New Years Eve...Hollywood Style

The whole gang was up for a New Years Eve adventure. Since our Christmas was relaxing....we decided to jazz our holidays up a bit. We took Scott to Hollywood and stayed up in L.A. We learned how to take the metro from our hotel to Citywalk, just outside of Universal Studios. We were starving and to keep the troops from getting angry we decided to feed them. Bucca de Beppo was calling our name. Oh...yummy bread, pasta and salad....a carb watchers nightmare, but oh...so mighty good! We were a different bunch after our family style dinner dwindled down to bread crumbs on the table.

We proceeded to window shop. Our dad never shops, so Scott got a taste of what it is to shop with Dad. He is asking everyone if they want this or that. Way funny. We could have seriously gotten into more debt. The funnest story was when we went into this Bath and Body type store and the girls were very content for about 45 minutes learning about all their natural products. Every girl got to figure out a new beauty regimin with samples. They guys could hardly stand a foot in the place without gagging of the smell. Oh...well, they could have shopped somewhere else. Haha!!!!

There was a 80's band that was planning to play at the City Walk and we decided to hang around. Before we knew it Kevin was up on stage in front of 1500 or so people. We had no idea what they had asked for...but he raised his hand. That's our dad!!!! So he gets up there and then they say it is a talent contest. The only talent he has is his wife and kids. He proceeds to tell them he has 6 kids, and the host says, well this is family show sir, can you please think of another talent. He decided to do a weird whistling sound he does. With his nervousness he could not perform. He ended up stripping off his coats...and we will just leave it that. He ended up winning a t shirt and hat. Who says we never win anything???? We had lots of laughs and embarrassed teenagers. We headed back early, and watched fireworks from the hotel. We had to get to sleep so that we could go to the Rose Parade the next morning.