California Road Trip

We took a short road trip to Southern California at the end of April.  We had a really fun time and missed all the cold, snowy weather at home.  Couldn't have been timed better. :)  I met Nate in Las Vegas since he was headed home from California for work and his layover was there.  The kids did great.  One potty stop and one Haley-is-freaking-out stop and we were at our hotel with Nate.  We drove the rest of the way the next morning.  On our way we stopped at some outlet shops to buy the boys some new shoes (since they have worn holes completely through the toes of their current pair).  There were tour busses with a bunch of asian tourists.  While we were in the Sketchers store an asian couple saw Haley and kept calling her "beautiful baby".  She was nice and smiled at them at first, but when they tried to touch her hair and get a picture with her she was out... game over.  I just said thank you and wisked her away.  They could tell they upset her and I could tell they felt bad.  We were able to visit family (Eric and Kim) and a friend (Amber)- I totally forgot to get out my camera for those visits. :(  We went to Legoland and the beach and that's about it.... besides the urgent care clinic, but we didn't consider that enjoyable.  (Eliza ended up with a swollen eye so we decided to take her in.  The doctor took our money and said go see your doctor at home if it gets worse.  Nice and thanks a lot.  It was a ridiculous wait so we ended up at a rocky, sea weedy beach because it was close to the urgent care clinic that we had to go back to when it was our turn.  We still had fun, although Nate and Eliza were gone for two hours of it.)

LEGOLAND
We met our neighbors, the Carters, there.  Tye had heard they were going and came home and basically told us that we were going too.  So that's how this trip ended up even being planned.  {Thanks to Josh and Aimee for letting us crash the Legoland party.}

The kids loved Miniland.  Here they are on the strip in "Las Vegas".... it's luckily G rated at Legoland.  Haley decided to climb into the New York City display.  That child was on one.   We even lost her for a minute when she decided to go use the potty by herself.  Luckily a lady saw her walk in alone and could tell I was in a panic.

Rachel is having a melt down because a (mild) roller coaster scared her and the thought of going on another put her over the edge.  She got over it though.  She wouldn't go on the biggest one, but went again on the one that initially scared her.

BEACH

Nate got a nice hot stone massage from Tye and Haley.... minus the hot and massage.

Collecting shells..... mostly broken pieces of shells, really.  Rachel did this for hours.  The other kids joined in for a few minutes.

Headed home.