California Post #1

FYI... This will be a long post and detailed for my memories.

My parents were sweet enough to take our whole family to Disneyland and SeaWorld at the beginning of October. All 21 of us!!! Quite the crowd.

Breakdown of the trip:

Saturday - Drive to Las Vegas to spend the night.

Sunday - Drive to Anaheim. We stopped in Primm to ride the roller coaster and we hit a killer sale at the outlets.

Monday - First day at Disneyland. It was so fun to be there and see everything decorated for Halloween. One of my favorite rides was the Haunted House because they changed the whole thing to The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Tuesday - Another day at Disneyland.

Wednesday - Drive to San Diego. Went to Tijuana. Went to the beach. Went to a Mexican restuarant with the whole family. It had a great atmosphere.

Thursday - Went to SeaWorld.

Friday - Drive to Mesquite to spend the night.

Saturday - On our way home!

I wish we would have stayed 2 more days in California. I think most of us weren't ready to head home quite yet.

Cole and I are slackers when it comes to taking pictures so these are the few that we took with our camera. I'll be posting more when I get the pictures from everyone else.

Day 2 at Disneyland

Second day at Disneyland. Teacups!

Our goofy pics on the teacups.

Huge Candy Corn.

On the new Toy Story ride. It broke down while our whole family was riding it so we all got a few passes to skip the huge line to ride it again. It was way fun!

I kicked everyones trash the last time we went on the ride and got a score of 160,000!!!

Chris and me

Alisa and me. She really doesn't have crazy eyes!

Cole pretending to be a bug while waiting for the Bug's Life show.

TIJUANA....

Day 3

Hmm... What can I say about this place.

While we were in San Diego we had a free day so we decided to go to Tijuana since Cole had never been there before and I went once when I was really little with my family.

There were drugstores on every corner and I guess if you wear a white coat you are considered a pharmacist.

Honestly this was my least favorite part of our trip. I don't like being pressured by people to look at their selection or try on sunglasses.

Word we heard all day:

"Give me one Mexican minute."

"Honeymooners."

"Pretty lady."

We had to walk over this to get to Tijuana. It smelt like a toilet.


Day 4 SeaWorld

Waiting for the park to open.

First thing we did when we got to SeaWorld was feed and pet the dolphins. It was a really cool experience. Maybe we can swim with dolphins when we go on our cruise.

Cole petting and feeding the dolphin. The stupid bird in this picture stole our last fish from the dolphin. Those buggers are fast!!

First show that we went to.

Stupid us.... the first 8 or so rows don't have any signs on it about being a splash zone. But the rows above us do so we decide to stay where we were at. BAD, BAD idea!!!! We were soaked and it was just the beginning of the day. Most of us girls were upset at first but it kept us cool for the rest of the day.

Picture after the first round of being soaked.

Shamo!

That's all the pictures we have. It was a great time and so fun to spend a whole week with my family. I really enjoy their company.

Thanks Mom and Dad... the trip was a success!!!