Phoenix, Arizona

Hey peeps I'm back to tour you guys on the exiting trip to Arizona. On our airplane trip to Arizona the airplaine took a stop in Houston TX. There we just sat for a 45 minutes until Colton had to have fresh air so he stepped off the plane for a quick breather even though it was against the rules. We did not tell him.He was distracted by cute little birdies in the sky so when the people got onto the plane Colton got hauled off to the plane jail...AGAIN!! So when we got to the PHX airport Colton was released. The flight there costs $59.00 per person so the total was of course $236.00. After that we went strait to a car renting place called enterprise where we rented a minivan that cost $69.00 per day, which makes a total of $276.00. Then we had a fight to see who would drive the hot rod since we are staying there for four days so only a odd number of people would drive those days. Ali drove like a madman and almost got us a ticket for speeding. Finlay after a terrorizing drive to our hotel we actually got to relax. After we checked in at the Hyatt regency phoenix hotel for 4 nights it was $398.00 for the first 2 nights and the other two nights for $358.00 it came out to be the price of $756.00. We decided to have a mass pillow fight. This is how the pillow fight worked you see Ali tried to hit Colton upside the head but Colton fell over to get his blanket so Ali tripped over him and hit Lawrence so he did a body-slam on Ali and that was a total KO. since Joseph had just been hanging around waiting to strike. He did the stare and told us to watch the Television for one hour so when we were finished watching at 8:30 so we decided to go eat at a place called Julio's Mexican restaurant. There Joseph got the nacho supreme for $11.50 and Lawrence got the cheese burger for $8.50, Ali got the albondigas soup for $6.00 and finally Colton got the pescado Veracruz for $14.00. That came out to be a total of Things went horrible right when Lawrence tried to eat the cheese burger. Colton took the cheese burger away and thew it in the trash. Lawrence got really mad and gave Colton a handshake so Colton screamed like a girl and we almost got kicked out of that restaurant. A handshake in lawrences style is torture because he squeezes so hard, it hurts. So since it was the first time in Arizona we decided we should treat ourselves with desert, Lawrence got the original fried ice cream for $5.50, Joseph got the double chocolate fudge explosion for $6.00, and Colton got the sopapillas for $4.00, and Ali got the chocolate mini chimi for $6.00 it came out to be $61.50. When the Waiter gave us our desserts, Colton threw a fit because his sopapillas were not beautiful flowers and they the food into his face so we had to leave. Then it was 10:30 so we had to Leave and hit the hay, but right when we got there we decided to have a cup of coffee from the food bar and that totally hyped us up and we had to stay up because we could not go to sleep. We had one thing to do GO SWIMMING!!!!! We put on the swimming trunks provided by Lawrence and zipped int the pool. We decided to climb onto each others backs and try to balance. That was a big mistake because when Lawrence started to stand on people because they would start to drowned so we quit because he weighed to much. When we went back to the hotel room to watch Dora the explorer but we decided to play the quiet game, well that was fun until Ali farted and we got KO and that was about 12:30. About 3:00 Colton woke up because he could not find his blanky so he checked the bathroom and it was in there then Colton got a idea he got the hotel's soap and spread it on lawrences face then went back to sleep. The next morning we got up to go get breakfast like normal but first we had to decide where. We all wanted different things but Joseph showed us the stare and we had to go to his restaurant called Matt's BIG breakfast. Just in case you were wondering the soap dried onto Lawrences mouth and he had a pink moustache but we did not tell him. So when the waiter came he started laughing and that's when he finally figured out that he had a pink moustache. Well for some reason he decided to blame Colton, who actually did it.This is what he did. Lawrence got the cheese omelet for $6.50 Joseph got the griddlecakes for $6.00 Ali got the tossed cob for $7.50, and Colton got frosted flakes for $4.00 for and at this place the water was NOT free so we had to pay $1.00 each for $4.00 it came out to $28.00. Then we just ate are breakfast except for Lawrence who just nibbled on his and drank his water. So when the waiter came he asked for a take home box well the waiter brought him one along with the bill. After we paid then we left at 10:02 to do something else. Ali suggested we play golf, but Lawrence said we should go swimming so we went to go golfing. We went to a golfing place called octillo golf resort for $60.00 per person,that's a total of $240.00 just to golf. Plus it wasn't even in Phoenix so we drove down to Chandler, Arizona