They say "you can't go home", but we did...

We headed home from San Diego early Wednesday morning.

After a few hours of driving we were surprised to see the traffic start to congest.

It wasn't long before traffic was at a complete standstill.

We were like, 

what,

huh,

why here,

why now.

It seemed like a strange place for traffic to stop. 

After a few seconds of thought we decided it must be some sort of 

automobile accident.

We weren't surprised to find that we were right.

We were surprised to find that it was a single car at the top of the hill involved in the accident,

and even more surprised by the fact that it was engulfed in flames.

(It seriously was, I just didn't take my picture at the right moment.)

We were further surprised to find that said car has started the whole hillside on fire.

It was crazy,
we didn't even see or smell smoke until we'd reached the top of the hill.

We decided that the car must have overheated on it's way up the hill...
I mean SERIOUSLY OVERHEATED.
Crazy.

To the beach...

We went all the way to California just for the beach.

We actually went to the beach all of three times.

We actually played in the sand and waves twice.

I really wish we had gone more, but it's my own fault.

I insisted that I did NOT want to go to the beach on Saturday and Sunday.

I was sure it would be way to packed to be able to enjoy it.

So we went to the beach.

Our first beach adventure was at La Jolla (pronounced "la hoy-ya")

After driving around for an hour we found the beach,

then after another hour we found an awesome parking spot.

We simply had to get out of the truck and walk down some stairs to stand at the oceans very edge.

*I was in heaven*

First thing was first.

I wanted to build a sand castle with my kids.

It wasn't the most fantastical sand castle ever built, but we built it together.

Of course Lyon and Fenix lost interest very quickly.

They loved bringing buckets of water up from the ocean to pour onto the dry sand.

It wasn't long before we ventured into the waves.

The water was brrrrrr, so cold.

I stepped into the water as it smoothly slid up the sand, licking it with its cold and brazen tongue.

I immediately thought it was way too cold to swim in.

Still the waves were calling to us and one by one we fell into the oceans spell.

I think Superman is the only one who didn't actually swim.

Though he did take our kids and helped them to swim with the waves as they rolled in over their heads.

As for me, I took the plunge.

I walked out into the far reaching waist deep water waiting for just the right wave.

The water built up into white screaming hills, grasping out desperately for the dry land.

I caught hold of it racing with it as it tumbled into nothing.

Again and again.

I used up all my strength all my energy.

And when I had nothing left the ocean kept right on going.

I would have loved to stay until sunset, but stomachs and kids don't allow for that kind of thing.

We left the beach with smiles on our faces,

the hot smell of our skin burning,

and a sadness in our hearts that will live there until we find ourselves at the waters edge again.

I thought what I thought and then forgot...

Yeah, I seem to still be on a trip.

Lol!

I'll be back Monday for sure.

By then I ought to have gathered myself together enough to really be able to read and write.

;D

In and out...

I went for a visit this last week.

My older sister had a baby and I was fortunate enough to go visit her and help

her out for a few days.

My big sis lives in Indiana so I don't get to go out there and see her and her family very often.

I'm so glad I was able to go.

I had so much fun visiting with her, holding her brand spanking new baby daughter

and playing with my nephews.

Though I had posts all ready for last week, I never got around to this week.

And now.

Having been gone for ten days, I've not quite gotten back into the swing of things with my blog.

I haven't quite found time to visit other blogs.

Too much to do.

You know,

the post "vacation" busyness that gets you wanting another vacation.

Lol!

I'll be back full swing tomorrow.

I hope you'll join me in posting an,

Out of the mouths of babes

What are your kids saying?

Meme

Look at that little baby darling!

Totally worth the post "vacation" blahs.

;D

Kennedy Space Center

I was tired, I was very hungry, and I had a terrible headache.

We left around noon to go to the Kennedy Space Center. I told Phil I had a hankering for Taco Bell, So he ought to find one for us to go to. He figured that if we just headed in the direction of the Kennedy Space Center we would run into one.

