster. I also wanted something small so that I would not be able to stuff it with so much stuff. And lastly, I really wanted to buy a shoulder bag so that I could be hands free in case I wanted to carry my God-daughter! Mine is actually a blue color, I'll try to post pics next week.

Starting 30 Day Shred again

I was going through my blog and realized that when I started this blog I said we were moving into a studio apartment to save money, well that didn't last, LOL! Actually a lot has happened since then, and I was not able to blog regularly, but we actually moved last year and really like the neighborhood we live in. Everyday we see people walking, running, just exercising in general. So naturally, we've been exercising more than we have before. But that's not saying much. =P Starting to exercise is easy! The hard part is doing it regularly, we probably average light to moderate exercise 2-3 times a week.

So I think it's time I start doing 30 Day Shred again. I like it for several reasons: it's only 20 minutes, and it reminds me of when me and My Husband (MH) were engaged! See we started doing it together when we were engaged and it was easy to stick to, but it also really made me feel healthier and stronger. Sure maybe we didn't lose a lot of weight, but we are both on the, hmmmmm, the large side shall we say? =D So wish me luck in doing this DVD for the next 30 days. And just for fun here's a picture of us on Catalina Island the day we got engaged.