Christmas Vacation 2021

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This Christmas we surprised the kids with a trip down to California and stayed in Laguna Beach. We went with Rhoda's family and left on Monday, Ronin's birthday. The trip started off a little crazy. We had snow here for Christmas and it made the airport crazy and half our flights were cancelled. Trevor and Cassidy had a flight change and they had to get to the airport around 5 am, so they were awake around 3 am. After sitting in the airport all day their flight was cancelled and not rescheduled, so they headed back to my house. Caleb, Calvin and Ronin's flights were cancelled also, but before they had to leave to the airport. Rhoda, Brynlee, Kenady, Shelby and my flights were actually on time and left as they were suppose to. So we rented a car, Cassidy and Trevor drove with my boys all night and got to California around 6 am the next morning. Apparently the rental car was squished and nobody really loved the drive down there, but they did have a memorable trip for sure. I don't think anyone slept well that night. The next morning there was an art studio below the house we rented and he played crazy loud music at 9 am until he closed around 6 pm. Normally it wouldn't bother us, but since half our house stayed in bed that day it was pretty distracting.

The girls who all flew down went to the beach with Ronin and Calvin. They didn't sleep that much and we all went and played in the sand. It wasn't warm but it was nicer than the Oregon coast for sure and they played for hours.

We spent a day at Hunnington Beach, walked around the pier, played on the playground and went shopping. It started dumping rain on us as we were walking on the beach and we were positively soaked through all our clothes. But the rain stopped and all our kids started playing again so we stayed and made the most of it. 

We also went to a Dave and Busters and played videogames one night and just cruised around lots of fun places. Where we stayed in Laguna was beautiful and we went to all the shops and ate amazing chocolate and gelato. It was so good and we definitely should have eaten more food.













































For New Years Eve we all went to Disneyland. My kids didn't remember it very well and Rhoda's had never been. We were there by opening and stayed until about 1 am. It was a full day and everyone had tons of fun. The fireworks were awesome and they had bands playing music everywhere too.

















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