California

We spent a very long weekend in California and had a lot of fun. I, however, could not find my camera and when Drue finally remembered to take hers out and take pictures, her batteries died. I will recap and you can picture the events in your head!

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First, drove out to California on Thursday afternoon. Mom had sent the kids each a $5 gift certificate to McDonalds for the trip. We stopped at on in Blythe, just over the CA line. I let the kids play for about 30 min then each order and pay for their own food. That took a while! Then on the road again, eating-to keep them occupied. They did very well the whole trip out. We got a little turned around during some construction, but made it safely to Anaheim around 4:30pm. We then changed clothes and went to someone's home for dinner. We stayed at a home just across the street from Knott's Berry Farm. (If I knew how, I would add a link there like Kelly does so that you would know what that is. Maybe I will figure that out one day) Anyway, the kids enjoyed driving by that each time we left and came back to the house.

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Friday, Lance and I attended some training classes and the kids were disperesed in different places with different people watching them. They had a great time. Then off to TGIFriday's for dinner. The restaurant was inside Knott's Berry Farm and we sat on the patio. There was a roller coaster to walk under before you entered the restaurant. The kids and Lance hung out there until the coaster came over them, twice. I was too scared. The roller coaster was made of wood and looked to be 100 years old. Thinking back, it would have been better to be squashed with them than watch them be squashed. Next time I will stand with them. After dinner and friend came over and watched the kids and Lance and I went out.

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Saturday the kids and I toured a little of CA while Lance went gospel door knocking. He had much greater success than we did. After driving for an hour, we found 4 horses pulling a stage coach right by the house we were staying at. We decided to meet Lance at the park and play. Then we napped. Well, all but me and Launa! She wasn't interested in sleeping. Then off to someone's elses home for dinner.

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Sunday night we drove down to San Diego. The drive took about an hour and a half and was beautiful. I have gone to the ocean my whole life, but this was the most beautiful scenery I have ever seen. On Monday we went to the San Diego Zoo. It was free day and I think everyone knew about it. They are only about 20 min from the border. So everyone in Mexico thought they would come to. By 1pm we had to leave. There were so many people we were walking single file, shoulder to shoulder. I felt like a herd of cows. The kids were tired so that did not help. Anyway, it was a wonderful zoo. See above pictures. The animals were so close you could almost touch them. The gorillas put on a little show for everyone watching. They have such a sense of humor. The kids had so much fun and slept all the way back to Anaheim.

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Tuesday was a little time at Downtown Disney (in the LEGO store), the Science Museum and then home. Lukas said he wasn't sure if we should go to the Science Museum because we had already had so much fun in the past few days. After a little talk, he decided it was still ok to hit the museum.

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Now we are back in the real world of school, laundry and cleaning house.

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Sorry about the long post. I wanted to get the whole weekend in one post.