UP!

This is quite a belated post but, because of Dad's fun post about the real life UP! house, I decided to surprise Reesa and take her there. She, of course, had no idea it existed. I set it up by first recommending that we watch UP! which she had no complaints because she loves that movie. We went up the morning after we watched it, leaving early to beat the crowds. We drove up to Herriman, Utah (just over the point of the mountain but really far west). I was nervous having never been there and going off some directions. When we were getting close I had her blindfold herself. I pulled up right in front of the house. I helped her out of the car, put the theme song to UP! on in my car really loud and then got the bouquet of balloons I had gotten before and covered with a blanket in the back of my car, put those in her hand and then undid the blindfold. She was SOOO ecstatic. She couldn't believe her eyes. After taking lots of pictures (we were the only ones there for a while) we found out we could pay to go inside. As you can see, the replication was amazingly critical. We were thoroughly impressed. Reesa even got an "Ellie Badge" from the designer since we were letting other people use our balloons to take pictures. The designer also let us cross the rope and sit in Carl and Ellie's chairs! Then we met Carl himself. No Russell unfortunately. It was a neat, neat experience.