Sunday, February 27, 2011

A little bit of sunshine

This year our family finally got to take the trip we've been talking about for a few years.  This year my MIL turns 60 - what better reason to celebrate.  For her birthday we all decided to meet as a family in CA for a Disneyland trip seeing as that's my MIL's favorite place.  We decided to take the leap and drive!  Yea, totally nuts. :)  We left on Saturday, Feb 26th and stayed in St. George for the night.  Sunday morning after breakfast we started the long trek to San Diego (we left a few days before the rest of the family so we could do Sea World first).  After getting successfully lost getting to San Diego we made it to our hotel.  We were so excited to get out of the car and stretch our legs.  The girls were so good we only had to stop once for food, gas and potty. :)  Our room was TINY!!!  It had 2 full beds and a full sized couch bed.  That made for a few squishy nights.  The girls had to check out the springiness of the hotel beds too.  It was hillarious.  I thought we caught the moment pretty well :)  We decided to head to the beach on Sunday night to stretch our legs and let the girls collect shells.  They LOVED it!  Jaylee was way freaked out by the water and would point out every time the water got close.  It was an amazing night having some actual sunshine was quite the treat!  The girls did find a few shells to bring home and loved walking in the sand.  After a little walk down the boardwalk we headed to IHOP for some yummy dinner.  When we got to IHOP there were only 2 employees even working!  It took us an HOUR to get our food!  It was way crazy.  I felt sorry for the poor guys who had to work alone.  It was a good dinner (that is until I saw that my meal had 1100 calories! YIKES).  We were all excited and ready for bed!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Beautiful Beach, and silly you dont count calories while your on vacation. Thats why they call it vacation!

Ginny Connelly said...

How fun!! What a great way to spend time with the family especially when there's 2 feet of snow back home. I agree with Crystal...you don't count calories when you're on vacation. Can't wait to see the rest of your pics.