We had a GREAT 15 days with Taylor - now 1o years old and going into the 5th grade this next school year. Not sure if it was because we did not have any pressures of 'work' or he is older now, but it was a really nice vacation!! He is such a good travel buddy! We kept busy the ENTIRE time and never once was there a complaint, issue or break down on ANY of us!! hahahaha
First stop - Visalia!
We started out on Father's Day and landed ourselves from SF to Visalia and dinner with Dick's father, mother, brother and sis-in-law. A BBQ evening at the Visalia Country Club for dinner made for a special evening. The rest of the week broke down like this:
Monday - Depart Visalia (and leave Gabby with her grandparents!!) and head to Huntington Beach. We took Amy to dinner at a hot spot in Belmont Shores - the BEST ribs around!! Always nice to stay with her and get lots of hugs!!
I thought that this was so cute - we had our own personal photographer!! aka TAYLOR!
We were just leaving Amy's workplace when he took this one.
Are his legs more thin than mine? DOH!
Tuesday - La Brea Tar Pits, Hollywood (Michael Jackson's star before it was chaotic!) Bel-Air Country Club - where Dick played while attending the semester at UCLA - ending with an Angel's vs. Rockies baseball game with sister Brenda and her two girls!! WOW! I have to tell you, Angels' fans are waaaaaaaaay better than the Giants' fans!! We had the wave go THREE times around - in a row!!! It was sooooooo great!! Very exciting!!
Taylor and Amy after the WIN of Angels! Rally Monkey did it again!!
Nice jersey!! All kids received a jersey at the gate! Sweet!
Wednesday - A haircut with my/Amy's lady then off to DISNEYLAND til midnight! No more to say about that! hahaha
Thursday - All day in DISNEYLAND! The lines weren't bad!! Only a 20 minute wait for most! Yes, the bigger, faster rides were longer, but with the invention of FAST PASSES, they were manageable! Crowds were LESS and all was GREAT! We were able to get the perfect seats for the fireworks. WOW! If you have not been to Disneyland in the last 5 years, this is a MUST!!! No other show like it!
Friday - Head over to Pismo Beach. Meet up with Gabby, Dick's parents, and the Carlstrom's!! Nice time catching up and leaving Gabby with The Carlstrom's (and their two dogs Cali and Maddy) for the weekend.
Saturday - Dick's cousins wedding at the San Luis Obispo Mission! What a special day!! Mature people, lovely families, perfect weather, AWESOME food, fun music, lots of love in the air = MEMORABLE wedding!!!
Beautiful bride Adrianne and cousin Chris the groom!
Nice father and son shot!
Dick's parents and Taylor!
Sunday - Rent boogie boards and wetsuits.....A MUST when at the coast with Taylor - I think I created a monster!!! LOL!!! Thankfully, I LOVE to boogie board too (I could win a gold medal if it were an Olympic event!!) so we have a GREAT time! Highlight? A SEAL was about 25 yards in front of us!! YIKES!! It was beautiful! We all looked at each other, a wave came and it was gone. Poof! After a few hours of FUN, we picked Gabby up from The Carlstrom's and headed over to San Miguel Mission - (the one Taylor did his 4th grade California Mission project on). It was only 102 degrees!!! UUGGHH!! Pretty cool for him to actually SEE the mission he worked so hard on! We arrived back in SF after dinner.
Monday - Andrew, Erika and Kaelyn arrived in time to go and watch the Oakland A's play the Detroit Tigers - with Dusty Ryan (new catcher)! Remember, this is the guy Amy dated while in high school for 2 years? He was brought up a few weeks ago. Thought we'd head over and give it a watch. We were able to congratulate his parents who were sitting in the stands, get a ball signed by Dusty and he even had time to give a WAVE from the field! We had GREAT seats, and enjoyed the game - eventhough Detroit lost.
Me and my little sunshine!
She took a tumble and has a booboo on her forehead....probably the first of many!
But that SMILE!!
Her lucky/blessed parents at the A's game!
Tuesday - Sad Day - Taylor left around 5:30 p.m. and thus the end of Part 1 Vacation. We will see him again on July 10 for the weekend. Summer is a little odd of a schedule but we'll survive. He is a happy boy that loves his mom so that makes our hearts happy too.
Yes, we were DRAINED after Taylor left! We actually slept for 10 1/2 hours straight!!! But, we are feeling great now. We have some projects planned for the next few days, the three Reed girls are arriving on Saturday for (hopefully) some fireworks from Pier 39!
Each and every day we feel so blessed to be able to enjoy each other, our families and life to its fullest! We take nothing for granted and thank God for it all! God Bless you and yours!
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