Sunday, October 26, 2008

Southern California Vacation

Morri had the last week of September off of work so we decided to take a trip to Disneyland etc. We had promised our kids that if they were good while we went on our cuise back in January that we could go to Disneyland. I don't think they believed that it was ever really going to happen (to be honest I wasn't sure it was ever really going to happen), but we finally got to to.

We stayed with my lovely sister Mary and her family which was so nice because we probably would'nt have been able to stay so long and do so much if we hadn't . We spent three day's at Disneyland/California Adventure, one day at Sea World, one day at Universal Studio's, one day at the Wild Animal Park and one day at the beach. It was a lot to fit in and some days the kids just wanted to stay at Mary's and play with her daughter Sophia and swim in the pool but we did have a really good time.




Addi wanted to ride the teacups first thing so we did. She likes to do bunny ears when someone takes a picture she just doesn't realize you're supposed to do it behind someones head, so peace-out everybody.



Space Mountain was everyones all time favorite (except Addi, it was a bit much for her).

The first sunday we were there we got to go to Morri's aunt's house who lives in Murrietta. We had a really nice dinner and played games. It was really nice to see them and spend some time together.
We spent a lot of time watching the dophins at Sea World.




Carter and alex got a good splash from a passing dolphin.












We had front row seats at the dolphin show because the kids wanted to get wet.






After about ten splashes in a row Addi and I decided we'd had enough.





















Addi and Sophia celebrating the arrival of Sofia's new potty chair.

Jeni and Gabi were able to come out to Mary's one night and have dinner with us. It was so fun for Addi to be with her girl cousins, she feels a little deprived in that area.



Of course the day we had set aside to go to the beach was the coldest day we were there. But we wanted to kids to be able to say they had been to the beach so we went anyway, and didn't wear our swim suits. Clearly it didn't matter how cold it was or if we had our suits on or not. Carter and Alex got soaked. Alex added a layer of sand after that.