A California Vacation - Part 1

At he beginning of this month we finally got to get away as a family on a much needed and anticipated family vacation.   Our destination was California and our plan for the trip was to have fun and relax with family.  It was a great trip filled with lots of family time, visiting with my (Laura's) extended family, celebrating Natalie's Graduation form College creating a family reunion with Tyler's family, and of course Disneyland!

We had a great start with a simple and easy flight cross country (even though it took all day).  The kids did great on the flight.  Gwendolyn was facinated with the TV's and so excited that she could touch the screen (something she never gets to play with at home).  During our layover in San Francisco this happened...

The only thing better then the baby napping on a long trip is having both kids nap.   The 3 hour time change was a bit of a challenge and we were so thankful that we planned to get to California a few days before all the graduation activities to allow us and the kids time to adjust.

We filled our first few days with small family trips and lots of time at "home" taking naps and getting acclimated to the time change.   One of our first activities was eating at In-N-Out.  You can't go to LA and not eat there, right?  Neal loved it, not so much because of the burger, but because he got his very own pop and a whole basket of fries.

We all loved being back at our old stomping grounds from our college years.  It was fun to be back to the place where Tyler and I met and to see some old friends and professors at the school.

We not only got to walk down memory lane but got to introduce Neal to something new that every little boy, or kid for that matter, longs to do...Go Karts!!   I'm pretty sure Tyler had just as much fun as Neal did on the go karts.  It was a great little taste of the fun that we would be having at Disneyland in the week to come...(more about Disneyland in another post).