Sorry it's been so long! I've been on the road taking driving shifts, eating at random restraunts, sleeping in the car half the nights, brushing my teeth with bottled water, and roaming from signal to signal...needless to say, I haven't updated my blog and really should. I guess that's the life you live on the road in order to do awesome stuff when you hit the big cities! We've been driving for three days from California to my parents' "secret destination"...we arrive there Monday so stay posted! (:

Spent from 2AM this morning until now on the road...but we made it to Arizona! We are still on the road and I'm growing weary of being in the car! But I got lots of souveniers and some math homework done. I feel like I'm a celebrity, ya know. Doing schoolwork on the road while constantly travelling across the United States? I'll update you soon (:

Beverly Hills was awesome! Ate lunch at Spango Restaurant and saw (Trace counted) sixteen Lambourghinis, eighteen Porsches, nine Ferraris, an Aston Martin, three Ducatis, twenty mustangs, and thirty-two Ford GTs. The houses and buildings here are amazing! The cheapest houses built around here are around $700,000 and top off at about $100,000,000. Wow. Our house isn't even close to the top end of that! Really awesome to feel like I'm super rich for a day. Did lots of shopping with the girls and went to a few car dealerships with the guys. Fun times!

Hey, anyone in the California area want to stop by our hotel and pick up two tickets to see Wicked in LA tomorrow night? They're free! Dad got a special for buying 15, but my mom and baby brother aren't going so we only need 13. Let me know if you're interested... addygrace@writeme.com!

Today was wonderful. I cannot ask for a more perfect dream to be coming true for me. The most thrilling part of it all is that I don't know what is in store for me a month from now, a week from now, even tomorrow. It's all a suprise. That's how my parents want it, and I'm cool with that. I can't complain. I have twelve beautiful siblings, a roof over my head, amazing parents, an amazing God, and a chance of a lifetime when I'm only a teenager. I love you Trace, Lauren, Allen, Sophie, Beth, Kassidy, Emily, Hailey, Justin, Prestyn, Savannah, Mom, Daddy, and Xavier. I will see you tomorrow to head off to Beverly Hills!

Eating dinner at the Geisha House with the family! If you fly up here, I'll buy you dinner (:

Well, here I am! Hopefully this blog will end up being informative to you travellers, and a ways to stay in touch with my close friends and family, as I ditched twitter and am going to be ditching facebook soon. Seeing as our trip really took off this weekend, I am going to give you a little update!

Saturday: Arrived in Hollywood, toured Universal Studios, Hollywood with the (expensive) $249 VIP passes! Had a blast. Thank you to my parents for that amazing gift.

Sunday: Continued the tour! Saw tons of amazing sets and went to the theme park for a while.

Monday (today!): Took lots of photos and concluded our tour. Wish we could stay longer, but we have to keep going on the road if we are going to make it around the world in sixteen months!

I will hopefully be able to post photos at some point. However, our dogs ate my camera to computer chord back home about a month and a half ago, and it will be a struggle to find the exact match on the road. But I will certainly try! Thank you for reading, and I'll keep you posted!