I don't think I remembered to tell many people that, "I'm off to California." So, uh, here I am back again, before you even noticed!
I figured it wouldn't really matter unless there was an earthquake or something and none of you knew to come search the rubble for us, but there wasn't the slightest tremor so all's well that ends well, right? You can't argue with Shakespeare.
To make up for not knowing about California beforehand, at least you can know about it in depth afterhand. Here are some of my memorable moments.
1. Discovering when the temp went up to 86 in Arizona that our air conditioning was out. The kids were good sports and luckily the sun set soon after that.
2. Crash waking us up every ten minutes to make sure we hadn't "jumped out the window" or anything. Tempting...but there were bars on the window, so we couldn't get away.
3. Husband's sister giving me every bit of food in her juice shop that is on my special diet. Delicious and so nice of her. I love how good this diet makes me feel, but I hate the amount of specialness it requires.
4. Running into neighbors on our SECOND day of Disneyland. We all nearly fell on each other out of exhaustion in the Princess Shoppe. Lucky for me, two days is our limit. Some of my neighbors were there for five. I would have cried all over the teacups if that were me.
5. A parade at Disney's California where all the parade people (Pixar characters) came up and played with Bryson. He was in what-the-heck-is-this-all-about heaven.
6. Dropping off the family and heading to San Diego with girlfriends for extra days of REAL vacation.
7. Laying on the beach, and laying and laying and watching other people lay on the beach and watching surfers and laying there some more.
8. Seeing a black fin rise in the ocean and watching all the surfers freak out and scatter.
9. Seeing 5 black fins and porpoise-y backs all rise together and blow water at the surfers. Maybe they were porpoises, maybe they were dolphins (I am not up on my fin identification) but whatever they were they hung around swimming up and down the beach for a long time. The surfers all got back in and enjoyed a close-up view.
10. I am forbidden to write the safety rules we girls had in our hotel (you can read them here sometime) but I will tell you that I was very amused my vacation mates moved the TV armoir to block the windows and the ottoman to block the door and kept their room keys hidden from view at all times :). My lack of fear was probably why I wasn't allowed a room key.
11. The electricity went out in our hotel room as two of us blew our hair dry at the same time and the hotel blamed it on my friend's big blow dryer. (I hid mine behind my back).
So there you go. My trip to California--no earthquakes and lots of beach sand. I can't wait to go back. Except, seriously, I have had the irritating song "California Girls" stuck in my head for DAYS.
I figured it wouldn't really matter unless there was an earthquake or something and none of you knew to come search the rubble for us, but there wasn't the slightest tremor so all's well that ends well, right? You can't argue with Shakespeare.
To make up for not knowing about California beforehand, at least you can know about it in depth afterhand. Here are some of my memorable moments.
1. Discovering when the temp went up to 86 in Arizona that our air conditioning was out. The kids were good sports and luckily the sun set soon after that.
2. Crash waking us up every ten minutes to make sure we hadn't "jumped out the window" or anything. Tempting...but there were bars on the window, so we couldn't get away.
3. Husband's sister giving me every bit of food in her juice shop that is on my special diet. Delicious and so nice of her. I love how good this diet makes me feel, but I hate the amount of specialness it requires.
4. Running into neighbors on our SECOND day of Disneyland. We all nearly fell on each other out of exhaustion in the Princess Shoppe. Lucky for me, two days is our limit. Some of my neighbors were there for five. I would have cried all over the teacups if that were me.
5. A parade at Disney's California where all the parade people (Pixar characters) came up and played with Bryson. He was in what-the-heck-is-this-all-about heaven.
6. Dropping off the family and heading to San Diego with girlfriends for extra days of REAL vacation.
7. Laying on the beach, and laying and laying and watching other people lay on the beach and watching surfers and laying there some more.
8. Seeing a black fin rise in the ocean and watching all the surfers freak out and scatter.
9. Seeing 5 black fins and porpoise-y backs all rise together and blow water at the surfers. Maybe they were porpoises, maybe they were dolphins (I am not up on my fin identification) but whatever they were they hung around swimming up and down the beach for a long time. The surfers all got back in and enjoyed a close-up view.
10. I am forbidden to write the safety rules we girls had in our hotel (you can read them here sometime) but I will tell you that I was very amused my vacation mates moved the TV armoir to block the windows and the ottoman to block the door and kept their room keys hidden from view at all times :). My lack of fear was probably why I wasn't allowed a room key.
11. The electricity went out in our hotel room as two of us blew our hair dry at the same time and the hotel blamed it on my friend's big blow dryer. (I hid mine behind my back).
So there you go. My trip to California--no earthquakes and lots of beach sand. I can't wait to go back. Except, seriously, I have had the irritating song "California Girls" stuck in my head for DAYS.
Comments
Glad you could get that "real vacation" after the family one.