I am not sure why blogger does this but sometimes it will load my pictures correctly and sometimes it goes backwards. So, Ill tell you about our trip in reverse order.
Saturday August 7th - we spent the morning in San Clemente eating the best donuts and walking down the main street in San Clemente. Then we drove up to LA -on our way up we stopped for In n Out. We first went to Rich and Katies house to say hi and see the plans for their future backyard and remodel. Their backyard is going to be amazing!!!! Then we drove down to Ryan and Naomi's new home. It was incredible. It has taken 5 years to build and it was pretty impressive. I wish I had taken more photos. The kids jumped in the pool and we hung out by the pool and ordered food in. It was a nice relaxing night. We them jumped in the car at 8 and drove to Barstow to get a head start on our drive.
Saturday Lexi and Shawn took a spin in their Porche
Friday August 6th - Friday morning I met my friend Lindsey to walk the beach. It was so fun catching up with her. I love it because it always feels like no time has passed when I am with her and she is just easy to talk to and I can totally be myself. I hope she feels the same way about me. We went and grabbed Bagel Shack afterwards - the yummiest bagels ever!!! It was still overcast in the morning so Shawn and I took the kids to the outlet mall that was in San Clemente. Ryan and Naomi were both busy with stuff. At about 2 the cloud cover burned off and we took the golf cart to the beach. We had so much fun just relaxing on the beach. Ryan and Naomi joined us at about 3:30 and we all hung out. We decided to pack up and go get some yummy Mexican food for dinner since that was one of Cruz's requests while we were in California. We love San Clemente!
Thursday August 5th - We had a lazy morning because we were all super worked from our Disney Day. Naomi and I were able to go for a walk on the beach and then grabbed some grocerys and donuts ifor the kids. That afternoon we went to the beach. We met our friends the Claytons for some good beach time! It was so fun seeing the Claytons and getting to catch up! We stayed at the beach till after 7:30 -those are my favorite nights, just chilling at the beach. Shawn took the train to the San Clemente stop from Irvine and then walked down to met us at the beach and got a ride home on the golf cart. That night Naomi whipped up a bunch of meat and veggies, it was so yummy!
Wednesday August 4th - DISNEY DAY! -Seriously the best day ever!!!! We were able to have a guide thanks to Ryan and Naomi. That was the coolest thing ever. Even though Disney was crowded we barely had to wait. The longest we had to wait was about 30 minutes on the new ride in the new Star Wars area. We basically did all the big rides once, which was amazing. This picture below is trying to get our 2nd ride in at Big Thunder, right before the park closed at 10 pm. We were also able to eat a fairly quick dinner in the famed Club 33, which was a highlight, especially since Brooke Lopez (the Milwaukee Bucks Center) was there, and we had just watched him play a ton because the Bucks had just won the NBA finals 2 weeks before. The whole day was pretty special and it was fun having Katie, Ezra, and Clara there too. The kids all got along really well!!! Such an incredible treat!
Lexi and Cruz put their money together and bought this droid. It is pretty cool!
Moms gone wild!!! :)
Tuesday August 3rd - We woke up pretty early in St. George and hit the road. I had forgotten that we gained an hour so we were on the road by 7:30a.m. California time. We made pretty good time, with a lunch stop in Barstow to try Cane's Chicken. We pulled into San Clemente at about 2 with time to go to the beach. I LOVE THE BEACH!!!!
Canes Chicken
We left on Monday August 2nd after I took the kids to get covid tested. We drove to St. George. The plan was if I got the results and the kids were positive for Covid we were just turning around and going back home on Tuesday. But our results came in after we pulled into St. George at about 7 p.m and the kids were all negative. I was still double masking the entire time just because I was on day 10. Supposedly at day 11 you can go out. The kids swam at the hotel pool for a bit and then we grabbed Chick Fil A dinner and brought it back to our room and ate dinner and watched the Olympics. We went to bed pretty early because we were all excited to get up and keep driving to California. I was so excited to see all of their tests negative. I had a pit in my stomach when I was opening their results. This trip ended up being so amazing and just what we all needed. We loved our time in California at the beach, with family, eating good food!
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