The Increadible Journey to L.A.

So, we left on Monday morning and drove through Moab, UT to drop off Lou lou, our guinea pig at my Sister's for the week. We then drove the 70 to the 15 N and we made it all of the way into CA on the 15 before being stopped about an hour away from Ari's Mom's by the monstrous California fires! They really are soooooper bad, it's been kinda scary.

The freeway was shut down, all of the freeways were shut down. It was 10 p.m. west coast time, all of the hotels, etc...were full and we were completely stranded. We had to park on the side of the road between two semi-trucks and sleep it out, hoping that the roads would be re-opened at some point the next morning. I made a nest in the back of our trusty Pilot and Ari sat watch in the front seat, reclining enough to sleep a few hours at a time. The roads finally opened around 6 a.m. and Ari resumed the drive. In the night the fires had come extremely close to us, AND there had been hurricane-force winds that had gusted up to 100 miles an hour! I feel like we were in a flipping wagon train back in the olden days or something! Sheesh! : ) In the morning we could see several burnt out cars and trees, as well as about six semi-trucks that had been tipped over on their sides by the hurricane winds, it was crazy! Ari said that it literally looked like a war zone.

Thankfully, we are here now and having a great time. Today before the Tar Pits we even stopped by the tattoo shop that they film "L.A. Ink" at on TLC...they were filming at the time and politely asked us to go away. : ) I didn't want a tattoo or anything, I just have this weird fascination with seeing famous people.

I will post more later...Universal Studios tomorrow! : )

P.S. It's been between 90 and 100 degrees out here! There's a giant climate change for ya! We had to dig our car out of eight to ten inches of snow before we left, and it was still coming down!