Friday, January 2, 2009

Christmas Vaca!!!

So a lot of you already know that over Christmas break we flew to Philly to visit my aunts Jami and Stacey. We left on Thursday the 18th and flew in really late that night. So we drove to Jami's house first. On Friday we went through Amish country.
The Amish Village
We saw lots of the amish horses and their buggies.
Saturday-We rode the train into downtown Philly. We rode the double decker tour bus, went on the Independence hall tour, saw the liberty bell, and other history stuff. That was not exactly my favorite day....(oh and B.T.W. it was butt cold!)
Waiting to get ont he train
Independence Hall


You probably can't see this very well but they are copies of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Contsitution.
This is where the Constituitonal Convention was held.
The Liberty Bell Ryann and me on top of our double decker!

Sunday-Jami and Jason's church got canceled cause of ice storms. So we hung out, played a lot of scrabble, and a lot of hide and go seek with Miles and Cole! Oh we also played in the snow a little bit.
Jami's driveway was iced over....
We just woke up...can u tell??

Monday-We drove about 2 and 1/2 hours do Washington D.C. We saw the white house, the Washington Memorial, the Jefferson and Lincoln memorials, and the American history Smithsonian and the Space Smithsonian.
The White House
Jefferson Memorial
The capital building
The Washington Memorial
Tuesday-We drove up to East Stroudsburg to stay with my mom's other sister, Stacey, and her family. That day we just hung out, went sledding and played with the cousins. On Wednesday it was Christmas Eve so we just chilled that day too. Me, Gabe, and Alec shot air soft guns at each other too!
Baking cookies for Santa (and us)!
Oh and I changed Gabe into Gabriella!
The final Product!
Cute Cameryn!
Air Soft wars
Thursday-Christmas! I got the new nano (the orange one), twilight stuff, jewelry, clothes and candy! I had a really good Christmas! Especially cause i gotta spend it with my cousins!

The stuff to the right is mine. The stuff to the left is Alec's.

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday-Friday we played with our new stuff and went to see Bedtime Stories. Saturday I woke up throwing up. The week before we got there the Beebe's had the flu. Apparently I got it. Luckily it was only 24 hours. It still was not fun! Sunday everybody went to church. I stayed home cause i was still a little sick. When everybody got home, we went on a walk and took some family pics.
Mom just wanted to be cool like Gabe, Alec, and me.


Hey look Mom! Your not the only one that wanted to feel cool! Jk luv ya!
Monday and Tuesday- New York!!! Stac and James live about 2 hours from NYC! So we drove up on mon. We saw the statue of liberty, the empire state building, where the world trade center used to be, and all the big buildings! I also got to go shoppin on 5th ave! It was fun! I think New York was my fav! Ok a funny story...So its a few days before New Years eve so NY is totally crowded. Well the kids thought they were hilarious and decided to act like Buddy the elf. On the cross walks, they would jump from white line to white line all the way accross the road every time we crossed a street! They ran in circles in the doors that spin, and told everyone " Buddy the elf, whats your favorite color?"! It was so embarrassing but hilarious!!!






So on Monday night we stayed at a hotel in New York. It was tiny!! 4 twin beds + 6 petersons + 2 Beebes= a crazy night in a 4 by 4 hotel room!
We had a way fun vacation! We hope to see all of our cousins next year cause Christmas is here next year Vernies, Saunders, Beebes, ang g-ma and g-pa! (This post took me 3 hours so i hope you liked it)!!:)



9 comments:

Mandy said...

I LOVED it!!! I loved all the pictures and it looks like you had SOO much fun! I wish we could have been there to play with you! I can't believe Gabe let you do that to him! :) Next year...Christmas together for sure!!!

Kahlyssa said...

Sounds like you had tonz of fun. I've always wanted to go to New York.Well gtg luv ya tonz and miss ya lots..
<3/Kahlyssa

jami v. said...

oh wog! we ALL loved it!! very great pics (tell your mom she's great!) and i loved reading about all you did when you weren't with us!! fun fun .. .please come back soon!!!

jami v. said...

ok, so i had to look at the pictures yet AGAIN. i love them. i love that gabe let you make him into gabriella - and one day i'm afraid he's going to really regret that!! hehe ... and i also love remember all those fun things ... and the air you caught on your walk at the beebes! holy cow! nice. :)

Lauren said...

hey kall! THat sounds like you had tonz of fun!! Im glad you posted so dang many pictures!! ha ha your lucky.... you got to go to new york... ha ha well sounds like fun. I love you and miss you tonz!!! love, laur

The Peterson 5 said...

I'm so jealous...I want to go to New York!! It looks like you guys had a great Christmas...I loved all the pictures!!

-KeLliE- said...

Mckall!! Looked like you had a fun Christmas Break!! Sounds like alot of fun!! luv ya! -Kellie

Julie said...

I loved your post. It sounds like you guys had a blast!!

amberjill said...

holy fun! however, i just have to put in there, WHAT ABOUT ME??!? When is my Christmas with the crazy Petersons!? I hope that house of yours is big enough, cause I think we should ALL come to your house!