Getting ready for Christmas!

One more day until Christmas...boy have we been busy.  Daddy has torn out the galley in the boat and mommy has been shopping until she was dropping for all of our family (only to be reminded later that she agreed last year not to buy the adults gifts...shoot.  She told them to enjoy it, no more gifts for at least the next five years.  Shipping is probably really expensive from Figi!).

Last weekend, in order to give daddy some room to work on our new refrigerator, mommy and I went to see Gigi and Papa.  I helped Gigi decorate her Christmas tree (since we only have a teeny tiny one on the boat and mommy says the ornaments are in the back of the storage unit) and we made a fantastic gingerbread house!  This is probably my favorite thing to do each year.  I asked Gigi if we could make another one on Christmas.  It's really messy, but I get to do whatever I want.  This year I put a rocket on the side of the roof with twizzlers (no, that is NOT a christmas tree).

After we finished all of that, Papa drove us to Riverside to see all of the Christmas lights at the Mission Inn.  It looks like they have a gazillion, billion, trillion lights there!  They even have a skating rink where  I saw a Zamboni!

We ate at a really good restaurant where I had spaghetti and meatballs.  When we got home, I got to eat a little bit of a cupcake and ended the yummiest day ever!

Tomorrow we're going back to Gigi's to wait for Santa!!

Mommy said to tell everyone to have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

My day on an aircraft carrier

I did the coolest thing yesterday....I got to go on the U.S.S Midway.  A real live aircraft carrier.  For the last month, we have passed an aircraft carrier while driving daddy to and from work every day.  I continue to ask mommy if I can go on and she continues to ignore my question.  Well, not yesterday.  After we dropped daddy off at work (he had to work with the Reservists this weekend), and had the most yummiest breakfast ever (chocolate chip pancakes with whipped cream), we spent two and a half hours going through the Midway.  I saw the bunks the sailors slept in, the engine room where they made the ship go (the steam gets passed to the propellers and makes the ship move), and even the jail!  They call it the Brig.  Incidentally, there are a lot of potties in the Brig.  I made mommy read all of the signs and I even stole her earphones so I could listen to the important, yet interesting facts they were telling her through the recording.  But the best and most super part of all was getting to see and sit in the airplanes.  I got to sit in a few of them and flew many missions.  I never crashed...but I did push all the buttons and call out all the proper commands.

After we finished our tour, we went in the gift shop and with much persuading (I pulled out some of my best moves), I convinced mommy to buy me an aircraft carrier complete with little bitty airplanes and a helicopter.  It's been hard to concentrate on anything else since.

Even though we were there for most of the morning, there are still some decks that we didn't get around to.  I'm looking forward to my next trip!