I had a great time with my iPod. They are wonderful machines and I listened on the car ride to and from the coast and on the plane ride to and from Dallas. Just thought that I should put that in there.
The coast was amazing. I think that this trip probably took the cake in the "Going to the Beach A lot" competition. Betcha didn't know there was one didya? On the first beach the sand wasn't great but there were a lot of hermit crabs that we caught and held. Dad got pinched by a real crab and that was pretty funny.
The second beach was sandy through and through. 
The one on the right is Lauri's and the one on the left is mine. Even though the water wasn't warm and we didn't get stung by jellies :) , we had a great time being knocked over by the waves and getting all salty and sandy. We had a great time with Cogs and Crazy Uncle (and Aunt) and we were glad that they got to come up.The Monterey Bay Aquarium was fascinating. Again, our favorite part was the jellies but we enjoyed everything from the penguins to the octopus. The penguins
were my second favorite part second only to the jellies. 
I also liked seeing the massive tank with all kinds of fish in there and some sea turtles.Conference was great. Seeing as how my friends around hotville a.k.a. Pahrump consist of one person that's not really a really close friend yet, conference is the bomb 'cause the main chunk of good friends that I have I only see once a year. Even though the junior highers did more thing with us than I would have liked, it was a blast. Even though I lost at mini golf in my group, one of my two best friends wins every stinkin' year, I didn't do too poorly compared with the rest of the folgies. I have this theory that I don't do well under pressure when I feel like I need to do great. I know, many of you are shaking your heads saying, "No, really?" I was winning in the first half of the mini golf game but then I think it was on the tenth hole that I started losing, bad. But we had a great time. Lauri and I had a great time at the boardwalk beach, (the boardwalk is where the mini golf place is too.) Even though only a few of our friends enjoy getting into the cold water, it was great.
We got to go to the Redwoods a couple of times. We got to ride this really cool train
and see the Redwoods with the help of a Bold and Intrepid tour guide. 
I had a good birthday and got a lot of cool stuff. One new watch, two new pocket knives, one of which I don't know it's location at the moment, four books, five video games and sixteen candles on the cake. Thanks to Dad and Mom's generosity, we didn't have to drive the entire way home on my birthday but got to stay in a motel outside of Bakersfield.
We only spent a couple days at home between trips. Going to Wal-Mart, playing Ocarina of time, being hot...
And then, (after an incredibly short paragraph) we went to Dallas and sweated. Indeed for most of you, roughly half minus those who don't live in Pahrump, you are used to the hot and stickiness but we weren't. It wasn't too bad but it sure wasn't what I was used to. The reason we went down there was to give Nanny (Mom's mom) a surprise eightieth birthday party! It went really well. I think she was very happy to receive it even though she acted like she should have known what was going on. We had a good time getting to see family down there. I got to see Walker for the first time. That was cool.
It's way past time to wind this post up. For those of you that read it all, I salute you. For those of you that skimmed, I don't blame you. Here's a good pic that Dad took to reward you.
