Danica and Jake's Many Adventures: Happy Honeymooners :) no we haven’t mooned anyone

We started our journey on Friday, August 27 in Honolulu, Hawaii. We decided since out of all the fabulous gifts we received we didn’t get a single Barbie or Lego set, we needed to reward our good behavior with those selected goodies! so we sat in a park in Waikiki playing with our toys while simultaneously killing time before our flight.

We did a bunch of other stuff around Waikiki….like cashing in our free chocolates. (Sign up to be a member at Godiva, it’s free and you get one free chocolate truffle a month!!) Then we went to the airport. This is us sitting down at the airport…waiting for the plane

We flew over to Portland, OR, arriving at 6:15 AM….yeah you read that right, AM as in MORNING. i was so cold. Jake and I were freezing (nearly to death….but as I am still here, able to write to you, you can clearly see we survived). Good thing I stole the blanket from the plane. we rode a shuttle over to where Jake’s dad’s hotel was. We slept for a couple hours and then got on the road to Pendleton, OR, where I walked in to see this upon entering the house. Behold, Cody’s Bear

Wo unto those who do not deal justly with the bear, for they will feel the wrath of Craig’s African Animal!

I actually really like the house. :) It was a little “Lions, and Tigers, and Bears. Oh my!” in the beginning, but the longer I was there, the more I loved it. I’m funny that way. Anyway, so we stayed there a couple days. I learned to play a marvelous game called Wizard and I ate some amazing salmon. So we woke up bright-eyed and bushy-tailed (around 8) on Tuesday. Here’s Jakey driving.

Here he is telling me it’s not a good idea to put a camera in front of him while he’s driving…I concur.

And after three and a half (to four) grueling hours (just kidding, we actually had a lot of fun) we arrived in Post Falls, ID. Poor jakey. hahaha. :)

Hello Antelope with whom I am very well acquainted. Yes, this is how I knew Grandpa P and Jakey would get along quite nicely.

Jake found the old Nintendo, he loves DuckHunt…

He did very well…

He got a picture of me looking outside. Right out our window, you could see the horses; my grandpa lets the horses out into the backyard when ever he feels like mowing the lawn. haha…

While we were in Pendleton, we went to this old toy/fudge shop. we bought some peanut butter and some mint chocolate fudge….it’s pretty fantastic stuff, anyway so we were eating some while were doing a Star Wars puzzle. Here we’ve finished the puzzle and Jake is getting some fudge.

The second day with Grandpa Palmer, we drove out to some place. anyway, it was really cool. It was a memorial for all the Native Americans from the area who had given their lives in WWI, and WWII and Vietnam and I think there was one other war or battle, and anyway this was made in memory of them. it says “Warriors and Veterans of the Coeur D’Alene Tribe”

Then we got back on the road, we headed to Jake’s Grandma Hibbert’s house. It was a ‘buggy’ drive. :) (that is to say our windshield was pretty nasty after the drive)