and got there at 10:35 but our game got started at 11:24. When we started playing our nine-hole tournament other people got to join in and well, as they say the more the merrier. So when Colton got up there to swing his golf club he missed and got and hit himself in the face with a golf club. Then the pros stepped up they all got hole in ones with there awesomeness. Then Joseph just stared at the ball with his stare and told it to get a hole in one of course the ball did not do that so Joseph kicked it and it fell in the lake. Then Ali got up to the ball and hit it and it fell into the lake so he tried to go get it and slipped on the muddy banks and almost drowned until the amazing form of Colton rescues him and when Ali asked why he saved me he said he had "brotherly love." So Ali got totally freaked out and ran to the resorts bathroom to hide. So it was time to see who one the tournament out of us four well Lawrence came in first, Ali came in second, Colton came in third, and Joseph got dead last out of everybody who played. Just in case you were wondering we have spent a total of $1,591.52 out of $3,500.00 for our trip. Well it was getting late at 12:46 PM so we were going to go to a chinese restaurant called the Autumn court where we got to go to a court in Autumn. There Lawrence got the egg foo young with shrimp for $8.95, Colton got the chowmein chicken with rice for $6.95 Joseph got the kung pow shrimp and chicken for $8.95, and Ali got the pork lomein for $6.95 for a total of $31.80. We pretty much did nothing there except eat. So we wanted something to. We decided to go to the hotel again to watch the TV And play the game of ultimate global domination RISK but reenact the battle scenes. It was 1:32 at this point. well Ali surrendered his troops to Joseph right away because of his stare. Then Colton destroyed Lawrences troops with his deadly fart and now it was the ultimate face down the smart one and the dumb one in a climatic clash of forces to capture the entire world. So can you guess who one? Well that a no-brainer Colton won..... no he lost totally. So We had to do something so we got on the Internet to find out what to do since we got board we hoped to find an amusement park to go to and we did. We found a medieval place called castles and coasters where you ride a lot of cool rides until you upchuck your food. First we had to pay admission but there was none but we had to pay for each ride separately. We did get a good value but it was $20.00 per person and it came out to be $80.00 to ride 4 rides and play mini golf 18 holes where we battle through stages with scary medieval stuff then rescue a princess from a dragon by getting the ball in the dragons mouth; it was fun. Colton went exploring in the many fabulous settings but he got lost in the town square by wandering around the houses so we had to go find him. He was hiding in the dragons mouth and since the mouth opens at intervals. so next we went to the sky diver-our scream machine where you are taken up to a chilling 120 feet and dropped without warning. We regretted ever going on that ride because Colton screamed like a girl and nearly got our eardrums busted out. next we went to a real thrill-ride called the carousel where soothing music lulls you to a peaceful slumber while you beautiful animal rides up and down in a magical swaying motion it was very relaxing. So Colton was asleep so we could do two more awesome rides first came the desert storm where you would ride a thrilling roller coaster where power carries you upward and drops you into a series of loops, vortexes, and twists and the climax, the death defying drop of doom. Then when they came off of the ride Colton was crying on the side walk because he did not know where we were. So we had to do something together. We rode the splashdown where at first it is a soothing water ride until you take an unexpected detour and travel through a Polynesian village then stampede a herd of calm elephants after that crash down roaring waterfalls for the adventure of a lifetime. well castles and coasters was over but we still have funn stuff to do here. Well when we looked at the watch we saw that it was 3:07 and almost four so we could do something else before we ate dinner. So we decided to go see a movie at AMC Arizona center 24 when we got there we had to get our tickets for the 3:20 showtime of earth but the line was huge we got the last four tickets of earth and by then it was 3:19 so we were like, forget the food and go to the movie. The tickets cost $9.75 per person so we spent at total of $39.00. Colton thought the movie was magical. It was about Earth and the animals on it and the exotic places to go. Ali thought it was a waste of money. The movie was ninety minuets long so now it was 4:50, and we needed refreshments so we drove around looking for a restaurant to eat at Finaly at 5:13 we found a good place called Mi amigos Mexican grill where we have good food Lawrence orderd the Shrimp fajita for $16.25 Colton got the grilled