Fall Break to California

When Christy called me and asked if I wanted to come down to California for our Fall break because it just happened to be the same week her and Brett had booked a trip to Spain, I of course said yes.  She was leaving her 4 girls home and they thought they were old enough to just stay by themselves, which really they were.  But she was hoping someone could just be there just in case and mostly to help Emmy.  It was the perfect plan.

We left Tuesday after school and drove to Las Vegas.  We got in late and left early except we had to stop by Techna glass to get a huge rock chip repaired we had gotten on the way down.  It was right by the airport so we were very entertained watching planes land.


We got to Christy's and the weather was of course perfect, warm and sunny.  So we heated up the hot tub and the kids went swimming and decided to catch lizards.  They of course had to jump into the freezing cold water of the pool but they didn't care.


The next day we went to Sea World.  Emmy got to hang out with us and miss school and it was so fun having her along with us.  My kids have never been there and we had a great time.  They have so many more rides there then when I was there last (probably 25 years ago)  The bummer was a dolphin had given birth the night before so the dolphin show got cancelled.  But we saw the sea lion show (and the sea lions weren't performing very well.) but the Orca show was amazing.  The kids insisted on sitting in the splash zone having no idea what that meant.  When one of the orca's came by pushing waves of water on us, they were screaming.  We had a few tears from Siena but after that they thought it was fun and cool that we got so wet.  Such a fun day and not crowded at all.




The next day we went to the beach.  Emmy got to skip school that day too...yay!  It was fun to relax and let the kids just play.  We had this aggressive bird eat Aria's sandwich right from her hand and then kept pacing in front of our stuff and as soon as I would turn my head it would try to charge in and grab something.  It was seriously the most aggressive bird I've ever encountered at the beach but was pretty enteraining.


Saturday we went up to Newport after we dropped Emmy off at her gymnastics practice and had fun walking around Balboa, eating ice cream at the pier, riding the ferry, etc.  Then we went and found a few tide pools even if it wasn't the right time of day for the tide.


Sunday we went to church and got to listen to Emmy give her part and sing in the primary program.  We went and walked along the beach for a while after church and then my friend Konstantina came down to eat dinner with us.

Monday we had to drive home all day...boo!  We made a long stop in St. George for lunch and to play at the park.  It was such a fun trip and the Brian's are always so nice to let us stay with them.  They were so polite the whole time even if the older ones didn't think they needed us, we were happy we got to come.