ASCE conference

We went to Northridge, CA for an engineering conference for Trevor. It was near LA and absolutely beautiful! The weather was perfect according to Trevor and Craig and a little bit chilly the first day according to me. We were able to leave LV on Wednesday night and stay until Sunday. Craig was really good on the trips again. We took our car and had to figure out a way to hang the DVD player (we borrowed from Anita again). It was behind the passenger's seat, but Craig figured out how to reach it and open the disc. He loved hearing the frogs at the start of the Nickelodeon DVDs. (His favorite, Backyardigans) So he was always opening the disc.

Thursday, Craig and I met up with Trevor. Craig and I ended up walking around campus in our stroller for an hour. It was a beautiful campus. There were flowers and grass and trees everywhere (something Vegas lacks). We tried to go through their orange grove on campus, but it was under construction. But we found these beautiful redwood trees and I tried to take some pictures of Craig with them, but it didn't work too well.

That night, we took a magnificent drive down to Santa Monica beach. We took rte 27 (I think) down to the beaches and it was the a fun drive down. The drive back up that road, in the dark, not so fun. A little nauseating. But during the day, gorgeous.

We were able to just walk around on a pier and in the beach a little. It was fun.

Friday, Trevor had the steel bridge competition and Craig and I mostly hung out at the hotel and relaxed walking around a mall.

Saturday, we drove up to Castoic Lagoon (about 40 minutes away) and had the canoe challenges. It was a little chilly to start the day, but the water was wonderful! It started with Craig just walking in it a little, but soon he was soaked up to his belly button and not in his swim suit of course. So we changed, blew bubbles (he loves!) and played in the sand. Then, we went up the steep hill and found a playground to pass more time. Craig had so much fun and loves playing with older kids.

We had such a nice time. Trevor is done for this year with that conference, but probably planning next years and the following conference.

We got to stay at a four star hotel!! We were amazed! All of UNLV stayed at the same place (otherwise we would have had a cheap 1 star hotel) and it was so nice. Trevor took his x-box and when plugging it into the tv, he found a Nintendo DS sitting way behind the tv. We asked the front desk and they said no one reported anything missing. Well, one of the games has a date of usage posted and it hadn't been used since December. Some poor rich kids probably lost their DS and had it replaced already. **Lucky Trevor!