Cali

Warning: Picture overload

I was very blessed to be able to spend a whole week with my family in California a couple weeks ago. Unfortunately Jared wasn't able to come because apparently he had better things to do.... something about training to become a doctor or something...? Psh. Whatev. Anyway, he surely missed out. It was such a blast. I flew into Las Vegas and my parents and brother Alex picked me up and we drove about 5 hours to Palm Springs. Along the way we stopped at a Greek food restaurant.



My parents have had this time share in Palm Springs for 12 years or so and this is the first time we've ever stayed there. It was pretty nice.



The first day we were there we walked around the town and shopped a little.


The next day we spent the majority of our time in the pool and just hanging out and playing games.


Isn't my cute niece so adorable?!

We also did a little shopping with just the girls!



This view of the moon out as the sun was setting was even better in person!


There was also a really weird alien house that we drove by and gawked at. Who would ever live in something like this?!


One of the nights we had to eat at Rubio's to get the famous fish tacos! I love Michigan, but there is nothing even close to Rubio's or any good Mexican restaurants around for that matter. At least not in Lansing.


We drove to Disneyland the next day. I hadn't been there since I was probably 10 or 11. It was so much fun, probably mostly because we went with little kids. I think they said it got up to 102 degrees that day though.... yikes!




The haunted mansion ride was decorated like the Nightmare Before Christmas. It was super cute.


My parents, my brother Alex and I also got park hopper passes to California Adventure. I had never been to that one so it was pretty cool. Here is us on the Tower of Terror ride. It was fun, but I had a headache after from screaming so much.


We went on the Monsters Inc ride and it broke down right in the middle of it, so I took pictures when they turned the lights on. I thought it was pretty funny.


We watched the little kids while my sisters and their husbands went on some "big kid" rides. We took them to the Tiki Room.


We also went to Seaworld in San Diego the next day. It was in the 90's, which is pretty rare for San Diego. At times I could feel the sweat dripping down my back. Awesome.


Luckily some of the aquariums and things were inside where it was nice and cool.




Tide pools.



They had a few fun little kid rides at Seaworld too.



We stayed in San Diego that night after Seaworld and spent the next day hanging out there. We went to the tide pools, but the tide was too high.



We went to Point Loma, which is where I was left one time when I was 10 when we lived in San Diego. What a traumatic experience, I'll never be the same because of it. (jk, it was only like 10 minutes or so before they realized they left me and turned back around... but still.)



We drove over the bridge to Coronado island and rode surrey bikes with Ash and her family. It was probably one of my favorite highlights throughout the trip.





Then we of course had to go to Oceanside and eat at Ruby's on the pier.



After two days of super hot and sunny days where we couldn't really avoid the heat at two theme parks, we went to the beach to cool off.... and it was cold and cloudy the whole day. But I guess I can't complain, I love the beach either way.


Ok, are you sick of looking at pictures yet? I'm sick of being on the computer at posting them! But I seriously loved every minute of this trip because I've missed hanging out with my family. It was kind of a bitter sweet thing leaving, because I really missed Jared and wanted to go back and see him, but I knew I wouldn't see my family again for a little while. Ok I'm done. Thanks for reading!