OUR CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE

We had so much fun on our Disneyland Vacation. We left Monroe on May 31st after church and traveled to Circus Circus in Las Vegas. The next morning we went to the M&M factory and the Coke Store. All of the kids went wild in the M&M factory and purchased $40 worth of M&M's. We spent what seemed like hours and hours waiting for Katie, Ryan and Jaxon to shop in the two stores. It was afternoon before we were able to drag them away and continue on our trip. We made a stop in Baker and then again in Barstow to shop at the factory outlets. Then we headed for Anahiem. Once we found our hotel, we headed for the Balboa Beach. It was awesome. We all had a lot of fun playing in the water and sand, finding seashells and gathering sand on our clothes. When we left Balboa, Terral took the long way to the hotel. All the way the kids were screaming in the backseat about having sand in their pants. I think that we took most of the beach back to the hotel with us. Mom was not too excited to see how sandy the van was! The following two days we spent at Disneyland and California Adventure having tons of fun. It took Maycee a little while to warm up to the rides. I should have been a little more selective on which ride to take her on first. She wasn't impressed with Pinnochio's Scary Adventure or The Pirates of the Carribbean. Before leaving California we had to go to the beach one more time. This time I was searching for tide pools, so we went down to Laguna Beach. Unfortunately we didn't get to see any ocean critters in pools because the tide was too high, but it was beautiful ! The drive home was horrid !!!! We drove straight through with only a few stops. I was finally able to drive from north of Cedar City to home. The mighty men were finally tired of driving. Needless to say, we arrived home around 11:00 p.m. on Thursday June 4th.