Well, we didn't. As he pulled into the parking lot I was furiously hungry, the boys kept asking when we were going to eat. Ugg! Let me just tell you now, if you plan to go to Kennedy Space Center for the day, eat before you go. The food there is well lets just say you don't remember it for its tastiness, you remember it for its price.

Anyway, Kennedy Space Center was decently cool. It would have been cooler if it had been free admission, but it wasn't and we paid about $30 for each ticket, and we got three!

The 3D movie was alright, but left me feeling disoriented and it hurt my eyes. And believe me when I say that I am not typically sensitive like that.

Most of what they have going on there is information you can easily get

from the internet for free. It seems the only reason to go is so you can say,

"We went to the Kennedy Space Center."

Although we did get some pretty good pictures if you ask me.

I don't really recommend going, especially with little kids, although I should add that Bear thought certain parts were awesome, but for $30 dollars....

It was a bit of a waste of time and money.

Worst part of the trip for sure.

We have yet to see the shuttle launch. I am really hoping that all will go well with that.

:D

Disney's Hollywood Studio's

(This is how I started my day. My nose was so so so congested, my eyes were watery and felt swollen. I thought it was hilarious that I couldn't stop tears from rolling down my cheeks, it was like having runny eyes instead of a runny nose, lol!)

Anyway:

We didn't make it to the park until noon today, it was really cloudy, but not raining.

I brought our poncho's just in case, but decided it probably wouldn't rain so I didn't bring our umbrella. I figured we didn't use it much the last time it rained anyway so....

The first thing we did was get a picture in front of the Fantasia Hat.

(There was a High School Musical 3 concert going on in front of it. You can barely see part of it in the picture. Check out Lyon checking out his map, he and Bear are so funny they ask to have their own at each park we go to. :)

After that we took Bear to go on the Star Tours ride, twice. Once with Phil, once with me. He was really hoping he would be able to go on it 5 times like we did Thunder Mountain, lol :D

After that we went to see the Indiana Jones show, remember when they showed part of that on an episode of Full House, don't deny watching that show. :D

(Bear sat mesmerized)

(Lyon was a little scared)

(Sissy only enjoyed the action parts and fussed for the rest)

Any way it was really cool, funny, and fun. Even though Lyon got a little bit nervous he made it through without having to leave.

Ater that we were going to go to the PlayHouse Disney show, but I wanted to stop and watch the block party parade on the way. Phil didn't think we would have enough time to watch it and make it to the PlayHouse Disney show so he went ahead to that while I tried to watch the parade with Sissy. I really wanted to see it. I ended up leaving before it even started to go past me though because so many people had crowded around Sissy and I that she couldn't see. Plus I don't think she was all that interested :(

I made my way over to Phil at the Playhouse Disney entrance and got there just before they went in to the show.

Like many of the attractions there at Disney World we were not allowed to bring our stroller in to the attraction. So we left both of our strollers outside. The Playhouse Disney show was only about 30 minutes, but in that time it managed to start down pouring rain. Phil had been smart enough to park our double stroller under an overhanging roof of a nearby gift shop. I left Sissy's stroller completely unprotected from the weather with Phil's jacket sitting on top. So when we walked out it was soaked all the way through.

So as the rain poured down we made a quick decision to leave Disney's Hollywood Studio's and head back to the hotel to dry off. There was no way I was going to put Sissy in a soaking wet stroller, fortunately we had brought our baby Bjorn to carry her in. I also put our poncho's on, but we still got soaked as we ran to the bus station.
(Of couse I still took a second to take a photo ;)

It was probably best that things worked out the way they did because we had a lot of laundry we needed to get done and today was really the best day to do it.

That is about the only reason I was more relieved than pissed to have had to leave early today So in short, today we got rained out at Disney's Hollywood Studio's.

Next time I won't leave my stroller parked without cover.

:D