Vacation, All I Ever Wanted

We visited my friend Lili (we haven’t seen her since she left Italy in late 2007) in California for a few days and had a blast, even with the bumped nose in the pool fiasco. We spent the first day hanging at the pool before going to Carl’s Jr. The kid’s idea because it had an outdoor jungle gym.

My girl Lily

On Monday, we went to Six Flags that consisted with the normal kid complaints: “Can I get an Icee?” “My feet hurt.”, and my favorite, “Why can’t we just go to the pool?” This was followed by plenty of “Can we go to the pool when we get home?” With plenty of explaining and an absolute foot down because it would be too dark and we’d be too tired, there was still a lot of fun to be had. The log ride was the biggest hit and we waited in line for it to be fixed, though we didn’t know it was broke when we got in line. We just figured everyone in the park wanted to ride. But, it was worth it. It was a cooling off we really needed because it felt like it was at least 100 degrees out.

A very blue and beautiful Icee tongue.

The kids had fun and so did the adults. We ended the day with funnel cake topped with strawberries, ice cream and whipped cream. It was all for the adults, of course. After surviving a whole day at the theme park with six kids, I think we pretty much deserved it. And all three kids wanted to help us finish it off, which we refused because they had plenty of sugar before that. We finished eating the funnel cake after all of about 10 bites each and let the kids have at it.
Which of course they plowed into like that was their first meal of the day.

The enoromous (but yummy) funnel cake. You can't see the strawberries hidden under all the whip and ice cream, but it's there. It was a somewhat healthy treat. And by somewhat, I mean not really.

The starving children of America.

Tuesday consisted of IHOP and the kids all agreed that Mac and Cheese is the best dish to eat at any restaurant. Then off to the pool again. We had fun playing “Red Light, Green Light” until B swam under water right into the pool wall, hitting herself square in the nose in the process. The crying began instanly and I scooped her right out the pool within seconds. Her nose was a little red , but other than that, it was still in one piece. Placated with an offer of popsicles and ice cream after dinner, we left the pool with no arguments.

Our last night in Cali was pretty uneventful, some light packing and watching “Racing Stripes”. We did enjoy our time, but Wednesday afternoon we were on a flight back to Ohio. We had a stopover in Denver that made nostalgic over the time we lived there. Colorado was great, but then were most of our assignments. Minus one that shall remain nameless. We arrived home with no major flight problems. All our luggage arrived intact and nothing missing (unlike the time my underwear was stolen out of my suitcase, but that’s a whole other story). A pretty tiring, and uneventful day, which I have absolutely no complaints about. I’m a huge fan of boring flights and airports.