Not sure where our fall has gone, but wowsers, this blog entry is WAY overdue. In late September, we went on a family vacation to California! We went out to visit some of mommy's family that lives in the area for the first few days and then we made a stop at Disneyland for a few more days before heading home.The first leg of the trip we stopped out at our cousin Marci's house in Lancaster, CA. Marci & Todd graciously opened their house to us for a few nights; during the day we ventured off to visit a few local spots and went sightseeing in the mountain and desert areas. We hit Apollo Park, the Musical Road, Devil's Punchbowl Park, and took some road trips through the Los Angeles National Forest Desert area. One of the evenings, my other cousin Rob and his wife, Debbie, and family stopped in to visit us all as well. Alicia really enjoyed visiting with her cousins and had a lot of fun playing with them all. It was nice to see her jump right in with them and watch how much fun she had with them all, despite some of them being several years older :) thanks guys for welcoming us into town!The second portion of our family stay trip was down south, near Arcadia, CA, at my cousin Kelly's. While visiting Kelly and Jeff's, Aunt Ronna came down from Oregon for a visit too since we were in town. It was great seeing them all, as the last time I think we all were together was about 10+ years ago at Kelly and Jeff's wedding out there. The first day visiting, we took time to just relax at the house and the kids were having fun playing in the backyard and chilling in the pool. While visiting the Arcadia area, we hit Huntington Beach the other day, and started part of our Disney adventures, too. At Huntington Beach, Kelly and Jeff's kids really liked to use their wake boards in the ocean, while Alicia was cool with just chilling on the beach with mommy and Kelly while the big kids went out to play in the water with the dads.
We had great fall weather the first few days there, but then it got HOT. The last few days when we spent it at Disney, were outrageous. We were out there for one of California's hottest fall days on record. yippe.. yeah, not really.. luckily we stayed onsite at Disney at the Grand Californian Hotel where we could easily sneak back and forth from there to the park to get some needed rest and relaxation in the air conditioning and pool time. Best ever decision for the trip to stay onsite, note to others, if pregnant and visiting Disney, do yourself a favor and spend the extra money for the close proximity and convenience of being able to rest and relax when you can sneak it in the few moments of free time.
Disneyland was less than a hour from Kelly and Jeff's place, so the one evening we met up with my girlfriend from high school, Kristina, and her family at Downtown Disney. By the way, Kristina, thanks again for the Jazz Kitchen suggestion to meet up, as I really enjoyed the beignets there in Downtown Disney.. yummo.. gotta love great deep fried powdery goodness.
Well that brings us up to about the first 3-4 days of our family trip to California. To avoid complete overload in one blog post, I will post the last half in the next entry.
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