chicken taco for $10.75, Joseph chose the enchilada with the Chile con carne for $10.95, and Ali got the soup and dinner salad for $7.50 and it came out to be $45.45. But everything went wrong when Ali tried to talk in Spanish he tried to say " I want a dinner soup and salad", But for some reason it came out like"You are so fat" I don't know why, but I think he was talking to Lawrence. So we got kicked out of that one and by then it was 6:06 So we headed back to the hyatt hotel To hit the hay. Oh and if you were wondering what happened to the eggs Lawrence saved to get a payback on Colton Well this is what he did that night. He "borrowed" Ali's ipod touch and set the alarm for 3:00 in the morning and slept with the earphones in his ear So only he heard the alarm go off. He got the eggs from his backpack [by the way Colton is allergic to eggs] So he put them into Colton's mouth and went back to sleep. In the morning we were awoken by a screaming Ali who had tried to wake Colton up but he was covers with itchy spots called hives but Colton had already woken up so Ali thought he was a deformed zombie. Colton was just miserable and itchy. Lawrence felt sorry for Colton so he apologised but Colton got angry and hit Lawrence in the face. It all stoped when a room cleaner walked in and separated them. We did not want to be in the room while the person was cleaning so we had to go to breakfast. We got into the car at 9:21 and set off in search of a restaurant. We found a little restaurants called copper star coffee, There we got coffee Well first Colton got the veggie sandwich for $4.50, Joseph got the espresso coffee for $1.75 and the breakfast bagel for $3.75 for his total of $5.50, Ali got the cappaccino for $3.25 and the deviled egg salad sandwich for $5.00 for another total of $8.25, and Lawrence got the Cesar salad for $4.50 and the latte for $3.25 that makes his total $7.75 and the grand total was $25.95 and by the time we left it would be 10:00. We searched the Internet for a place to go and found a really cool one called westworld xtreme pursuit paintball We drove from the restaurant to the paintball place and got there at 10:25 When we got there the first thing we did was pay for our stuff ( for entertainment because re rented it) it was $5.00 per person so that was a total of $20.00, but we also had to pay for admission, which was $20.00 per person, so the total with admission and the equipment rental was $100.00. When we went into the arena we were ready for combat except for Colton.There was a big buzzer and it had started so we decided to be on a team. We walked around to find someone to shoot. Joseph said he needed to use the restroom and walked away then he jumped out and scared Colton and shot him. Then someone else jumped out and started to shoot us and we shot back but we all fell except for Lawrence who was to fat for the bullets to do any damage so he won the game when we were out of ammo and we were black and blue we decided to take a rest. We went back to the hotel to take a nap at 12:12 and woke up at 1:13. We were starving so we had to go to eat lunch we drove around for five minuets and Finlay we found this place called oregano's pizza bistro where we got pizza Colton got the kick butt garlic bread for $4.89, Ali got the bistro calamari for $6.89, Lawrence got the Lawrence's stuffed shrooms for $7.99, and Joseph got the Alfredo the dark for $8.99. The total on the bill came out to be $28.76. Well Ali was being silly with his squid and let them swim around in his bowl and sang about farting rainbows and lovable cuddly monsters that ate your face off. That was very weird. At 2:00 we went to the enchanted island where we will be enchanted. We got there at 2:09 and went to get our tickets for rides and food we all got the all day pass for $8.00 per person and that came out to be $32.00 so that we could go all day. There first we did the Red baron where you get to be an ace pilot and fly around. It cost two tickets. After that we went to go see the phoenix skyline on the parachute tower. Then we went to go to the games of skill where we shot hoops for $2.00 each we did that four times so that will be $32.00. then we went to the food court for a snack. We got the ice cream and hot dogs it all went fine until Colton smashed his waffle cone against Lawrence's face then he got angry and threw his hot dog then it turned into a hot dog/ice cream fight. after that weird incident. At last we got board and we went back to the rides. Then Colton spotted something truly magical, the C.P. Huntington train. Of course we ran to it a fast as possible and Ali got there first, Colton got there second then Joseph was third, and Lawrence turned out to be dead last. So first we had to pay the conductor two tickets and then we were on our way. We road around the whole Park and got to see enchanted plants on the ride. We road that thing like crazy until we had only one more tickets. well nothing cost one ticket so sadly we had to leave. By the time we left the