Medieval Times

Last week on our way up to Los Angeles for my swearing in ceremony (more on that later), Chad surprised us all with a little visit to Medieval Times for dinner. I was so excited because I have always wanted to go there ever since I came over to the U.S. as a teen and passed it on the way to Knotts Berry Farm. Now every-time we go to Knotts I tell the kids about it, how fun it looks and how badly I want to go there. The thing is Chad never comes to Knotts with us (he is not a huge fan of amusement parks and crowds), so he has never really heard me talk about the place. When we pulled into the restaurant I was in total shock, firstly about his spontaneity, secondly his creativity, thirdly his uncheapness and fourthly cause I was so excited!

It is basically dinner and a show, taking you back to medieval times - thus the name. Each party is assigned a color, which refers to the section you sit and the knight that you cheer for. We were assigned the Green Knight, the bad guy, and we loved it, of course he won everything until the very very end, because of course good had to triumph over the bad right!






The knights all performed and competed in certain events, including a speed race, aiming the lance at a target, through a hole and then of course there was the joust - aaah my favorite, I felt I like I was in the middle of one of my very favorite movies A KNIGHTS TALE cheering on my very own Heath Ledger. After they competed they would go to the princess and then she would drop flowers to the knights and they would throw them at people in the crowd.




One of the unique and cool parts was the dinner. We were not given any utensils and only one napkin. The dinner consisted of soup slurped right out of the bowl, garlic bread, ribs, chicken, potato and then a pastry all eaten with our hands and the kids loved every second of it! The food was pretty good too, Trent cant stop talking about it!





Here we are with the King and the princess, we all had a great time. It was a really entertaining, yummy and fun evening!

Its Official

I now officially declare my husband a celebrity magnet! It is quite ridiculous, at least once a week he has a new story to tell me about some celebrity encounter he has had. Chad works a few days a week in West LA so when they go out to lunch he is a part of "the scene" if you know what I mean. He also does alot of traveling and rubs shoulders with plenty of them on planes (he flies 1st class alot because he travels so much he has platinum status - meaning perks!) and spends alot of time in the airports.

Last week he rode the elevator with Jon Krasinksi from the Office, then on the flight home he was seated near Mischa Barton. He has also sat next to Kato Kaelin of O.J. Simpson fame and near Randy Jackson. He has eaten at a table next to Nicole Kidman and another time Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, run through the airport to catch his connection with Elizabeth Hasselback, stood next to Sarah Palin in another airport, most weeks at the same restaurant he sees Al Bundy, driven next to Courtney Cox and Dr Laura, thought the paparazzi was taking pictures of him when they were really taking them of Jesse Metcalfe from Desperate Housewives who was standing behind him. The list goes on and on! He would be so embarrassed if I was with him because you know I would whip out my camera and get some sort of picture (remember my encounter with Gwen)

The crazy thing is my husband hates the whole Hollywood thing, it drives him nuts, he doesn't have a whole lot of nice things to say about many of them (although sometimes I think it is a show and he really does get a kick out of seeing everyone). He bags on the whole scene and how hard they try! The crazier thing is that I love the whole Hollywood thing, I think is is so interesting and shallow and intriguing and wild and self indulgent and extreme and mostly so completely different from my life.

So all I am trying to say is that I hope that his celebrity magnetism will come in to play when I am around him so I can get some sweet pictures, have some sweet stories to tell and be completely star-struck just to embarrass him!

This is how it is done folks!

This morning while eating breakfast with Luke he told me I needed to eat more.

I asked him why?

He answered quite simply

Because I want you to get FAT, REALLY FAT and then you will have a BABY!

MMM interesting.

He then proceeded to tell me that he wanted a baby brother and he wanted to name him Max.

So do you think a 5 year old is old enough for the birds and the bees talk?

last week...

Hayley performed in her very first play. The advanced drama class at her middle school put on Charlie and the Chocolate factory. She did so great and had so much fun. In the first half she played Grandma Georgina (not too impressed with being an old lady) and in the second act she was an oompa loompa. I was really surprised at the high standard of the play, very entertaining and very well done. Good job my little drama queen!




Abby went to her Father Daughter Hoedown, I wasn't home to take pictures of them both because I was at Trents basketball game. Seeing Abby was ready 2 hours early we were able to snap a few pictures of her!



Luke celebrated his 100th day of school - hooray! They had to bring in 100 items and then wear 100 things. Luke chose 100 spiderman stickers, and thought he was pretty cool!





Trent was just his cool, obedient and sweet self.

It was a good week!