We are leaving in a few days for out family vacation to California.  We’ll only be there for 5 days (not including travel days).  We’ll be spending all of our time in Southern California.  As someone who live in California we just have too much we want to squeeze into our short time there.  We will of course be visiting Disneyland (even though we were just at Disney World last year) and Legoland.  I’m excited that Legoland actually has a water park now–that should be fun.  There are too many friends to see–sorry to most of you and of course we are planning on hitting our old stomping grounds in Santa Barbara–where it all began.

We’re lucky (I guess) to be staying with my mother-in-law for most of our trip.  We are going to stay one night in Santa Barbara for a family day/night.  That should be fun.  This will certainly be a whirlwind trip that will certainly tire us more than it refreshes us.  But I am so excited about taking the kids to Disneyland this year.  Noah can ride nearly all the rides (depending on how accurate their height things are) and Zoë is so excited about seeing Princess and she can talk and experience so much more and ride rides.  Last year when we went the only thing she did was Pirates of the Caribbean and The Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse.  It’ll be much more fun this time around.

I’m getting ready to pack but have to remind myself of So Cal’s wonderful weather.  I think I’m going to be chilly while I’m there.  Have to remember to pack pants for the kids.  When you are use to 3 digit heat indexes and oppressive humidity (don’t get me wrong I love the heat), one tends to be chilly when the high is only 81 and the lows are in the 60’s.  I don’t remember what the 60’s feel like.

So, things are going to get crazy as we pack up and load ourselves onto that plane for 4 hours and drive in that great LA traffic (have I mentioned how much I despise LA traffic?) and wait in line for rides and characters, etc. But it’ll be a blast because my kids are awesome and my hubs is awesome.

Can’t wait to get there and have fun away from work with the kids.  Will try to post several times while on vacation.  I’m sure there will be much to write about.