place it was 4:30 so we had one more thing to do so we decided to go to the phoenix art museum and look at art. We drove for five minuets and got there at 4:35. When we walked up to pay they said that it was $10.00. Then Colton piped up and said "Will you take an IOU?". Then Joseph apologized and said that Colton was in the special needs group. So because it was $10.00 we paid a total of $40.00 for the Phoenix art museum. We went in and got strait to the statues. We saw cool pictures of people getting there heads chopped of and children playing in the snow. After that we went to go see medievalisam fashion romance of the middle ages. which was also in the art musem.We got to see knights armor and big headdresses and mail armor. Then Colton spotted a scary looking sword with jagged edges so he got scared an ran away. Lawrence Joseph, and Ali were fascinated about the cool looking sword. Lawrence tried to take it out of its case but a security guard told him not to so he had to leave the place. Plus it was getting late it was 6:00 and we were starved. We went out to our car but a old lady stopped us and said that she was in desperate need of money. Colton stepped up and tried to give her our only hundred dollar bill but Ali quickly stepped up and said we could not give a random old helplass lady money so she turned around and whacked him in the face with her purse. We drove around until we found a place called avanti italian restaurant. Joseph got the penne al forno for $18.50, Lawrence got the mozzerella caprese for $11.00, Colton got the spaghetti for $18.50, and finally Ali got the veal speccialiti for $25.00. Our bill came out to be $73.00. This time Joseph tried to speak Italian and say "This food is good", instead it came out like "your face is ugly." so we had to leave. We needed our sleep so we went back to the hotel. The sleepiness did not last for long when we saw the swimming pool. We immediately jumped in to the warm pool and tried to drown each other but that got boring. Then we decided to have a dream contest and see who had the weirdest dream. The next morning we told each other about our dreams. Joseph had a true nightmare where he had got a 99.99 on his final exam, Lawrences was weird too he was being chased by an peanut-butter jelly fish singing the Dora the Explorer song, then Ali's was where he was told by the head Unicorn that they live in Alaska not Canada, pegisi live there. Finally Colton's was where a Evil butterfly farted on A cute princess and it stunk up her hairstyle so she tried to kill it but it was in leage with lord Imsougly and the power of cuteness could not harm it but Colton came along and chopped the monsters head off using the eternal power of friendship. And colton and the Princess lived hapilly ever after and a day. so obviously Colton had won the game but we had to eat a hjealthy meal before we set off to our little adventure. We decided to go to a place called Seamus McCaffrey's Irish reastaurant. We got there at 9:06 to eat breakfast. There we all orderd the chicken boxty for $8.33 so it came out to be $33.32. There Colton thought he had the luck of the Irish so he tried to see if a leprechon would play a trick on him and he would outwitt the leprechon. He did not outwitt the clever thing and he left with a bunch of bruises becauso of all the triping and falling that had happend it turned out that the leprechon was Ali, Joseph, and Lawrence.And our next destination,the Grand Canyon it was almost a four hour drive to the canyon and it got board after we ran out of movies to watch you see Lawrence had brought a portable DVD player and a Lord Of The Rings movie scince that was three hours long but that was the only thing we had so we fell asleep until a random person decided to honk his horn as loud as they could so we were back on the road. When we got to the national park at 1:25. When we got there we had to pay the fee of $12.00 per person so that came out to be $68.00. We went to go do the north canyon tour of the park for $149.00 per person so because there are four of us it was a total of $596.00. We got to see a thirty minuet tour of the north side on a flying helicopter. We got to see the deep parts of the canyon. Colton tried to get out of the copter while it was in midair because he is afraid of flying objects so he had to be reastained by the co-pilot. Ali thought it was very thrilling. Then we had one thing to do Go on a hike! We set off with water bottles and hiking sticks we walked for at least a few miles then we got board of hiking and looking at pretty scenery we decided to play Star Wars with our sticks. That was not a good idea because jumping around on the edge of a cliff is not the best thing. We started to walk back but Colton lost his grip and fell unfourtunantly he grabbed on to an overhanging branch and held on tight. So Lawrence, Ali, and Joseph had to pull a crying Colton up from the canyon. Of course Colton wanted to go home so well its anoying with a crying baby so we had no choice but