Wheel...of...Fortune! (sucks)

Well, on Thursday, my mom and I decided to go to Casino Morongo to try-out for Wheel of Fortune. It was scheduled between 6-10pm. We got there around 5pm and tried to find out where the line started and what was going on. We found a line and we were directed to the back of the casino where we would find a different line for a different set of armbands to get into the next round of auditions. We found it, and also the person who was handing out bands, but she ran out right as we got there. She said to wait there (which was not in an actual line) and said she would be back with more. She never came back. We ended up just going to the back of the line so we would have a spot. I think another hour went by, then someone said someone would be coming around with yellow bands, to get into the 9pm round. An hour later they showed up. LONG, boring story short, we waited in that line for 4 hours, with no where to sit down, thinking we would have chairs to sit in once we got inside. NOPE! So another hour on our feet. They pulled names 5 at a time to get a shot to get heard and solve puzzles. I think a total of 25 people went up and they were done. There were 1100 people in our group. RE-TAR-DED! So we left, aching. My feet and knees were a wreck and my mom was having pain in her hips. And we got nothing. Nothing that said we were there of anything...unless you want to count the paper wristband. We were very disappointed with how it was put together. There was alot of confusion and we got alot of misinformation.

Me on our way to the casino.

Me and mom around 7:30 or 8. We were tired and I had nothing better to do, so a nice lady took our picture.

My mom once we got in the room.

OMG! It's Vanna! Not.... this was the setup. The letters were drawn on with dry erase markers....LOL!

Yep, next time, mom and I are just going to go out to dinner instead.

A couple of videos of Ethan

Ethan trying to hula hoop when we went to Stacy's for Valentine's day.

Ethan playing the guitar and singing at my grandpa's birthday.

Botanical Gardens

I've been trying to get more involved with church lately and go to any of the events that they have. So, yesterday, the activities committee set up an outing to the Botanical Gardens at UCR. Everyone was supposed to meet at the church at 9am. Well, we went and got there a bit early....20 minutes later, no one was there and Ethan had to go to the bathroom, but all the doors were locked. So we went back home so he could go. I called my mom and we went and picked her up, because I still wanted to go, but not by myself. (at this point I was worried I had messed up the time or date or something)

When we got there, we ran into the other church gals and their kids. So we walked around with them for awhile. They decided to leave soon after that, because it really is not a place for strollers. There are a lot of hiking trails and most of them are inclined and not paved.

We stayed for a little bit longer so Ethan could run around and so we could take some pictures. I did meet a couple of nice girls though and I hope that I can get to know them better!

Some mushrooms

My Ethan

He likes hugging trees...he said "I love you tree!"

There was this little pond and there were 3-4 turtles just hanging out. Ethan looked at them and said "I go pee on the potty!" I guess he has to tell everyone.

A terrible picture of the turtle, but the reflection came out awesome!

Okay, Ethan had to pee and we were too far from the bathrooms. So my mom took him behind a tree and he went. Boys are awesome that way I guess, and apparently I don't have a child who "needs" a toilet to go!

Neat trunk of a tree

Pretty flowers

Mom, Ethan and a girl from church, Taylor

Peek-a-boo

Azalea

More Azaleas

Ethan on a neat winding staircase

More pretty flowers

Daffodils

Ethan climbing a tree

A heart shaped hole.

The main path we walked up

The top of the stairs

After we left here, we went and got some lunch and then went and visited my grandparents for a little while. I needed to drop my mom off after that because she was meeting some friends for lunch. We had a good time, but Ethan was cranky because he never got a nap. At least he got to bed by 6:30. Early night for us!

We are going to a Valentine church thing tonight also. It's pie night! Woohoo! If you like pie, which I don't, but I'm not really going for the pie!