to. Well it was 4:00 and we just realized we had not had lunch so we sped back to Phoenix with no stops and got there 6:00 and went for a food place called Cafe Eden. There Ali orderd the Eden pancakes for $14.00, Joseph got the star spangle for $14.50, Colton got the mega french for $15.00, and Lawrence got the meditteranian breakfast for $13.00 and that would be the total of $56.50. Then we had one more thing to do before our last day in phenix. Go to the dessert botanicle garden!! We had also had the reservation set up it was $15.00.We drove there and got there at 7:30 and went to pay addmittion for $15.00 per adult so it came out to be $60.00. First we went to the chuhily: nature of glass exhibit. There we saw plants that looked like plants until you looked close enough and saw that they were all made of glass. It was very cool until Colton shatterd a evil looking plant and we were not allowed to be there anymore. so then we went to the spring butterfly exhibit where we saw cute butterflies riding on the wind. The addmission for non members was $3.00 per person so that cost us $12.00. But if we were a member we would get to get in for free! So we got to see butterflies up close; taking in nectar and landing on people. Well while we were at that place Colton tried to pluck a plant for the butterflies but he got into trouble. so we had to leave. Next we went to the ottosen entry garden. where we saw different dessert plants and where they were found. There were four different gardens, the basin garden, red canal garden, terrace garden, and the sonoran desert plant exhibit. First came the basin garden where we saw cacti that would grow in the south part of the desert. Then we went to the canal garden where different types of cacti grow against red stone walls and a canal with little waterfalls flowes through the different plants. Last we went to the tarrace garden where you climb up a small mountan and the plant life changes as you get closer to the top. at the top all looked over thae park untill we were distracted by Ali's stupidity. He had gotten a cactus thorn in his hand he had tried to punch a cactus because it looked too ugly so he got mad at it. So we had to drive him back to the hotel where we pulled the cactus thorn out and made Ali were a barny bandaid. By that time it 9:30 at night and we still had not eaten dinner. So we got back into the car and went to a place called tee pee Mexican food. Where they had great bathrooms. There we all got the chicken fajita for $10.50 so we spent a total of $42.00 there. Right after that at 11:30 we started to ride back to the hotel but a crazy driver almost ran us over then Colton screamed and that startled Lawrence who was driving and caused him to hit the street curb so it was pretty much a nightmare drive back to the hyatt regency. Right when we got in the room we were so tired that we forgot to get into our pajamas and just fell asleep on the floor. We woke up to hear Colton screaming because his arm had fallen asleep because he was sleeping on it. He had no felling in his arm and he could not move it. We told him that we would have to chop it of because it was dead, but that made him scream more than ever. So we decided to have the hotels contonental breakfast and see if Coltons arm would heal up before the zoo. And of course it did. so right now it is 9:00 and we should be heading to the PHX zoo. We got there at approxomatly 9:11 and went to get our passes to enter. The passes were $16.00 per person so for that we spent $64.00 to get in the zoo. We walked around looking at different animals and got to get goats to lick our hands. Colton started to cry when he found out that there were no cows to ride on. We got to see slithering snakes and vicous crocidiles that scared Colton because he thought that they would try to take his head off. We finaly got boared at 10:54 but then saw a sign that said bear bonanza. We found out that it started at 11:00 everyday so that was good because it was getting around that time. At the bear bonanza we got to explor the forest 0f Uco and see the andean bears. We also got to see a colectoin of skulls, claws and other items like teeth. We also got to find out how to help the bears and the threats that they faced. After that we were getting hungry so we left the zoo at 12:23 to go eat at a place called Durants. This was the last restaurant we would eat in before we had to leave Phoenix for good. So Ali orderd the durants cobb sallad for $15.50, Joseph got the grilled shrimp for $23.95, Lawrence ate the ceaser sallad for $9.25, and Colton bought the chinese chicken sallad for $14.50. So we paid a total of $63.20. Well the restaurant was good but we are going to miss it. Next we went back to the hotel to check out then dropped the car back off at the car dealer and hopped on our plane. BY!!!!!!! Enjoy our next great adventure as we journy to lake tahoe, nevada. See you later!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! By the way the total of this trip is $3,119.48.